Nuance Reviews in Boston, MA Area

Pros

Relaxed atmosphere
Very casual dress
Good benefits

Cons

Difficult to organize your personal space.

Advice to Senior Management

Listen more to those that sit front line on issues.

Pros

Powerful company that demands excellence, and therefore results in personal and professional growth.

Cons

Huge company; can be somewhat rutheless in business endeavors.

Pros

Good benefits. Most peers very cooperative and great to work with. Interdepartmental cooperation was generally good.

Cons

Too much management interest in tracking the work and squeezing the employees, too little management energy focused on facilitating. People tend to keep their heads down and not make waves to avoid the wrath of management. Because of the tendency to manage by intimidation, the culture is so focused on work that people tend to seem anti-social and, as a result, it takes a while to feel like a member of the team.

Advice to Senior Management

You need to help management be more positive in general and more appreciative of their best employees. Morale always seemed poor.

Pros

Popcorn, Soda, flexibility in hours and humorous material provided by all levels of management. This will benefit my next career as a standup comic.

As a stock-holder, thumbs up. As an employee, read on ...

Cons

Right out of the gate, it’s all about the "flare". The company and management teams focus solely on making the product look good but not necessarily perform well. Management will cross any boundaries to ensure that Marketing deadlines are adhered to, including asking people to spin their wheels for the sake of spinning their wheels.

Executives and Board are focused solely on the short term stock prices, regardless of what they say. Almost any dip in quarterly numbers in the past 4-5 years, has been quickly followed up with a reduction in force.

Most middle managers are only focused on managing products and not people and offer very little communication because they really have nothing to communicate in regards to career or team building.

This is not a place for the weak-hearted. If its just a stop-over to the next opportunity then probably worth the pain.

Advice to Senior Management

Keep in mind that there are many many smart, hardworking worker-bees in this company that will be leaving shortly. If career advancement is only available at the top levels, your workers will seek career advancement elsewhere.

If you really believe its just a few sour grapes, try opening your door and walking the floors for a while.

Pros

They pay very well for the work I was recruited for. Full time employees recieve great benefits.

Cons

Not a lot of leadership or knowledge from upper management. Seems that everyone that works there avoids confronting work situations/problems when they arise. Ownership of problems are almost always passed on the next employee in line.

Pros

Great products and market niche
Wonderfully talented people
Brand recognition getting better

Cons

Complete micro-management by incompetent senior management
Nuance Board of Directors - they haven't intervened
Recognition is based on who you know not what you know
A lot of resources given to lavish parties but not for training, careers and business growth

Advice to Senior Management

Advice to Board of Directors is to wake up and do something - you owe it to the shareholders of this company

Pros

Great technical staff. Flexible about working from home. Some ability to travel for projects. Interesting technologies. Not much else that's positive that I can say.

Cons

Upper management shows great disdain for employee morale, training, and work-life balance. Projects are often run as death marches and are oversold on technical capabilities. Upper management has no concern at all for employees. Communication on major issues, such as layoffs, salary freezes, lack of bonuses, restructuring, etc are handled extremely incompetently and usually the worst way possible. Upper management is extremely aloof and cold to employees. HR is generally incompetent.

Advice to Senior Management

Understand that the actions you take to further enrich yourselves impact the regular employees. Look beyond your wallets.

Pros

Ability to progress over three summers. I was given the opportunity to take on greater responsibility and leadership roles as I continued to work with the company.

Cons

Nuance seems to promote from outside the company rather than reward insiders just from what I had seen but not in my personal experience as an intern.

Advice to Senior Management

Consider creating internship positions outside of Compliance to serve as a basis to train future graduates to become future employees in the finance organization, especially in such a dynamic and acquisitive environment.

Pros

Work Life Balance is accomadated

Cons

Maximum amt of work with minimal staff

Advice to Senior Management

Communication at all levels are ideal

Pros

Great opportunity and team environment. Relly enjoy working there.

Cons

You do have to work hard and for some people that could be a con.

Advice to Senior Management

Keep going!