AccessData reviews

2.8

39% would recommend to a friend

(134 total reviews)

Ken Naumann

81% approve of CEO

36% positive business outlook

AccessData has an employee rating of 2.8 out of 5 stars, based on 134 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an average working experience there. The AccessData employee rating is 27% below average for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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134 reviews
1.0
Jan 17, 2019

Downward death spiral

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Pros

You are working with some very good people if any of them are left. The product itself is/was an industry leader at one time.

Cons

The upper management is horrible. I sat in training meeting where the sales team were taught to use deceptive sales tactics to avoid demonstrating features of the application the company knew did not function. They lied to the customers and once they had the money in hand would forget they were alive. The greed and complete lack of understanding of security concepts from top executives is just one example of the problems at this company. That fact that is was purchased and being managed by vulture investors who made extremely damaging management decisions along the way took and industry leader and turned them into a has been.

1.0
Jan 15, 2019

STAY AWAY! Rapidly sinking ship.

Anonymous employee
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Pros

They have great products but the company has been so mismanaged by upper management that moral is in the toilet and has been for sometime.

Cons

Beyond abysmal management by the Board of Directors, CEO, and owner of the company; especially, owner of the company. He likes to think he's Captain Kirk AND likes to think he's a developer. I don't know why he bothers with any managers other than himself because he has to be in on every, single decision made. When he doesn't get his way or the project is having difficulties he threatens to fire, or does fire, the managers of the project. Being threatened with firing is a constant.

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Thank you for your years of service with AccessData and taking time to share your viewpoint on our organization. Our employees truly care about how our products can make a difference in the world and we would be lost without them.
1.0
Apr 30, 2015

Such a Sad Company (Horrible Leadership)

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Cool technology that fits a need in a growing, fairly stable industry. Talented developers, rank and file actually cares about the products and customers.

Cons

Worst upper management I've ever seen. CEO is a detached and arrogant trust fund baby who thinks he's Steve Jobs. King of bad decisions and will throw developers and anyone else under the bus at every opportunity. Selling/splitting the training business to Syntricate and splitting the company into AD and ResolutionOne is a transparent ruse to try to find a buyer. Product Roadmap changes all the time and developers get blamed for management's poor planning. Oh yeah, and it's headquartered in Utah.

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