Softchoice reviews

I came from the Unis Lumin acquistion, so I have been on board for a little over a year. I have worked for a number of technology companies and have never seen so much incompetent management, starting with the senior leadership team. In the short time I have been here, we are now on our third leader of professional services. The first 2 left saying that they could not be successful building a services practice at Softchoice (alluding to the incompetence of the leadership team to which they reported), even though they were extremely successful doing at previous companies. The person in that role now is also our CIO, so he is not able to focus completely on the PS practice. As far as I know, he has no experience running a PS practice. Our entire focus last year was around growing professional services, but our year end numbers were WAY below 50% of plan. This leads a lot of us to believe that there could be significant changes at the highest levels in the organization. Only time will tell.

Over my time here, we have grown, and over the past two years a shift gradually began, and recently has accellerated exponentially. It has always been an issue that we promote strickly on performance with limited consideration for qualification or merit. We have always been underpaid. These two things continue, and in fact have worsened with a recent pay cut, and promotions to VP levels with minimal experience in that level of position. The politics of Softchoice have provided a feaux "Open Door" Policy. The truth is, you want to keep your mouth shut as it is frownd upon if you have a differing idea or thought. People with one mentality run this company, and differing opinions are held back or moved out of a position that can influence change. Some of the most respected people in this organization are in positions that lack cultural influence. Softchoice has gone from a progressive and forward thinking organization to a reactive "old School" mentality that manages your activity rather than your true performance. Micro-Management is at an all time high, and mostly, there is an apparent complete lack of trust from management toward their employees. Thus, this has become a "Typical" corporate environment. If you are OK with being a number or a cog in this world with limited to no autonomy who is expected to work within your personal time while having guilt provided when vacation is requested; If you are ok working in an environment where it is more important to manage your managers and them to manage theirs rather than vice versa; if you value living to work rather than working to live; if you are a typical person who does their job and works hard but doesn't work to completely over achieve; and if you like to provide forecasts; all while getting paid truly below industry average (Despite what SC says), then this place is for you. Don't expect a quality training from the start that is applicable and pertains the the actual job you will do. From there, you are just as good reading all the marketing material of every vendor if you want to learn as that is how we train. That said, Corporations exist for a reason. If you are looking for a typical Corporation to work for then you have the right place. If you are looking to get out of that and go to a more progressive company that truly values their employees, please, for your sake, keep looking.