Comverse Technology Reviews

Pros

Flexible work hours.
Allows to work from home.

Cons

No bonuses or salary raises for last 5 yrs. The stock back dating scandal has taken it's toll very heavily on the company in this period.

Advice to Senior Management

Unless they provide salary reviews at least to people who deserve it they no one is happy to stick around.

Pros

career growth
customer experience
good team players

Cons

limited growth in product knowledge

Advice to Senior Management

None. It's closed.

Pros

employees are given the flexibility in defining their work schedule and job responsibility boundaries, which promotes creativity and customer's needs advancement

Cons

no clear opportunity is given in a structural fashion to employees to advance their career path. all slogans serving senior management interests

Advice to Senior Management

consider your employee work force as your asset and not as an expense. Revive their creativity by respecting the individual. eliminate bonuses to senior management while cutting operational expenses.

Pros

can learn things if you take own initiative

Cons

no work life balance, have to put in a lot of hours. salary is sub-par. work environment not too good

Advice to Senior Management

be more employee friendly

Pros

Comverse has a variety of product offerings which could potentially affect the marketplace, positively.

Cons

Due to the silo/fiefdom mentality of upper management, a lot of viable solutions will not be sold nor implemented on the field.

Advice to Senior Management

Management, at this time, needs an overhaul & not necessarily from another telecom vendor but from other non-competing industries. Conflicts of interests no longer serve the interests of a software company.

Pros

Easy to skate by, people never noticed if I didn't come in. Vacation was good, other benefits were good. Never got cited for looking at the internet a lot.

Cons

Terrible place to work. Work was never steady, either way too much, or I sat around doing nothing. My boss was inept.

Advice to Senior Management

Sell off the company to a PE firm or some other chop shop. The people currently in charge have zero idea how to run/turn around that business.

Pros

I didn't have to do too much work. The benefits were pretty nice, and the work hours—at least for my job—were flexible.

Cons

Not a whole lot of communication between departments, within departments; top-down management, plummeting stock price, fugitive CEO, etc.

Advice to Senior Management

Liquidate the company and give the money back to the shareholders. Or at least sell off some assets to get the company back into plausible viability.

Pros

Very fast moving culture - always on the run

Cons

Too sales oriented. Getting to top dog is via sales but sales is a trap. Not a place for the faint hearted,

Advice to Senior Management

Guarantee a future - current economic issues are causing best people to leave. Look at a way to reward the best.

Pros

Use latest technologies and open source frameworks.

Cons

Poor pay. Poor review system, not transparent.

Advice to Senior Management

Treat employees fairly, more transparency in the review/raise process. Communication with employees.

Pros

Nice facility. Great people. Lots of challenges.

Cons

Vice president writes code and runs group like a prison camp. Priorities and direction change on a daily basis.

Advice to Senior Management

Trust your people. Actually listen to your people. They are very bright.