AccessData reviews

2.8

39% would recommend to a friend

(3 total reviews)

Ken Naumann

81% approve of CEO

36% positive business outlook

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1.0
Jun 8, 2017
Recommend
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Pros

- Good pay - Good company culture (fun outings from time to time - movies, bowling, etc) - Lots of good/talented people work for AccessData. - The technology they're starting to use is cutting edge (Angular2/4, WebPack, Node.js, etc). - There's opportunities as a developer to work on a pretty decent diversity of work and technologies (front end, back end, database, etc).

Cons

- Benefits are bad, and will get worse in 2018 when they get rid of their PPO plan and only offer HSA plans. - The owner of the company, Tim, is NOT a developer, but he thinks he is. He insists on writing garbage code and forcing it into source control, and forcing it onto the customers (which is going to cause AccessData to lose customers and brand equity). Anyone who stands up to him (i.e. the CEO, the CIO, etc) gets fired, or demoted. NOT good! And this is NOT the first time he's done it. He did it several years ago and nearly destroyed the company. They kicked Tim out, and almost made a full recovery before he came back and started doing the same garbage again. - The current CEO, Victor, is a coward "yes man" who is going along with Tim and all of his horrible ideas for fear of losing his job. He is worthless! - The board of directors are spineless. They all complain about this guy, the garbage code he's writing, and the direction he's going (i.e. tanking the company), but none of them will stand up to him, or stop him.

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AccessData Response
9y
Having only been with the company a brief time, your perspective on our organization, our story and progress over the past 30 years is a bit short-sighted. Hopefully, you'll look in from time to time, as we have an exciting future ahead.
1.0
Dec 19, 2015

Unreal

Recommend
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Pros

Easy work environment, true meritocracy just the way you would like. People that work can actually get ahead. Work vs home life is good cutting edge tech bit over priced lot of flexibility when things are going well

Cons

Cool workerbees,lousy management. No direction, nepotism, management turns blind eye to activities of favorites and concentrates on people that are actually trying to make a difference and actually trying, they derail them at every opportunity. Shameless.

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AccessData Response
10y
Thank you for taking the time to share your view of AccessData. There is a new CEO in place as of November and we are seeing positive strides being made to move us into a strong position for 2016 and beyond.
2.0
Mar 12, 2013

Experience at AccessData

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Pros

Fast growing, they are staying at the top of the pile for the forensic market and could translate into reasonable job security and maybe stock options in the future

Cons

blighted by poor ideas of employee management and satisfaction, poor benefits and salary, internal politics and favoritism rule at this place to the extent that any growth opportunities are halted completely if you don't make the right connections and spend a fair amount of time sucking up to the bosses. Also firings are beginning to become commonplace

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