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"8x8 is a provider of cloud-based voice, call center, video, mobile and unified communications solutions for businesses." read more

This company is accepting feedback from verified employees EMPLOYEE PARTICIPANTS: 257

TOTAL RATINGS: 7358

CEO: David Sipes

Dejan Deklich — Chief Product Officer at 8x8

Executive Bio

Mr. Dejan Deklich has been the Chief Product Officer at 8x8, Inc. since September 19, 2017 and served as its Senior Vice President of Global Research & Development since February 22, 2017 until September 19, 2017 and Executive Vice President since September 19, 2017 until 2018. Mr. Deklich served as Vice President of Platform & Cloud at Splunk. Prior to Splunk, Mr. Deklich served as the Chief Technology Officer of Merced Systems, Inc. Mr. Deklich served as Chief Technology Officer of Attributor Corporation. Mr. Deklich managed the text, image and video crawling team at Attributor and was responsible for Attributor's crawling architecture, algorithms and operations. He has more than 15 years of experience in strategic evaluation and implementation of new technologies, research and development of new products and technologies for web scale problems and leading technical teams to reach critical milestones. Prior to Attributor, he played lead roles at Yahoo, working on its first-generation APEX advertising platform and at IBM Research, where he created a backup/restore application. He held various engineering leadership roles for 8 years at IBM research in the U.S. and China. Mr. Deklich holds advanced degrees in Physics, Math and Computer Science from Universitaet Bremen and Santa Clara University.

Chief Product Officer Impact on Product Department's Culture

Dejan Deklich holds the highest position within the Product department at 8x8 — Chief Product Officer, and therefore has influence on the culture of the Product department. The average employee described daily life within the Product department as a Comfortably fast paced and challenging 10 hour day, stating that they are happy with their work life balance. Employees within 8x8 Product department are invested in 8x8 goals, and feel as though there is space for career growth.

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Are you challenged at work?

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Are your company's goals clear, and are you invested in them?

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Yes	80%
No	20%

Are you satisfied with your work/life balance?

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Positive	100%
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How would you rate the value & quality of meetings at your company?

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Does your current company provide you meaningful opportunities for career advancement?

Executive Team Culture Ratings from 8x8 Employees

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8x8 Executive Team scores in the Top 5%
of similar sized companies on Comparably

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Do you approve of the job your executive team is doing at your company?

95% Yes

Who ranks the Executive Team the highest?

Department - Executive 98/100

Department - HR 97/100

Department - IT 94/100

Who ranks the Executive Team the lowest?

Tenure - 1 to 2 Years 79/100

Experience - Entry Level 83/100

Department - Operations 85/100

8x8 Executive Team at a Glance

Based on 420 ratings, 8x8 employees are very satisfied with their Executive Team and give them an “A+” or 91/100. On average, Women provided higher ratings for their Executive Team compared to Men. Also, the Executive department thinks more highly of the Executive Team relative to the Operations department.

8x8 Executive Team ranks in the Top 5% of other companies in San Francisco and Top 5% of other companies on Comparably that also have 1,001-5,000 Employees.

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