Chordiant Software Reviews

Pros

A lot og great people at Chordiant. I don't think most of them are still around at Pega now only 1 year after the acquisition by Pega. Too bad as I think the company had a great future.

Cons

Sold to Pega, bad idea as company was going in the right direction with the economy improving. Difficult couple years prior to acquisition led leadership to bail out too soon.

Pros

Great autonomy was given to several key employees.

Cons

Dysfunctional organization. 5 CFOs ran the top of the company in the boys club.

Advice to Senior Management

Get out and interface and empower the employees more. The stiff hand of upper management stiffled a great deal of innovation.

Pros

Employees treated decently.
Promotional opportunities, though some had to leave to get it

Cons

C-staff was a bit removed from operations. By a bit I mean fully. Everything was financial driven. No thought to product from the top. Middle management ran all product decisions. Near the end a CTO did try to get involved, but scrambled all of the organization and rendered it inefficient by matrix managing the entire engineering group and put an absolute moron in charge of staff.

Advice to Senior Management

irrelevant, company purchased by Pega, who is run by a monarch.

Pros

I learned a lot from my internship

Cons

They should improve their training program for their intern.

Advice to Senior Management

Good

Pros

Chordiant was a small and dynamic environment to work in. Making deals was the overall objective. Everyone did what necessary to be successful

Cons

Chordiant got acquired by Pega so the cultur is gone. Nothing good to tell about Pega so far. Everything gets regulated - creativity and dynmic is no longer important

Advice to Senior Management

to late now company sold to Pega

Pros

Chordiant treats its people with respect and civility. The benefits were excellent and continued to improve during my employement

Cons

Company sold to Pegasystems which is just the opposite. Pega treats its people poorly and with little respect. Also public floggings are the norm.

Advice to Senior Management

None

Pros

It is a wonderful company to work for with lots of benefit whichare far better than most of the employers in the same space

Cons

The major downside is the employee growth. Since the company is too small there are hardly any positions where one can grow.

Advice to Senior Management

Advice to management is to get more and more new projects. Chordiant need more sales in north america. They have solid product but less penetration

Pros

Outstanding talent in the company. The PS folks are very smart. They make projects successful in extremely tough situations and they do this on a consistent basis. Fun place to work at, outstanding benefits.

Cons

Sales really dropped in the recent times. The implementations are huge and typically there is a lot of finger pointing by the client although it is not your fault.

Advice to Senior Management

Need to invest more money on the product. Need to spend more money on building functionality as it is important to the business folks.

Pros

Marquee client base, Brilliant people on the team, Opportunities to collaborate and learn, fantastic benefits, competitive salary, good client perception

Cons

Limited product set features - challenges in competing with competitors, management not agile enough, employees are not recognized internally, recognition is sometimes based on false perceptions, poor positioning of team members on client projects by management

Advice to Senior Management

Create a higher value proposition of services team to the client and ensure that chordiant folks are the ones leading projects or at least have a presence rather than partners!
Expand and find creative ways to provide growth and challenging opportunities to employees.

Pros

Great company to work for

Cons

Carreer growth is not that great

Advice to Senior Management

Communication could be a lot better, more internal promotions