Perforce Software reviews

3.7

63% would recommend to a friend

(407 total reviews)
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Jim Cassens

86% approve of CEO

51% positive business outlook

Perforce Software has an employee rating of 3.7 out of 5 stars, based on 407 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Perforce Software employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.6 stars).

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407 reviews
1.0
May 14, 2016

Loyalty is Futile

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Pros

1 - The takeover has filled sycophants with near Stockholm Syndrome levels of optimism and affection, and eventually that has to rub off on everyone else, right? 2 - If you're willing to throw your colleagues and friends under the bus, you can have a job for another couple of months (or longer if you're really good at it...the betrayal that is, not your actual job). 3 - There are printers you can use for your resume.

Cons

It doesn't matter how much you loved the company before the takeover, how hard you work or how good your work is; if your function can be relocated to Minnesota, make no mistake, it will be. There is no love lost, the new management are interested in the bottom dollar and who will help them get there. Staff are an expendable asset. Morale is in the toilet, with staff unsure of their future and the future of the company. No one can do their best work in that kind of environment.

2.0
May 13, 2016

This is NOT the Perforce you're looking for.

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Pros

- there are still some good people working here - the Perforce (Helix) Server is a rock solid, enterprise level SCM - sycophants can do well

Cons

- what is actually good long term for the product and staff is not even a fleeting consideration - performance is measured solely by metrics and not quality - executive team are as ruthless and calculating as can be imagined - micromanagement ad infinitum

2.0
May 6, 2016

Went from bad to worse

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Pros

Used to be a great place to work. They have managed to retain some great employees, but no doubt they'll be firing them soon too. I think there is still an annual bonus but this is now next to nothing.

Cons

It has been going steadily downhill for years, with too much money and focus going into growing the business too quickly. Not enough money going into development and looking after the developers, meaning products are rushed out the door without the old quality. Too many people in highly paid positions that don't know what they're doing. Now bought out by private equity firm who clearly don't know what they're doing as they're firing most of the good staff. Any positive reviews on here from recently are likely to be due to the fact that management asked employees to write them to neutralise all the negative ones, so take those with a pinch of salt. Very difficult to advance within the company. All autonomy stripped from offices outside the US HQ years back as part of the "vertical alignment".

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