SS&C Advent reviews

Career opportunities, promotions, and new opportunities can be VERY slow, especially if you have come from outside company (i.e., seems as if long-term employees have grown to expect this, and feel the stability and benefits). Also found the executive team at the top to be very political, the CIO rules the roost largely unchecked on most decisions and the ripples from that can go through the organization. The next level down management was hit or miss, but largely long-term employees that did an ok job, but lacking in real outside depth, perspective, or interest to develop it (a lot of "well this is how we've always done things, looked at it, etc......), including controlling the flow of information and really trusting employees. This isn't a plus/minus, but the cultural fit would largely be good with people that like collaborative, consensus building, people-focused versus ones that thrive on change, innovation, or rapid decision making and task-driven environments. Using big company, maybe an HP, not a Google or Cisco.

- The way the company looks at new ideas is from a 'we never did that before so why would we do it now' approach. There are times where it is difficult to be a creative yet logical thinker. - For some reason people are afraid to make decisions. So, they keep "asking others" for advice. Making a no-brainer decision becomes a circular process which adds unneeded weeks to make a decision that other companies make in one conversation. - For a company to pride itself on having innovative products, which it does, it takes years to get new product versions out.