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      Progress Reviews

      3.8

      72% would recommend to a friend

      (878 total reviews)
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      Yogesh Gupta

      86% approve of CEO

      67% positive business outlook

      Ratings by category

      4.0

      Work/Life balance

      3.8

      Diversity and inclusion

      3.7

      Culture and values

      3.5

      Compensation and benefits

      3.4

      Senior management

      3.4

      Career opportunities

      Progress has an employee rating of 3.8 out of 5 stars, based on 878 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Progress employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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      878 reviews
      1.0
      14 Oct 2020

      Progress does not care about its employees

      Senior software development engineer
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      CEO approval
      Business outlook

      Pros

      I can not think of any

      Cons

      Progress acquired our company and completely replaced the diverse leadership team with an all-male team. This a week after promoting their diversity and inclusion. They made roughly half of engineering redundant at a company where its greatest asset is its people- and shipped the jobs out to India. The day after announcing the redundancies (some of these people had worked here over a decade!) the CEO and leadership hosted a tone-deaf global onboarding with smiles on their faces to welcome us into Progress. All this for what? A company whose growth over the last decade can't keep up with inflation? To maintain a measly 1.7% dividend yield? Look at their history. This company creates nothing noteworthy or known in the engineering space. Engineers who live in the same town as Progress HQ have never heard of the company. This company represents all the dark parts of tech: endlessly firing and outsourcing, chasing a bottom line over valuing people, endless acquisitions... and it has none of the bright parts. No exciting products or projects. As an engineer, unless you live in India, you have to ask yourself: why on earth would you ever voluntarily want to work here?

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      Progress Response
      5y
      We understand you might have this impression, but Progress has a strong history, nearly 40 years, of being a company that respects its employees, their families, our customers and the global communities in which we live and serve. And while it's true that we couldn’t keep every employee as we move forward, we do hope that the people impacted are able to make good use of the competitive severance, support services and outplacement services provided.
      1.0
      9 Oct 2020

      With a smile on their face, Progress destroy great things

      Software engineer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business outlook

      Pros

      The aptly titled "donkey elbow" review, in my opinion, was spot-on.

      Cons

      As an employee of a company acquired by Progress, the first question I had to ask myself was: can I work for a company that has summarily dismissed half of my very highly performing colleagues on day one? Without exaggeration, the first 15mins of Saving Private Ryan provide genuine insights on how they ruthlessly went about their business. As the onboarding process began, with smiles and generous welcomes from the C-suite, it was hard to see past the 100% tone-deaf lack of acknowledgement for all that had transpired. The lucky few given the chance to train their lower-cost, offshore & soon to be replacements can have no illusions about their fate. Get out ASAP.

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      Progress Response
      5y
      It is always hard to see good talent leave, especially if they are our friends and long-tenured colleagues. It is a reality that is hard to comprehend, even if done with genuine empathy and professional respect toward those affected. That’s why it is significant to highlight we offer a competitive severance package and pair that with support services, like life coaching and outplacement services, to help workers find that next opportunity as quickly as possible.
      1.0
      10 Nov 2020

      The many became the few

      Software engineer
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      CEO approval
      Business outlook

      Pros

      Fun to watch the merry go round that is the org chart.

      Cons

      A company that boasts a portfolio of outdated and irrelevant tools/technologies. Progress' business model is to buy successful technology companies, strip them and indescriminately remove all value by making key individuals/teams redundant, so their positions can be off-shored. This should be accepted with a smile and a yes-sir, while training your replacement. Anyone with a bit of sense and aspiration for their immediate career has rightfully hit eject and left the sinking ship. And this is how the Many became the few. In summary: Progress, a company, who's key strategy to stay relevant is to buy other companies, can't even get that right.

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      Progress Response
      5y
      Progress is a global company serving industry leaders in every business sector and are proud to employ bright minds from many cultures. These minds are already working together with existing Chef talent to accelerate the company roadmap. Far from stripping the companies we acquire, we always bring our four decades of experience to companies that can benefit from our deep pool of seasoned leaders. We then merge them with existing Chef leaders precisely because we value the depth of knowledge they bring. Customer feedback to date has been very positive because they know Chef is joining a quality organization with proven track record of being customer focused. These additional resources will only build on the momentum Chef has established to date.
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