Idera, Inc. reviews

WOW. where do I start. I had a helicopter boss from day one. I was positioned in a manager role. but my boss was holding my hand the entire time I was there. asking about tasks and duties the he assigned to me multiple times a day when I barley had the time to work on the other projects he was giving me in the first place. No trust whatsoever, why hire me in the first place??? Did not even want to put in the efforts - decided on letting me go after 7 months... who does that? AND During the christmas holiday season. Terrible outlook. Set sales goals, when I am not even a sales person for this company. He was very strict on those goals even thought it was not even part of my job to be a sales person in this position. he was online and checking up on me all through out the night hours, not even letting me spend time with my family on multiple occasions - such as requested to do projects or check on something at 7,8,9 sometimes even 10pm or 11pm at night. If you want a boss that will be up your butt all the time then go ahead and apply.

Where to start ? - The don't care about customers or the products they have acquired. - EVERYTHING is outsourced to cheap an inexperienced engineers who neither own the product nor care about it. 'Just fix it' mentality and hope for the best. - QA is just awful. Products are tested by people who don't know the product and rubber stamp. - LIES. Never tell the customer the truth. Keep them hoping that things are being addressed. - Accept you have no say in anything. You are to do your job under awful conditions. Every aspect of this company is so silo'd that no one knows anything other than their immediate role. - Communication with engineers is impossible. They are on the other side of the world and have no direct interaction with support. - People are let go on a whim, with no explanation. Our department has gone through 4 product managers in the same amount of years. - They do not value experience gained on the job. You can have years of experience which can only be obtained by working at the company - only to be let go and have a new person come in with no training and have to learn your job from square one. - Total incompetence abounds. A software company that doesn't have engineers or technical staff on hand is something to be very wary about. Everything is outsourced - the only thing that is in house is sales and marketing. Think about that for a minute if you are using Idera products. - Total control freak of an owner. He constantly needs praise to stroke his ego and need to micro manage every aspect of his company. How many people make your employees sit in a queue for company-wide zoom meetings to let them in himself (or delegate to trusted person) to see who attends. And please don't even be 1 minute late for the meeting (of 300+ people) as you will be called out and your tardiness noted. - Dev cycles are *months* in the making. We used to have releases every few months with over 100+ fixes per release. Now we release every 4-6 months with maybe 10-15 bug fixes and they are actually *proud* of that. - I could go on but I think you understand - this is not a software company - it is a rape and pillage company where they milk the customers for every penny and give almost nothing back to the software development or fixes.