Versata Reviews

Pros

Feedback on work either ways
tremendous growth opportunities
multitude of roles that an individual can play right from customer facing/requirement gathering to post deployment support

Cons

Limited growth of technical expertise given the changes off late.

Pros

You will get a chance to work with best people. It used to be fun place to work for but now no longer. Most of the times you get larger than life roles even when you join just out of college. In India Versata has no brand name and they hire people on Trilogy payroll.

Cons

This company sucks big time - they hire best minds in India from IIT,BITS,NITs then ask them to do junk work like writing RFP's , dealing outsourcing , training vendors etc.

Senior management doesn't care about employees at all - they suck big time - they talk a lot of about innovation , customer success but everything at implementation level sucks very badly.

Advice to Senior Management

Don't be autocrats and dictators - don't preach people like "it is Joe company - he will do whatever he want - communicate the rationality behind organizational changes"- respect your employees and communicate all management decisions properly , never play dark horse games - don't create choa's and havocs in organization.

Pros

Young company, fun group of people. Interesting roadmap.

Cons

Not a pay for performance place. Old boys club. Product has evolved but still very esoteric. What does Versata do? Compensation wasn't very good. Lots of worthless stock options were granted during the .bomb. Employee morale in the toilet. Recognition only provided to top brass. Employee feedback non-existent. Work/life balance was out of whack. Respect for the little people/worker bees was little to none. Fairness wasn't always observed. Benefits got worse over time due to poor health care planning.

Advice to Senior Management

Hire some people with good experience, not just people you like. Implement a pay for performance policy for your people.