Leaked plans for large amount of layoffs coming next year. CEO changing the focus of the company into different technology because the cloud and automation are the future, so there is no point in staying in our current tech stack. Those customers arent worth much to us anyways, the future of profits is in hip, diverse, thinker companies who dream-to-release and thinkergize their products. These guys will be flush with massive investor monies for the foreseeable future, and F5 needs to shift to that focus. It may be a 'hard choice' but the old school basic network field is dead. Companies who support networks are dead. They are not hip, they are not future proof, they are not cloud-think.
Most of the people in this company are stuck in the old style of think. Where tuning a tcp stack is important. It's not. Where keeping communication reliable and fast is important. It's not.
The future is here folks, if you can't adapt to the current-future of startup money, cloud, think-product, then find a new field. You will have to starting next year.