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
Apr 14, 2020

Unstable Leadership and Employees Not Valued

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Decent pay, decent time off, and used to have a good culture/people (no more good culture though)

Cons

Acquired company's have been handed the keys to the kingdom. Layoffs are rampant, especially on the products that bring in the most revenue, which happen to be the legacy Extreme products. Most of the original Extreme executive leadership has been replaced by the acquired companies, which were bankrupt or nearly bankrupt when we bought them. Hmm...

1.0
Jan 27, 2018
Recommend
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Pros

The discriminatory nature of the new PTO policy shows that management does not care about long term employees. Just based on this careless PTO decision, it shows that management cannot be trusted.

Cons

Management robbed long term employees of their PTO balance. Emails sent to HR, but concerns blatantly ignored with a "too bad, if you don't like it leave" attitude. Other companies within the industry do the right thing by paying out PTO to employees.

1.0
May 6, 2020
Recommend
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Pros

Flexible working environment. Plenty of free time once you have been laid off.

Cons

Too bad cannot select zero stars on Glassdoor. Current leadership lacks experience and know-how. They came from failing companies and they surround themselves by promoting their inexperienced yes-men friends, also from these same failed companies, to upper management roles. Extreme now lives with big company bureaucracy and not the small company tactics and strategy needed to be nimble and grow. These execs lack the knowledge of how to develop high performance teams to design, build, market and sell a solid quality product or offering. If you want to be paralyzed with layoffs every quarter, no job stability, no raises, miniscule to zero bonus, salary reductions, and a scripted push to only talk as if it is all is great and good, this is your company! Engineering leadership wants no candor, and will quickly force you out the door if you highlight failings or better ideas. Current executive leadership has forced out the only visionary lead who understood the challenges of system development and the value of good engineers and replaced him with a failing, non-engineer who doesn't know what it takes to develop and build a quality product. They are systematically dismantling the only parts of this company capable of bringing revenue and profitability. Execs are outsourcing jobs and getting rid of the talent needed to develop and sustain software for current and future platforms with zero regard for customers. Do yourself a favor, look elsewhere for a career. Everyone with any smarts at Extreme is looking to escape this cesspool. The execs view anyone beneath them as pond-scum.

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