Perceptive Software Reviews

Pros

The company is great when it comes to family. They give you time off when you need it, let you work from home when you need it. The starting vacation is outstanding, who else gives you three weeks at your one year anniversary, sure, its in advance but who cares right. Most of the people are awesome, and the atmosphere is great...most times.

Cons

Communication between depts
Too many chiefs
Pay is not competitive

Advice to Senior Management

Get it right the second time!

Pros

Fun Culture, Beneits ok, relaxed atmosphere, fun events, great product. Quality of life is good, as Perceptive allows you to handle personal events by not having to always submit for time off.

Cons

Pay not as competitive as other companies in area. Undefined career paths. 401K and benefits can be better. Outside training needed for some roles.

Advice to Senior Management

Continue fight to keep employees by more benefits, more pay. For people who travel, hotel stations are not very effective, would rather have cubicles for more privacy.

Pros

- strong executive team
- autonomy and trust to get the job done
- growh presents career opportunities
- excellent employee benefits (health, dental and vision all covered by Perceptive)
- vacation (3 weeks after one year of service)
- company supports its community

Cons

like every rapidly growing organization, Perceptive has faced a number of growth-related challenges, however, now that the growth is at a more sustainable pace, many of those problems have disappeared.

Advice to Senior Management

consistent communication with employees is key. as the organization continues to grow, effective communication from management is critical to maintaining an engaged workforce.

Pros

+ paycheck
+ health insurance
+ free pop
+ laptop
+ blackberry

Coming into it directly after college, the company has a very strong sense of community.

Cons

- communication with manager
- who you know vs what you know

After several months on the job, the honeymoon was over.

Advice to Senior Management

Get your house in order.

Pros

Lots of company-wide parties and outings.
Good for hanging out with friends.
Good for short-term work experience.
Will hire inexperienced workers.

Cons

"High School" atmosphere.
It's who you know, not what you know.
Bottom 10% in salary in most positions (anything with "Manager" in the title is paid disproportionally more than their subordinates that do the actual work.

Advice to Senior Management

Need to grow out of the small, entrepreneurial mindset and into the big, market-dominating mindset. In order to do that, Management needs to review and replace the non-decision-making decision makers. The rest will fall into place with the talented individuals doing the grunt work.

Pros

A paycheck and health benefits.

Cons

They made a lot of promises they never fulfilled, and the job environment ended up not being as advertised. If you are talented or experienced, you will not be promoted or listened to which hurts them competitively tremendously. Number one qualification: non-threatening to the cronies. They have a layer of people that have been there for years that will do anything to maintain their alpha-dog status. Upper management has no political will to get rid of or discipline the old buddy they drink with. By policy, they do not hire anyone significant or empowered from the outside. Their attempt to implement Agile development is a scripted side-show, because they are truly not open to collaboration or competition or questioning of crony ideas. As far as checking that box in the survey on whether they share information or can be trusted I checked NO.

Advice to Senior Management

As hard as it will be, gut your development management, starting from the top. Get beyond the fact these guys drink with you, golf with you and are your special buddy.

Pros

Absolutely fantastic atmosphere if you are single or want to be single. Cool perks like T-shirts and extracurricular activities sponsored by the company. Pretty much no limit to spending on corporate cards. Very cool for the young, straight-out of colleague graduate with no real responsibilities or corporate experience.

Cons

Traditional selling techniques where the buyers runs the process, therefore no real opportunity for a sales person to differentiate themselves based on experience/intelligence. True sales professionals quickly realize that they are surrounded by transactional/fax receipt sales people that couldn't survive in another organization where hunting/qualifying/closing are actually required.

The entire sales force is really an Inside Sales Position, not Account Executive, jumping when the prospect says "jump". The AEX's doing "well" are so because of the vertical they are in - their success is indirectly related to their professional sales abilities. All of the good sales professionals have left the organization. Commission plans and sales trips are commensurate with the vertical you are lucky enough to be responsible for, not your sales abilities.

Stating that Sales Management is awful is an understatement. They are not leaders, do not complement your sales efforts, and for the most part, have never sold anything complex. If an outside Big 5 accounting firm were to perform a value-added process audit, the entire layer of sales management fat would be cut.

Advice to Senior Management

Take a moment and think about what sales numbers would look like if you actually had sales professionals that were hunters/qualifiers/trusted advisers/closers in your AEX roles, as opposed to order takers.

Pros

Benefits, leadership, team meetings, doughnuts/bagels on casual fridays, company wide trips to amusement parks, free yoga lessons/weightlifing and massage therapists, takes care of employees more than any other place i've worked.

Cons

Not many cons, a few minor things that aren't even worth mentioning.

Advice to Senior Management

These Executives really know what they are doing. This company was nothing 10 years ago. Scott Coons along with Tim Helton and Cary DeCamp have taken this company to a whole nother level.

Pros

Great co-workers who are smart, friendly and hard working.

Cons

Lack of communication between departments.

Advice to Senior Management

Pay closer attention to what is being said from the field. Don't rest on your previous success and challenge your self to continue to innovate your product and take care of those who help get you there.

Pros

Very nice facility; nice side-perks (gym, beer on Fridays, bagels/soda/coffee/tea), in general, people are nice, good parties.

Cons

Middle-management is absolutely the worst I have seen, ever. And, unfortunately, this kind of clouds everything. The poor management leads to poor feedback, poor goal-setting, poor vision, poor execution. They will promote an absolute dolt who has been there five years over someone who is excellent, but only been there one year. every single time. There are some other complaints -- 401k an benefits are lacking, etc., but it is the management that overrides everything.

Advice to Senior Management

Get honest feedback from your employees (that which is not traceable) and take action, immediately. Firstly, you have too many managers, and secondly, most of the ones you have are terrible. Quit laying off subordinates. That is not the problem!