Culture

At Brocade, we recognize that teamwork is critical to success. This is reflected in our culture, values, and core competencies. As a corporation, Brocade works to create an environment that fosters excellence through teamwork and that encourages employees to contribute, learn, and grow throughout their careers.

Each employee at Brocade plays a critical role in contributing to 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, as well as 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 and trust
  • Intellectual expertise
  • Functional/technical skills
  • Customer focus
  • Business and financial acumen
  • Planning and organizational agility
  • Drive for results
  • Straight talk/communication
  • People development
  • Teamwork