Major part of the quality work is Off-shored, - IT Analyst Ciena Employee Review

2.0
Mar 27, 2014
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Flexibility. International Presence. Company seems to be growing

Cons

Ciena is not a place that will enhance your technical skills. Its a place to do some legacy ownership, and light work. The technical teams are Disorganized, disconnected. This mainly happens because most of the quality work is off-shored, with major control given to off shore teams. The vibes hence is on buying specialized skills from outside rather than build technical expertise, within, but in reality these specialized skills have little experience, and quite little tendency to share the work, or transfer knowledge to those internal to team. Less transparency and reliability witnessed on the culture of the company.

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