Two years of just drowning in work, pressure from product, gripes about quality and no raises and maybe none next year as well? This company is a career dead end.

I'm interviewing with F5 for a network support engineer role.. After seeing all the comments here, I'm running it this is a good time to join F5. Any comments/advices please?

I was part of the digital sales org and am still reeling from this, especially considiering I moved my family for this job. I've heard from other coworkers that they were laid off too but I'm not sure how many in total. Is this the f5 way?? Are sales... — read more 

Don't you feel like it was a bad idea to layoff the qa people?

Understanding what you don’t want in a career is just as important as knowing what you do want. It took me a while to realize this, but now that I have, I'm going to be out of here as fast as I can. I realized that I don't want to work 60+ hour weeks... — read more 

If yes, which orgs/roles?

Have you noticed the corruption in hiring process? Like some engineer asks you a question and you realize the guy doesn't know the basics/ not able to move without you at all. Sometimes these people have really high definition like principal or... — read more 

What’s this mid year performance review pilot program for parts of sales, Marketing, and HR that just wrapped up?

There was a time when F5 sponsored things like the Seattle St. Patricks Day Dash and executives would actually participate in the event. Do FLD and other EVP just sit in their offices and count bonus paychecks and plan for the next layoff?

What are the chances that a remote person who does not live near an office will get promoted or move around the company to different departments? Are they only hiring near office locations now? Wondering what the chances are for future opportunities... — read more 

US-based engineers, brace yourself! The apparent "change" is coming!

Who currently is the executive over the Human Resources organization at F5? It appears that there is no longer a VP of Human Resources for the last couple of years or a Chief People Officer in the last year or so.

They overhired remote people during the pandemic and now it seems that half of every team resides in different states. (so much for collaboration, right? we're all in zoom meetings all day regardless of whether we're near an office or not...) What... — read more 

At least everyone should be happy that F5 used some of the money saved from trimming the fat to buy WIB. It's a bold step forward. I also appreciate that FLD came as close to saying 'yes' about April layoffs as he could.

So far it's been 1300 souls....

Is it just me or is morale just tanking? It seems like everyone is in the dumps recently

Just curious what the consequences will be for those who didn’t put in their 30 days in the office this quarter. More than 25% did not meet this requirement.

Is it 20 weeks ? or depends on number of years ?

"FP is a key executive at F5 Inc, serving as the company's Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. With a critical role in the financial planning and risk management of the company, P's actions and decisions are closely monitored by... — read more 

Why these many layoffs ? Will there be more layoffs next year in usa ? I see all teams are hiring in india? Who will be impacted next ? (ngnix, brm, big ip .....) what to expect from Kara? Does anyone know about severance offered ? — read more 

Brace yourself for another turmoil as early as spring next year. Management pushes "products" on customers without getting any feedback. There is no market research, direct conversations with customers, or iterations on product feature... — read more 

sigh.....

Shawn moved on from Aspen Mesh to NGINX Kara mentioned about shutting down some of Aspen Mesh(?) projects Aspen Mesh is now under BIG-IP? They seem to have lost a few people in recent reorg?

Heard that Ravi K hinted that there can be a layoff in BIG-IP Next Teams in March? With work moving to India and TelAviv. How true is this? There was a mention of Senior Managers and Architects leaving as well. Is this true?

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwjbzcyF3sGCAxV4JzQIHdC6BJQQwqsBegQIDRAG&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3Di2Lo8ChhOKU&usg=AOvVaw3_SfWjEJe6VOLoqrYQyBL_&opi=89978449

https://www.insider.com/startup-founder-only-fifth-highest-paid-employee-at-her-company-2023-11

Guessing a lot of tech people frequent this site given the industry. Are the posts really anonymous? Do they have any way of knowing who wrote what?

Never again Being ghosted by recruiters is one thing but quite another when you are ghosted by those that you use to work with. Its difficult to accept that none of it was real Mark twain said it best. The more I learn about people the more I... — read more 

How does one stay hopeful under so much adversity? Why is the ELT doing all of this with such deceit?

Frequent layoffs, low morale, clueless leaders, heartless decisions, blatant conflicts of interest (just learned about this one, oh boy is it a doozy.....you might know what I'm referring to) that goes unchecked by leadership and HR....what does the... — read more 

Are we approaching > 1200? More?

Saw a date on the facebook entry into this board and noted it was September, 2017. Did a bit more of a deep dive and noted that you can go back in time by cliking the Older Topics button. It took me back to September, 2017 on this layoff.com site. ... — read more 

"With Erwin’s appointment, F5’s board expands to 12 members, 11 of whom are independent. F5’s diverse board includes four directors who are women, and an additional four directors that identify as racially or ethnically diverse, with one identifying... — read more 

When is Kolkata office opening?

Will there be more cuts tomorrow? How worried should I be? I can't stop stressing over this.

They just fired 120 people from the Product Org. It is a "ridiculously easy" way to "free up resources to accelerate work on higher-priority efforts." The Russian roulette started. Now, wait for a few hours for an email from HR. "For impacted... — read more 

Like many others that visit this site, I was a part of a F5 RIF – in particular the one this last May 2, 2023. I have found over the last 6 months that the cost in trying to return to the software industry that I loved so much and have contributed... — read more 

https://jacobin.com/2023/10/mckinsey-garrison-lovely-whistleblower-consulting-firms Where is the "human first?"