Appirio Reviews

Pros

When I joined Appirio, I had been working at other consultancies and thought to myself that it will be the same type of thing, just with a different label. While cynical at first, the company has proved me wrong.

Firstly, the culture is fantastic. I have never worked at an organisation where there is so much trust. I've personally never been micromanaged and I have the choice to work at home or in the office. Though ultimately, we work where it will be best for our clients. The office itself is open plan and in a WeWork office in London. It's not stuffy, it's laid back and there are loads of perks like snacks and drinks, pub nights, pizza meetings and breakfasts.

Second is the tools. You are given the tools to work from anywhere as long as there is an internet connection. The ease of connecting to the company systems is fantastic as all the company systems are cloud based. You get the choice of a new Macbook Pro or Dell laptop, screen for your home office and a phone (if needed). It's probably been the only company that I've worked at where I haven't received the cheapest option from the hardware supplier! Appirio also have great IT support - just create a ticket and it's all logged in Salesforce. Full transparency of where your request is and no having to wait on the end of a phone line listening to dodgy hold music.

Third is the knowledge sharing and support. I had previously worked at companies that had aspired to be at the level of knowledge sharing that Appirio is at. There are Centre of Excellence groups for various clouds and systems that you consult in or have an interest in. You can participate in these to receive help or offer help to other employees. These networks are worldwide as well, which is important so regional silos are not created. We have a library of re-usable assets so that we do not have recreate everything from scratch each time there is a new project. Then, there is a the fabulous discussions email group. Anyone can email this if they are seeking help and anyone from the newest graduate recruit, to an MVP or the CEO could respond!

Career wise, it was one of the best decisions I made. Appirio has given me the opportunity to grow my career, support to take all the certifications I want and work on lots of interesting projects.

Advice to Management

After the acquisition, there was uncertainty that processes, culture and tools would change for the worst. So far this hasn't happened so please keep it that way!

Pros

I get to work with the best people I have worked with in my career and love the work we do for our customers

Advice to Management

Stop the onslaught of changes imposed by Wipro. We need to get back to what Appirio used to be about and retain our talented people.
We need to take control back and be able to manage our own teams again without all the restrictions being imposed on us.

Pros

At the time when I joined Appirio, I was disappointed by the Service industry in general. In my experience of SI's of all sizes, I’ve found that people were considered as commodities and treated as such. Little care about employee burn-out, little interest in developing people, no consideration whatsoever for team morale. It is surprising as it all participate in nurturing top notch consultants who will become capable to handle more challenges.

At Appirio it's not working like that at all. First, Appirio is championing one approach of Customer Experience based around the employees: the Worker Experience. Because it’s the policy to eat your own dog food, employees are taken care of, they are provided with top qualities tools (check my new MacBook Pro) and general use of cloud apps make remote collaborative work a reality. In fact the company only use cloud computing and doesn’t run any server!

There are multiple practices, I’m working in the Salesforce one. My colleagues are all experts in one thing or another which makes project work less stressful than in previous experience. There’s a great ambiance at work and I’m always smiling when I’m going to the office. There’s quite a few funny characters and some good banter too. There’s often a cool musical background and the dress is quite relaxed: focus in on results not appearance. As a result, people don't leave after a few months as I've witnessed in my recent past, hence delivery teams remain very stable for the duration of an engagement.

My management is quite caring and spend enough one-to-one time with me in my opinion. We went through an acquisition, but the culture is unchanged. The project methodology is very robust and efficient and the implementation tools built on Salesforce are unbelievably powerful.

All in all, this has been my best career move ever and it’s why I’m sharing my feedback here on Glassdoor; I wouldn’t usually bother. Appirio offered me the break I have been looking for years and I am now relaunching my career. It feels good. :)

Pros

Absolutely none, to commend this appalling company on!

Advice to Management

Get rid of project leads and get people in who treat the staff they manage fairly

Pros

If you are a pro-active person who can engage yourself in the work at hand, then Appirio is an absolutely amazing company to work for. I loved the freedom to work from anywhere and basically anytime you want. And there are loads of different types of projects to be involved in - many different verticals.

I found the on-boarding program to be excellent, and I was able to connect to my colleagues in the UK as well as US and India quite quickly because of that program.

Appirio has the best tools I have ever worked with. They are practicing what they are preaching when it comes to cloud infrastructure.

I found that my managers in the London office were honest, transparent and reliable - something I had really been missing in my career prior to Appirio. Also, if you exhibit trustworthy behaviour, you will find yourself being in a company who doesn't micromanage your work.

If you like travelling for work, I would definitely recommend becoming an Appirio consultant.

Advice to Management

When the merge with Wipro is completed sometime later this year, please ensure that the unique Appirio culture isn't diluted.

Pros

* Fun, intelligent colleagues
* flexible about working from home
* regular team calls
* GM is great, when present

Advice to Management

Be present and spend time with the team on a regular basis rather than fire fight when it is too late. Absence of management in office is really obvious

Pros

Great culture, work life balance, awesome LT, great recognition, achievable OTE. Inclusive environment with great out of work social. Great managerial support.

Advice to Management

More immersive learning with partners.

Pros

Snacks from Ocado :)
Everyone I work with feels like they are working in the same direction, you are not battling your colleagues for recognition or petty reasons. Management team are typically pretty relaxed and open. I feel I can be frank and honest with them and they will be with me

Advice to Management

Learning from our successes and mistakes must be baked in to our processes and not just rely on individual contributors

Pros

Smart people hired to this business & my team peers were great guys. Also great products to work with.

Advice to Management

People don't leave jobs they leave managers. You've lost a lot of good people and at some stage you have to reflect on yourselves and not blame the leavers for creating the atmosphere & negativity. Human resources needs to be a lot better not functioning properly and needs more experienced leadership. The skill set is not there to train or guide the line managers to enable them to perform better in managing their teams and to stop losing staff.

Pros

Good people, great work-life balance, good culture