Lots of great talent, going nowhere fast - Anonymous employee Xyratex Employee Review

1.0
Jun 16, 2009
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Xyratex is full of a lot of really good, smart people. As a British company, they also start all staff with 4 weeks of vacation.

Cons

There's no direction. Most individual contributors report to managers in different offices or even different time zones. There is no communication or cooperation. More effort is spent playing the CYA game than anything else.

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1.0
Dec 16, 2009
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

For technical jobs, the opportunity to be involved in the development of a very exciting technology and state of the art products, strong benefit package, work with some talented people,

Cons

Lack of strong management, sweatshop mentality, very sad lack of overall direction for company and divisions within company, very poor communication to workforce, poor treatment of line employees and professional workforce by majority of managers. Often one hand does not know what the other is doing. Very political environment has created an environment of general fear of speaking out which curtails creativity at many levels. The general knowledge that once a product is developed it will be off shored to the Malaysia manufacturing site. Vested ownership of engineering is difficult if not impossible in this scenario.

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