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Consona

Now known as Aptean

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Great opportunity for beginners in sales, marketing, and consulting - Anonymous employee Consona Employee Review

1.0
4 Nov 2008
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Green field in many ways in marketing, sales, consulting. If you like an informal and unconstrained working environment with nice people. you will like it. Very open and non-political. Very plain-speaking and helpful people.

Cons

There is not much progress in terms of addressing internal problems with product, policy, sales, marketing, leadership, etc. You are on your own here. No career path whatsoever. Fake objectives and reviews. Very poor and partial sales and marketing tools, handouts, case studies, etc - you better be a good tap dancer and a do-it-yourselfer in you are in sales! An old CRM implementation that is not much help. Consona management is at a remote and high level with no hands on thus nothing is addressed really.

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5.0
22 Aug 2013
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Consona has a great company culture, and tries really hard to make working for the company a rewarding experience.

Cons

Because Consona was a smaller company, Sales and Marketing could have used more resources.

2.0
16 May 2013
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Some great people from various acquisitions remain in the company and they make the difficult positions management put you in more bearable. Due to decentralized (M&A culture) many can work-from-home.

Cons

Company values only apply to the workers, not to the executive team (CEO is not Tom Millay as listed in this profile, but Jeff Tognoni). Lip service is provided about being Customer Service focused and "Customer Intimate" but really its about making the most money for share-holders regardless of impact on customer retention or satisfaction. Work-life balance is impossible when newly acquired product-lines are expected to continue revenues despite deep cuts at acquisition-time and regularly thereafter.

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