Verint Systems Reviews

Pros

great product , great people outside middle and senior management

Cons

Management is weak and short termist , linearity is the mantra but never achieved due to robbing future financial quarters with Excessive discounting, this leads t reduced margin and a shortfall against budget

Advice to Senior Management

learn to communicate to your people and stop hiding....

Pros

Flexibility. Strong product range. Industry leader.

Cons

Low pay. No real concern for employees.

Pros

relaxed work env
some people are good

Cons

no growth
no visibility
selected few are growing

Pros

Small Company, good impact
Some nice people
husband and wife ran it, were not above board about it

Cons

Product was unproven, did not work in all the places it were suppose to
Management did not know what they were doing

Advice to Senior Management

Let experienced management come in and take over. Base your sales on what works today, not on what you think you can build

Pros

The company is at the first line of hi-tech in Israel, with very interesting products and a good name in the market for your CV.

Cons

The company is still not acting as a mature company. There is quite a bit of infrastructure to install and base activities on. In addition, life - work balance is too much edged for work on the expense of personal life.

Advice to Senior Management

Get consulting companies to recommend which steps the company should take in order to mature properly. Apply employees engagement surveys and make sure that management in all levels is treating employees properly - not only when dependant on their productivity but also when they are not necessarily 100% productive. People experience bad times in life, and the company should support them, thus gaining their improved engagement.

Pros

Good benefits package offered
Smart people for the most part
Very compelling and timely portfolio of solutions to offer the market

Cons

People work constantly. One o'clock any given morning and many colleagues also on email , very little time for any work life balance.
Management keeps things very close to the vest, even though one of the core values is supposedly transparency it's not a transparent environment.
They think it's not political but it is.

Advice to Senior Management

Connect with employees more. The CEO doesn't bother talking much to employees. Many secrets are kept to a select group of managers with no regard for impact on employees.

Pros

Some good people to work with
Interesting and important work
good location

Cons

No increases, management partial to friends, not accomplishments. No one wants to take a decisive stand on behalf of a customer

Advice to Senior Management

Get rid of the sacred cows who are discouraging the majority of your employees and causing good folks to leave

Pros

2 words say it all... technologies and the talented engineering staffs. These are the only 2 things that drive the success of the company.

Cons

Unless you are friends, relatives, or of Israeli descents with upper management, the chance of any career growth is zero to none. Upper management (especially the SVP) do not care about individual career growth; even though they constantly promote work+life balance (kind of ironic).
When there is problems, instead of trying to analyze what is wrong with the process, some poor engineering soul(s) are blamed. There is just too many finger pointing.

Pay-wise is also the same; unless your are friends, relatives or of Israeli descents with upper management, your annual merit increase is simply a joke. "Others" will get generous merit increase as well as promotions.

Advice to Senior Management

Advice to CEO: get rid of those incompetent management folks (especially the SVP and directors that are doing nothing) in the company. They are the reason talents leave the company.

Pros

the company is solid and is performing well quarter over quarter. For the most part, the people that work here are good and the products that are being sold are top quality.

Cons

There is no real career path here. You can be stuck doing the same thing for years and years, and because the pay is good, you will stay, but you will hate yourself for it.

Advice to Senior Management

The top management (CEO, CFO, etc.) is good. You cannot deny the success that they company has had since its spin off. However, when you get to the second tier, it is a bit of a mess and there is no real leadership. A restructuring of the senior management may help. There should also be clear communication as to the role of each senior manager.

Pros

Flexible, good benefits. There are no good reasons to work there except it provides somewhat a stable job with a good salary.

Cons

No career plan, very very old technology, bad code base, no room for professional growth, bad management, a very unproductive development environment including the source control, no real strategy for retaining good people. This place is a career killer in the long run.

Advice to Senior Management

Change the "we pay you so stop complaining and do your job" attitude. Come up with a clear and well planned career plan for employees. Find a good "answer" to the "how to retain talent" bullet point that you always show and get questions about on your quarterly meeting presentation slides, other than the lame response "we are cleaning up our processes". Not many people care about how you are working to make "expense reporting" easier, and trust me, nobody will prefer to work there because your corporate processes are easier. And stop using Google or Facebook as scapegoats for your incompetence for not being able to attract good developers and start doing some soul searching - using them as an excuse is truly pathetic.