Calix Work-from-Anywhere Culture Continues To Fuel Growth
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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
Executive leadership rave about the company's culture and work environment. However, executives through mid-level management are very sales orientated and lack strategic operational thinking and leadership. This mindset propagates a fire fighting culture and inhibits strategic thinking and execution
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Stepping stone to something better... An opportunity to learn how not to lead and motivate employees and run a healthy business.
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ELT is disconnected with reality. Senior management are puffed up with sycophants. Mid-management is incapable of hiring competent workers for positions. Heroics, fire fighting and 'fake it till you make it' make up the fabric of company culture.
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Leadership and employees are filled with sycophants that get awarded and promoted. Everything is on fire and always on fire - but fire fighters are over worked, under valued and have low morale. Failures, failed projects and projects with no ROI are valued and praised. Leadership lacks focus.
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High performers at Calix are constantly challenged by balancing leadership's shifting priorities without delivering real value. They often work alongside freeloading and incapable team members. Leadership fails to address these challenges, creating a frustrating work environment.
What is the best part about your compensation package?
Calix contributes towards most benefits
What is most positive about the culture and environment at your company?
Remote work is encouraged and embedded in the culture
What is most positive about the culture and environment at your company?
Working from home is embraced
What is most positive about the culture and environment at your company?
That I have a trusted friend and partner in the same function.
What is most positive about the culture and environment at your company?
The most positive aspect of our company culture is the fully remote work environment.
Why do you feel undervalued and what would make you feel better about your compensation?
Pay employees according to the value they deliver and enable for the company. Award raises and bonuses according to employees' performance.
What do your coworkers need to improve and how could you work together better?
The Supply Chain and PLL organizations desperately need to think, plan and operate strategically instead of operating in a constant state of fire drills.
What do your coworkers need to improve and how could you work together better?
They need to be replaced. Co-workers, especially in leadership roles, lack drive, experience and the ability to lead and mentor employees to take Calix to the next level.
Why do you feel undervalued and what would make you feel better about your compensation?
Being given raises and promotions that is equitable to my performance and growth and not based on the constraints of a leader's budget. Leaders should have separate budget pools for raises, promotions and bonuses.
What do your coworkers need to improve and how could you work together better?
Most mid to senior management at Calix are Mavericks or Venturers, indifferent to structure, details, or processes. Direct reports must quickly execute their leaders' spontaneous ideas. The organization lacks skills in analysis, problem-solving, data-driven decision-making, and clear communication.
What's going wrong and how can it be improved?
Price’s Law dominates Calix's culture, leading to limited career advancement and inconsistent promotions. High performers lack work-life balance. The company struggles with decision-making and leadership, fostering a culture of fear and low trust between e
Why do you feel undervalued and what would make you feel better about your compensation?
The organization is VERY accepting of failed projects and mediocrity within the ranks of leadership and employees. Cliques, buddies with senior leadership and sycophants are awarded and valued more than delivering actual valuable work to the organization.
What does the leadership team need to get better at?
Prioritize initiatives and projects ruthlessly. Not all ideas can and should be implemented. Root out incompetance and slackers. Too many employees ride on the heroics and experties of competant employees. Star employees are not being recognized and are burning out.
What do your coworkers need to improve and how could you work together better?
No corrective actions will improve the quality and quantity of work and value some coworkers deliver. Fire incompetant workers, ruthlessly review the performance and value of employees, and adjust compensation, responsibility and promotions according to the results of these performance reviews.
What does the leadership team need to get better at?
Ruthlessly prioritize projects that need to executed in the next 6 months that aligns with the business goals and that will deliver true ROI. Too many projects are approved and pushed as the priority, without any ROI. Split the org between Marketing and Operations - the leadership is unfocused.
What's going wrong and how can it be improved?
Leadership operate and think like an old boys club. Leaders are hired rather than promoted from within. Diversity within leadership is non-existent. Leadership are out of contact with the actual culture of the company. Promotions are easily given to those that fit into the old boys club profile.
What's going wrong and how can it be improved?
ELT is disconnected from the reality of whats happening on the ground. ELT puffed up senior management with sycophants. ELT is incapable of prioritising initiatives and projects. Everything is always on fire and needs to be solved immediately. Mid-management making poor hiring choices.
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