Great Experience Working for the Wrong People - Management HRsmart Employee Review

2.0
Aug 1, 2013
Recommend
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Pros

* Many exceptional co-workers in many areas. * Some great employees, with exceptional attitudes and a hunger to learn * Middle management used to be a key strength with a lot of talent * Opportunity to contribute a lot quickly because of past poor management * Some really good experience especially working with global, culturally-diverse teams

Cons

* Senior management is dishonest and exploitative, especially to employees who are dependent on the company for some personal reason such as visa issues. Check to see when the previous reviews were added here on Glassdoor, and you will see no positive reviews up until a point, at which point there are about a dozen positive reviews. I'm fairly certain there was significant pressure put on employees to leave those reviews, which is completely unethical. These misleading to downright false reviews are the only reason I am posting a review at all. * Senior management routinely asks employees to do things that are outside their moral comfort zone. Some of my employees were not paid for literally months at a time (this was Nov 2012 - Mar 2013, so not ancient history). At the time the company was pushing people to work up to 65-80 hours per week with no extra incentive pay or overtime pay to cover for management mistakes in releasing a shoddy new version of the product. * There has been a cycle of layoffs every two years for the last six years due to complete lack of financial planning, the company did not have a CFO for more than two years * General lack of professionalism and business acumen among top management

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5.0
Apr 20, 2015
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Pros

Flexible work scenarios - working from home. Deltek integration project has been near flawless - our family in VA listens and responds to our legitamate work needs to ensure we are in sync and providing an exceptional "product experience" for our clients.

Cons

Leftover "HRsmart-istic" tendencies. Departments show fractures and some signs of segregation / attitudes of eliteness. An lingering viewpoint (not Deltek)..that some EEs time is less valuable than others, thus their opinions do not receive the same level of attention or priority.

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1.0
Jun 25, 2010
Recommend
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Pros

It was a great company a few years ago. You got career opportunities, the people was always kind and the general mood was good. The software side was always kinda crappy, but other factors helped to ease that. Individual developers cared about that and tried to solve the problem. Sales... was just sales. You were able to learn (by yourself, but you could). Sadly, the money flow seemed to stop due to awful management decisions and the company is facing massive layoffs, salary reductions and late payments. You won't be able to do anything else than maintaining a dead code base (or trying to sell it)

Cons

1- Historically awful management. Unskilled, paper-pushers and power-hungry individuals get promoted exclusively. They take important decisions without the slightest knowledge of the matter. Skilled people is starting to be demoted or just laid off because they're problematic, or just too expensive. 2- Bad management decisions stopped the money flow after a relatively long time, powered by the recession. Their main product is broken, totally outdated and is being quickly replaced by competitors. 3- No more good mood anywhere. Everyone is paranoid about being laid off, or being overseen by his/her direct manager. You can't have an honest discussion about the simplest workday problem with anyone. 4- Laying off people doesn't get work out of your plate. You'll be required to do overtime every single week.

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