A review of Guidance Software (current acquisition)
Pros
- The CEO had great vision at the time but was overshadowed by day to day managements own ideas and implementation - Technology is still great and rock solid - Grand brand awareness from customers and industry experts - Great people in pockets across the company with heavy knowledge and expertise for learning and shadowing (when and if given the opportunity) - Remote employee and no hassle travel booking and reimbursement was great
Cons
- Technology starting to age compared to the industry and market. Keep innovating and they should be able to keep up and maintain share but the look and feel (per customers) is starting to show - No team feel or teammates. It was every person for themselves and saw constant back stabbing within our West territory team. At times even encouraged by management and senior management - Sales leadership was replaced with the prior CEOs buddies that completely changed the engagement and message of the company internally - The West sales team leadership I have never encountered (in my pretty lengthy tech career) a more abusive, hostile and outright nasty environment and self serving mentality with no care of direct reports or any professionalism. Hopefully OpenText addresses based upon prior and current employee feedback and prior HR was not helpful and only encouraged positive reviews on Glassdoor (an actual company initiative at one time).
