Symantec Employer Reviews

Great Mentors who care about you, you are not a number but a family.

Coolest job of my software career, friendly upper management and cool work culture.

I was brought to Symantec to create the procurement "bridge" to the IT organization. It required me to create relationships where they previously did not exist, and diplomatically implement policy conformance. Subsequent to this, a group was created and staffed specifically for IT. I managed that group.

The most enjoyable part of my job is finding issues and logging them.

Great place to work! Casual work environment and great pay. Everyone is extremely helpful.

A typical day at work includes contacting customers and engaging in Translation/Interpretation. Even though the company is results-oriented, we can still balance it out by playing pool or catching up with co-workers during breaks and lunch, or participating in fun-filled company contests. The most rewarding part of the job is to be able to assist customers – more... and later receive great surveys. – less

• Experienced in setting of High Availability and setting up of SOA Clusters
• Configured DB Adapter for querying the data from CDH and configured JMS Adapter to publish the queried messages to the topics/queues.
• Maintain all configuration files, including: logs, security, all types of adapters, endpointconnections, data sources and connection pools, – more... build, deployment, environment files, etc
• Customized EBM schemas of customers for the data exchange between CDH and SFDC System used these customized schemas in the BPEL Transformation to transform SFDC data into CDH acceptable format.
• Used ANT to Build and deploy Applications.
• Configured and deployed Database adapter and File adapter into SOA 11g root.
• Created Datasources, Target pools, configured JMS target Modules.
• Created read-only domains and users for least access.
• Created java program to recovery the instances from manual recovery Queue.
• Created Disk monitoring script for monitoring the file system space in Linux box.
• Extensively used File adapter for logging Runtime faults like (remote and binding faults)
• Created UNIX and PERL script for automate deployment of BPEL process and automatic replacement of host names and port numbers from one environment to another environment
• Created various SQL scripts for creating tables, synonyms, indexes etc.
• Set up Managed server domains and configured BPEL / Mediator/ database properties in EM console for Better performance and fast transaction.
• Extensively used JMS adaptor to Produce and consume the messages.Created JMS Queues, JMS Topics.
• Define performance criteria and monitor to identify opportunities, and tune to improve application
• Performance, throughput, scalability and stabilityTune memory, heap and JVM settings to increase the application’s performance. – less

It was a good experience working there. People were very friendly and always willing to help. People offered to help when they knew I was working on a project they could help with.

Help customer with issue about Encryption .
Learn a lot about the data base and IIS

The team of people that I worked with is one of the best in the industry.

• Provided customer support via telephone, chat support, and email correspondence.
• Verified legal business documents for factual evidence of good standing.
• Led team huddles providing numbers for the day with a group of eight colleagues.
• Confirmed the truth of business registration documents with the Secretary of State.
. Passed security audits

I loved working for Symantec. I felt appreciated for my work. Teams were happy. There was room to grow in the company.

A typical day included ensuring our global customers received their upgrades to their software products. There was a great satisfaction rolling out an upgrade with little or no post release issues - which means I had thought of everything, – more... I had all the bases covered, and had planned for anything that might go wrong.

My team shared information on issues that cropped up on a per-release basis, so that we could ensure that each release was as clean as possible.

The hardest part of the job was discovering issues that could not be fixed because of the company budget. This meant putting bandaids in place that would have to be torn off for the next release. This was not efficient, and often caused customer confusion, system issues, etc.

Over time things changed, and Symantec seemed to not care about their employees. They company attitude and goals had changed. Management wanted Symantec to become an acquisition company. All the nice little perks and benefits seemed to dry up and go away. The software that Symantec was great at creating, took a back seat. – less

learned qa methodologies, perl scripting, database, product based knowledge.

Over the duration of working with the company, i have had a great group of individuals that i have worked with, been given many opportunities to try new things and grow. The most enjoyable part of the job was the people that i had the opportunity to work with.

I have been to Symantec form past one year. I am really enjoying at Symantec. On each day

- Great work flexibility, perfect for working mom. I can come and leave according to what works for my family but I log in at night when needed
- co-workers are nice but you do have to be proactive to learn from different folks in the company

Best place I have ever worked, very challenging and motivating environment.
Good compensation and management.

A typical day at work would consist of checking emails, followed by plans for the day. General agenda items would include attending organised meetings, calling customers to arrange new meetings, quoting, follow up, and then checking emails at a close.
The hardest part of the job is securing new meetings with new clients as they can be evasive in agreeing – more... to a first up meeting.
Management is tough but fair, the new VP is very employee and customer focused which is a nice change to his predecessor.
The remote office that I work in has a great vibe where all segments of the business interact freely and get along well.
The most enjoyable part of the job would be attending events with clients as it's a great way to open the door for new opportunity. – less

Job is not what I signed up for. Many of my co-workers are wonderful to work for but like other companies, manager is hit and miss. There are some very great managers here but, also some real duds.

Good team work, excellent management, freedom todo the work required at your own speed. Game room to relax on breaks and a great place to eat lunch everyday. Big responsibilities to make sure the UK and Irish consuemr market got what was needed to help them with their product/s.