Pros
Free lunch Wednesday? Snack shelf?
Cons
Let me start off by saying this company spends too much money on useless things. They fly managers, directors and VPs across country to attend dinner events or outings. When there are special events like team dinners, other employees not part of the team are invited, thus resulting in a large dinner tab. Again, lots of money spent on entertainment rather than rewarding your hard working employees with raises and or GOOD bonuses. Like some of the other reviews have stated, some managers are incapable of doing their job. All it takes is constant whining and lack of progress. It's the only company I know of that rewards people for not doing enough. Some groups have 2-3 people on the team, but reality is the amount of work to be done could be performed by 1-2 people if they chose to actually work and not talk all day. Let's talk about the identity crisis. Management does a "great" job of telling people that the company is an enterprise level company. Truth of the matter is, the company spends A LOT of time bashing its closest competitor. The company has a hard time getting into deals with larger companies, so they end up closing deals with smaller companies. So which is it Mr CEO? I thought the deal size we wanted was bigger, yet we're settling for smaller deals because we can't close the larger deals. AND, the deals with the larger companies are TINY when you look at the overall deal. Signing a deal w/ a large telecom company is great BUT what you're not considering is that said company is using your technology for a small product in their portfolio. The company is not switching their entire billing system over to Aria. There's a huge misconception with these large size deals. During one all hands meeting it was said that the company doesn't compete in the same market as their closest competitor. Then why is it that new clients the company signs up are always stated with "We took this away from [insert competitor's name]." It's like they're super jealous of the competitor and every chance they get to take a jab at the company is well worth the effort. Now let's talk about how unrealistic this company can be. Client facing employees are so afraid of telling the customers no. Lots of overpromising with unrealistic goals. The company is so afraid of losing the customer during the implementation phase that they will do whatever it takes to make sure the project succeeds. It doesn't matter if the changes to the codebase will affect other customers, it's all about pleasing whoever is up to bat. After all, every email that goes out to all employees to announce a new client is always stated with "Great logo for the website." Yep, the company bases it's success and hopes of reeling in new customers by putting fancy logos on their website.
