Citrix Systems Reviews

Current Employee – been working at Citrix Systems full-time for more than a year

Pros – Great well maintained, low density seating offices. Laptops and meeting rooms plentiful to help collaboration. Plentiful parking and relaxed attitude to work from home. Regular training and meetings. Technologies and processes constantly updated.

Cons – Technologies moving so fast it can be hard to keep track of direction. A lot of software managers who have meetings relative to engineers.

Advice to Senior Management – More engineers and fewer managers and marketing people and communicate long term strategy to smooth over the fast pace of change, we can't develop and test code overnight!

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Citrix Systems full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – Good quality people and interesting technology

Cons – Engineering environment is very slow moving

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Citrix Systems full-time for more than 10 years

Pros – It's a very good atmosphere, you get 23 days holidays (25 after a few years), free soda, free fruit juices, free fruits, coffee and tea/milk. We have a game room. I do not feel like I am going to work per se every day, it's a friendly environment, and I recommend the company! The benefits are good too.

Cons – We do not get shares anymore as we used to in the past. We do not travel as much. I guess money needs to be saved.

Advice to Senior Management – I think it would be nice to still give share to high performing employees. Just a thought.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Citrix Systems as a contractor for more than 3 years

Pros – The people in various teams you get to build relationships up with and who actually appreciate and see the value you bring to the department

Cons – Con Number :
1) only certain departments can remote work even though that is the company industry
2) Contractors have no equal rights - widely known as "f'ing temps" by Senior HR Directors - yes Chalfont UK - YOU ARE GUILTY .
3) you have to cover your arse with everything in writing or you will be blamed!
4) temps for a reason - easy to get rid of with no legal come back when its management up to no good
5) dishonest - ask them a straight out question concerning your role or department - they'll come down on you like there is no tomorrow and lie to your face
6) those right at the top have no idea what those in the semi senior roles are doing to the good people they employ.
7) its not always about selling the company to future employees - you really should continue to sell the experience to existing employees perms and temps alike.
8) need I really go on?

Advice to Senior Management – stop openly gossiping about sensitive company matters and then sack everyone in sight who has heard the gossip to protect your own arse!
A little less discrimination wouldnt go a miss too especially against those who have commitments outside of citrix aka life

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Citrix Systems full-time for more than a year

Pros – Very flexible working hours.
Can work from home.
Great pension and health care plan.
Offices in a beautiful location with greenery, golf course and listed buildings nearby
A lot of freedom to work as you wish.
Well known company, good to have on your CV.

Cons – Development work isn't as intensive as you would expect. A lot of time is wasted on other things. Some architects hog all the interesting projects to work on.

Company doesn't have a culture of training it's employees.

Management positions are generally swapped around the same incompetent people (most of which have been at the company for over 10 years but are not qualified to take on such responsibility - you can forget being promoted to a management position).

If it wasn't for acquisitions, Citrix would be 6 feet under by now because there is no significant internal innovation.

Because Citrix has lot's of employees who have been with the company for over 10 years you don't get recognition until you've been at the company for at least a couple of years, which is bad for a graduate or any new hire. There is no chance of influencing any changes within the company or being taken serious for new hires.

Some people in higher positions (a few architects and managers) seem not to be doing any work worthy of their pay cheques. There is a crew of Directors, Senior Architects and the like who are very stubborn and backward.

In comparison to other large companies, the rate of promotion is very slow, most people get a promotion once every 5 years or more, a lot of people have gone over 7 years without promotion.

The gap in pay rise from one grade to the other on promotion isn't enough, a promotion could result in only £1000 to £2500 annual pay rise for most people but the pay bands vary a lot.

There is a hierarchy that makes all major decisions and it's difficult to get your word in. There is a LOT of incompetence and politics in management.

There is some elitism at Citrix, a lot of Cambridge grads work for Citrix in Cambridge and they don't seem to be producing anything meaningful.

Most people at Citrix are too afraid to say anything about the mediocrity at Citrix because no one else has the courage to complain and because there is no structure in place to express these opinions, HR has no power at all.

The really talented developers seem to be leaving the company.

Advice to Senior Management – Look out for your members of staff, if they perform well it reflects well on you.

Sometimes it's time to leave the company, if the majority of people have been at the company over 7 years they don't have to prove them self any more, you need to get new people in and some of the guys need to leave. Some people seem to be passing time, piggy backing on the fact that they have been at the company for ages. If people work together in the same team for over 8 years results in cliques and a a lot of negative history keeps plaguing the teams, this needs to be avoided.

The VP needs to review the UK management to see if they are still competent. Blackberry went down partly due to managers in the UK who weren't competent enough. Everyone has to prove them self, experience and length of service don't automatically make someone as good employee.

This company is going down if things stay the same.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Citrix Systems full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – Great culture, some great people, good flexible working, some great technologies to work on. The company understands it is the people that make a company succeed.

Cons – Not all departments are as good as others, many have still not adapted agile practices.

Advice to Senior Management – Some areas are still using very waterfall style development, and some areas seem to be blindly following process rather than looking at why it is there.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Citrix Systems full-time for more than a year

Pros – Good balance between work and free time
Good portfolio of products with innovative technologies
Clear direction from management

Cons – Promotions sometimes only if you apply internally to other positions

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Citrix Systems full-time for less than a year

Pros – I've been working for Citrix about 4 month now and I totally love it. For one thing to mention it is that working remotely is a norm rather than a privilege although I really like our offices.

Cons – Probably the only cons is that as in a large company sometimes it takes long time to get a response on a problem with one of many information systems we have.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Citrix Systems

Pros – Not posturing too much but pretty focused on solutions
Emphasis on clean design
Eats own dog food - great when dog food works

Cons – Seems to be leaking some talent, not sure how serious
Trajectory forces it into the Microsoft fold to a large extent

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Citrix Systems

Pros – Very smart people (even managers ;), nice office with Table Tennis (I think that you should not work in company without Ping-Pong ;). Good balance between work and private time. Very nice attitude for family file.

Cons – Salary could be better. Corp IT is far from perfect. Communication between teams working on different product is not ideal yet (but improving).

Advice to Senior Management – Better handle acquisitions.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend