Altum reviews

3.9

69% would recommend to a friend

(20 total reviews)

Steve Pinchotti

69% approve of CEO

63% positive business outlook

Altum has an employee rating of 3.9 out of 5 stars, based on 20 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Altum 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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20 reviews
5.0
Mar 14, 2016
Recommend
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Pros

I have been associated with Altum for over 10 years, as both contractor and employee. Altum is a small and agile company, with two primary business units: Grants Management Solutions and Performance Management/Business Analytics. Employees have direct access to executives, and executives are always eager to listen to and act upon employee ideas and suggestions. Altum's executive leadership truly cares about its people: employees, customers, and community. A bulk of Altum's customers are non-profit organizations, and the company culture reflects that by sponsoring company charitable activities and encouraging employees to participate in community service through a generous community service leave policy. In addition to the flagship grants management solutions, Altum has a successful performance management and business analytics practice, building tools that enable our clients to perform their business practices more accurately and efficiently. Through custom developed applications and partnerships with other products, Altum employees deliver state of the art solutions to solve modern business problems. Altum employs a diverse staff of software engineers, business experts, sales/marketing, project leadership, and customer care personnel. Each of our employees is skilled in more than one discipline, and often serve multiple roles. Highlights: Small agile company with no red tape with respect to decision making. Easy access to executives. Work with clients who are dedicated to improving the world. Interesting and diverse project portfolio. Excellent benefits (probably best in the industry). Open and collaborative environment.

Cons

No Cons... I love working for this company!

4.0
Feb 22, 2016

Long Term employee

Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Stability - There are plenty of current employees who have worked there 5-7 years, some even 10+. The clients are often long term too, although new clients are brought in, the oldest consistent projects having been going on at Altum for more than 15 years. Low stress/pressure (at least on my projects) - My projects have minimal deadlines and very rare crunch times. It sounds like other teams may have more stress/deadlines sometimes, but I can't really speak to that. Some employees can work remotely - it depends on the project I think. I've been remote for a long time now, which has been great for me and my family. I usually enjoy the work I'm doing and the technologies I'm working with. I have fairly limited contact with my co-workers, but they seem to as well. Flexible hours - Altum prefers that employees are available during core business hours to enable communication, but I often miss some of the core hours and work evenings/Saturdays instead. Benefits: 25 PTO days per year after working 6 years (15 PTO days/year at hire), used for vacation/sickness in 4 hour increments. 10 federal holidays, except Altum switches 11/11 Veterans Day for the Friday after Thanksgiving, so we get a long Thanksgiving weekend. We're told by benefits folks that we have a rich benefits package, health care costs have gone up, but it sounds like it is going up more in most other places, and that Altum is eating most of the increased costs themselves. 2% 401K match, if employee puts in 4% or more.

Cons

Although I'm now getting paid a good salary, there were several years where it was insufficient and I felt very underpaid. After writing the CEO, he said it would be taken care of, but nothing seemed to change for months. So I decided to leave. I gave multi-month advance notice so I could train a replacement. Then they took action, significantly upping my salary and asking what I wanted, offering a new title etc. After 3 consecutive large annual salary bumps, my salary had been reset about 60% higher than when I was ready to leave.

5.0
Feb 8, 2016

Great place to work

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

A strong promoter of work-life balance; flexible work schedules; human-scale: front-line employees have substantial, real opportunities to interact with top leaders; smart, honest people to work with; great place to get broad experience; good opportunities to grow professionally if you're willing to make them of your job

Cons

as a small company, it doesn't automatically provide the sense of job stability that comes naturally with large corporations.

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