Perforce Software reviews

3.7

63% would recommend to a friend

(407 total reviews)
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Jim Cassens

86% approve of CEO

51% positive business outlook

Perforce Software has an employee rating of 3.7 out of 5 stars, based on 407 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Perforce Software employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.6 stars).

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407 reviews
2.0
Feb 23, 2011
Recommend
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Pros

If you're good friends with one of the senior managers, or worked with them at Ingres, you're treated very well and will likely earn a salary far beyond what you could make somewhere else based solely on your skills. Be prepared to repeat the company line that Perforce is the best place to work, whether you believe it or not.

Cons

Senior management is dysfunctional. They don't like each other and don't work well together. The CEO changes his philosophy seemingly on a whim and announces it at an all-hands meeting to confused employees. One year it's "we can pick and choose what we want to work on, and make a lot of money as a niche player," and the next year it's "we will be Number One (but we'll let you decide what Number One means to you)." Management believes the company's low turnover rate is evidence of a superior work environment. It's really due to the fact that the company makes a lot of money and overpays employees, with large profit-sharing bonuses. If you want to make a lot of money, this is the place for you. Just be sure you can ignore the long-term dead wood that is likely making even more than you, while doing less. And pity them because they can't get a job somewhere else and still make their house payments.

1.0
Apr 7, 2023

Horrible Company - please stay away

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

There are no Pros in Perforce.

Cons

- CEO - doesn't care about current employees - he cares only about acquisitions, not to make existing employees, and companies that they acquired happy; - moving R&D to India, getting rid of existing employees, teams. - upper management - don't communicate any decisions, sometimes don't understand the process at all, micromanagement. - no proper benefits. Medical insurance copay is much bigger than in other companies; - No salary raises, they promise, but instead of raises - buy other companies. They do not invest in existing employees at all.

2.0
Oct 24, 2022

Was acquired and fired

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

There are some good products/services.

Cons

Exec level comes across as very cold, uncaring and only about the bottom line. We understand that reductions happen in many acquisitions, but the way it was handled and the diminished support level of the remaining teams was awful.

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