Agilysys Reviews

Pros

Agilysys is a top contender in the Hospitality IT market. They provide employees a good benefits package and are reasonably flexible when it comes to balancing personal life. The opportunity for growth is there, you just have to know how to take advantage of it. The ability to travel the world installing hospitality products is also a big plus.

Cons

Not everyone shares a common goal. There are a number of employees that don't really know what their department, division or company's true goal is, which may be due to senior management's lack of awareness of this problem.

Advice to Senior Management

There should be a bigger effort in place to make sure everyone buys into the company's core values and a bigger push to make everyone feel part of the family. This is a good company that offers good/great products. We should all be proud of it and we should all know what goals to shoot for in order to provide a better aimed effort.

Pros

Terrific mid level management and alot of very sincere hardworking employees. There is a great deal of expertise that can be tapped into.

Cons

Inexperienced and poor leadership and alot of office politics. New CEO is cut throat, laying entire teams off that are mission critical to product support. You can't manage a company strictly from the P&L and expect to retain any talent. Basically running the company into the ground.

Advice to Senior Management

Learn to value your employees and look at motivating and rewarding valuable employees. Lose the politics and change the CEO.

Pros

In my experience, I've found a great deal of flexibility to get my job done. It is definitely a get what you give environment, so with a proper work ethic, it is rewarding. I also quite enjoy all my co-workers. Management, although sometimes questionable in their decision making, has been great.

Cons

Many of the processes and policies seem to be counter-productive and simply irrational. It is very clustered in that regard.

Advice to Senior Management

Remain Supportive. Work to squash some of these broken processes and continue to try and identify best procedures and practices.

Pros

Competiive salary, Strong relationship with Vendors, Quality support team

Cons

Lack of regional technical support in some areas, Competition with many IBM resellers, and IBM Direct

Advice to Senior Management

N/A

Pros

Professional managers
People treated with respect and as professionals
Good benefits package
Good time off policy
Work/life balance encouraged

Cons

Executive management level changes made some employees nervous (so far so good).
Interdepartmental communications could be better (however improving).

Advice to Senior Management

Keep the lines of communications as open as possible. Employees do not like being left in the dark.

Pros

your co workers and the clients are the only thing that makes this job worthwhile. Without them I cannot fathom having stayed at this job this long.

Cons

Management doesn't give you much to strive for, very few promotion opportunities available unless you are in the appropriate circle of friends. They expect for you job to be your life, and for you to give up your personal life at any moments notice. Pay increases are virtually non existant, and the amount of 'say one thing and then do the exact opposite' by management occurs so often it may as well be the company mantra.

Pros

Great work life/balance
Business not hard to learn
Opportunity to learn a lot of new skills
Flexible work schedule

Cons

Poor management
low employee morale
lack of leadership skills in management

Advice to Senior Management

Boost Employee Morale
Value good employees
Manage workloads
Provide advancement opportunities
360 evaluations

Pros

Flexible work schedule available for work/life balance.

Cons

Benefits. Was not able to add on my spouse if they were able to purchase benefits from their place of employment.

Advice to Senior Management

Listen to employees needs.

Pros

If you want to stay under the radar, this is the place. The health benefits are good. They provide a lot of technical training.

Cons

Management is clueless, the company has no direction or vision. All management caress about is getting more perks and running the company into the ground.

Advice to Senior Management

Take more care in the people of the company, make decisions. Communicate a vision and try to maintain and grow skilled resources.

Pros

Company allowed flexible work schedule and ability to telecommute when possible. Professional training was offered to workers when schedules permitted.

Cons

Communication from upper management to workers was not frequent enough to give the workers a sense that they mattered. Some organization changes and promotions were not publicized to the staff. Benefits package is lacking.

Advice to Senior Management

upper management should communicate more openly and frequently to the staff workers -- even a short, weekly update might be a good tempo to improve morale.