Extreme Networks reviews

3.8

70% would recommend to a friend

(1,082 total reviews)
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Ed Meyercord

77% approve of CEO

63% positive business outlook

Extreme Networks has an employee rating of 3.8 out of 5 stars, based on 1,082 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Extreme Networks employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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1.0
Oct 25, 2023
Recommend
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Pros

The technology works… kind of. The people in my territory and team are great and we support each other.

Cons

If you come here thinking you’ll be involved in sales, think again and think real hard about it. You will be more of an administrative therapist than anything. The work/life balance is a complete joke. There’s talk everywhere about how we have “amazing culture” but if someone reaches out at 11pm I’m expected to hop on and deliver what I’m asked right away. I spend more time doing reports and managing internal issues than I do actual sales. When I bring this up to my manager, they ask to involve them, but nothing can really be done because our internal processes are so broken. That applies with our products as well as our internal politics. It leaves very little time to be proactive. The emphasis this year at the company is net-new business, as it should be with any company. But we can’t actively engage in going after new business with the way things are. The way we license and service products doesn’t support a company that wants to be a software company. Nevermind if you can actually book a deal without there being at least one issue with a license or service. There’s so much internal infighting so don’t expect to solve issues quickly. On top of all this, we get emails from VP levels of management essentially saying none of us know how to do our jobs and we all should be replaced. They could replace every single one of us and the same issues would arise because they refuse to listen and fix internal issues. I would counter that our management doesn’t know how to do their jobs. I’ve hit my number every year I’ve been here, but every day is like walking on eggshells. When something with an opportunity changes or goes wrong, you then will have to update 15 different people on it individually. From your manager, director, sales ops, vp, team members - It’s exasperating. So think real hard if you want to be in an environment like this.

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1.0
Sep 26, 2020
Recommend
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Pros

A handful of very talented engineers (no longer working here), ability to work remotely, free snacks and drinks, decent work/life balance depending on your manager.

Cons

Current CEO and his team of highly overpaid do nothings, have ruined this company beyond salvation. I would not recommend working here under the current leadership. The company continues to barely limp along, and is constantly chasing and trying to emulate industry innovators like Arista, Cisco, etc., rather than develop new technology. It continues to exsist for the benefit and enrichment of a very select handful of employees, as it does not invest in it's remaining employees or create new technology. Extreme is no longer an engineering company but a marketing company. No innovation here, just lots of acquisitions, rebranding, vaporware, and fancy marketing terms that change each week. Complete lack of direction from CEO and team have engineering constantly wondering what to work on. Employees here fear for their jobs every quarter due to mismanagement and lack of direction from the CEO. Very political and isolated teams, everyone is fighting for their job and is in constant fear of being laid off at the end of every quarter. No upward mobility. Do not recommend.

1.0
Oct 25, 2019

A mess of poor decisions

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Pros

Not many - they think they are a great company and open and honest and they might even sell you on that - but it's not true.

Cons

Too much politics - people get hurt while political war is going on. Company is managing up, employees are not being considered ever. Stock is not doing well for a reason - there are a lot of bad decisions and market sees that. Salaries are low, bonuses non existent for last 5 years, increases are not happening either.

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