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Castellan Solutions

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Constantly evolving - Manager Castellan Solutions Employee Review

5.0
Oct 29, 2021
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Pros

Castellan is the merger of three companies (Assurance Software, Avalution and Clearview/BisWeb). Those mergers too place over the last 3 years and have resulted in significant change. Each of these business existed for nearly 15 years priority joining forces. At the same time, management and the private equity owners are focused on integrating the companies and driving growth. From an employees - the company is increasingly focused on exiting people who can't/wont work for a growth company and replacing them with folks who are growth minded. If you're a top performer and like being challenged, that is really welcome to see. For some people that have been around for a while, it's pretty scary. So overall - the pros are that the company is growth oriented, and really focused on doing right by our existing customers (whom are spread across 3 different platforms).

Cons

There is a high degree of change. There are still a few pockets of folks that probably aren't right for our growth oriented future (but those are shrinking quickly). Management has been getting better at communicating where we are going and why.

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Pros

Culture Flexible Schedule Unlimited PTO

Cons

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5.0
Nov 14, 2018
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Pros

Assurance is a pretty young company that was split off of Sungard Availability Services in May, 2018. The company is awesome. The people are really great, and the way we do things feels very much like a start-up. We're really writing our own rules here, and it's fun to come to work every day. I really mean that. The work-life balance is perfect. Employees are not expected to take work home with them. We work hard and are rewarded accordingly. There is room for growth, and the company is growing every day. I am looking forward to seeing where things go in the next couple of years. Assurance is changing the way it does development, which I find exciting. They are very automation-heavy in testing, so the Developers and QA engineers are expected to write automated tests (API and GUI), and even learn .NET/C#. The PMs are expected to work deeply with the customers and not so much hands-on with the development teams. This gives teams more autonomy and ownership of the products they create.

Cons

As I mentioned, Assurance was split off of a larger company earlier in the year. As such, it's still finding its foothold in the industry but things are finally starting to settle down a bit. Meaning, they just had a mild restructuring where a few product managers and QA engineers were laid off. But, it wasn't for monetary reasons, as they're back-filling some of the roles.

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