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Project Coordinator (Contractor) (Former Employee), Mountain View, Ca – January 15, 2013
Pros: top data protection company
Cons: too many managers
I enjoyed my time working here; however, I always felt that there was too much middle management. Made it difficult to get things done.
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Productive and fun place to work
MSS Security Engineer (Current Employee), Herndon, VA – January 8, 2013
Pros: always learn new issue everyday about firewall.
Cons: short break
Team work, Great place to learn fire wall, and most enjoyable part of the job. Hardest part of this job was I have to work late and weekend.
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Big Yellow has seen its best days
Director, Market Intelligence (Former Employee), Cupertino, CA – December 18, 2012
Pros: flexible work-life balance
Cons: if you are not in california, you don't get taken seriously
THe company needs to invest for the future rather than milk the cash cow products indefinitely. It also needs to learn how to incubate new products or take an alternative approach to entering new businesses - by acquiring going concerns and building around them.
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Productive
Information security Analyst (Current Employee), Mumbai – December 17, 2012
Overall good place to gain knowledge. nice place to get exposure to corporate life.
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A typical day at work
Software Engineer Trainee (Current Employee), Mountain View, CA – December 4, 2012
Tension free, energetic, challenging and fun filled. Friendly people, good work culture. world class work.
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Good place to work
Sr. Manager, HR Business Partner (Former Employee), Lindon, UT – November 18, 2012
Pros: great people, diverse work groups, innovation in action, great benefits
Very innovative and productive employees.Career development opportunities. Enjoyed working with Engineering teams as they developed awesome products!
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Typical day at Symantec, included Managing Escalations, Employees, Customers and Management.
Customer Service Manager (Former Employee), Springfield, OR – November 12, 2012
Pros: lots of resources available for coaching, training and mentoring.
Cons: customer base to support centers could have had better overlap, some days we had many more customers than we had staff to take on the case load.
While working at Symantec, I learned there is more than 1 way to interact and work with various individuals and company's. It was customer facing role, and I talked on average to 4-6 customers daily. You get pretty good at dealing with a mulitude of issues and individuals. I did daily coaching/mentoring if needed, and kept an eye on our metrics, which – more... were case's taken, cases closed, case reopened, Survey's reponded, SLA measuring, and reporting back to customers if there we missed opportunities. I worked with each individual who reported to me, in order to ensure they were getting the support and assistance they needed for resolving customer issues and concerns. – less
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Symantec was a great place to work although not the most stable.
Inside Territory Account Manager (Former Employee), Beaverton, OR – November 5, 2012
Pros: great culture, good work/life balance
Cons: workforce instability. in the 6 years i work at symantec, i was in threat of lay offs 5 seperate times.
Great culture, good work/life balance however, workforce instability is a concern. In the 6 years I work at Symantec, I was in threat of lay offs 5 separate times.
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Very different than other companies I have worked
Contractor (Former Employee), Mountain View, CA – October 30, 2012
Pros: good co-workers
Cons: management
I liked my role but at first it seems management style is not micro management but as time went they did micro manage everything. I like my co-workers.
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Director, Mergers and Acquisitions (Former Employee), Mountain View, CA – October 25, 2012
Pros: the team!
Cons: growth areas
I spent eight years at Symantec. I led over eleven acquisitions from companies all over the world. I spent the majority of my time working with the executive team on strategic directions of each acquisition, ensuring programs and metrics were in place to gain value for the investments the company was making. I spent sometime as the Chief of Staff to – more... the CEO, I was able to see how a large company was run. From customer meetings, to sitting in the boardroom, it was a highly valuable experience being able to see what it takes to run a large company. The hardest part of my job was laying people off. I found it difficult to see good people lose their jobs due to redundancies from an acquisition. The most enjoyable part of my job was problem solving and putting out fires and I loved my team. – less
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Great technology Poor managment
QA Architect (Current Employee), Pune – October 10, 2012
Pros: free lunch, family mediclaim
Cons: no growth path especially for qa.
Symantec previously Veritas has a lot of great products and technologies to work with. Management is not clear what direction company needs to take. Salaries are below industry standard for the domain
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Great Place To Work- Encourages Work/Life Balance
Sourcing Buyer/Global Operations Support (Former Employee), Heathrow, FL – October 2, 2012
Pros: work/life balance; great corporate culture; great benefits
Cons: tendancy to reduce workforce
Thus far, my professional experience during my time at Symantec has been my most rewarding and fulfilling. Symantec is a dynamic company, offering today's professional with a great work/life balance. The company's culture and values were very complimentary with my personal and professional values and goals. Unfortunately, due to a large restructing – more... of the procurement organization, my position with Symantec was tranisitioned to an external service provider. It was with great disappointment that my time with Symantec had to come to an end. – less
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Fun place and productive
Software Consultant - Principal Engineer (Former Employee), Mountain View, CA – September 19, 2012
- Learnt about IT work
- Web challenges
- Learnt more about processes
- B2B integration experience
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We believe in Team-Work
Sr. Systems Engineer (Current Employee), New Delhi, DL – September 17, 2012
At Symantec, I am highly encouraged to be innovative in the areas of Solution positioning and architecture. At the same time I am helped by the organization to learn new advancements in the technology field I am working with.
For the past 6 years, I've got good exposure for all the industry segments - SMB, Enterprise Accounts and Government, which has – more... helped me grow as an individual in the industry.
The interaction and joint work with partners also give me a good opportunity to learn the Market Dynamic WRT the competition.
The only drawback with working in a product company like Symantec is to be restricted with only a limited set of products that you gain expertise with. – less
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GLOBAL HUB AGENT LAKE MARY FL, 6 YEARS
Global Customer Hub Representative (Former Employee), lake mary fl – September 15, 2012
Pros: there are non
Cons: lay offs every year
Came on board when the company when it was known as VERITAS, an excellent entity with flawless support and service, then came Symantec and oh boy did everything go down hill. If you are applying for the Global HUB position in Lake Mary FL. The associate manager who is still there, has to be the WORST manager to have ever walked this earth. Micro manage, – more... no raises, terrible training, you will get yelled at in front of everyone, and HR will not support you, no matter how bad things get. BEWARE!!!! Only reason I lasted so long was tuition reimbursement and a 3rd shift that allowed me to get away from management for years, l shut my mouth until it was time to leave, then I let them have it..jejeje..felt good too. – less
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Great place to learn
SQA specialist (Former Employee), Mountain View, CA – August 29, 2012
Have been working at Symantec for a little more then 6 years. Have worked on different components of all Norton products.
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flexible, good benefits of the company
SQA (Current Employee), Pune – August 1, 2012
Pros: some flexibility, good location
Cons: no work life balance, no compensation benefits
Nothing much to write about. bad experience here
too much work here
helpful co-workers
too much work
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NOt your average Customer Service Position
Customer Authentication Analyst (Former Employee), Mountain View, CA – July 11, 2012
2 weeks worth of intense training, quizes and final examination before you are actually brought onboard. Great pay, great facility, too bad it was temp.
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Great place to work
Senior Product Marketing Consultant (Current Employee), Mountain View, CA – July 10, 2012
A broad portfolio of impressive technologies supported by a large pool of global resources. Professional and collegial work environment.
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Okay Place to work
Sales (Current Employee), Pune – July 5, 2012
Pros: wlb
Cons: company not performing well
Good Worklife balance, not very agressive, no clear goals, company not doing too well and career advancement is less
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About Symantec

Symantec's future seems to be secure. The company provides security, storage, and systems management software for businesses and – Read more