Culture | Values | Core Competencies | Community

A corporation's culture is the direct reflection of its management's vision and values and of the standards, attitudes, and aspirations of the people who work within the organization. At Brocade, our corporate culture reflects our passion for integrity, excellence, and market leadership. We are a fast-paced, highly collaborative team able to embrace change and strive for best-in-class results on all of our endeavors. Innovation and execution is key. Our goal is to maintain a nimble, proactive infrastructure and to ensure the right level of processes and tools to support our people and our business. Everything we do is based on teamwork, with cross-functional communications and involvement integrated into every process. We encourage differences in thoughts, styles, and approaches, and we treat each other with respect, dignity and trust.

When moving at Internet speed - as we are here at Brocade - it is essential that we have a set of core values to guide our actions, to encourage our behavior toward one another and our stakeholders, and to serve as a guidepost in our ongoing quest for market leadership, growth, and profitability. At Brocade, here's what we believe matters most:

• Customer success equals market success.
• Shared vision. Collaborative execution.
• Profitability. Performance. Progress.
• A CEO at every desk.
• We deliver. Again. And Again.

Each employee at Brocade plays a critical role in helping to build our ongoing success. Leaders and managers are responsible for providing an environment that encourages employees to contribute, learn, grow, and be recognized. Individually, each of us has the opportunity to leverage our contribution toward optimal performance, to take responsibility for our actions, accountability for our performance, and ownership of our development. Brocade's systemic investment in its people is based on the Brocade core competencies and a career stages model that defines the desired people skills, behaviors, and career transitions to drive our business performance.

Brocade's core competencies are:

• Integrity & Trust
• Intellectual Horsepower
• Functional/Technical Skills
• Customer Focus
• Business & Financial Acumen
• Planning & Organizing
• Organizational Agility
• Drive for Results
• Straight Talk/Communication
• People Development
• Teamwork

We not only believe in working together strategically toward our common goals, but also in enjoying one another's company in events that encourage networking, information sharing, collaboration and fun. In that spirit, we host a variety of informal and formal events and forums designed to bring us together as a community, including:

• Brocade Bashes (a.k.a. Beer Busts)
• Company Communications Meetings
• Community Outreach Programs