Openlane, Inc Reviews

Pros

Great CEO and principals behind the company.
Company cares about it's employees
Great environment all around
Great People who help each other
Great Benefits

Cons

Management in the department need better management skills
Communication in some departments is weak
Salaries could be higher to meet equivilant jobs in the market
No room for advancement

Advice to Senior Management

Senior management is great, CEO is doing a great job!
Management within some departments requires improvement
All around it is a good place to work.

Pros

Some fun people to work with.

Environment can be fun at times.

Some opportunities to make good money.

Good benefits.

Plenty of time off.

Cons

Like any other sales job if you do too well, your goals will spike and you won't make any money the next month.

New corporate merger is scary and most people have no idea what is going to happen or if they will have a job in the future.

Management seems to enjoy using fear to inspire harder work.

Advice to Senior Management

Tell us what's going on. Sure, you might lose some people, but those that stay won't waste half their day stressing over what all the closed door meetings are about. And I know you know this, but make the sales goals realistic.

Pros

some flexibility with time, but no regard for deadlines

Cons

laxadasicsal, leading to some tough driving of deadlines

Advice to Senior Management

listen to your people - be open and honest with them!

Pros

great co-workers and good benifits

Cons

management set in there ways of doing things-used to be more up beat

Advice to Senior Management

listen to the emplyees in the trenches

Pros

Definitely money. They are not high tech company, not having interesting product, work is pretty much reduced to mundane tasks month after month... so to keep people there, they pay well in engineering department.

Cons

There are no managers in eng department. Just technical leads and directors. Probably good way to save money for the company, however for employees it is not so great. Director never has enough time to do reviews well, does not provide guidance or satisfactory problem resolution if such arises inside a team.
Also in order to be considered valuable to the company one has to conform to all decisions of upper management even if they are bad. There is no space for creativity and invention, changes are not well seen.

Advice to Senior Management

Be more down to earth, talk to people who work for you, pay attention to details when doing reorg/layoffs.