Emulex reviews

The previous reviewer pretty much sums this company up in a nutshell. Incompetent marketing team, old-time fat-cats that resist and squelch any new ideas, conform or be forced out, etc, etc. Its all true. On top of that the company offers little room for career advancement, almost no company sponsored training, and laughable educational benefits if you want to go for an advanced degree. Also, there is little communication and knowledge sharing among engineers and different units. Basically, you are expected to learn what you need to do your job on your own. Also, a lot of positions are being sent to their India location where engineers come much cheaper, so job security is an issue constantly on everyone's mind and has a demoralizing effect.

Internal politics are nearly unbearable with program decisions made by a most incompetent marketing organization. The company is filled with old time fat cats who are just too comfortable with the status quo. All new ideas are immediately squelched and new people must conform or they are forced out. Future product roadmaps recreated at least monthly (if they exist at all). If the legacy FC technology isn't core to any new product proposal, then any new product is ignored or eventually killed. New product proposals are weighed against the margins enjoyed by the duopoly-based FC products, but without accepting that most of world runs on a fraction of the unrealistic profit margins that ELX boasts of in their quarterly/annual reports. The results are few long term product plans and competitors who are rapidly gobbling up Emulex's traditional product space. The HW and FW content in the legacy HBAs is based on ancient code and development processes that are unmaintainable; everyone is afraid to touch anything and no one (except a few unsuccessful and wretched souls who were fired or relegated to the margins) tried to rejuvenate it. The HW designs are similar. Work is being deployed to India not because it makes sense, but because it is the politically correct answer to every human resource issue the company faces; this approach doesn't offer much future for the US-based engineering teams and is a huge demotivator.