Unit 4 Agresso Reviews

Pros

The people you work with are great, amongst the workers there is a sense of togetherness and willingness to help each other. Very flexible with time. Pay, benefits and vacation/STAT are very good. It is an amazing product and everyone is committed to seeing it become more.

Cons

The Management team really has a hard time making good sound business decisions in North America, it more of these over arching policies that are not backed by analysis or sound judgement.
It's sink or swim, but no different than any other solution provider out there. If your not local to Victoria Canada, then don't ever expect to be promoted into Management.

Advice to Senior Management

Focus on employees and allow the employees to focus on the customers and products. If you really want to grow the company to greater than 20 Million, learn how to make effective business decisions and allow people to execute those decisions and don't try to manage everything out of 1 office location

Pros

The product is really great - the people that I worked with were very knowledgeable and willing to spend the extra time helping to learn the product.

Cons

Absolutely no formal training plan - perhaps not even a plan at all; being sent out on site with inadequate training; no communication from supervisor - good, bad, or otherwise; no regular reviews for anyone that I was aware of; very poor bonus plan; HR was no help at all.

Advice to Senior Management

Understand that the excellence of your software will not compensate for poor people management practices. And those poor management practices are negatively impacting the success of your operation, both now and over the long-term.

Pros

-telecommuting; you can work from anywhere you get a laptop
-good client exposure; due to lack of resources and typically only 2 or 3 max on a project you get great client exposure
-opportunities to build specialized software knowledge; fairly extensive training and they're pretty good about lining people up to keep their knowledge up to date
-good experience for new graduates who want to break into consulting.

Cons

-poor and incompetent sr management
-no vision, no values
-no proper communication from mgmt. to staff
-extremely high turnover
-no clear company policies
-poor project planning and coordination
-dog eat dog world
-calibre of people hired is quite low.

Advice to Senior Management

go back to the basics of management rather than just focusing on growth. now is a good time with the downturn.