Pros

Excellent benefits package; ample office space; ergonomic office furniture

Cons

Was dressed down in public for performance after having been given a last good, above average review. Very embarrassing.

Advice to Senior Management

Ensure all management is aware of, and adheres to, reasonable accommodations for disabled employees

Pros

Not many. Nice gym and decent benefits. Nice lake out there for you to walk your frustrations out around.

Cons

Supervisors treat you like you are little kid. They think they are smarter than everyone else for whatever reason. They stick you on a computer that has been someone elses before they left and it is barely suitable for a clerk to use. There is ZERO office space. Get used to sitting in one of those glass "economy space" work areas where you don't even have room to change your mind. Either that or you will share a one person sized office with another person.

There are competing technologies in the same building. So you could walk down the hall and a person won't look or say hi to you because basically you are their enemy. You are developing new product to replace the old. He is still working on the old. They are still trying to sell the old while selling the new. Creates a very tense atmosphere for productivity. And the "new" is a mix and match of OLD legacy with new technology. It takes you 20 steps and holding your mouth right to be able to bring the app up on a developer machine. Don't reboot or you need to do it all over again. Somehow it's YOUR FAULT that you can't get something so hodge podge working. There are ping pong tables in the break areas. Great now how about removing the video cameras strategically placed to seemingly ENSURE the employees aren't abusing time there. You can't use technology to manage people guys. Everyone who started when I did is now GONE. It's obvious when they went private they laid off a lot of the older talent that was working there who knew a lot. The remaining management does not have the knowledge base. GET A CLUE!

Advice to Senior Management

Forget that you all made some money when the company went private and try running a more people oriented business.

Pros

You get to work with some very bright people. You have opportunities to work on small and large teams. This allows you to grow technically. There are opportunities to grow in your responsibilities which again benefits your career in the long run. The company is becoming more employee focused that it used to me. The benefits are okay (not great, but certainly not bad). They have a very nice gym on campus.

Cons

At times overtime is too much and senior level management seemed out of touch. Seems they reap the rewards whereas the worker bees got nothing. Your responsibilities can grow but not rewarded very much. You can easily become a work-aholic.

Advice to Senior Management

Share the wealth or at least recognition.

Pros

There is never a lack of new and interesting work at Intergraph. You are given the opportunity to work with and learn from experienced and talented developers. The development process is well-structured overall, but coding standards may vary from group to group.

There seems to be a very low developer turn-over rate at Intergraph because most of the developers have worked here for 10+ years. This also has caused there to be a large age gap between senior developers and new hires because the company went a significant amount of time without hiring. This means that there will be opportunities for younger developers to work their way into senior positions as the more senior developers start to retire.

The fact that Intergraph is active all over the world and has such a low turn-over rate gives developers job security.

Cons

The company is slow to adopt new technologies in some groups because of the size of the development projects. As a result, some the larger projects have mixed-and-matched different technologies to try and keep up with current trends without re-writing legacy components. This can be quite a challenge for incoming employees, especially those that aren't familiar with older technologies.

There is a lot of talent at Intergraph and it can be hard to stand out when compared with such competent peers. The abundance of skilled workers can make the availability of higher positions scarce.

Monetary rewards for exceeding expectations are seemingly rare.

Advice to Senior Management

To be successful, we must do more than keep up with the competition; we must get in front of them. Our competitors have been more successful at embracing new technologies than Intergraph.

New technologies provide developers with the ability to be more productive. However, if the older technologies are not completely replaced the maintenance cost is increased and continues to increase as support for these technologies become unavailable. It is more expensive upfront to move everything to new technology, but 80% of development is maintenance. Costs can be significantly reduced by staying on top of the latest technologies and keeping employees' training up-to-date in using them.

Pros

Intergraph has some strong technical people that are very good to work with. It is also located in in Huntsville, AL which has a very low cost of living with a relativley high technical compensation. There are a lot of other technical companies in the area.

Cons

There was more management dysnfuction that appears to be at other companies. There have been a lot of changes recently in organization which may have contributed. I saw more confrontation than team work. It also seemed to be losing some its of technology culture and becoming less exciting.

Attempts to make the company more profitable have maybe hit morale more that it should (cutbacks in some places, hiring in others). This happens, but it probably needs to be handled better.

Advice to Senior Management

My perception was that better team dynamics are needed at the management levels and vertically (from sofware developers up to mid-level managers). Need to get employees enthusiastic.