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Calix is a cloud and appliance-based platform and managed services company. Broadband experience providers (BEP) leverage the Calix broadband platform, cloud, and managed services to simplify operations, engagement, and services, innovate for their consumer, business, and municipal subscribers, and grow their business and the communities they serve. Our end-to-end platform and managed services democratize the use of data—enabling our customers of any size to operate efficiently, acquire subscribers, and deliver exceptional experiences. Calix is dedicated to driving continuous improvement in partnership with our growing ecosystem to support the transformation of our customers and their communities. read more
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PARTICIPANTS
1237
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Calix Environment Employee Reviews

What is most positive about the culture and environment at your company?

Calix culture of "better better never best" reminds us that there is always opportunity to get better. And every individual is given the latitude and whatever resources needed to do their job well.

Review from Sales Dept · Posted 2 days ago

The camaraderie and relationships built

Review from Sales Dept · Posted 2 days ago

overall desire for personal dn customer success

Review from Sales Dept · Posted 2 days ago

its a very inclusive environment - team-first approach. everyone for the most part is always looking for ways to pitch in and get the job done the right way as a unit.

Review from Sales Dept · Posted 3 days ago

The most positive aspect of the culture is the strong sense of collaboration and mutual respect. Teams are supportive, open to ideas, and focused on delivering results while maintaining a positive work environment.

Review from IT Dept · Posted 3 days ago

collaboration and for the most part you have to build your culture .

Review from Sales Dept · Posted 3 days ago

grow up , never stop

Review from Engineering Dept · Posted 3 days ago

Calix has an employee first culture and they care about us.

Review from Sales Dept · Posted 4 days ago

Everyone is welcoming and eager to help

Review from Sales Dept · Posted 4 days ago

Still the opportunity to meet in person and build relationships

Review from HR Dept · Posted 4 days ago

The commraderie, it feels like we're all in this together

Review from Sales Dept · Posted 4 days ago

Unquestioned service of our customers.

Review from Sales Dept · Posted 4 days ago

Its the go getter attitude! Also collective celebrations when others do well!

Review from Executive Dept · Posted 4 days ago

People's genuine commitment to developing and supporting our customers for mutual success.

Posted 4 days ago

Everyone, literally everyone is super helpful. Biggest change from other companies.

Review from Sales Dept · Posted 4 days ago

The most positive part of our culture is that we as employees are the culture. What we bring to the table is how the culture grows.

Review from Sales Dept · Posted 4 days ago

The people - we get along well, everyone has the same mission.

Review from Sales Dept · Posted 4 days ago

Our teams bond together to drive quality results

Review from Sales Dept · Posted 4 days ago

its inclusive, purpose-driven, and employee-empowering culture, supported by a strong commitment to transparency, collaboration, and social impact.

Review from Sales Dept · Posted 5 days ago

I genuinely enjoy the people that I work with and consider them friends.

Review from Sales Dept · Posted 5 days ago

What needs to change to make the company culture better?

A stronger culture would come from better communication, greater transparency, stronger recognition of employee contributions, and more consistent support for collaboration and growth.

Review from HR Dept · Posted 5 days ago

Project planning and roadmap should be more scientific, well-structured, and forward-looking, with end-to-end alignment across Market, PLL, Development, and Testing through coordinated planning. Clearer ownership and accountability. Reduce the number and frequency of emergency issues as much as poss

Review from Engineering Dept · Posted 5 days ago

Suitable project pace and enough time

Review from IT Dept · Posted 7 days ago

Lot of manual work and reporting, think next level and bring the automation and advanced processes like Agile

Review from Engineering Dept · Posted 12 days ago

Less micro management that holds up up rather than helps

Review from Sales Dept

Company culture is good overall. We do tend to be somewhat awed by our own great culture that we fail to recognize when or if team members are struggling, especially if they are struggling with their manager (or their manager's behaviour)

Review from Sales Dept

Use the new technologies and new environment for Production setup.

Review from IT Dept

The culture is excellent. People from all walks of life are represented and valued. Employee resource groups create a sense of belonging for different people. The culture is very supportive and generous.

Review from Marketing Dept

Better interactivity among coworkers, and benefits

Review from Marketing Dept

Regularly get the managers response about his team and reduce the unrequired stress in the teams/employees

Review from IT Dept

Hire more cultural fit people with similar synergy. Proper pay band and roles and responsibilities should be defined for each designation. Developer should be given time to breathe and some burden of work reduction is required. Most time goes in documenting for manual processes or spoon feeding.

Review from Engineering Dept

I've had little experience of the much celebrated company culture. It carries a very North American bias which doesn't resonate well with me.

Review from Sales Dept

More transparency and inclusion on forward outlook of what we are developing and why and how it was researched to determine the value and TAM

Review from Sales Dept

More delegation and better communication from the top. Too many "Private" meetings where decisions are made without input or clear communication. Revenue Edge needs major organizational realignment. Too many cooks with stove pipe focus

Review from Engineering Dept

Extend the collaboration and consideration of achievements and success outside the US

Review from Sales Dept

Bureaucratic, manager centralized, they don't care engineers, they think engineers are replace-able mostly.

Review from Product Dept

more training for leaders about leadership or training for development. more resources so we can have job rotations and backups so we can have more secure processes.

Review from Operations Dept

Review Sentiment at Calix

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97%
3
3%

About Calix's Environment

A+
81/100

Where This Score Ranks Calix's Environment

TOP
5%

In the Top 5% of 2025 similar size companies on Comparably

TOP
5%

In the Top 5% of 738 companies in San Francisco

1st

1st place versus 5 competitors rated on Comparably

The environment at Calix is considered positive by 97% of employees and regarded as having a “comfortably fast” work pace by 730 employees. Relative to its competitors, Cisco Meraki, Palo Alto Networks, Splunk, ADTRAN, INC., and Juniper Networks, Calix's environment score ranks in 1st place. This also puts them in the Top 5% of 2025 similar sized companies (1,001-5,000 Employees) on Comparably and Top 5% of 738 companies in San Francisco.

Rate Environment the Highest

  • Department - Engineering
    +2%
  • Department - Workplace Experience
    +2%
  • Experience - Entry Level
    +2%

Rate Environment the Lowest

  • Department - Legal
    -5%
  • Department - Supply Chain
    -5%
  • Ethnicity - Native American
    -5%

How Calix's Environment Score is Calculated

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Results from 1237 Employees in All Departments, All Genders, All Ethnicities and All Yrs. Experience Experience

AnswerPercent
7 or less3%
851%
1039%
124%
More than 123%
On average, how many hours do you work a day?
AnswerPercent
Extremely fast29%
Comfortably fast60%
Moderate11%
A bit slow0%
Bureaucratic0%
What's the work pace at your company?
AnswerPercent
Positive97%
Negative3%
Is your work environment positive or negative?
AnswerPercent
Yes33%
No67%
Does someone you work with closely, make you want to quit your job?
AnswerPercent
Yes66%
No34%
Do you have a close friend at work?
AnswerPercent
5% or Less73%
5-10%21%
10-25%5%
25-50%1%
50%+0%
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