Take a look at the "trends" graph next to the overall rating. It captures perfectly what has happened to this company. For years it was one of the best places to work in the entire Bay Area, where people cared a lot about the product and about each other. People *loved* their job and felt lucky to work there. Notice how the trend line plummets?
At the beginning of 2016 the company was sold to a private equity firm and a new executive team was installed. Prior to leading Perforce, the new CEO had worked for exactly one company in her entire 30-year career, an IBM reseller in Minnesota. She replaced Perforce leadership with hand-picked sycophants with similar experience.
The new execs have no understanding of or experience with the developer tools market, but nevertheless manage to be cold and contemptuous. They have no interest in building great products or in keeping customers happy. They openly admit their goal is to flip the company to some unfortunate buyer within a few years. It's become a terrible place to work.
And lest you think this review, or the other reviews here are reflective of growing pains or grumpiness of once-coddled employees, take a look at the Glassdoor trends graph for Help Systems. Janet Dryer, the new CEO of Perforce, was once CEO of Help Systems. Notice how the Help Systems trend is pretty lousy, and then dramatically improves? It's not a coincidence that the improvement aligns with Janet leaving the company. Hopefully Perforce will enjoy a similar transition one day soon.
