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4.0
Average Rating
(based on 23 Spirent Communications Review Ratings)

Ratings by Category

Company Culture
4.0
Growth Opportunities
3.3
People You Work With
4.5
Person You Work For
4.1
Rewards You Receive
4.2
Support You Get
3.8
Way You Work
4.0
Work Setting
4.2
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Engineer

What do you like about working at Spirent Communications?

"Good, intelligent people at product development. Not so much from executive teams."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Working well with others, reliability and predictability is valued more highly than being brilliant."

What don't you like about working at Spirent Communications?

"Overloaded with work and very thin teams. Long term vision is sketchy"

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Reward risk-taking leadership. Punish consensus-minded all talk and no action stallers."

Person You Work For 5 / 5 People You Work With 4 / 5 Work Setting 4 / 5
Support You Get 3 / 5 Rewards You Receive 4 / 5 Growth Opportunities 2 / 5
Company Culture 2 / 5 Way You Work 3 / 5
Support Services Manager

"Spirent allowed me the opportunity to grow and advance in my career."

What do you like about working at Spirent Communications?

"The work is fast pace and always changing, the people I with and for were great. I personally liked interacting with our customers."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Spirent is a demanding company so be willing to put in the extra effort to meet or exceed customer expectation. But it is a great company to work for."

What don't you like about working at Spirent Communications?

"Beltway traffic. I lived 40 mile from the office. The trip to work drained me more than the work."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"The management was great. My boss was very helpful in developing me in my position as manager. The company could offer more new solution and products to their customer base"

Person You Work For 4 / 5 People You Work With 5 / 5 Work Setting 5 / 5
Support You Get 5 / 5 Rewards You Receive 5 / 5 Growth Opportunities 5 / 5
Company Culture 5 / 5 Way You Work 5 / 5
Technician

What do you like about working at Spirent Communications?

"Benefits are good, there is free coffee and... I'm out of ideas"

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Be prepared to work and work and work some more"

What don't you like about working at Spirent Communications?

"Being micromanaged is no fun and neither is having so much to do you cant take a day off without worrying about the load you will come back to."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Not leave departments so threadbare of the people needed to do the work"

Person You Work For 1 / 5 People You Work With 3 / 5 Work Setting 4 / 5
Support You Get 4 / 5 Rewards You Receive 4 / 5 Growth Opportunities 1 / 5
Company Culture 1 / 5 Way You Work 1 / 5
Principal Software Engineer

"I loved working for Spirent Communications."

Person You Work For 4.7 / 5 People You Work With 4.4 / 5 Work Setting 4.6 / 5
Support You Get 4.5 / 5 Rewards You Receive 4.6 / 5 Growth Opportunities 4.9 / 5
Company Culture 4.3 / 5 Way You Work 4.8 / 5
Technical Support Engineer
Person You Work For 5 / 5 People You Work With 5 / 5 Work Setting 5 / 5
Support You Get 4.8 / 5 Rewards You Receive 5 / 5 Growth Opportunities 4.8 / 5
Company Culture 5 / 5 Way You Work 5 / 5
Senior Hardware Design Engineer
Person You Work For 4.5 / 5 People You Work With 4.5 / 5 Work Setting 3.9 / 5
Support You Get 3.9 / 5 Rewards You Receive 4.5 / 5 Growth Opportunities 3.5 / 5
Company Culture 4 / 5 Way You Work 3.9 / 5
Director of Software Engineering
Person You Work For 4 / 5 People You Work With 4.8 / 5 Work Setting 3.9 / 5
Support You Get 3.9 / 5 Rewards You Receive 4 / 5 Growth Opportunities 2 / 5
Company Culture 3.1 / 5 Way You Work 3.8 / 5
Senior Engineer

"Didn't really fit the situation, I had multiple bosses, some good, some bad."

Global Support Specialist

What do you like about working at Spirent Communications?

"Interesting technology, company that took care of their employees"

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"show eagerness and couriousty in regard to the telecommunication technology. Share ambitions for growth"

What don't you like about working at Spirent Communications?

"New management implementation of micromanagement"

What suggestions do you have for management?

