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      Quest Software

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      Quest Software reviews

      3.3

      59% would recommend to a friend

      (1,225 total reviews)
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      Tim Page

      56% approve of CEO

      54% positive business outlook

      Ratings by category

      3.8

      Diversity & inclusion

      3.8

      Work/Life balance

      3.3

      Compensation and benefits

      3.2

      Culture & values

      2.9

      Senior management

      2.9

      Career opportunities

      Quest Software has an employee rating of 3.3 out of 5 stars, based on 1,225 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Quest 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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      1K reviews
      1.0
      Sep 19, 2017

      Stay away - the company is the shadow of the brand it was once

      Sales director
      Recommend
      CEO approval
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      Pros

      pass on - there is really nothing positive since the company was spun off Dell.

      Cons

      I guess I'll run out of space in this field : - lack of company culture - Management team totally disconnected from market and customers - Inward focus , All.The.Time - Strategy is to milk existing customers (renewals, compliance) with minimal new acquisition (little marketing, stale products, poor sales compensation) - The day they don't need you, you are out and in a very aggressive and unfair way - Total confusion about sales go to market - Travel and Expense policy is a joke, pay with your own credit card and hope to get reimboursed ... of some of your expenses. - Morale is at all time low : who hasn't left is busy with interviews (voluntary attrition is a company-wide problem) - They say they will listen to you (even here on glassdoor), but only to earmark you for next round - Fear and Scaremongering by undirected management - Total lack of vision, the mission is clear : meet the EBITDA targets (wrongly set mind you) - Work in 3rd class office locations (subrent) - In small countries you are not even a Quest employee - It's a Cayman Island resident company - pay taxes in no jurisdiction

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      Quest Software Response
      8y
      I'm sorry that your 10 year run with Quest ended so badly. While many of the things that you say are accurate, many are not. I will just address one point: change, including workforce reorganization, is inevitable post-divestiture, particularly going from a very large to a small software company with a business unit rather than a functional organizational structure. Quest has never treated anyone without integrity and respect and endeavored to provide a financial cushion during the transition. Good luck with your next opportunity.
      1.0
      Sep 15, 2017

      Avoid this company, being run into the ground

      Anonymous employee
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Some decent front-line employees still work here, and some of the products are decent.

      Cons

      Management is the worst I've ever seen at any company or industry I've ever worked in. The company is falling apart from the inside-out. hey are highly unprofitable, which is amazing for a software company considering the margin on software. The investors that own Quest Software made a bad investment and are now scrambling to cut costs and try to fudge the numbers to make it look like Quest is profitable, but you can only cut costs and fire people to a certain extent, so this strategy is not going to work for long considering the enormous drop in sales after being divested from Dell. The remaining employees are dealing with pay cuts and purposely unattainable quotas. There is no strategy to dig Quest out from the deep hole it is in, management has an outdated mentality and no clue on how to fix the situation that they have created for themselves.

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      Quest Software Response
      8y
      There is a miscategorization of cost reductions following the divestiture from Dell. Staff reductions resulted from two things: the change in organization to accommodate a Go to Market structure focused on business units and the difference between the needs of a 150,000+ employees company versus a much smaller company. Quest is investing in growth through product development. Our results were sufficient to pay a mid year bonus to employees. There have been no pay cuts anywhere in the world - anywhere. I see a very different company than you do. Best of luck in your new role.
      5.0
      Sep 12, 2017

      Work was greate

      Anonymous employee
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Great people and salary. Work and life balance.

      Cons

      not too much new progress...

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