Good Technology Reviews

Pros – even though we have been around for over a decade, working here has a startup mentaility

Cons – you cannot hide under your desk and expect things to get done for you

Advice to Senior Management – keep doing what you are doing, it is working

Pros – Lots of opportunity to grow, niche product for key verticals

Cons – Everyone in the department is on a different comp plan, different base salaries etc so some have to work harder than others to make more OTE

Advice to Senior Management – We need to deliver what we promise product wise and go public!

Pros – Management seems to really care about employees, has many great programs for educating and informing staff. Worked with many professional, smart people there. Great potential.

Cons – Company direction seemed to shift often and too much power is in the hands of the Product Managers and Sales--my experience was that they did not want the best product, only what would earn them the next client. Agile process gets in the way by creating a 'put your head down and work to finish the sprint' mentality.

Advice to Senior Management – A new CEO may help- the last one, King, was phenomenal about turning the company around, now they need to see what they want to be 'when they grow up'. Their core product is aging and the new ones have been acquired, so will see if they live up to the task.

Pros – Business and positioning seems to be strong

Cons – Culture seems to be a mish-mash of big old corporate enterprise and startups

Pros – Great engineering organization.
Opportunity to be the leader in secure enterprise mobility platforms.
Pre-IPO, lots of potential upside.

Cons – Too many managers and convoluted business processes.

Advice to Senior Management – Achieve alignment among yourselves. Your lack of alignment spills out into the company which leads to confusion amongst the rank and file and a lack of clear direction. Less talk and more action.

Pros – Nice cushy job. Close to home. Employees are smart and great to work with.

Cons – Not many challenges or growth opportunities. Company was in disarray, acquired by Motorola, then spun off to Visto. Visto CEO, Brian Bogosian, was a joke. Only he was allowed to bring his dog to work. But he's gone now. The company seemed very interested in deriving revenue from IP litigation.

Advice to Senior Management – Figure out a clear roadmap.

Pros – flexible, team is like a family, C-level are open. High salary, let me refer you to my company, and let me earn the referral bonus.

Cons – Its all about collaborative culture.

Advice to Senior Management – Reward should goes to the whole team in a collaborative culture.

Pros – Very exciting with lots of opportunity

Cons – A lot to do the more successful we are

Advice to Senior Management – Keep on doing what your doing

Pros – The people are nice and look like they actually want to be at work. It's a fast growing company piggybacking on the explosion of the mobile device space (iPhones, iPad, Android cell phones and tablets). The culture is a collaborative environment. You will have a chance to make a difference everyday.

Cons – Since Good is a "startup" it does have some growing pains. Processes are still being set up in order to scale up appropriately. There are lots of new people being hired, so there's a lot of learning on the job. But the people hired are generally very experienced in their particular field, so they are expected to ramp up quickly. Since it is growing so fast, people wear several different hats and there often aren't others to delegate work to.

Advice to Senior Management – King is doing a great job turning around the company and hiring capable people to carry out the mission and company goals. Keep the vision and transparency going. Watch out that there aren't too many managers compared to worker bees. Strategy still needs to be implemented, so tacticians need to be hired as well. Balance will be key in this growing and evolving market.

Pros – Free food in the kitchen
At least three separate coffee machines
Easy freeway access
Large enterprise customer base
Swanky looking office
VPN access

Cons – High attrition rate
Information hoarding
Highly political power struggles over minor issues
Exodus of original talent
High reliance on outsourcing

Advice to Senior Management – Do not retain the deadweight nor let them huddle together at the top any longer. Stop laying off the people that are most knowledgable in favor of politics. Good is an intellectual wasteland.