Corel Reviews

Former Employee – worked at Corel full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Good culture, colleagues are nice, work-life is balanced

Cons – PC industry is going down year by year, the management still have problem finding a new goose with the golden eggs

Advice to Senior Management – Try mobile?

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at Corel full-time

Pros – - OK pay and benefits
- Life/work balance
- Some very bright and nice people to work with

Cons – - Constant layoffs
- No vision/direction
- Very short-sighted outsourcing stragtey from new management who has no idea about the the products are

Advice to Senior Management – It is easy to look at numbers and make calls on what you can see. It is harder to be couragous and taking-risk to head the company to the future growth. Without a mindset change, the company is going away sooner or later.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at Corel full-time for more than a year

Pros – Was able to work with some very good people
Individual ideas and thinking are encouraged
Compensation and benefits were fair

Cons – Position did not feel secure, as though at any point the position would be eliminated.
There was not much enthusiasm about the product or product releases

Advice to Senior Management – Significant product inovation is needed to keep pace and move ahead of competitors.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Corel full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Free and CP high Company

Cons – No foresight and OEM tended company

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Corel full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – Competitive pay, Flexible scheduling, Good benefits

Cons – Declining revenue
Poor executive management decisions
Not innovative enough to keep afloat
International work schedule
Old products

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Corel full-time for more than 10 years

Pros – Benefits, salary, and flexability is great

Cons – Bad communication and decisions, company is heading in the wrong direction.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at Corel

Pros – Corel has some great products with very affordable prices that compete with the best of them. The every day employees are the best and hardest working you'll ever work with.

Cons – The company is owned by a private equity firm that goes through layoffs 2-3x/year and trims budgets to levels that hurt everyone and everything involved, the products, the employees and the customers. It hires way too many contract people, denying them job security, benefits and vacation. People with 10+ years tenure have been laid off w/o notice.

Advice to Senior Management – If you want a successful company, I suggest you invest in both the employees and the products instead of seeing how much sweat you can squeeze out of your increasingly unhappy and discouraged employees.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Corel

Pros – Flexible
Pursue own ideas
Fairly open.
Friendly staff
Changing responsibilities

Cons – Lacked strategy
Better employee benefits
More travel reqd
More communication across regions
Stable CEO.

Current Employee – been working at Corel full-time for more than 10 years

Pros – it's a international company, you can learn more

Cons – Privately Offered Fund behind COREL

Advice to Senior Management – number, number, number...

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Corel full-time

Pros – Easy going people. Interesting product space.

Cons – No future for products getting beat by competitors, poor direction and decision making, slow decision making, too much cronyism and politics - getting worse as the company ship sinks even further.

Advice to Senior Management – Too much internal politics adversely affecting product quality and company longevity.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company