Solera reviews

Audatex became an awful place to work. I was there approximately eight years, working for ADP, Audatex, and the Hollander group, and it was a textbook example of how a good workplace can become every cliche about a bad company brought to life. After being taken over by Solera, the original employee-first culture and competent, knowledgeable management staff that had worked their way up through the ranks at ADP were replaced one-by-one with buzzword spewing corporate cronies with a lack of industry experience. Any remaining managers that didn't drink the corporate kool-aid were overwhelmed and undermined by their superiors. Despite initial promises to the contrary, benefits, pay, and personnel started getting chopped. Raises were suspended for five years, and there was no sign of any future increases. Senior management even explicitly yelled at employees during town hall meetings for having the nerve to ask about raises. Responsibilities increased steadily without any commensurate increase in pay / title or even adequate training, internal promotions were replaced with outside hiring. The only corporate philosophy that remained in place for more than a few months was 'increase revenue at any cost', and by the time any new projects or products were implemented they were cast aside for the new big thing, and left to die on the vine due to a lack of development, training, and support resources. The only reason I would recommend someone take a job at Audatex is if they have no other prospects or they are masochistic.

Any company culture can grow and improve. The more important point is whether the need for change and growth is not only recognized, but actually executed upon. I can say that at Audatex challenges exist, but the challenges are recognized as areas for growth, and executive management does act upon them. One growth area at Audatex pertains to working with product management as we migrate to a new, Java-based platform with a noticeably different architecture and design philosophy. Both product management and the technical side work hard to understand how to bridge from old to new and bring a new product to market in a short time, in a competitive space. While this can lead to some stress, the tensions are professional and healthy, and as a result, architects, developers, and others have a great opportunity to distinguish themselves with their business acumen and their analytical and technical skills.