FORTÉ reviews

3.8

68% would recommend to a friend

(134 total reviews)

Jeff Stoebner

89% approve of CEO

70% positive business outlook

FORTÉ has an employee rating of 3.8 out of 5 stars, based on 134 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The FORTÉ employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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134 reviews
3.0
Aug 31, 2022

Okay, could be better

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

My peers were always incredibly helpful, friendly, and even since leaving there are several I would still consider friends. Plenty of times where those same people would go above and beyond what they should to help you out, especially when it came to crunch time on projects. Vacation in the sales role was generous enough, gave you plenty of time to reset if you were able to.

Cons

The benefits were mediocre, mostly very high deductible and the ESOP is only truly great if this is a place you plan to stay for the remainder of your career. Pay was on a similar scale, where competitors are paying more, but you aren’t getting payed poorly, either. Hiring for support roles was always a chicken and egg situation, as well, as they needed sales to go higher to support the headcount, but then couldn’t get sales higher without it. Management doesn’t really care to solve problems, just wanted revenue every single month. No understanding that large deals take time and approval processes are more complicated. Micromanagement was rampant from top to bottom. Work from home was nearly non existent as a result, even though we were supposed to be able to do so for some of the time. Training was laughable, at best, and required you to ask for help from coworkers until you learned a way to do it, which might not even be the “correct” way. This may have changed.

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FORTÉ Response
3y
Thank you for highlighting our ESOP - I am the biggest cheerleader of it because it is amazingly popular with the majority of our employee owners - even employees starting with a half year of tenure begin reaping huge rewards! I just wish other companies would follow suit and become 100% employee owned. Jeff Stoebner
3.0
Jun 23, 2022
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

- Good starting salary - You'll learn a lot quickly with all the responsibilities you're asked to cover

Cons

- Raises don't match employee market value - No cost of living raises in high inflation years, even with company making record breaking profits - High health insurance deductible - No discussion of future career growth within the company

1.0
Mar 19, 2022
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Pay was nice I guess

Cons

Unfortunately, staring at AVI Systems, I was expected to come into a position I was upfront that I hadn't had experience in and was expected to become a pro with low-quality training. The opinion of the individual that trained me poisoned my entire employment at AVI Systems. Management is incompetent and the best days, weeks, and months are when they don't contact you at all. Every site I ever worked at had a negative opinion of AVI, making your mistakes much more prevalent in the minds of the clients you work with. Uses impractical and frustrating systems to keep track of time sheets and expenses that feel disjointed, require whole days to train on, and all employees except management strongly dislike. AVI overestimates the value of their ESOP benefits and has awful benefits overall.

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