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IRIS Software Group

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IRIS Software Group Client Support Engineer reviews

3.8

87% would recommend to a friend

(31 total reviews)
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Jason Dies

100% approve of CEO

63% positive business outlook

Client Support Engineer employees have rated IRIS Software Group with 3.8 out of 5 stars, based on 31 company reviews on Glassdoor. This indicates that most Client Support Engineer professionals have a good working experience there. IRIS Software Group is rated in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) by Client Support Engineer professionals compared to other employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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31 reviews
1.0
Jul 11, 2022

worst job I have ever had

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Pros

none what so ever, avoid at all costs

Cons

taking sales away, changing sales cut off at last minute, changing account base

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IRIS Software Group Response
3y
Thank you for taking the time to leave a review, although we are sorry to hear of your experience with a potential sale being reallocated. We are aware of the situation you are referring to; on limited occasions, we may ask our senior sales executives to take on high-value deals so that they can provide their expertise and be role models for our newer colleagues. We are sorry if you felt this wasn’t handled sensitively and we will always encourage collaboration between our senior salespeople and junior salespeople, who are able to shadow our sales experts to refine their skills and be able to provide an outstanding quality of service. We’re very proud to support all our salespeople so that they can develop their skills, learn different products, and grow their careers. We run an extensive 4-week induction and training course for our newer sales executives which is delivered by a host of experts across Sales, Marketing and Product. This training covers the end-to-end sales process supported by individual training modules and a tailored product training programme We also provide dedicated personal performance coaching for our salespeople and work shadowing opportunities, so that they can develop their skills and grow their careers. To reward our fantastic salespeople, we offer a comprehensive commission scheme that has been rolled out across the function to provide monthly commission payments, which are allocated based on input and promotes the chance to earn 200% of commission when the target is achieved. We are also pleased to run a recognition award for our highest performing salespeople each quarter, with our latest winner being gifted an electric scooter. Employee feedback is always important to us, and we encourage all of our employees to share with us their great feedback in our monthly engagement survey Peakon. We are continuing to increase the engagement in our Sales team and are so pleased to have an engagement score of 8.5 for our Sales department, which is 0.7 above our industry benchmark. We are also consistently scoring high in our drivers for ‘Management Support’ and ‘Organisational Fit’ from the survey results of our Sales team. We also encourage our employees reach out to our Employee Voice Ambassador, who are given dedicated training on how to interpret and action Peakon feedback, facilitate meetings, and lead with empathy. We are proud to have 10 ambassadors in Sales & Marketing, who listen to the teams’ collective voices to be cascaded up to our senior leaders and executive team, thereby helping implement positive change and further improve engagement. We’re always looking for ways we can be the best we can be, and we would welcome any further suggestions. Please reach out to the HR team or email EmployeeFeedback@iris.co.uk. We wish you all the best in the future. Kind regards, the HR team
1.0
Jun 11, 2022

The truth

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Pros

Decents benefits and potential to earn…however

Cons

The truth is the whole company is in utter chaos. Overstretched, overworked, completely unmanageable workloads and I have spoken to colleagues in many departments who say the same. Within sales you are hounded DAILY for numbers, you are most of the time scraping the bottom of the barrel for anything, taking you away from having meaningful conversations with clients for long term benefit, alongside dealing with multiple serious issues. Targets are ridiculously high and management are always finding a new way to take commission off you. Your comms rate fluctuates constantly so they can manage how much you earn so it is never uncapped, as much as they say it is. People are severely stressed, no where to turn. Acquisitions every other week just adding to the mayhem. Multiple processes and causing extortionate admin time. I’ve never known anything like it. I don’t believe for a second we have ‘achieved’ 12th place on the best place to work leaderboard through anything remotely truthful. It’s just another tick to make the business as profitable and desirable as possible for the next investor buy out. How this business hasn’t erupted is beyond me, but one day it will. HR will read this and I know it will go nowhere. Elona with the best will in the world has no clue what is really going on or she would be mortified. Attrition is high but HR will proudly announce how many open vacancies there are when we know it’s good people constantly leaving. If you’re thinking of working here, please for your mental health, run.

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IRIS Software Group Response
3y
Thank you for taking the time to leave a review, although we are surprised and disappointed by your comments. We sincerely encourage you to reach out to the HR Director for Commercial, Kerry McAtkin, so that she can help. Employee feedback is very important to us, and we are proud to have a variety of different methods for our employees to share their thoughts with us. We use our monthly employee engagement survey, Peakon, across the business for staff to send immediate feedback to managers and senior leaders, so that they can act on ideas and comments quickly. Since its launch, we are delighted that employees have shared more than 50,000 comments and managers have posted over 41,000 interactions, responses, and follow-up questions. You can also reach out to our Employee Voice Ambassadors (EVAs). We are proud to have 35 EVAs across several departments, with 11 ambassadors in Sales & Marketing, who support business improvements by listening to your teams feedback to present their findings at monthly breakfast meetings with their Executive member and Heads of Function. As you mentioned, we are delighted to have been recognised as one of the UK’s Best Workplaces by Great Place to Work®, the global authority on workplace culture, employee experience and leadership behaviours, for the second year running. This year, we are proud that we have moved up an incredible 17 places since last year, being ranked #12 in the Super Large category. This was based upon voluntary and anonymous responses from IRIS employees in a survey conducted by Great Place to Work®. Their analytics team then performed a rigorous evaluation of thousands of anonymous Trust Index™ employee survey responses and Culture Audits™ submitted by each participating company. This allowed them to benchmark the effectiveness of each organisation's employee value proposition against the culture their employees actually experience. One of IRIS’ core goals is to delight its employees, and we are committed to making all our employees feel welcome and supported. For our Sales employees, we are proud to provide individualised coaching with a personal development expert, as well as other great training and continuous development and career opportunities. We are also delighted to reward our fantastic salespeople for reaching their target with a range of incentives and our function-wide commission scheme which utilises monthly payments, simplified tiers, and types of order, with the chance to earn 200% of commission once you’ve exceeded your target. We are honoured to run a recognition award for our highest performing salespeople each quarter, with our latest winner receiving a free electric scooter, as well as taking our Elite Club winners on a luxury trip to Las Vegas. We’re always looking for ways we can be the best we can be, and we would welcome any further suggestions. Please speak to your HR representative or leave a comment in our next Peakon survey. Kind regards, the HR team
4.0
Jun 9, 2022

IRIS

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Pros

Market leading products and cloud development

Cons

A complex business to navigate

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IRIS Software Group Response
3y
Thank you for taking the time to leave a review. We are delighted that you recognise our fantastic range of products and services, as well as our recent focus on cloud technologies. We are proud to invest in our excellent products, continually taking on customer feedback, and innovating to provide outstanding customer experience. We appreciate that IRIS is a large and growing organisation, with offices from around the world and new businesses regularly joining the IRIS family. We ensure that we are regularly communicating our plans and priorities for the future through monthly global updates, regular newsletters, weekly emails from our CEO, and our Global Teams Channel. We also run a weekly induction for all new hires, to welcome them to the company, as well as detail our systems and processes and how to navigate Delve (our company directory). We work hard to make sure IRIS is a Great Place to Work for all our employees, and we are delighted to have been recognised as such by Great Place to Work® for two years running, as well as being named one of the UK’s Best Workplaces, UK’s Best Workplaces for Women and for Wellbeing by Great Place to Work®. We’re always looking for ways we can be the best we can be, and we would welcome any further suggestions. Please speak to your HR representative or leave a comment in our next Peakon survey. Kind regards, the HR team
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