Does anyone have any experience working for this company?

Can anyone give a little perspective on quality of life, workload, etc etc

9/2/2008 10:30:52 AM

do they have an office in RTP?

9/2/2008 11:02:17 AM

^
yes they do

9/2/2008 11:10:50 AM

^ Bobby's post was sarcastic


Yea, I have been contacted as a person of interest for their TAC. I just dont know much about their products/certs/protocols/IOS/ etc

Any insight would be fantastic

[Edited on September 2, 2008 at 11:34 AM. Reason : .]

9/2/2008 11:34:07 AM

well whatever you do expect to take it to the extreme

drinking on the job...more like company sponsored keg stands
smoke breaks...more like smoke breaks
vacation...more like no vacation at all because you are so extreme you work all the time

9/2/2008 1:31:26 PM

LOL

Im debating weather or not I should try to get in to the Cisco aNCE or aSE program, or switch over to Extreme. I suppose it depends on what they are offering, but Id like some inside information on what its like to work there.

9/2/2008 11:36:55 PM

I too would like this information.

9/3/2008 3:50:44 AM

I have actually been in the building, the lab setup is done fairly well and you can tell there are some laid back people in there. The rest of the building appeared to still be in works as far as cubicles and that sorta thing. We do their calibration work so thats pretty much all I know about them, that and all their equipment is purple so that it will stand out.

9/3/2008 8:51:33 AM

Epic bump, but same question as the OP. Any new info out there?

4/22/2013 2:46:26 PM

I don't know what the company is like to work for, but definitely do NOT like the gear. Had negative experiences with the gear in two locations now, and will not consider them in the future.

4/22/2013 4:38:49 PM

They poached a bunch of software engineers from Cisco recently. They don't seem to be too happy overall. A couple that I know of are thinking about coming back to Cisco.

4/22/2013 4:53:14 PM

I hear Arista is where it's at in the world of startup networking companies/cisco competition.


prolly half the company is ex-cisco.

[Edited on April 23, 2013 at 12:14 AM. Reason : .]

4/23/2013 12:13:51 AM

SDN and commodity chinese gear will be the end of cisco and juniper margins

4/23/2013 3:36:22 AM

I've been with Extreme for over 3 years now and I've enjoyed them all. I guess it depends on what department and group you work with though - I'm in Services.

PM me for specifics if you're interested in knowing more info.

4/23/2013 11:51:14 AM

^^

ehh, only if both believe they can continue to maintain current margins with current product/services vectors for ever, and that's definitely not the case for either.

and as for SDN, well Cisco is definitely a major player there as well, depending on what definition of SDN you use.

http://www.enterprisenetworkingplanet.com/netsp/openflow-inventor-martin-casado-sdn-vmware-software-defined-networking-video.html

4/30/2013 9:55:01 AM

Quote :

"They poached a bunch of software engineers from Cisco recently. They don't seem to be too happy overall. A couple that I know of are thinking about coming back to Cisco."

the access routing guys, i think. i heard cisco tried giving them better counter offers but many of them were sick of working there and left anyway.

4/30/2013 2:18:25 PM