Lost in translation - Anonymous employee Actian Employee Review

1.0
Oct 22, 2014
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

The packages are quite good and there are some really nice and talented people at the bottom of the pile so they are a great bunch of folk to work with.

Cons

Management (or lack of it) is a completely different story. Senior Management seem to spend their time flying around the globe at great expense and not actually achieving anything and middle management are fairly useless and could be got rid of in a heart-beat and no-one would miss them. There is no scope for personal development and there is a general feeling that it all feels like a sinking ship. Great shame but with so very little investment in advertising then I suppose that is what will eventually happen!

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