Is Extreme Networks a good company to work for?

Extreme Networks has an overall rating of 3.8 out of 5, based on over 1,184 reviews left anonymously by employees. This rating has decreased by 3% over the last 12 months. 70% of employees would recommend working at Extreme Networks to a friend and 63% have a positive outlook for the business. The best reviews about Extreme Networks have been left by employees working as Systems Engineer , Director and Senior Manager .

Does Extreme Networks pay their employees well?

According to anonymously submitted Glassdoor reviews, Extreme Networks employees rate their compensation and benefits as 3.6 out of 5. Find out more about salaries and benefits at Extreme Networks. This rating has decreased by 4% over the last 12 months.

How satisfied are employees working at Extreme Networks?

70% of Extreme Networks employees would recommend working there to a friend based on Glassdoor reviews . Employees also rated Extreme Networks 3.9 out of 5 for work life balance, 3.8 for culture and values and 3.6 for career opportunities.

What are the top reviewed jobs at Extreme Networks?

Senior Software Engineer (43) , Software Engineer (31) , Sales (25) , Account Executive (23) , Systems Engineer (17) , Technical Support Engineer (17) , Director (15) , Principal Software Engineer (15) , Senior Account Executive (13) , Senior Manager (13) , Associate Software Engineer (12) , Engineer (12) , Program Manager (11) , Staff Software Engineer (11) , Manager (10)

What are the pros of working at Extreme Networks according to real employee reviews?

"Great people in the engineering team with many years of experience and a wealth of knowledge." ((in 90 reviews)); "Has a good Work life balance" ((in 89 reviews)); "Friendly colleagues and helpful." ((in 26 reviews)); "Good Work Culture and process" ((in 25 reviews)); "Good pay and rewards" ((in 23 reviews))

What are the cons of working at Extreme Networks according to real employee reviews?

"2) Management is bad." ((in 55 reviews)); "Too many reorgs and frequent layoffs" ((in 43 reviews)); "Constant new upper management." ((in 21 reviews)); "Some managers have no technical knowledge." ((in 21 reviews)); "No bonus" ((in 14 reviews))

What are employees saying about Extreme Networks layoffs in 2026?

Explore Glassdoor’s employee reviews to understand what current and former employees are saying about Extreme Networks layoffs and their outlook for job security at Extreme Networks in 2026.

What Extreme Networks locations have received the highest employee ratings?

Dallas , Research Triangle Park , Atlanta , Boston , Raleigh , Salem , Washington

Extreme Networks reviews

3.8

70% would recommend to a friend

(1,082 total reviews)

Ed Meyercord

77% approve of CEO

63% positive business outlook

Ratings by category

4.0

Diversity & inclusion

3.9

Work/Life balance

3.8

Culture & values

3.6

Compensation and benefits

3.6

Career opportunities

3.5

Senior management

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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Reviews by job title

1K reviews

2.0

Jan 13, 2024

Layoffs galore!

Technical support engineer

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

Engineers on my team are some of the brightest minds in the industry.

Cons

Blindsided by layoffs. It's somewhat telling that the oldest engineers appear to have been the desired target of the 2023 layoff season. Less than one week before the layoff, we were mandated to attend an All Hands meeting where we were bragged to about how well the company was doing. Additionally, the severance package was NONEXISTENT. Absolutely screwed over by my employer of over a decade.

1.0

Aug 29, 2021

CONSTANT reactionary layoffs. No organic development. They buy struggling companies. No growth. Do your research.

Senior software engineer

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

None. Absolutely none. Do your research. Be smart stay away. They buy struggling companies Aerohive was going down. Avaya went bankrupt. Broadcom got rid of Brocade because it couldn’t compete. What happens when you combine 3 failing companies that have failing leadership? You get an epic trifecta of complete failure. Come on people use that wrinkled sponge inside your skull. Do your research. The new sd-wan company they acquired was also in struggles. Very late to get into sd-wan now. It’s just a checkbox for marketing purposes. Based on the reviews I read and yes I read them ALL a lot of the good reviews look bogus. Let me guess your considering Extreme because you can’t get a job anywhere else. If you can go to another company and better yet another technology do it. Stay away. I got out. Milked it enough. Time for change.

Cons

Absolutely no organic growth or innovation. Constant reorganization. Zero direction from Senior Leadership. Everything is mostly outsourced or done in India or China. Wrongfully understaffed and forcing people to put in extra time with zero incentives. People are leaving on busses. Not just engineers but managers and directors that are competent enough to get a job with a real company are getting out. Most of the people left are old timers milking it and/or completely useless and would never get a new job offer from another tech company. Do your research. The networking industry has been consolidating for years now. Nothing new in networking has happened other just new cheaper hardware. Your still putting a packet on the wire using 30 year old principals and software technologies. The cloud solution is nothing more than an off premise graphical user interface for devices.

Extreme Networks Response

4y

We regret that you are dissatisfied with your experience with us. We are committed to refine and course correct our strategy where necessary and org changes are a result of it. I must mention we are in a very good position currently and a vast majority of our employees are happy with their roles and Extreme.

2.0

May 11, 2020

Terrible culture

Channel account manager

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

Pockets of strong leadership but more needed.

Cons

CEO is trying to play sales leader and the culture is toxic

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Jobs at Extreme Networks

Customer Success Platform Manager

Intern - Channel Sales - Fluent in Spanish and English

Intern - Lab/TAC Network Engineer

Technical Support Engineer

Principal Cloud Operations Engineer (10166)