Quest Software reviews

3.3

57% would recommend to a friend

(1,223 total reviews)
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53% approve of CEO

51% positive business outlook

Quest Software has an employee rating of 3.3 out of 5 stars, based on 1,223 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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1.0
May 8, 2017

No culture remains and the future is bleak

Anonymous employee
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Pros

There really were some great, talented people working at the company before the Dell acquisition and while we operating as part of Dell Software Group. The products were a bit stale, but there was line of sight to revamping quite a bit of the portfolio which was promising.

Cons

As soon as private equity purchased Dell Software and broke out Quest as a separate company, it went down the drain quickly. They ultimately lied to all employees around what the strategy while the true game plan was to fully take advantage of us all. I guess it was all part of their playbook, but it was dirty. Totally understand you want to make money and there were changes that needed to happen, but for God's sake...man up and be honest about what's expected to happen instead of losing trust of everyone involved. Might as well tell the rest of the surviving employees the truth that their days are limited until they get replaced by another one of your old Attachmate cronies or some young (cheap) blood that doesn't know any better. The surviving Quest employees that I still talk to are all miserable and looking for other jobs.

1.0
Apr 3, 2021
Recommend
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Pros

I met some great people... most of whom got laid off or managed out.

Cons

They're "growing" by acquiring companies, claiming their tech debt as Quests, and laying off groups of people. Probably looks great on paper at this point. Vapid corporate speak is tiresome and can't really be trusted. EXAMPLE: On the morning I got laid off, we got an email from the CEO talking about how they were going to pay bonuses, even though the company had to make sacrifices for that to happen, and hooray, Quest! About 2 hours after I read that email, I was in a meeting with my boss getting laid off along with a lot of other people throughout the company. They aren't forthcoming with the numbers of people, but there have been a lot of layoffs ( I mean workforce reductions) in a couple years. ELT cheerleaders keep pretending it's all good and there's a plan. Looks like they're even replying here now to do some damage control.

1.0
Feb 17, 2019

Last company you should be joining

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Flexibility to work from home

Cons

Products losing market share Operational cost cutting is a way of showing revenue Unpredictable management, highly politicized environment Frequent layoffs No career growth

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