Pros
Worked in Atlanta most of my career; moved to Greenway to get out of the hustle and bustle of city life. Carrollton turned out to be quite a nice place to work, nice people, decent places to eat and visit after work. Greenway Carollton campus has a gym that employees can use and a Cafe serving breakfast/lunch for a decent price for the quality. Before Buyout: Great work atmosphere. The place was definitely family first atmosphere with a work/life balance. The people were on board and ready to work hard to meet the goals set forth by the leadership. After Buyout: I think only two things came out of the buyout that was good: They promised 401k matching every year if you worked there the entire 365 days and school reimbursement for approved coursework.
Cons
The company had yet to define a set of development standards for the entire company to follow so each product group worked in their own way. The software is dated (VBScript, vb.net, sql) Some C# code but not much. Before Buyout: Health insurance was mid-grade at best. High deductible health plan, but once the deductible was reached you were covered 100%. Most of the company was on the good ol' boy tier system. If you'd been there long time you would be at a high level (whether or not you could actually perform the jobs you were given). After Buyout: Leadership lied to the employees about job safety. Forced employees to sign the most rigorous no-compete agreement I've seen in years (12 pages, including a clause that claimed all rights to anything built even if built during personal time without use of their materials). For developers, this is a slap in the face. By force I mean, here sign this or quit. You have 7 days to turn it back in or your terminated. A few weeks after the agreement was due the company terminated 90+ individuals. Afterwards you can imagine the moral of the company. Of course after this the company has been hemorrhaging employees ever since. My advice as a software engineer is find somewhere else to work until the company changes into what a software company should be.
