Aspect Software Software Engineer reviews

Poor management. Too many layoffs.

Things are ever changing organizationally, lacking a clear roadmap and discipline to stick to a vision and do what it takes to execute to plan. When projects are felt to be near enough to completion to be able to get some kind of product release out the door there are layoffs, and the quality of the software suffers accordingly. This issue is the essence of the problem at Aspect, and why the loss of customers is occuring, and likely will continue to do so. As a software company the people are the life blood of the company, but the Golden Gate owners have no loyalty or gratitude towards the employees. It is very difficult to move forward with your career as the company keeps employees pigeon holed and prefers to hire new people from outside of the company. The current executive team, in place now for 18 months is tightly linked to the private owners of the company who remain the same - hence there really is no change fundamentally in how Aspect is managed in spite of the marketing and sloganeering saying otherwise. The focus of pursuing growth is on merger/acquisitions of other companies which seem to be distressed and undervalued. The successful integration of the products from the M&As is hit or miss, without any tangible positive impact on the bottom line. To be honest, I am happy to no longer be with this company.