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3.7

67% would recommend to a friend

(76 total reviews)

David Hughes

82% approve of CEO

64% positive business outlook

Silver Peak Systems has an employee rating of 3.7 out of 5 stars, based on 76 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Silver Peak Systems 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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76 reviews
2.0
21 Jan 2016

Paternalistic and Gloomy with Nice Technology

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Really nice product set. Very credible pivot from WANop to SD-WAN and quite possibly some differentiating competitive advantages, although the space is crowding up.

Cons

Humorless culture of fear, particularly in marketing. Bizarre, "good old boy" management steeped in hierarchy -- an oscillation of mushroom and then micro-management, then back to mushroom. Kiss up and kick down. Way too many layers and closed doors for such a small group. Amazing bureaucracy. Execs cause a constipated workflow ("everything goes through me but I'll never really think about it") and then blame individual contributors.

1.0
31 Jan 2018

AVOID this place.

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Pros

Excellent enterprise SD-WAN product. Right product at the right time. Smart people. Many very nice people. Decent pay if you're smart and persistent enough to negotiate it. I didn't waste my whole life at this place.

Cons

Prepare To Be: 1) Asked to deceive your prospects to close the deal. 2) Sitting around and waiting for months if you lose your SE or account manager - and wait at your own expense. 3) Disappointed in just about every way with your sales leadership. 4) Broke, because sales leadership will steal your large opp right out from under you and you'll never see a dime in commission. They call this "Major Accounts". 5) Confused because someone immediately above or below in your reporting structure / org has been let go a week ago and nobody bothered to tell you, which is why your emails and calls to that person involved with a certain business process have gone unanswered, and now your deal is slipping. 6) Uncompetitive as basic features are lacking and new features are barely even half-baked. 7) Neglected in the field. If you're not at HQ all the time, you're not in the "good ole boys network" and you're likely NOT going to come out on top at this place. 8) Ready to let this job de-rail your career. No thanks!

1.0
6 Apr 2017

This boat was sinking

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Free catered lunch 4 days a week. Free snacks and drinks. Good employees. Flexible working hours. Insurance benefit is competitive

Cons

Management plays favoritism very obviously. Politics is everywhere. Let go people easily. No room to grow. Many management layers in a small department.

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