Nuance Reviews

I have been working at Nuance full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – Smart people. Interesting products. Great pay. Lots of opportunity.

Cons – No culture. No time to build a culture. Lots of people are burnt out buy stay because they are well paid.

Advice to Senior Management – Focus on building a culture and respecting focused priorities and work/life balance to keep the incredible talent you have.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

I have been working at Nuance full-time for more than 10 years

Pros – New technology, interesting work. Many internal teams are good to work with.

Cons – While upper management continues to get obscene bonuses and salaries, the peons in the field are expected to work 60-80 week. No overtime for most positions, no comp time. Constantly told to work faster, get more revenue recognition - they think if you can implement a project in 120 days, you can cut that to 90 and if you cut it to 90, you can cut it to 60 and come to think of it, get it done in 30 days. You'll get lectures from the CEO during quarterly meetings telling you you're special and appreciated, BUT sales are never high enough, and you're never really giving it your all. then you read that the marketing manager (marketing!) is pulling in over $7 million salary.

Advice to Senior Management – You have a lot of people out in the field working their butts off for you. Salaries are decent, but not when you factor in the number of hours you have to work. Managements seems completely and totally out of touch with what actually goes on with the worker bees.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

I have been working at Nuance full-time for more than a year

Pros – Flexibility
Work, home balance
No commute
Good life insurance

Cons – Pay is not that great
Medical is expensive

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

I have been working at Nuance full-time for less than a year

Pros – Smart, talented people. Plenty of opportunities to learn. Quite common to be able to look at different approaches to solve the same problem because of teams coming in from numerous acquisitions.

Cons – Typical large company culture in a negative way - easy to feel isolated. Benefits are below average. No real sense of belonging. Acquired companies largely identify themselves as teams from "X" rather than being a "Nuance" team.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

I have been working at Nuance full-time

Pros – Learning about speech technologies. Salary at industry median. Good work/life - 9 to 5.

Cons – High insurance premium. RIF exercise every year. Company spread out across Burlington, Montreal, west coast and Europe - not a good thing if travel restrictions are imposed for face-timing with internal partners. Slow to hire in meeting innovation pace. Top management seems to be dominated by non-tech executives. A lot of sales pitch and tech promises but slow and poor execution. Confusing product lines. At times the office can feel a bit stodgy.

Advice to Senior Management – Speed up the innovation.

I have been working at Nuance full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Dynamic environment. The building is full of some of the smartest people I've ever met. I have learned more here than in any other job I have ever had.

Cons – Work versus life balance is tough.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

I worked at Nuance full-time for more than a year

Pros – Some very bright people are there.

Cons – Over time, the bright people tend to leave because they get fed up.

Advice to Senior Management – Simplify your product line. Focus on a few areas and do them extremely well rather than continue to support hundreds of products in a mediocre fashion.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

I have been working at Nuance full-time

Pros – Exciting technology, some smart people to work with, open communication with management team

Cons – No work-life balance; limited time to think about development because you are too busy; managers know about workload issue and would like to help but have no immediate budget to hire; management team appreciates your contribution, but the compensation is not as good as outside

Advice to Senior Management – Need to solve brand confusion, be supportive to hard-working folks and allocate the resources reasonably, try to keep great people stay with the company

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

I worked at Nuance full-time for more than a year

Pros – At the mid level and even at the layer below the exec level there are some really great folks. Hard working, friendly and approachable. They have several products that are very cool and very cutting edge -- so working there from a technology standpoint may be different than working there as a non-tech person. There is a small, clean gym on site and a pretty good cafeteria.

Cons – Historically there has been a lot of turnover either voluntary or involuntary in many of the departments. If you are interviewing with them ask what their attrition rate is for their group. Also be wary of the CEO. He has a reputation of ruling by humiliation and of being very difficult to deal with. The rest of the exec team seems fine.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

I worked at Nuance full-time for more than 10 years

Pros – Successful. Extremely driven executive management. This is a company that will always get the upper hand in any negotiation. Incredible IP portfolio.

Cons – Focus is on sales and licenses, not very much employees or work environment. Innovation comes mostly thru acquisition but that value is eventually squashed by the sales focused culture of Nuance.

Advice to Senior Management – Spend a some real time, effort and money on investing in your employees and updating the infrastructure.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company