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Symantec Environment Employee Reviews

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

there is something new everyday.. new activities make it fun and lots of events that helps the community and personal growth

Review from Engineering Dept

Good work environment.... clean, organized, needed supplies are there when needed,

The individual people make it positive.

None innovative environment. Leadership is just busy making sure they get the credits.

Review from Engineering Dept

People are polite

What needs to change to make the company culture better?

Management restructuring. New CEO. New Board. Well, everything with respect to management.

Review from Engineering Dept

Eliminate constant RIFS throughout the year.

culture is horrible... highly competitive... while there are many good people here, there are too many people who would like to see you fail. There is limited collaboration. LL is hierarchical and culture goes against the rest of the company's culture.

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Review Sentiment at Symantec

70
70%
30
30%

About Symantec's Environment

C+
68/100

Where This Score Ranks Symantec's Environment

TOP
50%

In the Top 50% of 1188 similar size companies on Comparably

BOTTOM
35%

In the Bottom 35% of 738 companies in San Francisco

6th

6th place versus 5 competitors rated on Comparably

The environment at Symantec is considered positive by 76% of employees and regarded as having a “moderate” work pace by 21 employees. Relative to its competitors, Palo Alto Networks, Trend Micro, Microsoft, Check Point Software Technologies, Ltd., and FireEye, Inc., Symantec's environment score ranks in 6th place. This also puts them in the Top 50% of 1188 similar sized companies (10,000+ Employees) on Comparably and Bottom 35% of 738 companies in San Francisco.

Rate Environment the Highest

  • Tenure - 1 to 2 Years
    +19%
  • Department - IT
    +16%
  • Department - Marketing
    +15%

Rate Environment the Lowest

  • Tenure - 5 to 10 Years
    -14%
  • Department - Finance
    -10%
  • Tenure - Less than 1 Year
    -8%

How Symantec's Environment Score is Calculated

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Results from 53 Employees in All Departments, All Genders, All Ethnicities and All Yrs. Experience Experience

AnswerPercent
7 or less14%
843%
1041%
120%
More than 122%
On average, how many hours do you work a day?
AnswerPercent
Extremely fast18%
Comfortably fast30%
Moderate42%
A bit slow6%
Bureaucratic4%
What's the work pace at your company?
AnswerPercent
Positive76%
Negative24%
Is your work environment positive or negative?
AnswerPercent
Yes36%
No64%
Does someone you work with closely, make you want to quit your job?
AnswerPercent
Yes58%
No42%
Do you have a close friend at work?
AnswerPercent
5% or Less18%
5-10%29%
10-25%18%
25-50%18%
50%+17%
What % of the time are you bored at work?

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