Actian reviews

3.9

82% would recommend to a friend

(140 total reviews)

Marc Potter

100% approve of CEO

64% positive business outlook

Actian has an employee rating of 3.9 out of 5 stars, based on 140 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Actian employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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140 reviews
1.0
Oct 22, 2014

S.O.S.

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Actian had the potential to be "the major player" with great technology, talented engineers, excited sales & marketing team. But if senior leadership ever checked in, they would know that it has disappeared with week after week of a talent exodus. We do get free lunch and breakfast tacos twice a week, though.

Cons

Where to start???....Oh, Steve Shine... Senior staff have an elitist culture that has rubbed off on middle management. They have forgotten that Actian needs qualified developers and engineers to make his platform "vision" work.

1.0
Mar 15, 2021

Run

Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Some nice people, mostly clueless on how the company is run

Cons

Management across the board is terribly weak

3.0
Jan 2, 2020
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

A lot of long-term employees on the engineering side, competent skills, and a variety of great database/data management products with a long history and superior performance. The company is "stable".

Cons

The company shifts focus constantly that undues all the previous work. Sales management is constantly changing which disrupts everything else. The company has an older culture with 30+ year employees, meaning it can be fairly lethargic featuring miniscule pay raises and below-average salaries even in Silicon Valley (leading to the inability to hire technical talent).

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