Corel Reviews

Pros

The best thing about Corel are it's people. Due to downsizing, the ones left are true professionals with great flair. For a software corporation of its size, its scale of operations is quite extensive and this is all due to the quality of its employees.

If you are a junior to intermediate level person who wishes to grow, this is a great place as you will be working with world-class professionals with a can-do attitude to everything.

Cons

Very little room for advancement. Management hold onto their positions tightly and keep their employees from evolving into leadership roles.

If you are a senior-level person, you will find it frustrating at the least.

Advice to Senior Management

If you want to retain your high quality employees, you need to provide them opportunities for advancement.

Pros

Good group of highly skilled people that enjoy their work and their products. Decent perks, work flexibility, and consistent perfromance recognition throughout.

Cons

Recent history of investor purchase, delisting, relisting, delisting again. Very tight ship with little room or budget for innovation. Culture of "me too" products. High executive aversion to risk.

Advice to Senior Management

Need to foster more innovation at a low level. Create more turnover in the employees to bring in fresh experiences and skills.

Pros

Startup Carrier for a good growth

Cons

long hours to work with overseas

Pros

Interesting area of consumer software development, the people are great, the location is good and Ottawa is a great place to live.

Cons

Constantly squeezed by management to provide more profit with fewer people. No investment in employees or their development. Little rationale for who is laid off; losing too many good people and the survivors have to pick up the extra work. No raises for years.

Advice to Senior Management

Invest more in the people, and spend more time creating great products.

Pros

nice people. nice activities. open-mind CEO.

Cons

Less important product line can not get enough resource.

Advice to Senior Management

they do very good job.

Pros

great people
flexible hours
every person can make a difference
lots of opportunities to grow
good leadership
good location
never boring
always a new challenge

Cons

There is a perception of constant layoffs that leaves people uncertain of what/who is next, but the reality is there is a keen eye on financial success and stability and there are a lot of new hires.

Advice to Senior Management

Thank your lucky stars for such a dynamic and resilient workforce and reward them often for their extreme commitment and perseverance.

Pros

The people are good here.

Cons

Unknown growth plans for future

Advice to Senior Management

Develop a strategy

Pros

Very flexible schedule, not really any managemnt superwise so you have free arrangement of your own schedule.

Cons

You basically see no feature here and no engine level at office. Too many management level positions had been replaced so company seems no direction

Advice to Senior Management

This is software company and should be lead by more tech background management

Pros

Flexible work environment where the results are the most important thing and not when you do it. I often telecommuted. Note: this was in the US and I do not think that other locations have as much flexibility. The pay was very competitive and benefits ok.

Cons

Corel is HQ in Canada with offices in Taiwan, US, and China. They have had many layoffs and have moved most development to Taiwan and China. They laid-off a very experienced team in the US and moved the development to a smaller team in Taiwan with less experience and little knowledge of the code base.

Advice to Senior Management

Not all engineers are equal. A person with extensive knowledge in the product space can not be replaced with another just because they cost less.

Pros

The General Manager of my division was the reason I joined the company. He was inspiring and made you believe in this division's future.

Cons

It was challenging to deal with the changes when our CEO left for another job, and a new interim CEO joined.

Advice to Senior Management

Even though they were hired under different leadership, it would have been great if management allowed people to do what they were originally hired to do.