Activant Solutions (California) reviews

Management is all talk and no action when it comes to sales training and other ideas that can improve how we learn and drive sales. Ideas are asked of us, or training is done, but that about it. No place to grow, moral is at an all-time low. We're made to feel like we're just lucky to have a job! We have some of the best, most talented people a sales team good possibly be. But we're held back by incompetent managers and directors and VP's that don't know how to sell in today's markets. It's a real shame, we have a great product, but we're also way behind the curve now when it comes to being a people company like we use to be when we were Triad…We all did so well as a team last year, the increased out quote and average of 15% to 20%, and now none of us are making any money. It's their way to compensate for over paying us last year. Oh, and while we're laying people off and sitting at under 60% of quota as a team, our President and CEO just got a 20% raise in salary from $416K a year to $500K on 3/22/2011, plus an increase in bonus of the same 20%. The same goes for our VP of Development. He also go a nice fat raise in salary and bonus, but I think he deserves it... HR Dept = Fail!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I'll just start by saying that the biggest of con of working here is that you career will stagnate to the speed of a snail. This may not be a cons for some, but it was for me. I enjoy learning new technologies and creating new products. However, you will only have the opportunity to do this work if you are in upper management or are one of the chosen people. They implement new development methodologies (SCRUM) without making any effort to remove the old processes. Everything stays the same while you are given more meetings and processes to follow. Eventually, they will implement so many processes and meetings that no work will get done. They are actually not that far from it now. Since most of the upper management in the development team has been with the company for a very long time, there aren't really any new thoughts being brought into the development team. You are encouraged to bring new ideas to the table, however don't expect to be able to implement them or have them implemented. For some of the management, this has been their only job since they graduated college. Apathy runs rampant on the development team. Most of the staff just doesn't care.