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Greenplum reviews

2.5

31% would recommend to a friend

(16 total reviews)

Bill Cook

11% approve of CEO

12% positive business outlook

Ratings by category

3.4

Work/Life balance

3.0

Compensation and benefits

2.6

Career opportunities

2.2

Senior management

1.9

Culture & values

Greenplum has an employee rating of 2.5 out of 5 stars, based on 16 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an average working experience there. The Greenplum employee rating is 35% below average for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

Reviews by job title

16 reviews
2.0
Jul 11, 2013

Dictator atmosphere

Senior software engineer
Recommend
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Business Outlook

Pros

Very intelligent, hard working employees

Cons

Upper management seems confused. They are chasing a market that has already been addressed by superior competitors. The founder focuses on his own "vision" and how that vision can help other companies that he is already invested in. His affiliations are obvious. He runs the company without knowledge on how a company works. He has marketing knowledge and vision, but zero business acumen. Employee morale is very low. Belief in the vision by employees is very low. Everybody has one foot out the door. My peers do not look beyond a six month timeframe. Reasons they like there job are "flexibility" and "close to home". Not based on the company vision or technology. No excitement there.

2.0
Jun 26, 2013

Terrible Senior Management - disconnected, vindictive and all white male.

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Regular working level people are nice. San Mateo location is nice. Free food is nice. Work is interesting.

Cons

Senior management is all White Male. Senior management has no idea of the skill sets of their staff and what is needed to be successful. Senior management appears to adopt the latest management fads ( eliminating cubes for large tables and noisy open work areas) rather than sensible decision making. Absolutely no interest in the skills and interests of the average employee - they are in it for themselves. Employees are replaceable work units. Recently cut lose from EMC, Greenplum is now known as Pivotal and is using this as an opportunity to settle scores with EMC and EMC originated staff through reorganization and downsizing even if it ends up costing them valuable resources and hurts their ability to deliver projects.

2.0
Jun 4, 2013

Mindless chaos, imposed by senior management

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Very competent, talented middle management, a pleasure to work with Free lunch on Wednesday

Cons

Chaos and competition rule the culture. Legacy employees can be very unpleasant and condescending. Expectations of engineering to create the new technologies (Hadoop, cloud computing) in the same playing field as competitors are not realistic.

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