Valtech reviews

3.3

55% would recommend to a friend

(992 total reviews)
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Olivier Padiou

50% approve of CEO

34% positive business outlook

Valtech has an employee rating of 3.3 out of 5 stars, based on 992 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Valtech employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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992 reviews
2.0
Nov 6, 2008
Recommend
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Pros

Valtech used to have a lot of really bright technical people. They used to foster an agile environment that was ideal for easily collaborating as a team, and educating junior team members about new technologies. They also had competitive salaries, and good perks (video games in break room, free snacks and coffee, 3 weeks of vacation to start out).

Cons

Senior management has completely decimated the US organization. The business strategy is nebulous and changes from year to year (Doom Loop). Management has always struggled to properly staff projects due to an unpredictable sales pipeline. This has often resulted in projects being understaffed, or some resources being under-utilized/benched for too long. Also, right now Valtech has been laying off all resources they can't staff to cut costs. Also, all bonuses have been indefinitely suspended, and quarterly reviews have been discontinued.

1.0
Sep 20, 2008
Recommend
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Pros

Valtech used to have a strong reputation in the Agile and Object Oriented software development space but that has changed dramatically. Now it's focused on body shopping and the US CEO, Brad Murphy, doesn't care about staff or take the time to communicate on what the company is doing. The best part of Valtech is its recruiting team, they are all very nice but I think they're also as frustrated and there are a few good managers who have been with the company for awhile but they're all scared of losing their jobs so they don't say or do anything. They used to have quarterly bonuses, a great employee computer purchase plan, good projects and training for staff. It's all gone now though.

Cons

Ever since the VP of Delivery was released the company has become exclusively focused on sales. Anyone with technical skills is viewed as a necessary evil and there is no concern for career progression, mentoring or training. It wasn't always this way, there was a time about a year and a half ago that there were quarterly bonuses, mentoring, interesting internal projects if you were on the bench and all staff received training. Now there's hardly any communication, there are tons of managers who contradict and fight over everything and the company hasn't been profitable since the last VP of Delivery left. They've shut down their development centers and most of the work is onsite at client locations now. The global CEO, Johnathan Poole, is completely unaware of how the business is being managed and whenever he comes to the US he's more interested in his company car and apartment than he is staff.

3.0
Jul 16, 2024

No direction

Recommend
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Pros

Great mid-level professionals with lots of expertise

Cons

c-suite / senior management is clueless. run by salespeople who don't understand the business or care about the clients

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