Novell Reviews

Current Employee – been working at Novell full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Upper level management is down to earth.

Cons – New products are in infant stage

Advice to Senior Management – View every position as revenue generating.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at Novell full-time for more than 8 years

Pros – Great coworkers, and beautiful campus.

Cons – Tough market position, and questionable leadership.

Advice to Senior Management – Run it like a business.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Novell full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – Great technologies. Great managers and leaders.
Great people to work with.

Cons – Mobility and growth problematic. Business model bad - can't make money when you're product is free. And even with superior technology, if you can't market it.....toast.

Advice to Senior Management – new marketing. new pricing.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at Novell full-time

Pros – -Has a long history
-Attachmate Group has been a good thing for the company in making changes for the better, but it will take time
-Working on new product innovation (finally vs. OEMing someone else's product)
-Many fantastic and solid products that can compete with the best ones (need to get past - history & name concerns)

Cons – -Has a long history...many companies view technology as old, outdated, or not relevant.
-Corporate marketplace reluctant to re-consider great products simply due to name
-History of failing to execute - from new product innovation/delivery to marketing
-Not sure if Attachmate Group is 3 years too late in this turn around (I hope it turns around, but still has a ways to go)
-Benefits are worse under Attachmate, their plan is not as generous (medical/dental)
-Raises. It's rare to get a raise. (company has been shrinking, so promotions are few and far between)

Advice to Senior Management – Put in place - NEW - marketing and engineering leaders from outside the whole company (never worked at the company type vs ex-employee returning). Need a fresh perspective and let them execute on a plan without too many restrictions.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Novell full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – - Good salary
- Good benefits

Cons – - Not growing that rapidly

Advice to Senior Management – - Innovation should be the focus

Former Employee – worked at Novell full-time for more than 10 years

Pros – Lots of great employees.
Good work/life balance.

Cons – Not great prospects for the future.
Annual layoffs not great for employee morale.

Former Employee – worked at Novell full-time for more than a year

Pros – free food is a pluss

Cons – novell is a dying company

Current Employee – been working at Novell for more than 7 years

Pros – Stable, great benefits, nice building

Cons – Work life balance, no raises

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Novell

Pros – Good work environment great people

Cons – Long hours and don't get over time for working

Advice to Senior Management – Over time

Former Employee – worked at Novell full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – Recently acquired in 2011 that allows Novell to be competitive in industry. Parent company Attachmate is commited to success

Cons – Rebuilding image; informing high tech industry that Novell is still a great company with opportunity and can be a player in the software space

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company