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Performance Software reviews

3.9

74% would recommend to a friend

(85 total reviews)

Raj Ghate

86% approve of CEO

67% positive business outlook

Performance Software has an employee rating of 3.9 out of 5 stars, based on 85 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Performance Software employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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85 reviews
1.0
Oct 10, 2015
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

The non-compete agreement is completely worthless, because enough employees have left and gone to customer sites.

Cons

Unless you come into the company with a veteran employee as your best friend, you will get the worst of the contracts assigned to you. So they hired you as a top notch programmer... do you like to spend your time reviewing or writing requirements and tests? Because you won't be programming, they actually have vary few contracts for new programming. New skills? Well there is no training provided by the company except what you could learn on your own going through webinars. Linux? Laughable much of their contracts require ADA. Bone up on your python because that is the only skill really needed at this company. Veterans love the place, why wouldn't they. They get their pick of the best contracts and can determine who works with them. The poor saps being recently hired get whatever slop is handed to them.

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Performance Software Response
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Thank you for the feedback. We are very sorry to hear that you did not enjoy your experience at Performance Software. We never want to give special treatment to people who don’t deserve it just because they’re friends with a senior employee. Our goal is to make all management decisions based on performance, not politics. Although we do try to give our inexperienced engineers plenty of opportunities, we cannot always promise that every engineer will always get exactly what he or she wants to do every project. We value all of our employees, new and old, and try our best to keep them feeling happy and fulfilled while keeping the quality of work at 100%. We have not, and do not, fire employees if we lose a contract. We do end up letting people go based on performance and cultural fit. It is good to see that you don’t feel too restricted by our employment agreements. The non-compete clauses are never intended to prevent our employees from getting jobs in their chosen profession. We enjoy seeing our employees grow and succeed. The non-compete clauses are intended to protect PSW from employees that leave to work directly for our competitors or work directly for those clients with which we have an established relationship. Secondly, it protects from the misappropriation of trade secrets. The benefit of having thorough non-competes in place is that it creates an environment where management feels comfortable sharing business details with the employees and encourages open and honest communication. Both situations, unfair competition and misappropriation of trade secrets, hurt our business and the employees that remain at PSW. Protecting against those situations is something the courts have consistently found enforceable. We welcome fair competition because we believe we are the best at what we do. We protect ourselves from those that participate in unfair competition. Thanks again for providing your feedback and we will try harder to address your concerns.
4.0
Jun 7, 2015
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Flexible Schedule Outstanding work/life balance Excellent hiring standards and quality of people Still personal concern for employees (changing, unfortunately) Ability to relocate to at least 4 diverse areas of the country. Latitude to do our jobs "right" and learn while we do it. Flexibility, open office, and culture let employees help and lean on each other. Benefits are good and management is aggressive in keeping them affordable. Management responsive to concerns.

Cons

Management often TOO responsive - problem is generally put on employees. Deterioration of concern for employees lately, probably because of new "big company" HR [liability]. Compensation: Well under median pay (10% or more under). Raises well under industry average. Bonuses highly variable, all except one of mine has been under 0.5%. Direction: Management indecisive and unfocused. Career path and training: First-line Management can't direct career path for individual employees -- there is micromanagement and consensus from "the top" for this -- that is, if you are not a 'blessed' employee, you are not getting opportunity. This cliquishness runs from "the top" down. Work load: Generally boring work load (except clique). There is not much to do about this, we work legacy systems here. Lack of hiring focus: The company stresses skill sets like it's competing with Google for top software design talent while the true ideal employee based on the work is a motivated EE/CS double major with experience in QA or Process Engineering.

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