Pros
-Some incredibly smart and nice people work here -Great experience on your resume. Experience here will open a lot of doors. -Benefits are excellent -Low stress -Management is very understanding when it comes to medical/family issues -It's a very secure job. A person would have to try (and try hard) to get fired from here. -Management realizes that Yardi's products are complicated and it takes awhile before you start picking up on things
Cons
-The pay. The pay was low when you compared it with similar positions in IT. After leaving here, I got a new job that increased my salary by over 25%. Yardi is a multi-million dollar company. It holds the majority market share in the asset/property management software market. Yardi could afford to pay their employees a bit better. -It seemed to me that the team leads (management) only got their position because of how long they had been there and how well they followed orders from their superiors -This is a great place to pick up some experience especially for those fresh out of school. But this is not somewhere you want to work for the next 20 years -Turnover. This is likely related to the pay. Once the economy picks back up and Yardi still pays their employees what they pay, they'll see an exodus of talented and smart employees. -There is no room for advancement. You can be a superstar here and you won't be rewarded it. -Being out-of-touch: It seems like all the organization's decisions were made by a few top level people without input from middle management or those of us in the "trenches". They don't have an idea of what went on at the bottom. -Time Sheets. I never understood that in the time I was there. You're a salaried employee. Why do you have to fill out a time sheet? -Resistance to change - The company was started in the early 80's. It seems it's operating mindset today in 2013 is still stuck in the early 80's. -Sometimes, it can be incredibly slow if you're CSD. But when the case come in, it's like they all come in at one time. -Short-term Thinking: Top level management, middle management, the team leads only view things in the short-term. They're unable to view things over the long-term. This will hurt the company more than all the above cons I have listed above.
