What is overtime like at Drake Software?

Decent pay with yearly bonus. Provided lunches during tax season. Managers and coworkers are nice, never had my request for PTO denied when it was for something significant like weddings or funerals, even during our busiest times. Benefits are good and you're given a stipend to offset the cost, which makes it almost free. The business is the best at what it does, everyone has to file taxes, so the company isn't going anywhere.

No work-life balance (70+ hour work weeks during tax season, September through February and possibly longer depending on the year). All programming languages and tools are proprietary, no opportunity for career skill growth here. Currently merging with another company, causing a lot of layoffs when we were already understaffed for the work load (hence the 70+ hours during tax season), making the work experience even worse. Upper-level management's response to significant overtime is "That's the job", while actively making decisions that make it worse, such as layoffs.

Decent Benefits Option to work remotely Some great coworkers

Hours: Expect to be working 60+ hours a week from September through February but still working overtime and weekends for the rest of the year. Cinven took away our benefit of 3-day weekends during the summer and replaced it with additional projects that require overtime and weekends to complete. Understaffed: We were already understaffed before the Cinven takeover, now we are experiencing higher workloads on top of layoffs. Accountability: Too many employees aren't doing their fair share. Management makes excuses for these employees and then expects others to pick up the slack.

Decent Benefits Option to work remotely Some great coworkers

Hours: Expect to be working 60+ hours a week from September through February but still working overtime and weekends for the rest of the year. Cinven took away our benefit of 3-day weekends during the summer and replaced it with additional projects that require overtime and weekends to complete. Understaffed: We were already understaffed before the Cinven takeover, now we are experiencing higher workloads on top of layoffs. Accountability: Too many employees aren't doing their fair share. Management makes excuses for these employees and then expects others to pick up the slack.

Decent benefits, a lot of overtime (also a con)

Too much overtime half the year. Things have fallen apart since Cinven acquired Drake. C-Suite execs can't seem to find ways to improve profits without laying people off... Which doesn't help the fact that everyone in the company is severely overworked and underpaid due to being understaffed. For whatever reason, higher-ups seem to think laying people in teams working 70-hour weeks is a good plan. No clear direction; it seems decisions are made on a whim, some of which can be life-changing for employees. Nearly complete lack of diversity. I'll be surprised if Drake makes it another decade under this new leadership. It was a solid company to work for.

OT during tax season is amazing.

Off season seems to last forever.