CheckFree Reviews

Pros

good pay for the work

Cons

does not treat everyone as =, some people get stuck doing the difficult work all the time while others never have to

Advice to Senior Management

treat people fairly, divide work equally

Pros

Good life/work balance; great lunch program; flexible working hours.

Cons

The management team is incompetent. They are holding tons of meetings without coming up meaningful decisions. Managers are more concerned about their position stability and next level promotion rather than taking efforts leading the company to a better position. Since acquired by fiserv., there have been several rounds of layoffs each year. Many capable people have left company recently. The company simply doesn't value good people.

Pros

Freedom and a relaxed corporate culture

Cons

Not enough territory or leads to make quota

Advice to Senior Management

Need more lead generation. Reps do not have enough opportunities in most territories. Territory allocation is highly unbalanced so a few will always succeed and most will fail.

Pros

Free coffee, but even thats been degraded now from flavored to regular. LOL.

Cons

Bad management teams company wide.

Advice to Senior Management

Get Real!

Pros

The company cared about the customer and worked to be the best in its field and worked well with the employees.

Cons

too many politics,games with the management, as to some management play games.
the work place could of been cleaner

Advice to Senior Management

The company had a lot of good employees that cared for quality for the customers they served and were rewarded as a team.

Pros

Their products and services improve people's lives by enabling better financial management.
Most of the people are competent, caring, and respectful.
Beautiful campus with unusually good amenities for the Southeast.
Good business model and market share.

Cons

Little to no chance for meaningful equity participation below the executive management level.
Limited equity upside given size and slowness of company relative to other options.
Now a part of Fiserv, an even larger and slower company based in Milwaukee.
Senior management tends to micromanage as if it is a much smaller company, limiting decisionmaking, innovation and risk taking.

Advice to Senior Management

Get out of the way. Let people take more ownership and reward risk-taking behavior. Remember the customer in everything you do.

Pros

Good people, working environment. Will prove a good foundation for a career in financial services without having to work all hours.

Cons

Technology is quite outdated with no real clear path to getting better.

Advice to Senior Management

Keep and reward those most knowledgeable with your technology - these are the folks that can really drive value for your clients.

Pros

Checkfree offfered their employees free lunch tickets. The company picnic was nice. The Office location was comfortable and the location was convenient.

Cons

The management was inexperienced and the software was archaic , buggy and poorly designed. There were not enough employees to support the various technologies.

Advice to Senior Management

Do not promote inexperienced people to be managers and if you do so give them managerial training so they have some idea of how to be a manager.

Pros

Flexible schedule for work/life balance

Cons

No communication between management and subordinates. Benefits are terrible. Employees pay most of the premium for health insurance which doesn't cover much in benefits. HR department doesn't have any clue to policies of the company. Management is incapable of making decisions and once decisions are made, they change like the weather. Policies in place are only for the benefit of management. A lot of dead weight in management. No decision makers or leaders exist at CheckFree.

Advice to Senior Management

Stop hiding information from subordinates. Develop a true business model of managing a company and stop letting clients get services for free because you do not want to upset them. And get rid of dead week such as VPs that do nothing put sit in their offices on the phone. Also encourage advancement throughout the company

Pros

This a post-mortem review since they have recently been acquired by a larger player in the industry. They had been an employer, though misguided about how to guide and promote an associate, treated you with some fairness in work/life balance and salary. I say this with some reserve since it depended on your department.

Cons

Once again, post-mortem. Since the acquisition by a larger player the company is pretty much a shell of its former self. Most senior management has either been forced out or left at this point. The new company behaves like most take-over operations and has given remaining associates the rough side of the hand. If you work in the former HQ of CheckFree expect to see further reductions in head-count and to be marginalized if you are not key to management goals.

More technical positions look to be the direction for this company. But beware due to the fact the new owner is known for outsourcing everything but the kitchen sink. Your lifespan may be short.

Advice to Senior Management

Since most CheckFree senior management have already left I can't give much advice. Other than you timed your exit well in this industry. But, you sold out the company to a real lemon.