Genesys Software Development Manager reviews

5.0

100% would recommend to a friend

(6 total reviews)
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Tony Bates

100% approve of CEO

99% positive business outlook

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6 reviews
5.0
Oct 24, 2018
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Pros

- Smart engineers - Great senior management with vision - Leader in the industry with continuous growth

Cons

- Large company - the most senior leader at the site is SVP; there is not much opportunity to have direct face time with senior exec (CxO level) unless they visit (which is rare)

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Genesys Response
7y
Thank you for your positive review and 10 plus years working at Genesys! You’re right, we are probably overdue for a leadership visit or two to Markham. Feel free to connect with any of us on PureCloud just to say hi in the interim  Best, Tracy (Tracy Cote, Chief People Officer)
5.0
Mar 29, 2018
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Pros

- Opportunities for new projects \ new technologies - Heavy investment in R&D and sharing of best practice within Genesys. Genesys hosts a yearly conference for engineers to get together to demonstrate their work (booths and presentation). Newly joined team members get to attend as well. - Genesys encourages innovations. Weekly webminar tech talks, Bi-weekly on site tech talks, Gennovation Days (our internal hackathon), and hosting other external hackathons and seminars. - Best effort to keep up to date with technology \ AI. Invest in rewrite to align with best practice and latest technology - Management is open to new ideas and have frequent 1-1s. - Good work life balance. Flexible working hour. Open time off. - Bonus pay out every year (Performance based allocation) - Great location. Shorten every day commute.

Cons

- No restaurant within walking distance to office.

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Genesys Response
8y
Thank you for your review and feedback. I always like it when I have to press the show more on the Pros section. It's true that we are investing in R&D, building great products, and our work in AI is very exciting. Innovation is critical to our success, and hearing that our employees enjoy having fun with internal Hackathons and our other innovation contests helps build excitement for the future. Not sure I can help on the restaurant front but maybe maybe UberEats will be in Markham soon! …Tracy Cote (Chief People Officer)
5.0
Jun 5, 2017
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Pros

No merger is going to be perfect, but given the size, complexity and time crunch it has gone pretty well. I doubt many of the reviewers complaining about the merger have any real business knowledge and/or have been part of a merger of this size/complexity in any substantial way. We bounced some deadweight (long overdue), got a more focused approach on the roadmap, are more transparent from EVP down to individual contributor, and are looking forwards and upwards.

Cons

From an R&D perspective it seems like some areas of Genesys R&D is a bit stuck in the 90s (architecture, technology choices, lack of true DevOps, waterfall as opposed to Agile development, heavy process, desire to hire resources in the cheapest regions). A significant portion of the innovation has come from M&As instead of internally. As more of a 'start-up' side of R&D we have to fight for every resource and just had to go through a small RIF - this all while other R&D groups are trying to hire a significant number of resources and appear to have competing strategies/products. This indicates a lack of shared vision and communication at the top-level of the organization. Two, or three depending on how you count it, R&D groups competing to deliver where the 'fight' is heavily stacked in one group's favor.

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