Deltek Reviews

Pros

Lots of talented people within Sales and Consulting, strong positive company culture out in the territories.

Cons

Too much bureaucracy, back office staff and red tape. Every deciion of any significance is escalated all the way up to the CEO. Organization is filled with useless and non-productive Back Office staff, SVPs, VPs and Senior Directors. Too many meetings filled with too many people, and too little productive and customer-facing work.

Advice to Senior Management

Get rid of half the Executive Management and Back Office staff (Finance, IT etc). Streamline processes and focus on the real talents in the organization, and the actual business.

Pros

Deltek has been a great place to work. I have been here for many years. Our products work very well for our clients and Deltek tries very hard to support them. The downside is the mid tier managers. Most of them haven't work for the industry we support, so they don't understand the culture. This is a HUGE disconnect and causes a lot of frustration internally and out.

Cons

Deltek over the years has gotten very heavy on the Sr. Management side. This could be a good thing if they understood where opportunity growth is. Unfortunately they don't. I think the top level team doesn't but the managers they rely on don't. This send conflicting messages to employees and customers.

Advice to Senior Management

Get rid of the waste and promote within. If you don't, then it should be a mandatory requirement they have worked in the industry they support. Also reward those employees who excel with better options. It will encourage better performance and loyalty to Deltek.

Pros

Good People. Goal is to evolve to a world class SW company.

Cons

The culture is in transition. There's been lots of management change in the past two years. Development is mostly in Makati.

Pros

Excellent product (Costpoint), excellent customers, lots of travel. Challenging work, plenty of learning opportunities. You can't ask for a better group of fellow workers to work with. Always willing to help. Great camaraderie.

Cons

Executive management continually taking away benefits from consultants. Limited ability for income growth. Not much time left for family after doing client & internal work. Company is top-heavy, and getting worse.

Advice to Senior Management

Please try to remember that the consultants are bringing in a LOT of revenue for the company. And they are sacrificing their family time, and personal life to make Deltek successful. When they go above and beyond their calling, they should be rewarded similarly, through recognition, monetarily, and much earned time-off, not just expecting more of the same. Management gives the impression of not caring about anything except the bottom line - particularly upper management. It seems like they have forgotten that consultants are people too. A few years back Deltek was a GREAT place to work for. No more, and it continues to slide downhill. Management shows they don't really care about the employees - just filling their pockets at the employee's & customer's expense.

Pros

When I only had to deal with my immediate team, work was great and I loved my job. I loved working with the customers, they were the reason I loved my job as well.

Cons

Deltek had a weird silo approach to its products. No one from one product actually spoke to another about their product. The only people who were educated onteh products were consultants and instructors and even that education was spotty at best.

Advice to Senior Management

The current leadership should just tell the company to get primed and ready to be sold to a larger company since it is painfully obvious that is what is happening.

Pros

The pay and benefit package is competitive as is the vacation time.

Cons

The company seems to exist to serve and enhance management. The will gladly put customers and non-management employees in the expendable trash can, to save, protect an make wealthy the companies upper management. The are pathologially protective of upper managment.

Advice to Senior Management

Define retaliation, dishonesty and corruption

Pros

Co-workers were smart, competent, and willing to help each other out.
Some flexibility in daily work schedules.
Good location for commuting.

Cons

Poor morale due to many factors, including poor management, constant fear of layoffs, and overall lack of direction.
Many of the truly good employees at this company have either left or are looking to leave.
Horrible benefits.
The products look like were created in the early 90's, no matter how "good" they are.

Advice to Senior Management

The top heaviness at this company needs to change. The product design needs an overhaul to look like something not designed for Windows for Workgroups. Some sense of stability for current employees would be nice, as well.

Pros

Deltek was once a dynamic, fun place to work. Peers collaborated and worked with each other towards the goal of complete customer satisfaction. Most of those folks have been sent packing and replaced with folks who have no background or interest in the success of the clients.

Cons

Parker's management style is designed to ensure that he and his cronies get more than their share at the expense of the customers and their requirements and the rank and file employees
The VP to employee ratio has to be approaching that of a bank - way too many chiefs and not enough workers.
They can't make a decisoin and stick with it - there is perpetual analysis paralysis.

Advice to Senior Management

To New Mountain - the Sr. Leadership team that Parker brought in has been completely turned over now and the stock still stinks. Maybe it's time to recoginze the problem is the top guy.

Pros

1. Work from home - great if you want time to think and concentrate on your work
2. They do 1999 software testing.

Cons

1. They moved back to 1991 software testing.
2. Performance evaluations are scripted or hard-coded.
3. Should be a good place but too corrupt a culture.

Advice to Senior Management

Move forward and stop holding on the past. Promote integrity of work and not make the company a one big fashion show.

Pros

Great people (individual contributors)
Open communication within the project team
Knowledge sharing
Benefits package
Comfortable working environment
Flexibility in hours and rules

Cons

Some managers are playing favorites (obvious to most employees)
Appraisal scores are maneuvered so as not to give promotion and merit increases to serious performers

Advice to Senior Management

How about a 360 degree employee appraisal so you would know how your managers are really performing? Not all managers are really doing what they're paid for. Planning, strategizing are actually done by senior ICs. Some managers are just reading reports (which they don't really understand) and getting their pay. And yes, it's them who get the credit.