Pros
At one point in time I'd say it was a place of growth and learning for up and coming engineers. However, it is far from that now.
Cons
Gosh, where to start. Well as the title of this review points out, please do NOT be fooled by the fake reviews that upper management writes glorifying what little good this company has left. In all honesty this place used to be fantastic for up and coming engineers looking to get their feet wet. Managers no longer care about growing engineers, they just want ticket pushers with little experience. When reviews state that Optanix is unstable, it is truly not a joke. Management has little to no idea what it's doing and has no concern for their engineers either. HR has held large conference calls with employees to let them go en mass, completely unprofessional. The lower level engineers are treated poorly by their supervisors who for the record all do not have formal management experience, and it shows. Those supervisors are in turn ignored by their leads and managers. I say this from experience. There is no concern for the well being and growth of employees. Upper management only cares about their bottom line, we've accepted this for years now. As a side note, engineers were encouraged to pass for sure our Cisco certs to maintain our Gold standard with Cisco. Like I said, they don't want or need talent, they need just enough to maintain their poor quality benchmark. There's a lot of talent at Optanix now who realize it's a sinking ship and are leaving while the getting is good.
