Advent Software Reviews

Current Employee – been working at Advent Software full-time

Pros – Great work life balance.
Great people to work with.
Flexible work environment.
Dog friendly office.

Cons – Career growth is minimal within the company.
Less competitive salaries than other software firms.
Corporate ladder seems to be getting taller and taller; new roles created to give members of management promotions.

Advice to Senior Management – How is it that some executive managers get promoted during a year where there were layoffs? Layoffs were made so the company can meet its target profitability goals, yet this seemed to just went to line the pockets of managers.

Former Employee – worked at Advent Software full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Great culture, friendly folks,company promotes work life balance

Cons – Slow career growth.
Relationships are more important than getting the job done.

Advice to Senior Management – Have annual if not quarterly meetings with your subordinate's subordinate to get honest feedback.
You will be surprised.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Advent Software

Pros – Excellent camaraderie and people. Great on boarding program focused on new employee success. Employees really care about each other.

Cons – Hard to change, culture a little too uniform. Relationships usurp performance.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Advent Software full-time for more than a year

Pros – benefits, relaxed environment, people, good for those who have a family and are looking for a long term position, nice NY office, they encourage health and awareness, volunteerism, community assistance.

Cons – clients are pretentious, demanding, and unfriendly. Lack of raises or promotions, upper management is good, but middle management is horrible.

Advice to Senior Management – improve your middle managers, stop grandfathering employees into management roles simply because of their tenure, and not their capabilities.

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

Current Employee – been working at Advent Software full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – People are considerate and nice. Work is interesting. Good balance between life and work.

Cons – It can be a very comfortable place so can be frustrating sometimes working in an environment where people aren't really trying to innovate or really pushing themselves

Advice to Senior Management – Keep on doing what they're doing and adopt a poison pill

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Advent Software full-time

Pros – Work-life balance.
Team and department events.
Great people.

Cons – Depending on the department, sometimes employees may or may not receive the necessary support to help them thrive.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Advent Software full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – You can grow with Advent Software, and then leave promptly after 2-3 years.

Cons – Advent just laid off 80 plus of their senior employees, including managers and directors, and many of the non-managers that were let go were outperforming technical product experts. The level of knowledge of Advent's own products that they lost in this layoff is unfathomable.

Advice to Senior Management – Tell the truth. The Titanic sank.

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

Former Employee – worked at Advent Software full-time for more than 8 years

Pros – - You enjoy contributing ideas and following the through with the goal of improving on existing workflow systems
- You are a life-long learner who enjoys taking on new challenges, and collaborating with others who are smart, bright and focused
- You prefer an empowered workplace with work-life balance and a culture of self-reliance where young employees work hard and play hard, and older employees with families are respected

Cons – - In exchange for the stability of working at a software firm that has weathered two major economic cyclical downturns (Advent will turn 30 in 2013), you get the paradoxical duality at the core of its identity: conservative as software companies go, but also the most laid back financial services firm you'll ever work at.
- Salaries tend to be slightly less competitive; raises are awarded less frequently and must be both earned and negotiated; be prepared to show real offers from other companies at a higher pay rates for the desired position
- People tend to remain longer in their positions than is the case at most software companies, which translates as job security to some but stagnating to those who prefer greater mobility.
- Although Advent was started by a very successful female entrepreneur and women do fill many important positions, as of Q4 2012, the Executive Management Team is comprised only of men.

Advice to Senior Management – Go out on a limb: take a few calculated risks in the name of growth, learn from your failures our loud, do a better job of sharing the wealth than your predecessors did, and hire more women to senior management positions. The company does not rest on your shoulders, but on your capacity to afford all employees as yet un-imagined opportunities for managed expansion. Empower your workforce not just to contribute all they've got, but actively build on their emerging leadership skills that you know will help shape the future vision and direction of the company. Transform Advent's culture of granting incentive-based rewards from its timeworn, conservatively restrained offerings governed by fear of lack to one based on informed generosity, belief in abundance and well-managed trust.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Advent Software full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Flexibility, motivated employees, dog friendly office.

Cons – If you do not have a clear path for your career growth you can get pushed into a position/path you may not want to be in.

Former Employee – worked at Advent Software full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Great training programs, multicultural work environment, incentives and rewards for doing a good job

Cons – not that easy to move to different departments or move up in the company to get leadership positions

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