Why Calix?

Calix was recognized as a Global Top Inspiring Workplace by Inspiring Workplaces. Organizations are honored based on the elements to build an inspiring workplace: culture and purpose, leadership, well-being, inclusion, communication, and experience.

Calix was honored as one of Fast Company's Best Workplaces for Innovators, demonstrating a commitment to capturing great ideas, wherever they originate. 

Calix was named a Best Place to Work in 2024 based on surveys with employees about how they feel about their workplace. 

Based on employee rankings of their overall workplace experiences, Calix is the #1 place to work in Silicon Valley in 2023. This ranking—up 10 points from 2022—underscores the success of a seven-year commitment to the work-from-anywhere movement

Calix was named first out of 50 winners of the 2023 top Inspiring Workplaces awards, recognized for culture and purpose, leadership, wellbeing, inclusion & diversity, communication, and employee experience.

Calix employees underscored that the company has rapid momentum and a bright future, ranking it #10 out of 100 companies with the best outlook in 2024—3 spots higher than last year—buoyed by high employee confidence.

Calix is again recognized in 2024 by Comparably with best global culture. As we grow and scale our innovation and workforce, Calix continues to uphold its culture while amplifying the positive impact it has on communities.

Calix was ranked #3 this year among top sales teams—moving up 18 places from 2021. Calix leadership has grown sales by 400 percent in the past four years to keep up with the expanding broadband industry while maintaining a cohesive, customer-first culture. 

With 110 patents for industry-leading technologies, Calix is relentlessly focused on innovating for its broadband service provider customers and attracting top engineering talent—resulting in this award.

This new ranking is the latest accolade for the Calix marketing team, which is responsible for growing attendance at our ConneXions industry-leading conference, award winning Market Activation program, and many other impactful initiatives. 

For the second year in a row, Calix has been named best in HR teams, reflecting its success in attracting, nurturing, and retaining a superbly talented workforce amidst an extended period of growth. 

Calix awarded best company culture award from Comparably based on employee sentiment on multiple factors that contribute to workplace satisfaction

Calix wins best CEO award based on approval ratings and sentiment from employees on our President and CEO, Michael Weening

Calix awarded best company for women in 2023 based on feedback from female employees on their workplace experiences.

Calix wins 2023 best company for diversity award from Comparably

Calix has risen in rankings for Best Company Outlook, Best Global Culture, Best Places to Work in the Bay Area, Best Engineering Teams, and Best Sales Teams. Plus, Calix HR and Marketing debutied on lists for Best Teams.

Calix focuses heavily on building a strong culture and it shows—with a 4.9/5-star rating, 98 percent overall approval and 100 percent CEO approval on Glassdoor, and with employees routinely sharing “Why I Love Calix” posts on social media. 

Vault surveyed thousands of current and former interns about their internship programs, and ranked Calix as a top internship program. 

In 2024, Calix took home a gold medal for Best Marketing Campaign of the Year, silver medals for Marketing Disruptor of the Year and Best Use of Data to Drive Brand Strategy, and a bronze medal for Best Cloud Platform.

Calix Engagement Cloud has evolved to become the only marketing platform that is purpose-built for broadband service providers so they can easily enrich their subscriber experience insights.

Calix was named as one of the winners of the 2023 Excellence in Customer Service for companies best communicating with their customers to provide a differentiated level of customer service.

The Customer Experience & Telco Sales Association (CETS) awarded Calix Service Cloud the 2023 Best in Class Award for a second consecutive year. Service Cloud has been recognized for advances in subscriber success.

Calix Service Cloud won the Software and Information Industry Association (SIIA) CODiE Award for Best Customer Service Solution as the best tool, platform, or service that helps businesses enhance their customer service and support.

Lightwave, who has been bringing trusted technical insights to optical communications professionals for decades has honored Calix in the annual Lightwave Innovation Reviews in the FTTx Systems category.

Calix Engagement Cloud was named the Business Intelligence Group 2023 Sales and Marketing “Sammy’s” Technology Award for demonstrating superior performance in marketing insights and analysis.

TMC named Calix Operations Cloud a Cloud Computing Product of the Year winner. Operations Cloud provides broadband operators with machine learning-based insights, predictive intelligence, and workflow automation.

TMC recognized Calix Service Cloud with the 2023 Customer Product of the Year award, recognizing vendors that advance call center, CRM and teleservices industries one solution at a time.

TMC recognized Calix Engagement Cloud with the prestigious Internet Telephony “Product of the Year” awards as one of the most innovative, useful, and beneficial IP communications and cloud products available to deploy.

Calix earns an AA rating from the environmental, social, and governance ratings agency MSCI—a distinction shared by only 18 percent of companies evaluated—recognizing the company’s exemplary sustainability practices.

American Business Awards gives the Calix Broadband Platform a Stevie award for sustainability and climate protection.

American Business Awards recognizes the GigaSpire u10xe with the Bronze Stevie award for telecommunications product.

Based on Calix employee reviews, Calix earns a spot on Glassdoor's list of best-led companies, based on our exceptional leadership team.

Intelligent Access won the Light Reading Leading Lights award for "Most Innovative Broadband Solution" due to its innovative software-defined access operating system (AXOS), which helps BSPs deliver services faster at a lower TCO.