Blue Yonder reviews

Leadership team expects everyone to sacrifice personal time and health because they refuse to staff appropriately. Work life balance doesn’t exist, it’s all about “running lean” and positioning the executive team for a huge cashout. Working day and night and weekends. Morale is low, burnout and attrition are high. Do not buy the reviews that all software companies are “fast paced”. This is not normal or healthy. Colleagues and their families share on these concerns. Several are on the job search. This company is bleeding it’s employees.

- upper management gets in the way of everyday work. For example, executive level exployees dictate to individual contributors as to what they want, even if it’s impossible (they think employees are miracle workers) - the different departments aren’t aligned, making for an extremely hectic and inefficient work environment - upper management expects you to not have a life and work 24/7 (even if you have a personal obligation or it’s the weekend, they don’t care) - EVERYTHING is a fire drill. Everything. Things happen, but I’ve never seen a company act like every little thing is a fire drill - there’s no clear direction or messaging from upper management/executives. The company puts the cart before the horse in all aspects and then expects you to figure it out without any guidance - politics. It’s who you know, not what you know. If you’re not in the inside circle, your job is probably at risk. Many people are drinking the koolaide - benefits package and vacation days are not competitive. You get 3 weeks paid vacation and 1 week sick, however they’re very strict about your sick days. You have to prove they’re actual sick days or you can’t use them as paid time off. They offer United Healthcare, but hardly any of the doctors in my area take it, which led to very expensive medical bills - no opportunity for growth. Everyone for the most part is either a director or Vice President, but most of these people don’t have any direct reports. They just freely give these titles out, but with no clear growth path - they don’t take feedback or listen to anyone’s ideas. You must do what they say, even if you have a better and more efficient way of doing things - the work isn’t rewarding. You have 7-10 stakeholders for every project, making it impossible to be successful. Everyone has a different opinion on things and can never agree on anything. If you enjoy being the middleman and running in circles never getting anything approved or done, then this will be your dream company - they promote culture and want to be known for having a great one, but I have to admit, it’s all an act. If you look at their social media accounts you’ll see JDA is active in the community, hosting school age children to show them what it’s like at JDA, etc., but they don’t care about their actual employees. They aren’t afraid to let you know everyone is dispensable. Don’t get too comfortable there (by the way, I left on my own terms) - they’re very cheap. Some teams aren’t given a budget, which is absurd because a budget for certain areas of the business is essential to a emoloyee’s success, as well as the success of an overall team. However, they spend their money on other things, such as having Flo Rida, Michael Phelps, Fitz and the Tantrums, etc. perform/speak at their annual user conference (they have a huge act perform every year and this past May they even rented out Universal Studios for the Fitz and the Tantrums concert). They can pay all that money for these huge performers, but can’t give their employees raises or even pay them what they’re worth - I could go on forever, but I’ll stop with this last point. They just “laid off” hundreds of employees, but still had the money to pay for Fitz and the Tantrums and rent out all of Universal Studios for an entire night in May. To top it off, many of the people they “laid off” were told it was due to a re-organization, but I checked the job postings and many of the jobs were re-posted with the language tweaked a little