Blue Yonder Reviews

3.6

68% would recommend to a friend

(3,400 total reviews)
avatar

Duncan Angove

66% approve of CEO

58% positive business outlook

Blue Yonder has an employee rating of 3.6 out of 5 stars, based on 3,400 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Blue Yonder employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

Reviews by job title

3K reviews
1.0
7 May 2015

Just say no

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Excellent colleagues, good, clever people, who work hard. You can learn a lot from them. Opportunities for flexible working.

Cons

I honestly don't know where to begin... Appalling management… A massive disconnect between the story being told publicly by top level management and the experience of people who actually do the work for them. No resources, training or decent equipment. Jobs moved abroad to lower-cost, less experienced staff at every opportunity. No career progression is possible in the UK, which combined with the micro-management of everything pointless (administration, constant meetings, their lip-service towards ‘talent development’) plus a willful disregard towards anything important (quality, standards, common-sense, listening to customers, listening to associates) has resulted in woeful staff morale, and the products have suffered as well. The company seems to have absolutely no understanding or concern that changing it's mind and strategy every 30 seconds and/or telling it's staff what it thinks they want to hear (but is not actually true) will contribute to a shameful attrition rate. A concentration on cost-cutting everywhere in the company other than the sales department has resulted in low-quality products - but a plethora of people trying to sell them. Run in the opposite direction, as fast as you can. You can do far better than this.

1.0
13 Jul 2014

Fall from grace

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

There is a strong focus on training and development. There are plenty of classroom based and online training courses Plenty of opportunity to travel I worked with some fantastic individuals; really productive and really intelligent

Cons

JDA is currently going through a huge level of change. Customer-specific software is being phased out so that they can focus on licence sales. They have seen a huge impact on sales and as a result they are faced with anaemic growth across all products. 3 years ago we were winning bigger and bigger customers each year. Now the customers we sell to are smaller and smaller; fewer and fewer. JDA simply is not doing enough business to grow like it used to. The company responded to this by shifting 70% of work to lower cost locations. This was expected to improve the margins (hit by dwindling sales) without compromising on quality. Unfortunately this has put more fuel to the fire. Lower cost development has resulted in more software issues, delayed schedules and a mass exodus of strong employees across the globe.

avatar
Blue Yonder Response
11y
While we appreciate and actively encourage open and direct comment and feedback, there are a number of factual inaccuracies in this review. JDA is not selling to fewer, smaller companies. In fact the last two quarters have seen some of the biggest deals in JDA's history both in US and EMEA. It is also a matter of opinion as to whether customers want software customised to fit them or to buy software that underpins global best practice and transformational processes. Finally, JDA actively looks to pay mid to upper quartile salaries to hire and retain the best people. While salaries are naturally a subjective matter, we believe that no JDA Associate is paid a 'sub-standard' salary.
1.0
6 Jun 2018

Manager

Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

- Reasonable pay - Good products

Cons

- Terrible line management - Horrible politics - "All good" updates from the town halls doesn't match the reality

Viewing 1 - 3 of 3,400 Reviews

Glassdoor has 3,871 Blue Yonder reviews submitted anonymously by Blue Yonder employees. Read employee reviews and ratings on Glassdoor to decide if Blue Yonder is right for you.