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SmartStream Technologies Reviews

4.2

87% would recommend to a friend

(316 total reviews)
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Akber Jaffer

94% approve of CEO

87% positive business outlook

SmartStream Technologies has an employee rating of 4.2 out of 5 stars, based on 316 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an excellent working experience there. The SmartStream Technologies 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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316 reviews
1.0
12 Dec 2015
Recommend
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Pros

Great legacy .. poor management team. Saved by Abu Dhabi oil dollars. Good PR team that gets company regularly published.

Cons

Loss making company .. barely makes as much as a small startup. Each year is a new excuse why the top team didn't perform. Hard to understand why the CEO is still keep in his job as much as the whole board. Rife with internal politics. Just a matter of time that the company will probably be sold off for pittens.

1.0
7 Jan 2015
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Great existing client base from a past era (I was there through 3 different CEO's), and a few good people left (the ones who remain loyal and are probably a little scared to move on as they have likely priced themselves out of the market due to management offering over-inflated salaries just to keep them from jumping).

Cons

Simply put....Leadership. A complete lack of a coherent strategy, management don't listen to staff, no product innovation, exec's consumed with political infighting between divisions, any internal staff challenge is viewed as being a 'nay-sayer' and not welcomed, lots of unhappy clients that are not referencable, any profits made have to be paid back to their owners (Dubai) so no investment for new product innovation, just check out the Rating Trend on this website to get a feel of how this company is going!

3.0
14 Sept 2016

Comfortable

Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Many good people working here, sometimes challenging problems. Good at hiring new graduates and promoting and paying them reasonably. Nice place to work with good location and reasonable salary.

Cons

The company is incredibly mismanaged at the top level. The software is flawed, buggy and broken and there is no will to fix it, instead focusing on replacing the working software with a new technology stack that doesn't work, scale, or compile correctly, so the least experienced developers end up supporting the most used (and only profitable) parts of the software. There is little direction, especially in the Vienna office, senior developers just go off and do whatever they like in whatever technology is trendy at the time, and then refuse to document or support anything they've implemented. Teams do not work well together, and the Indian office, while hiring many skilled developers, saves money by overworking them massively and offering minimal job security.

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