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Birst

Acquired by Infor

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The party's over - Senior Muckety Muck Birst Employee Review

1.0
Jan 26, 2016
Recommend
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Pros

Nice office, nice coworkers, interesting functional space (BI). Occasional free lunch (once a month) but usually not enough for all attendees.

Cons

The CEO went all in on marketing and sales budget for Enterprise market but the gamble came up WAY short. Now the whole company is paying. So far laid off about 7% of the workforce and that included the sole engineering recruiter so if you code, look elsewhere. If we fail to land outstanding deals in Q1 there will likely be more layoffs. Overall, senior leadership at the C level is pretty uninspiring and attrition prior to layoffs had been accelerating. It sounds like that will now escalate based on hallway conversations. It's too bad but after 8 or so years of venture funding it may finally dry up.

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5.0
Jan 30, 2017
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

-This is a great place to advance your career in software sales. If you are looking to be part of a world class team and company this is a place to be. - World class training and support so that a future leader in the space has the proper tool to learn and grow

Cons

-There are none that i can think of

5
2.0
Feb 20, 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

-The people who work at Birst really do care for the company -The product is definitely one of the better ones on the market -There is plenty of potential -The next 2 years are a pivotal time for this company as it's really make it or break it. They'll either IPO or sink down

Cons

-Since the CEO has started, the company has been taking a more sales first approach which has resulted in overshooting and under delivering numbers to the board- this resulted in a 7% cut of the company in January -The Lead Development team got new management a few months ago. They have been implementing a lot of changes which have not only effected the lead dev team but also the outside sales team. They want robots who will leave behind their own sales methodologies and adopt the new challenger sales method. Changes are implemented one day and results are expected the next day. The outlook on this team is not looking good for at least the next 2 quarters. -No room for growth unless you've been at the company for 2+ years -Company acts like they're corporate when they're still a startup. Morale is really low. Culture is nonexistent. -The founders came from Siebel where it was more corporate and expect everyone to be serious 100% of the time -No training programs when you start. You're expected to come in and just know everything.

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