There’s talk of more layoffs coming, although the last round didn’t address the real issues and was just a quick fix to cover overspending. Cutting experienced employees with deep knowledge of the systems has created gaps that are hard to fill. The... — read more 

The only thing more consistent than their quarterly all hands metings is their biannual migration between Teams and Zoom. Every six months, executives, fresh off a “strategy retreat” involving buzzwords, golf carts, and a suspicious amount of... — read more 

FLD - You Have A Decision To Make By The End Of October 2025 Do you continue the financial charades to keep the stock price up for maybe another 6 to 8 months, or do you do what is necessary to make F5 a world class Security Firm. There are many... — read more 

Not sure what defines highly sophisticated hacker or not but clearly they went for the Jackpot Bingo. Application Delivery Controller or ADC is a single point of exposure of all traffic that goes through F5 that would be a magnet for hackers. It... — read more 

Attorneys Encourage Investors and Potential Witnesses to Contact Law Firm https://www.gurufocus.com/news/3147604/bank-first-corporation-receives-regulatory-approval-to-acquire-centre-1-bancorp-inc

Cyber: F5 experienced the same breach in March 2021. In Nov 2021 they announced they’re doubling their India staff which is now 20% of their headcount. The WFH engineering is entirely in India. Only pre-sales and service engineers in US. None of... — read more 

lets fire more american and european engineers and replace them with more indian engineers, middle managers and VPs they will rescue f5 from crumbling

so much for f5 being a security company https://www.securityweek.com/f5-blames-nation-state-hackers-for-theft-of-source-code-and-vulnerability-data/

I liked to say it was a good experience - it wasn't. I'd liked to say that we helped each other thrive - we didn't I'd like to say that F5 puts out new and innovative products - they don't I'd like to say that F5 puts out quality products - it... — read more 

I think it’s a copy of the 14.1 user manual and all of FLD’s crayon drawings

Do not let anyone gaslight you into thinking constant layoffs are normal. This is not normal.

Its quite regrettable and didn't need to happen.

Employees were told the layoffs were about redundancy and not being strategic enough. Sure, some low performers were cut. Plenty of solid, capable people were let go in HR, Marketing, and Sales all over the world. Meanwhile, the company SPENT A LOT... — read more 

Man it’s been a couple months since o checked in on this sh—tshow. Hoping some of yall jumped ship. Eff Eff Five. Get ooout

Who saw that one coming? Ki-ling the golden goose is never good for longterm stability.

As of this week some major customer and partner events scheduled for October were cancelled in NAMER - not for low attendance - for something else. What’s going on?

Probably doesn’t help that hiring managers and recruiters use services that look at and summarize FB, Instagram posts, etc., and company-identified boards like this one, to not only get a sense of personal characteristics of applicants, but the... — read more 

Personally feeling, it seems like the execs talked a lot but in the meantime it means nothing to me in the end.

Got up this morning, went for a walk – logged on to see if there were any replies to my employment applications. None. Been doing this almost everyday mon-fri for coming up to two years since my RIF from F5. Found two more software... — read more 

So many dissatisfied employees comment here. Why don’t they leave F5? Can’t find another job? Hmm. So many former employees comment here. Why are they wasting their time? Can’t find another job? Hmm. Seems like the answers are obvious. Dose of... — read more 

Nathan Pearce worked at F5 for a number of years. Some of you might want to check out his webinar https://www.professionalindependence.com/layoff-recovery

FLD - listen up....AI is failing big time.... https://futurism.com/ceos-ai-disaster

The recent F5 RIF was needed to pay for these acquisitions this year F5 Networks has made several acquisitions in 2025 to expand its cybersecurity and AI capabilities. The recent constantly changing strategy has focused on integrating AI-native... — read more 

# Questions About Executive Accountability: The F5/HackerOne Case Study An objective timeline raising questions about corporate governance and executive hiring practices* ## The Timeline 2019-2023: BIG-IP Next Development F5 Networks... — read more 

Wonder if it is actually heading anywhere? Or all talks and …

Oh goodie... We have a new Vice President. F5 has hired yet another Vice President - this one is Vice President of Talent Acquisition.... It would seem to me that their first task would be is to rehire all those RIFd in the last several years. ... — read more 

Who even makes these decisions? Policies change all the time and nobody explains why. Teams are shuffled around without warning. You can’t trust anyone to have your back. And somehow, the people causing the chaos get praised. How does that make... — read more 

Patterns look strange. It almost feels like the “biggest risks” for employees are: • Being a woman • Turning 40+ • Taking maternity leave • Dealing with serious illness If that’s what our “business-driven decisions” end up looking like… is this... — read more 

After working unpaid evenings and even some weekends during years, on 8/12 François Locoh-Donou & Company fired pregnant women, women who just had a baby, people who just had major surgery, people on temporary work visas, and employees that recently... — read more 

I'm looking at the open job positions on f5's website and the majority of them are dev positions that were laid off, but now are being hired in India. Why are we continuining to outsource to a place that churns out substandard code and business... — read more 

Looks like to me senior manager and below took all of the blunt of it...

I’ve come to expect nothing but being laid off. I’m just going through the motions at work and can’t find the motivation to put in any real effort. As someone who prefers to be invested and do the job properly, because that’s one of the few... — read more 

FLD makes $12,000,000 a year. Imagine how many peoples' jobs he could save if he went to just $1,000,000 a year? That would be a Human First act. His layoff actions speak way louder then his hollow words.

I’ve been here over a decade and I still feel completely expendable. Loyalty doesn’t seem to matter at all. Even people nearing retirement aren’t shielded from cuts. Everyone should at least have an eye on other opportunities. Things can change... — read more 

There are some people not doing so well since being laid off. Seriously not doing well. Please seek help. Feeling anxious and depressed, having trouble sleeping, not being able to enjoy activities that you are used to enjoying are all normal... — read more 

Anybody have the inside scoopetypoop?