Unhealthy Culture and Management - Sales NGINX Employee Review

1.0
10 Mar 2019
Recommend
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Pros

Amazing open source reputation. Very easy to have a conversation about the product with the experience of the modern web. Marketing generates the majority of business giving reps a great chance at success. Great office location as well.

Cons

Aggressive clique like culture with management that cannot enable or develop reps. Friendships are the foundation for upward development and not performance or merit based. Those who are unsuccessful can go half a year without hitting quota before there is any evaluation is their process.

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5.0
13 Sept 2021
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

I was at NGINX for several years and finished around the time of the F5 merger. As an independent company, it was a fun and vibrant place to work. There were some growing pains in marketing, but overall quite positive.

Cons

Uncertainty, disagreement on goals, some stuff got advanced through skunkworks projects rather than the mainline plan. There was also a lot of engineering turnover at one point, but then things aligned and products were shipping reasonably well.

5.0
31 Oct 2018
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Business outlook

Pros

The team across the company is welcoming, driven and competent. The technology is amazingly popular, and very well known. The product direction looks promising, and while there are occasional sales hiccups, enterprise sales are growing fast. It's not perfect, and there are a lot of things to be built and improved on, but all are mostly expected to be seen in a young growing company. The company is mostly devoid of politics, and the leadership team at least listens to people across the board. Great office location, free lunch twice a week, well stocked kitchens.

Cons

Open office floorplan, so you need to get used to that. The company does not do a 401K match as of right now.

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