Adayana Reviews

Pros

Ability to work flexible hours
Generous paid time off
Solid benefits for a small company
Good working enviornment
Team Members are respectful to each other
Hard working team members
Exciting work & clients
Good pay comparable to other companies

Cons

Grew fast through acquisition and is now in a right-sizing mode.

Advice to Senior Management

Over communicate. Let the team members know your vision going forward.

Pros

Pay was average to similar industry positions
My direct manager was good but had little authority
Telecommuting allowed
Generally no weekend work

Cons

Middle and upper management Disorganized
Employees would sometimes be threatened by Management to step up performance
Profit rules over quality of work
Middle management worry more about making themselves look good then providing good service

Advice to Senior Management

Get back to basics.
Provide a good service at a fair price.
Pay attention to your general employees who provide product for your clients
Make sure you take care of your employees, including affordable benefits, to ensure most stay arround and you do not lose knowledge gained.

Pros

Not for the faint of heart or slackers. You work hard and try to make a difference to our clients. It seems that 1 year at Adayana equals at least 3 years in corporate America and you get the opportunity to be exposed to many facets of the business. Not so in larger companies.

Cons

In turbulent times, communication suffers. Need to focus on enabling people, not just the numbers: tell the total story. Some of that is attributable to the company size, and changing market, but more innovation on how we go to market outside of our comfort zone.

Advice to Senior Management

Allow time for R&D and support the resulting innovation. Increase communication and feedback for all levels of staff.

Pros

Within the industry side of the business a great deal of work focuses on food and agribusiness. Therefore the global nature of the projects and the focus on the food chain provides great reward to our clients and team members. Team members are allowed to stretch their capabilities and increase their responsibilities quickly.

Cons

Like any business services company, with great rewards from client interaction come relative demands. The project work is of strategic importance and achieves great visibility within our clients' organization, so client expectations can be high.

Advice to Senior Management

Continue to refine our offer and maintain the client intimacy that has provided us with great success. Look to take the best practices developed within agribusiness and expand into similar markets.

Pros

Pay Rate was satisfactory to industry standards
Flexibility in scheduling and Telecommuting for some
My Direct manger was great but had no say in operations

Cons

Upper Managers Constantly Disrespected production employees
Benefit package was completely shameful, better to seek your own
Disrespectful of clients. Management was quoted to say, " The Clients are either to stupid or just couldn't care about visual quality."
Focused solely on profits. Seeking ways to deliver the cheapest product for the highest industry price
Segregation between offices
Threaten legal action on employees

Advice to Senior Management

Look at your core employees, listen to them and treat them with the respect that they deserve.
Focus on giving Clients high quality work at a fair price. Seeking the cheapest answer is not the solution to financial problems.
Seek long term goals

Pros

Their benefits are great and there is a lot of work to do.

Cons

In the U.S., Adayana is made up of 3 seperate companies. Although the companies are now Adayana, they still are doing business as ususal. They have not merged the individual companies into one team. In addition, there is a seperate branch office in India. Another independent company.

Advice to Senior Management

The management is more focused on new business and retaining existing customers.

Pros

Good visibility with upper level management
Good pay and generally good benefits
Some hard working and down to earth people

Cons

Frequent change and significant restructuring are the norm
Lofty business goals with no resource commitment
Lack of realistic long term vision at the top

Advice to Senior Management

Re-evaluate who your strongest players actually are, and look to them for suggestions on how to improve the business and create sustainability.

Pros

Comp and benefits are decent. Overall the time off was relative to when or if you are on a project and billing hours. Telecommute opportunities were available to some. In the beginning, it appeared there was a great structure in place to do your job.

Cons

They completely burn out their good employees. The focus tended to be on utilization and if you were billing the client versus the work you produced. There was one individual with the ear of top management. This person was frequently overworked and made multiple mistakes but would try to blame others so the light would not shine on them. It was hard to remain billable when the projects were not scoped appropriately. The high turnover made it difficult to maintain records for clients.

Advice to Senior Management

Do a better job of connecting to the new employees and keeping their worklload balanced. Communicate changes early. If the ship is sinking, allow people the opportunity to jump off!

Pros

Regular contact with outstanding federal clients
Opportunity for participation in proposal work
Flexible schedule, telecommuting supported
Good location, convenient to Dunn Loring metro and 66/495 highways

Cons

Minimal feedback on performance
Poor career growth and stifling environment for new ideas or processes
Weak management team
No clear vision

Advice to Senior Management

Articulate a vision
Utilization is not the only important metric, find other ways of measuring performance
Encourage regular review and improvement to internal processes
Invest in employee development
Invest in R&D to foster innovation

Pros

You don't really have to have any qualifications, and if you desperately need a job you can get hired if you are cheap enough.
There is some senior leadership that has talent.
They put their values on a mousepad (and then forget about them).

Cons

-terrible benefits - zero rollover of vacation time, raises are laughable, no bonuses, poor medical coverage is expensive, 401k is bad, education benefits have to be repaid if you EVER leave, Employee violate privacy laws, gossip about their own employees, and bully employees.
-Organization is restructured every few months and employees don't know who their manager is or what they are supposed to do but they get yelled at if anything goes wrong and they didn't know it was happening.

Advice to Senior Management

Stop blaming the junior employees when things go wrong. Make management accountable for their own performance. Stop sending all of our jobs to India.