Pros
They pay well and provide stock options. Stock price is doing well, but long wait time on RSU vestments (4years). Currently the golden age of co-location with hybrid cloud, but this will decrease over the next couple of years as public cloud matures
Cons
Don’t buy into the hype the culture at Equinix is absolutely toxic. They love talking about “The Magic of Equinix” -company’s cultural tag line. If you find poor team communication, having your work and ideas stolen by your co-workers, lack of any career development “magical” this is the place for you. They love trying to position themselves as a technology company with-in the Valley, which is comical because they are a REIT and haven’t actually built anything. – Performance Hub and IOA marketing hype are not products. Arrogance and passive aggressive behavior rules the roost. Favoritism runs wild with key opportunities for career and skill growth doled out to the same individuals in key locations over an over again. Tons of job overlap with some teams primary job seems to be justifying their roles by piggybacking on others achievements. Very much a look at me culture with little regard for hard work and tangible results. Talk about yourself long enough and it must be true. Hybrid cloud has ushered in a golden age of colocation and Equinix is reaping the rewards right now, but it wont last. AWS, MS Azure, and Google are going to start taking a serious bite out of the colocation business in the next few years as companies move away from IaaS and into PaaS/SaaS and consuming services via the internet. As SD-WAN providers such as Megaport IIX console continue to mature their services Equinix traditional IX business will further erode customers will see little value in paying premium prices for colocation.