LANDesk Reviews

Pros

The people are great that work at landesk - they work hard and take pride in their work

Cons

highly political environment at the upper level of management. Bends with the wind in regards to long term strategy - unclear what vision of company should be. Leadership is conflicted and not aligned.

Advice to Senior Management

Listen to your employees more...stay the course - determine best strategy and see it through

Pros

They make it fun to work at LANDesk. The pay and benefits are very good.

Cons

There was downsizing during the tough economy.

Advice to Senior Management

Keep up the good work on focusing on the employees.

Pros

Nice, easy going atmosphere.
Competitive, or better pay than average
Pretty good benefits package
Overall, LANDesk is a great place to work. It was better years ago, when we were smaller, but with growth comes more management and red tape, but still not terrible.

Cons

One of the biggest issues with LANDesk is that there seems to be a lot of dead weight. There are many people that should probably be sent packing to increase the overall health of the company. These people range from poor performers to people who have just given up and do just "enough" to get by. There is plenty of great talent at LANDesk. It sucks to see superstars momentum slowed by those who can't keep up.

Advice to Senior Management

I'm not 100% convinced that the leadership at LANDesk is making the right decisions for the company. I will still do my best to try to accomplish the vision they have communicated, I just hope it pays off in the end.

Pros

In complete honesty and sincerity there are few good reasons to work at LANDesk. Some of the people there are nice but frankly that can only go so far in providing a desirable work place environment. There is more to wanting to work somewhere than the people.

Cons

The lack of leadership focus, direction, and quality communication make it a dreary awful place to go everyday. I would not recommend anyone seek employment at LANDesk.

Pros

M-F 8 to 5.. no weekends

Cons

no real training provided.. learn as you go

Pros

There are a number of very talented people working at landesk. Most of them are very helpful when needed. The flexible work schedule is nice. The product has potential to be great.

Cons

The code base is legacy at best. Management is too concerned about feature X and Y, so code maintenance and refactoring rarely take place. The engineering team is structured in silos. The teams rarely work together towards a common goal. There is little consistency with technologies leveraged across teams. Engineering management has continued down the path of mismanaging the work, many teams are overloaded with work while other teams are sitting idle because management has not been able to prioritize work. There have been a number of lay offs recently that has mainly affected the workers, not the multiple levels of management.

Advice to Senior Management

Take a good hard look at the management staff. The next RIF should be focused on them. Most of them have no business in management and were only promoted because they were buds with the management team. The new processes that they have been putting in place have been implemented wrong from day one. The first chapter in the book that they have been passing out lists a number of things that should be avoided. This list is a checklist for what has been implemented incorrectly at landesk. You sell software and you need to retain your talented engineers to be successful. If things continue as they are you will see your 10-15 year veteran engineers flocking to other companies (especially now that the positions are becoming available).

Pros

- good mid management
- good support from team
- people willing to share knowledge (only in your team)
- good culture in my team, not over all

Cons

- lack of features in products
- low integration among LANDesk products
- to many acquisitions from investors (3 acquisitions in 5 years)
- no strategy visible
- customer feel alienate
- lot of internal and unclear regulations --> not possible to get a bookable order form customer
- customer satisfaction very low
- give me a new earning plan, I do not agree but nobody care
- kicked long term developer and product management staff

Advice to Senior Management

Listen to the field staff, stop eliminating business by unclear regulations, stop anger customers by nonsense decisions, define a clear strategy

Pros

Generally knowlegable people in the support much more than other companies.
Good relationship between individuals.

Cons

The salary is not competitive.
Too much gap between salaries of technical support and technical consultants.
Support used to do the job of professional consultants. [We are a bg family..we are all the same..(except the salary of course)]
The technical knowledge of technical consultant is much lower that people in support.
TRAINING? It is pure sci-fiction: despite some internal training nothing to do...only the usual rethoric: "we buy they book, we give one day off, you do the exam..."
Too many acquisitions in so short time, the office location changes quite every year.
The new management (Thoma Bravo) is extremely greedy: they are trying to put the books on ''formal'' order to sell an formally good but empty box to someone else as soon as possible to make profit.

Advice to Senior Management

More intellectual honesty expecially in communication with employees
More attention to the changing technologies: we are old! we need to keep pace and have more vision.
Do not give the illusion to be politically correct killing people with stupid burocratic appraisal procedures but BE CORRECT. Act: do not only pretend.

Pros

Compensation is ok, products are good. Products are half-baked sometimes. Finance lives in fantasy world.

Cons

Management promotes people based on their own personal friendship. If they have no friends to promote, then it´s better. Religion plays a part of it sometimes.

Advice to Senior Management

Career path for employees?
Respect: you have smart people working for you, start listening.

Pros

This organization gives you the platform to develop relationships with many Software/Hardware Resellers and System Integrators across the region and the country as they are 100% Channel Drivien. The Solution Set has been the leader for 2 decades so it's not too dificult to get the attention of this channel. The employees at this orgination are all quality and have a good heads on their shoulder. Great work enviroment and great place to learn.

Cons

Too many changes. Intel spinoff, purchase by Avocent, Emerison Acquisition, now purchased by TomaBravo.

Advice to Senior Management

Dissect and study the reasons why certain geographies are consistently performing at a high level while others are struggling to keep head above water with talented teams. Cut the Sacred Cows.