McAfee Software Development Engineer Reviews

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Work Culture

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Promotion , salary , techs

Work Details

Work policy: 2 days/week from office

Work days: Monday to Friday (Flexible Timings)

Work related travel: This is a desk job.

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Nothing

Dislikes

Everything… wrk pressure is too much… no work life balance at all. Release process is horrible

Work Details

Very bad. There is no personal life

Work days: Monday to Friday (Flexible Timings)

Work related travel: This is a desk job.

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There is nothing to like here.

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work life balance, work environment.

Work Details

Horrific

Work timings: Flexible Timings

Work related travel: This is a desk job.

Likes

McAfee is a great brand and has some amazing products. They are generous in giving compensation and other benefits. However, eventually all boils down to two things 1. Which project/team you are working on and 2. whom are you reporting to. If these two things are good then rest are just bells and whistles. I hope you agree with me. There are some really high quality engineers who have vast experience and they are very helpful. One needs to have really good etiquette and email writing skills as well because you will have to interact a lot with people from other cultures and geographies. However, overall experience has been great and it is highly recommendable....Read More

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Tech stack is complex and deadlines are stiff.

Work Details

Work timings: Flexible Timings

Likes

Really premium company. But a lot depends on particular team and manager. But, world class engineers and world class products. Had a positive experience.

Dislikes

If a new resource is getting absorbed in old project, then it will take some time to understand that project. Some people may not like the fact that they came for McAfee brand and then deputed to a legacy project.

Work Details

Work timings: Flexible Timings

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Work life balance is good but during certain weeks, you could end up working 70 hrs a week. The job is secure at lower levels

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The upper management changes constantly. For the 3 years I have been here, I have seen 2 CEOs change, 2 enterprise VPs change, seen the company go from private to public to private again, seen 10 people leave a team of 20. Another point of frustration is that even though you work hard, you are never duly compensated; all the benefits stop at the management level. As far as technical innovation is considered, there are teams that don't have a CI/CD pipeline, the teams that still use legacy softwares. The innovation is really at the researcher level, not as a SDE. McAfee as a whole truly embodies the quote "Jack of all trades, master of none". Benefits are equivalent to a joke. At a time when several top companies made sure the transition to WFH was seamless during lockdown, McAfee did the opposite, at the height of the virus spread, it called people to the office to collect their equipment and if you were in another city then you had to buy the monitor, chairs and forget about reimbursement. There's no HR allowance, food allowance, wifi, etc., There's no benefits section in my offer letter actually. The HR people are the worse, you ask a query, they will tell you to contact management and you ask management , they will tell you contact HR. But but they are the ones smiling all the time when you are suffering because of them. This is still less about what I have written. I can write a book....Read More

Work Details

I am a SDE working on API development. Previously, I worked as a C/C++/Python developer. I am responsible for developing features to be released for the products on a quarterly basis.

Work days: Monday to Friday (Flexible Timings)

Work related travel: This is a desk job.

Likes

Great scope of learning and for developing new skill set.

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Sometimes work life balance is a bit skewed because of weekend activities being assigned. But this happens once a quarter and employees are notified ahead of time.

Work Details

Joined during pandemic so have not had the chance to actually go to work, since its been WFH. The on boarding process was smooth and KT was also done effectively. Enough time was given for orientation.

Work days: Monday to Friday (Flexible Timings)

Work related travel: This is a desk job.

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Work culture is good , Good Health insurance

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Roadmap are not proper , May get Unstable after enterprise getting divest to STG, High resource crunch, Obsolete Technology

Work Details

Pathetic

Work days: Monday to Friday (Flexible Timings)

Work related travel: This is a desk job.

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People are supportive.

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Process is not which can lead to grow. No work life balance

Work Details

No work life balance

Work days: Monday to Friday (Flexible Timings)

Work related travel: This is a desk job.

Likes

Company-wise its good a brand security company Don't Join

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There is no work-life balance in this company and no job security

Work Details

So much work pressor and if you stuck somewhere then nobody will help you and it will impact your performance so don't join specially CIP Team under Raghwendra Manager if your performance is low with 6 month even you are WFH then they will force Resign

Work days: Monday to Friday (Strict Timings)

Work related travel: This is a desk job.

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Work life balance and culture

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Less work

Work Details

Work timings: Flexible Timings

Likes

Colleagues are helpful. Great work life balance. Wfh, free fruits, cab facility.

Dislikes

None as such.

Work Details

Work days: Monday to Friday (Flexible Timings)

Work related travel: This is a desk job.