Dec 19, 2012
Active Network
Part of Global Payments
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Active Network reviews
3.5
62% would recommend to a friend
Evan Davies
73% approve of CEO
47% positive business outlook
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2.0
Oct 14, 2012
Turbulent, chaotic and disingenuous change in leadershi[
Former employee, more than 5 years
San Diego, CA
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Pros
The original promise of Active Network, a cloud-based SaaS company that provides technology solutions to event organizers is sound. There is a lot of potential yet to be realized in this space, and ACTIVE Network (they now refer to themselves as "ACTIVE" - all caps) is still poised to compete and bring a lot of value to the marketplace. The company culture is one that celebrates professional and personal performance - and offers a variety of health and fitness-related benefits, most notably, the corporate wellness program ActiveX. Although, this advantageous culture has been displaced by a post-IPO leadership team - interested only in the performance of the stock price quarter to quarter. But there are still a good number great people at ACTIVE.
Cons
The company's once-thriving work hard/play hard culture has been turned upside-down. The post-IPO leadership "transition" was the worst I've ever witnessed. The new executive management team did not buy in to, or even seem to appreciate, the original mission of the company - making the world a better place by getting people moving. In an overtly condescending manner, they proceeded to dismantle product development plans - replacing them with tactics they had used before, yet presented them as "innovations", and effectively motivated a significant percentage of their truly talented employees to find work elsewhere. Attrition continues at an alarming rate. Leadership's plans to "shake things up", "thin the herd", and get those who "can't take the heat" out of the kitchen have backfired in a big, big way. Financial and stock performance reflect the very poor management.
3.0
Oct 3, 2012
Loving my JOB at Active; More advancement options
Anonymous employee
Current employee, more than 1 year
San Diego, CA
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Pros
I get to work everyday with really fun and interesting people who care about their individual wellness so the work out program is an excellent way to blow off some steam. We work hard but we play hard too and we receive excellent training programs from time to time.
Cons
Long hours and sometimes I am not able to receive the time-off that I request because HR is slow in processing the request. The pay is a little below where I think it should be, but everyone always complains about that, right?
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