Softchoice reviews

3.8

75% would recommend to a friend

(124 total reviews)
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Andrew Caprara

78% approve of CEO

61% positive business outlook

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1.0
Mar 13, 2014
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Pros

Canadian company provides excellent health benefits and many paid holidays. Volunteer days are paid. Many employee meal perks and lavish sales conferences twice a year. Generous sales incentives and bonuses for presidents club

Cons

Horrendously bureaucratic. Too many chefs in the kitchen, via middle management. Unless you are in the "boys club" you are an outsider. If you aren't an alcoholic you are a nobody. most offices hire extremely young fresh out of college, if not younger, candidates. Tons of beautiful women hired strictly on looks and favored because of it, regardless of skill level in any capacity. Management techniques are boiler room driven and are levels (micro managers). Lots of chatter not enough action. Not minority friendly environment (race/gender/disability). Preach team based strategies, but in reality, an "Every man for himself" environment. Sales approaches are borderline auto sales tactics. Known to fire customer accounts with little hesitation due to lack of profit extraction. Managerial level support is absolutely non-existent. Customers are only treated properly if they are a large source of gross profit. Services organization is a complete mess. Services division, Licensing, and Hardware divisions communicate very little and work against teamwork in counterproductive ways due to egos/territories overlapping. Team work is non existent. District managers are lazy and feel entitled. Absolutely the worst place for someone to work with any level of intelligence whatsoever. Base salary is a joke. commission structure is purposefully vague and misleading. Unless you look like a cast member for the Jersey Shore, you can forget about fitting in. Only hire Caucasian, slender, highschool/college level frat/sorority types. Drug use is rampant at sales conferences. Middle Management/Specialists/Vendor Reps are offensively unqualified and are only rewarded their positions based on favoritism and brown nosing.

4.0
Mar 11, 2014
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Pros

Great atmosphere and totally geared to support career advancement. Lots of perks and benefits. Perfect place to start career straight out of college/Uni.

Cons

Not enough money compared to other companies doing the same thing. Everything is geared to push people up (or out), so if you find the right job/level you are happy with you're out of luck because management will not respect you.

1.0
Nov 13, 2013

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Pros

After being a public company for quite a while, a private investment firm has purchased us. Unfortunately, they do not have any experience running a similar company, but still, being private should help.

Cons

I participated in a focus group where we were asked a bunch of questions which could be summarized by the two below: 1) Why is Softchoice's reputation in the industry so poor that no one seems to want to work here?. 2) Why do people who do work at Softchoice, not want to work here as evidenced by the high turnover rates which include many of our most talented employees? Hint - the answers to both of these questions are related. It has gotten so bad that they have recently upgraded the bounty and will now pay us $3,000 if we can convince any of our friends to take a job offer from Softchoice. There are some regulations around how long the new employee will have to stay in order to get the payment, which limits the potential of the payout. It would be tough for me to do that to a friend, unless they were really desperate for a job, even with the high compensation. If you are reading this, and you are unemployeed without any other offers, please apply for some of the job opportunities that are currently posted. You have a good chance of getting accepted.

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