What A Mess - Software Engineer Alfresco Software Employee Review

Awesome leadership and great benefits

Can’t think of any really

Flexible schedules in most departments, good benefits, pay consummate with the industry, and most employees are hard-working, honest people who just want to do good work. It basically stops there.

Where do I even start? The main issue with Alfresco is their "get it done" workplace culture, which in practice ultimately amounts to leadership handing down haphazard decisions and making empty promises to their teams on things they don't know they can deliver, and then the ground-level employees have to make it happen regardless of the level of support, direction, or any other necessary components to get the job done correctly. It's that stereotypical corporate nonsense where the executives spend their time "making decisions" and then never thinking through the consequences of those decisions. I hate to be crass, but it's a complete joke. Across the org, there's also zero accountability for collaboration-- it's usually as simple as someone saying "no thanks," or "that's not my job," which is something I've never encountered elsewhere as being acceptable behavior. C-Levels are generally fine and intelligent people, but it's pretty much guaranteed that under that, you never know what you're dealing with. It's a recipe for disaster, and goes against pretty much any reasonable advice on how to run an intelligent and forward-thinking business.