Pluspunten
What got me to Rackspace and what kept me there for over 3 years (just put my notice) is the culture of the company. They truly treat each other as friends and family! I've made great friends working there and I had a lot of fun. The technical training is great. They provide you with the tools to learn but it's really up to you on devoting the time to learn complex technologies. Great engineers and architects that are always willing to help you. The Castle is an amazing place to work! I'm going to miss going to that building. The food trucks on Tuesdays & Fridays are cool. The yearly dodge ball event is so cool! They have nice gyms, onsite massage therapists and just cool amenities. Free soda and snacks.
Minpunten
Pay is significantly below market rates. They preach the values, how great the culture is but culture does not pay the bills. With the move of going private and the last two acquisitions (TriCore & DataPipe), the company has what looks to be on paper a good strategy going forward. The issue that I've dealt with for the past year is that the company goes into too many directions. There's not a clear vision of the strategy going forward. They preach the hybrid cloud and being able to manage client's infrastructure regardless of the technology they use but it's not quite like that. From a sales perspective, the leadership will push you to sell dedicated infra (servers, firewalls, load balancers) and get you to tack on security software. On the other hand, if you are a cloud specialist focused on AWS, you are always fighting internally with reps on what solutions to pitch to the client. At the end of the day sales people will push what is easy to sell and what gets them paid quicker, which is always dedi servers. The compensation plans are very low. I've held 4 positions at the company and I consistently saw my pay lowered. My last year I increased my earnings but because of all of the changes in the company, I was not sure if my position would still exist. Rackspace is really good about getting you to do lateral moves and finding a way to pay you less when you do it. I think it's sad that Rackspace gives you a good technical training but keep losing people to the competition over pay. I have seen great sales and technical staff leave the company this year alone. Rackspace use to be the place where you stayed for 10+ years but not anymore. The culture that we all cherished seems to be ending quicker every day. I love Rackspace and I wish nothing but success for the company. I hope they can find ways to retain the great employees they built and pay them fair wages according to market rates.