How to sink a ship in five easy steps - Let Sage buy your company
Pros
Work with some talented, caring people. Decent vacation / sick policies Paycheck doesn't bounce Decent location and office space in Irvine
Cons
Sadly: -Management keeps changing direction, telling employees "we have to work harder"; increase our market share, increase our brand awareness by changing the product names (the names of the products that were supporting the company) but they don't seem to have a clue how to implement it (or they simply want to force the euro products on the US and dump the ones that support the company) -Management says they have an 'open door - share ideas policy' but shut employees down or don't listen at all; common statements are "it's always been this way", "how many customers will ever do that" -Upper level executives seem to think very highly of themselves while the company is a sinking ship, but we've not seen the execs take the pay cuts (when you see the exec driving a new car when yours is falling apart), it makes you wonder. -New customers being sold products without being told product is "harvest" or "sunset" (would you buy something for thousands of dollars if you knew it was not going to get any decent enhancements in the future - I wouldn't!) -Upper level NA management hasn't spent any time figuring out what their staff in development, quality, or design do every day...they never ask "how's it going today" (even a smile or a "good morning" is rare); managers or executives rarely acknowledge staff and none know the names. -Lack of recognition or poor recognition at lower levels (workers). -Poor, ever changing, pay-for-performance in development and support (don't know about sales, but marketing seems to have more people than QA & development) -Failure to invest in bringing software technology and code up-to-current technologies/languages. -Failure to invest in employees who work their hearts off -Failure to fire/reprimand employees who spend work time on Facebook, playing games on their cell phones, etc. -Failure to fire excess management or ineffective management that don't produce results. -Failure to provide opportunities for advancement, growth opportunities, and salary increases to those who deserve it. -Too management heavy; too many managers that spend their entire day writing spreadsheets, overshadowing the people who do the work, having needless meeting) -Managers/executives haven't a clue what the people "below them" do. -Failure to spend a release just fixing the bugs. -Continual threats and fear of being in the next round of layoffs. -Outsourced jobs to people that don't know the software and need their hands held (exact direction or something is missed). -Wearing t-shirts to show you're dedicated - really? Wearing a t-shirt means you do your job with integrity, decency, and caring towards our customers.
