- Solera does not pay bonuses as promised. Regardless of what your offer letter may say, they set impossible targets, then eliminate bonuses for all employees when those targets are not met.
- A culture of arrogance and abuse is pervasive among senior management at Solera. It is common for employees to be screamed at, cussed at, berated, etc.
- Cost-cutting is emphasized above all other priorities; even maintaining the sustainability of the business. Costs have already been cut to the point that the development teams, customer service teams, and finance/accounting teams simply do not have the support they need to do their jobs adequately, and management is aggressively seeking to cut costs further.
- Every day is consumed by fire-fighting. Cost cutting has decimated the business to the point that nothing works as it should and employees are constantly scrambling to clean up all the messes management has made by cutting costs they shouldn't have.
- Senior management is conceited to the point that they refuse to believe they have made poor decisions even as the business is collapsing around them. Any recommendations made by employees will be completely disregarded if they don't fit the delusional vision for the company promoted by management.
- Management has a tendency to concoct impossible pipe-dreams, then pass them down to employees to execute. Count on bonuses and merit increases to be eliminated if you are not successful.
- A direct quote from the Solera CEO Tony Aquila in the letter informing me that my 2016 bonus (and those of all AutoPoint employees) would be zero: "For those that carried less than your share, be thankful for those who did it for you." Imagine yourself working for this man. It's miserable.
