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3.4

36% would recommend to a friend

(381 total reviews)
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Frank J Vella

35% approve of CEO

23% positive business outlook

Information Builders has an employee rating of 3.4 out of 5 stars, based on 381 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Information Builders 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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381 reviews
1.0
Mar 28, 2017
Recommend
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Pros

If you have real-world sales skills you are in a class of your own.

Cons

Base Salary is below industry standards. Very old fashion management out of the 80's. Their WebFocus technology "claim to fame in the hay-day Mainframe era" is at the core of every product they sell. It's based on a 4th GL called FOCUS.....very old fashion! New accounts do not buy old technology! To make your sales quote your need 90% of your revenue coming from the installed base. If you do not have a big installed base using their products.....QUIT...You will never make your sales quota! Very few sales people make the quota.

3.0
Feb 16, 2016

IBI Work Atmosphere

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Convenient to Penn Station for LIRR and New Jersey Transit commuters, friendly atmosphere.

Cons

Company does not value its most prized assets, its employees. Random layoffs just to save money! No consideration of employees that have been loyal to the company even though there have been no raises for approximately 10 years. Some upper management personnel are allowed to demean and berate employees via email and verbally with the knowledge of HR and the President of the company.

2.0
Mar 6, 2020

Avoid until they can get themselves together...

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Most people are nice, workload is pretty easy and you can leave it at work (actually, you pretty much have to because desktops are still a thing there), location provides an easy commute, PTO is pretty good, even as a new employee.

Cons

Healthcare is wildly expensive, no 401K matching, 0 pay raises in years. Two fairly large layoffs in 2019 that made 0 sense and cut entire teams, leaving everyone completely understaffed. Key members of the executive team are fairly unlikeable and instill fear instead of respect. All departments are treated very differently, pictures on the website tend to be more marketing and sales, doing activities that the rest of the company never got invited to. Management is very bureaucratic and tend to micro manage poorly (if you insist on micromanaging, at least don't suck at it and end up being the blocker on projects). Management will throw their direct reports under the bus in a heart beat if it means they can save themselves.

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