"Working with the Isilon team was one of the greatest professional pleasures I have experienced in my career. I would also like to say, when I had to reach out to the EMC marketing teams, they were awesome. Everyone was willing to help with projects and were all great team-players. Communication is incredibly productive - especially when one considers what a massive company EMC is."
"Great company, but growing customer base faster than it's support group."
What do you like about working at Isilon Systems?
"Being a Senior support engineer, I was able to make decisions affecting large accounts, enabling Isilon to retain customers."
Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?
"Be prepared to answer deep questions regarding Unix and Windows protocols, authentication technologies, such as Active Directory, LDAP, and NIS. Know how to analyze a network packet captures, stack traces, core dumps. Understand the use of sys-controls (sysctl), filesystem terminologies (inodes, btrees, etc). Be prepared."
What don't you like about working at Isilon Systems?
"After being purchased by EMC, the Global Services department of Isilon has struggled to grow staff to keep up with customer support demands. This has created a work environment where there are not enough support staff for all customers that need assistance."
What suggestions do you have for management?
"Continue with the large scale hiring campaign for all levels of customer support. Continue with the globalization effort to provide support staff for global customers & time zones. Increase budget for training of new hires, to help expedite a new hires ability to contribute."
"Isilon is a growing company with much promise with the usual growing pains of success"
What do you like about working at Isilon Systems?
"cutting edge technology with smart people"
Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?
"Make sure you understand your responsibilities fully so you can afford management passing the buck"
What don't you like about working at Isilon Systems?
"management is poor"
What suggestions do you have for management?
"recognize the unique nature of the product and the professionals that make that happen and create an environment that encourages them to stay"
"Interesting"
What do you like about working at Isilon Systems?
"Product"
Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?
"know what you're getting into before signing"
What don't you like about working at Isilon Systems?
"Inconsistency"
What suggestions do you have for management?
"Get their act together and be stable"
"Be aware of internal politics"
What do you like about working at Isilon Systems?
"Good people generally"
Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?
"Examine hiring manager's goals to make sure they include some goodness for you"
What don't you like about working at Isilon Systems?
"Management had own personal goals in mind, treated employees like chess pieces, some people were on power trips"
Isilon Systems has an overall rating of 4.3 Average Rating out of 5, based on over 4 Isilon Systems Review Ratings left anonymously by Isilon Systems employees, which is 10% higher than the average rating for all companies on CareerBliss. 100% of employees would recommend working at Isilon Systems.
Isilon Systems employees earn $83,000 annually on average, or $40 per hour, which is 26% higher than the national salary average of $66,000 per year. 1 Isilon Systems employees have shared their salaries on CareerBliss. Find Isilon Systems Salaries by Job Title.
100% of employees would recommend working at Isilon Systems with the overall rating of 4.3 out of 5. Employees also rated Isilon Systems 4.5 out of 5 for Company Culture, 4.0 for Rewards You Receive, 3.6 for Growth Opportunities and 4.4 for support you get.
According to our data, the highest paying job at Isilon Systems is a Solutions Architect at $141,000 annually. Browse Isilon Systems Salaries by Job Profile.
According to our data, the lowest paying job at Isilon Systems is a IT Technician at $28,000 annually. Browse Isilon Systems Salaries by Job Profile.
According to reviews on CareerBliss, employees commonly rated the pros of working at Isilon Systems to be Company Culture, Growth Opportunities, People You Work With and Person You Work For, and no cons.
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