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Bronto Software

Acquired by Oracle

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the stars are disappearing - Software Engineer Bronto Software Employee Review

4.0
Apr 11, 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Leadership team really does treat staff like human beings. Mostly. They definitely live the work hard, play hard mentality. Variable compensation since the NetSuite acquisition has gotten better (ESPP, RSU's). While there is an org chart, nobody ever really cared much about it at Bronto when it came to who you had lunch with or caught up with socially. We're all just people, some in roles with greater organizational responsibility than others. 40 hour work week is typical. Work/life balance is real. Glassdoor doesn't reflect it yet, but the Bronto division of NetSuite is now led by a great woman executive. There's been more emphasis lately on figuring out how to bring gender diversity to Bronto.

Cons

Since the NetSuite acquisition, a lot has changed. Bronto's leadership has resisted a lot of it, but the malaise of a giant corporation that grew too fast is creeping in and pervading, corrupting everything about Bronto that was once good. It should be noted that the CEO that everyone loves, Joe Colopy, and his partner Chaz Felix are no longer with the company. So their Glassdoor ratings should not be considered here. Bronto as a company no longer exists. You should be looking at NetSuite for reviews now. Budget cuts and bureaucracy have sucked the joy out of a lot of the work. The "play hard" is not gone yet by any means, but has been curtailed a good bit since NetSuite took over. Racial and gender diversity can be bad, much worse in some divisions than others (Engineering is mostly white men, marketing is mostly white women, etc). People With Disabilities aren't really seen, and it might have something to do with the office space not being PWD accessible. For a Durham company, the staff directory is remarkably caucasian. There is almost no such thing as a career path here. Unless you got in early, you might (if you're lucky) make it to the first line of management. Those who have made it that far tend to get stuck. There's been quite a lot of attrition since the acquisition. My star ratings take into account that this is NetSuite we're talking about here, not Bronto. Bronto doesn't exist anymore as anything more than a branch of NetSuite's org chart.

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5.0
Dec 10, 2018
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Great diversity, wonderful people to work with. My director was great and so was most of the management team.

Cons

Bronto was purchased by NetSuite which in turn was purchased with Oracle. Its still a good place to get experience but the culture is different now and so are the perks. It used to feel more like a startup environment now it's a corporate environment.

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1.0
Dec 19, 2013
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

American Tobacco Campus location, free snacks, sodas and beer, foosball, there is a sabatical after 5 years, but you won't make it that long

Cons

The two founders are still there and still run the company like it is their personal club. They don't have the experience or the sense to run a real business, so they focus on things like silly company games, office expansion and marketing events. They lump all this under "culture." Meanwhile they pay below market wages, skimp on bonuses, have bare minimum benefits and generally try and extort as much as possible from their employees. They hire generally incompetent managers who can't lead, but instead just rah-rah everything the founders do or say. Even though they claim they are a start up, you will find more money in the cushions of your couch than you'll get from the equity that they hand out. The greatest farce is the travel policy of sharing hotel rooms and the red eye requirement, so the best thing to do is just avoid travel at all costs. They cover up the awful environment by forcing employees to say nice things about the company: forced voting in the Best Places to Work survey and I'm sure several of the reviews on this site. They also hire young, inexperienced people who don't know any better, they get a few years from the good ones before they figure it out and leave. The bad ones stay, especially if they rah-rah the founders silly actions.

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