"trust your employees and have faith in their abilities"

Person You Work For 3 / 5 People You Work With 4.6 / 5 Work Setting 4.9 / 5
Support You Get 3.9 / 5 Rewards You Receive 3.2 / 5 Growth Opportunities 2.8 / 5
Company Culture 4.9 / 5 Way You Work 3.9 / 5
QA Lead

"No comments it's fine for people with normal attitude"

What do you like about working at Spirent Communications?

"Testing telecom bulk signal generator application about 80 application and settings implemented and tested software and firmware"

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"NO, this is a complicated to give some advise after so long time out of this"

What don't you like about working at Spirent Communications?

"NO complains,and no comments cmpany deside to close progect"

What suggestions do you have for management?

"To be more specific in task and orders"

Systems Test Engineer

"One of the best companies with great leadership."

Senior QA Engineer

"A good experience doing Triple play test equipment, I was the QA engineer and did all the tests including testbed setting, wrote test plan, cases, scripts and reports."

What do you like about working at Spirent Communications?

"Learn a lot of new stuff I never did before, such as setting up network and test environment, wrote test scripts (in Python such as like C++ OO language)"

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Interview is in general by luck even if one is well prepared after knowing what they want, there is no tip I can give actually. Because I have 5 managers in 3 years when I was there, you can tell how difficult I was."

What don't you like about working at Spirent Communications?

"The company get rid of people easily without considering his/her contribution to the company, many people laid off had been working for more than 10 years, I feel really bad for them. So bad thing is you can not do one thing wrong even if you have done 10 things right, only the wrong one will be remembered."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"I could have done a better management than the current ones. It should be an open discussuion with open mind, manager should be willing to listen to any suggestion, and decide if it is feasible and if it is a constructive one. A lack of communication and help will only alienate people and hurt the morale as well."

Member of Technical Staff

"Great Company to work for!"

What do you like about working at Spirent Communications?

"Flexibility in Time and Work"

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Nothing. Keep on going the way it is!"

Spirent Communications Employee

"Keep Looking"

What don't you like about working at Spirent Communications?

"Very political. Upper management is not in touch with what goes on within the departments and the day to day interactions of their teams."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Recognize that your teams are not working together."

Strategic Account Manager

"Hope you like to gamble!"

What do you like about working at Spirent Communications?

"Surrounded by a lot of bright people. strong team efforts in all divisions, accept management."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"It is a great place to work! however it's a roller coaster when it comes to any kind of job security. don't make any large purchases ;)"

What don't you like about working at Spirent Communications?

"lack of leadership, poor management of resources, unqualified upper management. sorry it's true :("

What suggestions do you have for management?

"get aligned, and support your people not only your check book! also learn about your own products!"

Spirent Communications Reviews FAQs

Is Spirent Communications a good company to work for?

Spirent Communications has an overall rating of 4.0 Average Rating out of 5, based on over 23 Spirent Communications Review Ratings left anonymously by Spirent Communications employees, which is 3% higher than the average rating for all companies on CareerBliss. 91% of employees would recommend working at Spirent Communications.

Does Spirent Communications pay their employees well?

Spirent Communications employees earn $91,000 annually on average, or $44 per hour, which is 38% higher than the national salary average of $66,000 per year. 14 Spirent Communications employees have shared their salaries on CareerBliss. Find Spirent Communications Salaries by Job Title.

How satisfied are employees working at Spirent Communications?

91% of employees would recommend working at Spirent Communications with the overall rating of 4.0 out of 5. Employees also rated Spirent Communications 4.0 out of 5 for Company Culture, 4.2 for Rewards You Receive, 3.3 for Growth Opportunities and 3.8 for support you get.

What is the highest paying job at Spirent Communications?

According to our data, the highest paying job at Spirent Communications is a Senior Director at $250,000 annually. Browse Spirent Communications Salaries by Job Profile.

What is the lowest paying job at Spirent Communications?

According to our data, the lowest paying job at Spirent Communications is a Bench Technician at $30,000 annually. Browse Spirent Communications Salaries by Job Profile.

What are the pros and cons of working at Spirent Communications?

According to reviews on CareerBliss, employees commonly rated the pros of working at Spirent Communications to be Company Culture, Growth Opportunities, People You Work With and Person You Work For, and no cons.

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