QAD Reviews

Pros

flexibility in working environment
great management support
open opportunity for career advance
free to choose the technical with in the team's project scope

Cons

sometimes the process is not well designed

Pros

Location - The office is right by the ocean so have a great view from office. Good team members. Ok benefits. Flexible work schedule.

Cons

Pay sucks. No growth opportunities. No clue on how to play in the market space. Mgmt constantly comparing salary with county payscale while forgetting that county employees have great benefits package.

Advice to Senior Management

Promote talent and look at keeping up with the industry on technology. Only cliques should not be working on next generation there are other talented people working at the company.

Pros

Product has been improving
Benefits, salary ok
Global software solution has a lot of potential
Great customer base
Many long term employees really know their stuff
Stability

Cons

Bean counters run amok, administrators stifling organization
Software company needs to be developing more technologists
HR ineffective - loves putting people in boxes
Not developing younger people, no mentoring programs
Middle management revolving door full of YES men mostly lacking in talent
Business unit managers with no ability only watch numbers
No concept of team building

Advice to Senior Management

Break down beauracracy, make things easier
Find dynamic managers and empower them
Push decision making down the organization
Focus more on team building, small tight teams, excellently managed
Try to understand services more - it's a longterm relationship with a customer

Pros

Good Work Environment
Take Care of their People
Feels very familial

Cons

Isn't cut throat enough to truly take on SAP
Dependent on aging technologies

Pros

If you work out of Santa Barbara, the HQ is beautiful.
Global Organization with great colleagues. People seems willing to help, but not to go the extra yard.
The majority of the employee base really wants to help the company to be successful

Cons

The best accounts are assigned to those that are part of the clique, which is the group of employees who Karl Lopker (CEO) likes. QAD's customer base is shrinking, and its efforts to grow its SaaS/On-Demand business are half-hearted. QAD's existing customer base is being eaten alive by SAP and ORCL. Senior executives and department heads "manage" by reacting to CEO's spur-of-the-moment and frequently unrealistic demands.

Advice to Senior Management

Put more effort into signing on net-new accounts. It would be best if Karl Lopker removed himself from micromanaging and focused on a CEO agenda.

Pros

Competing with other software companies means they know of QAD, even if it isn't a threat. This exposure and being able to get the required experience in the industry (five years) isn't as pressured as in a bigger, more competitive company. Do you "apprenticeship" here, then leverage that to move on.

Cons

Very little opportunity to move within the company, especially if you're good at your job. Personal growth or a career is unplanned for. If you want to grow from a starting position through to management this is not the company for you.

Advice to Senior Management

Use the talent internally and trust the people you have. If you hire somene, they stay and your happy with their performance grow them. Hire people with growth potential and develop them.

Pros

QAD provided a great working environment. The location is beautiful, with free breakfast and lunches. They appear to care about employee satisfaction and work on a system of merit where they attempt to keep good employees and get rid of poor performers. They provide management training across the organisation (even to non-managers) which has a positive impact on management style and encourages mentoring.

Cons

Because of the poor economy and their willingness to downsize when necessary, there does appear to be a lot of turnover which is sometimes refreshing but at other times depressing.

Pros

Very flexible, challenging but not demanding, direct management was great to work for, easy to communicate with management, and I loved wearing jeans to work. Many employees who leave QAD often reapply and come back, and I can see why. There aren't very many companies offering the benefits and flexibility that QAD does.

Cons

Although management is very supportive in employee growth and learning, there are very few promotion opportunities. Most opportunities are lateral.

Pros

Work place is casual and laid back, management macro manage over micro manage, allow you to work on your own to meet deadlines.

Cons

Lack of communication between departments. Lack of oversight and governance of standards.

Advice to Senior Management

Laid back California style is nice, but mix in some good old fasion accountibility and things will thrive. If you don't give someone something to strive for, if you don't give them a vision then they won't know what the future is.

Pros

Visit HQ!
Great colleagues\peers
Defined product roadmap\good products
Global presence

Cons

Selective salary cuts and downsizing do happen in bad economy
GE review methodology ranks 20\70\10 regardless of real performance
High levels of management may get involved in low levels of operations

Advice to Senior Management

I worked with good middle managers; support them without being too involved.