Autonomy Reviews

Pros

free lunch in the canteen each day, free ice cream in the summer, weekend abroad in plush hotel for a christmas party, friendly and helpful colleagues on the shop floor.

Cons

No support or guidance from management- they ignore you entirely for large stretches before swooping in without warning to berate and patronise you. No documentation for any code- all in the heads of others, who while generally helpful are too highly strung and busy with their own work; sales is everything, quality not even an after thought - just so long as the sales rep can blag it past the client. Churn and burn of graduates who are about 90% of their developers- constant stream of people leaving after 9-18 months.

Advice to Senior Management

Provide support and feedback to your employees. Stop treating them like drones in a sweatshop.

Pros

Unbelievable technology, fantastic compensation, seen as delivering the most innovative and effective technology in the industry to 400+ OEMs and the leading corps across numerous verticals; great name recognition; definitely leading the enterprise software space; profitable; continually rolling out new technology; global footprint enable worldwide support.

Cons

Internal processes could be much tighter; need to standardize messaging around procedures; could offer more extensive product training; need more resources to go around that "support" revenue driving initiatives.

Advice to Senior Management

With all the information that continues to come through, you could do a much better job of keeping the large majority in the loop and forming best practices.

Pros

Stable and growing industry, great fro those wanting job stability.

Cons

Lack of departmental leadership, and leadership is burdened with responsibility without power.

Pros

Smart people, unbelievable compensation, opportunity, fantastic technology, top-shelf company who continues to innovate and push boundaries of what is possible in computing. Meaning Based is a game changer.

Cons

can be confusing/difficult to know what message to pay attention to; Marketing group runs company, but the marketing team are young, inexperienced group lacking professionalism and business acumen; training could be WAY stronger on processes as well as solutions.

Advice to Senior Management

If you streamlined and developed actual internal best practices that each group knew and understood, this would only improve what is already a fantastic company.

Pros

HP recently purchased them and appears changes are coming (hopefully to management)
Pay is OK
They have Free Lunch Fridays

Cons

Treat employees poorly
Management is clueless
No advancement opportunities
No HR review process or annual raises (get your money going in because you will never see another dime)
High turnover rate

Advice to Senior Management

Create a review process for employees and merit increases
It is hard to keep good people if you do not incent them!
For the love of god.... contribute more than $1000 annually to 401K. Most real companies match employees contributions!

Pros

The only reason Autonomy zantaz survives is that there are some very bright, dedicated people working there.

Cons

Absolutely no direction from senior management
Non supportive environment
No organization or cohesiveness
No training
Class system prevails (college grads vs non-college grads)
Little or no documentation
Work is prioritized by the loudest screaming customer

Advice to Senior Management

To be a serious contendor in the market place you first have to get your own house in order. Start with your culture...there is much to be done.

Pros

salary is pretty average with health cover

Cons

- every sales rep is measured by traffic light - amber and red light pretty much in trouble
- Only focus on getting revenue, never treat customer as customer
- Snr management will "bypass" the sales rep and call customer directly to chase deal
- No org chart, and communication is the worst
- sales rep are required to learn 10 products from portal without proper knowledge transfer
- Just don't step into this company. It is the worst I have worked 20 years in IT industry
- You might get sacked if you speak anything negative about the company product

Advice to Senior Management

Treat employee as your asset and not slave! Let's hope HP might over turn this rubbish company. Most disgrace company

Pros

Possible changes with recent acquisition. May be lots of leads but yet to happen

Cons

Horrible arogent culture. Lots of b players. Small percentage of people survive very long.

Advice to Senior Management

Change attitude if your interested in retaining and even attracting great people. Get organized and help employees understand how to go to market

Pros

1. You can say "Look, I work over there!" while pointing at the tallest building in Boston.
2. Free lunch Friday.

Cons

1. No career growth, unless somebody quits.
2. Bonus system is good only in theory.
3. If an employee does get a bonus, it is a retainer.
4. No performance review/feedback.
5. eDiscovery capabilities are mostly over-promise under deliver
6. Integration of acquired companies is non-existent. No cross training and knowledge sharing between team.

Advice to Senior Management

Dear HP,
Please look closely and audit all operational aspect of Autonomy. Please talk and listen to employees and come up with a good and tangible plan to address many of their concerns. Please assess the corporate culture, analyze the low employee retention rate and act to address them.

Pros

technology is a cut above.
very knowledgeable people

Cons

little direction
lousy people skills
black hole for information access
no training, cross-training,
everything's a one-off
thankless

Advice to Senior Management

put some processes in place, empower your employees.