ENAVATE reviews

4.3

83% would recommend to a friend

(170 total reviews)
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Thomas Ajspur

85% approve of CEO

71% positive business outlook

ENAVATE has an employee rating of 4.3 out of 5 stars, based on 170 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an excellent working experience there. The ENAVATE 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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170 reviews
1.0
Sep 16, 2016

It started off promising

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Pros

The IP that Enavate acquired from MBSDev in 2015 is one of the best and most promising out there. The people were great.

Cons

Very little talent left after Enavate cleaned house. Most of the Executive Management that handled the acquisition and merger have left the company, for better or worse. Management kept throwing around the word "family" to describe what we supposedly were. Most of us bought into it and worked diligently trying to turn this into a world class company. If we were a family, it was the type where the parents lie to the children with a smile on their faces assuring everyone that things were great. Unfortunately management didn't, and still doesn't, understand how to run a company. They allowed clients and sales to dry up. Once they realized there were money issues they did a 180, fired most of their consultants, and focused entirely on sales. How exactly do you support a sale when there are no warm bodies left to implement and manage client requirements? That is the question that Exec Mgmt continues to fail to address. At the beginning Consultants and Developers were laid off as your standard post-acquisition downsizing. At the end? Laid off because there hadn't been any work available for 5 months. That should tell the entire story right there.

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ENAVATE Response
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You are correct that the IP we acquired is pretty cool. Although it needs a refresh which is a large investment and then we will promote and sell our IP as we roll it forward to Dynamics 365. We have had to make some tough decisions to right size the business and are happy to say that it has worked. We do believe in family and by definition families stick together as we move forward in to the future.
1.0
Aug 30, 2016
Recommend
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Pros

The hard-working employees who are still hanging in there.

Cons

As many others have previously mentioned, ENAVATE is a company that is financially in turmoil, no new sales or growth, only shrinking in size and at a super fast rate, leadership is NOT transparent and have flat out lied to the employees about the state of the company. Company has gone through countless layoffs, furloughs which ended up in layoffs, and even had company-wide pay cuts all within the last year and a half. The CEO continues to lie to his employees and pretends everything is great while he is off taking vacations out of the country. He tries to communicate a hopeful future by sending out weekly Friday emails with talk of client meetings and potential deals but nothing new has been signed (no ink on paper)!! It’s ALL a bunch of talk and hype to try and convince employees to stay and to try and stop the masses from exiting! He is running the company into the ground and only cares about himself and his Vision 2020 plan which is a complete joke (he had to re-do his Vision 2018 and change to Vision 2020 plan b/c he wasn’t even close to making his numbers and still isn’t)! Have gone through several CFO’s and current one has been here over 6 months but still no change! No pay back of Q3/Q4 2015 bonuses as promised, no pay back of money lost from pay cut time period as promised, and they are still having layoffs and good people resigning weekly. There are less than 35 people left in the US and the number continues to drop in Eastern Europe as well. The only hiring is to replace people who have left who were billable. This all goes to prove the company is in major financial trouble!

1.0
Jul 11, 2016

Great Talk, No Action

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Pros

Nothing to add. There does not seem to be any up-side to this company.

Cons

Talk of great bonus programs, nothing in year and a half. Just dangling carrots. Failure to execute on new work for existing employees, all outsourced to Ukraine. Dropped the 401K employer match (since Dec 2015) Terminated by speaker phone by a manager that I never met 10% Pay reduction to all employees (Dec 2015, recently reinstated just prior to being terminated) Core Values Family – We take care of our own. (If you are ex-Anderson, Accenture, Avanade JS or one of the good-old-boys) Innovation – We explore, evolve, and seek excellence on every level. Really helpful if you are Dutch or speak Ukrainian. Results – We are achievers who set high goals and reach them. This is for the management team only. Integrity – We are trustworthy. Our word is our bond. Again, only in upper-management.

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