innoPath Reviews

Current Employee – been working at innoPath

Pros – Very interesting mobile space company with a lot of potentials. It is the right place that you want to move into mobile space and learn all kinds of mobile technologies. I read a lot of reviews about how bad it is the management team. Actually it is not that, most of time those legacy managers don't want you work on issues. They just want to finger pointing each other. Now all bad guys are gone.

Cons – Startup company, pay is not high as big company like Google, Yahoo. Sometimes you have to dive into all kinds of details by yourself, you know. :-)

Advice to Senior Management – Senior management did a great job that reduced the cost, use limited resource to complete very big task.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at innoPath

Pros – Seasoned startup with good financial standing: the flexibility and opportunity for significant contribution to the company's success with a moderate amount of risk.

As with many companies: the people are what make the company. In general, I enjoy working with the folks here who play relatively well together. For the most part I've been fortunate to work in a very cooperative group where ego takes second place to delivering product.

Cons – There seems to be a lot of office politics for a company of its size along with the usual finger pointing and back stabbing when things don't go right. The most frustrating thing is the lack of overall business communications: I understand that my role as a developer is to focus on coding and delivering product but it's nice to see at least some of the business and strategic rationale used when making some of the bigger company decisions...especially when it relates to product roadmap, demos and the like.

Advice to Senior Management – Standards stuff: communication, communication, communication. Often times decisions are made without much information leaving the rank and file to guess the reasoning. Give folks some credit: people understand hard decisions are often made for business reasons. We are not sheep.

Current Employee – been working at innoPath

Pros – InnoPath has solid technology in a field that will be growing. Furthermore, their technology, Mobile Device Management, is a technology used to manage/reduce support costs for wireless carriers. The economy is tanking right now, so things like OPEX cost reductions etc are a higher priority than ever.

Cons – Expectations are high, it is a startup environment after all. If you like startups and are highly motivated, confident and competant and don't need everything presented to you on a silver platter then you will likely find it a good place. If you need Cisco/Sun/HP style coddling and mothering then you should probably find a job at a big company.

Advice to Senior Management – Continue to focus on the opportunities that the company is targeting now.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at innoPath

Pros – InnoPath had signficant potential in the mobile space. It has a relatively strong presence on the carrier side as well as the handset side. It also has reasonable IP & dedicated employees. It has potential which it needs to exploit.

Cons – The company is driven from the top by the CEO. He is a complete micro-manager, even though he claims that he wants to let go. Additionally, he has a temper which has manifested itself on many occasions. The exec staff is not cohesive & tends to be disfunctional as a result. Because the fear that the CEO instills in the organization, his VPs are unwilling to stand up to do the correct thing for the business. The CEO also believes that he is a subject matter expert in all areas - engineering, marketing, HR, sales, and operations. He has overrriden his organization multiple times with little information; this has sometimes had disastrous results.

The exec staff, particularly the CTO, is quite political. The CEO allows this type of behavior and on occasion fosters it.

ICs tend to be demoralized because of years of promises of doing an IPO. Fostering this have been promises of salary increases but most people have not seen an increase in 3+ years.

Advice to Senior Management – To the BOD:
- Do an intensive review of the business plan.
- Review the senior mgmt team for their ability to lead their departments, focusing on measurable metrics and bench strength
- Review the financials of the company.

To the CEO:
- Let go: empower your team.
- Get an exec staff that knows its stuff, can work together, and is apolitical
- Stop managing through intimidation and fear.
- Show some humility

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at innoPath

Pros – I guess if you need a job really bad, and you can tollerate an extremely hostile working environment where you will struggle for every shred of information just to do your job, it would pass for that. Even then, it will have a very limited shelf life for all but the most sadistic of employees.

Cons – CEO hires cronies.
Hostile working environment.
Transfer of business knowlege (peer to peer learning) is non existent.
Lack of leadership at the top.
No recognition for the hard work and effort you put in.
The worst office politics I've encountered in Silicon Valley.
QA department being driven into the ground.
Over-confident, arrogant Developers (not all of them of course) that seem to be driving the ship.
No support from direct management.

Advice to Senior Management – Senior management is the problem in my view, so I wouldn't give any advice to them. This company needs an overhaul of Sr. leadership all the way to the CEO.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at innoPath

Pros – At best it is a job. Actually I was able to develop some professional friendships with the workers. Their parties were ok!
There are some really talented and wonderful people working at Innopath, just none in the management chain.

Cons – 1) Management needs to remove their heads from... you know the rest
2) Lack of vision and technical expertise in the CTO office
3) Politics, for such a ridiculously small company, the politics are completely out of control
4) Micro Management is their only focus
5) Top brass' only concern is lining their own pockets
6) Hurry up and rush offense with no plan on where to go
7) Constant firefights, usually the same fire as the day before
8) Integrity is something not spoken here (within management)
9) Two faced lies to their employees and customers
10) Churn and burn, this is a meat grinder

I would give John Fazio and his Senior Management Team a -5 if it was on the bingo score.

Advice to Senior Management – Grow up, take responsibility. Your BS really stinks and does not fool anybody.
Do the right thing and resign! The board will thank you as will your customers.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at innoPath

Pros – Interesting application domain, a lot of new stuff and challenges, plenty of new technologies. There are opportunities to work on smart algorithms like compression, device management protocols or use J2EE skills to be part of the server development team. It seems InnoPath could expand its management software to control extended set of mobile devices beyond wireless phones .

Cons – Not clear roadmap, ambiguous organization structure, significant turn over. The domain area still needs to be recognized by carriers and enterprises. Do not expect exponential revenue growth in near future.

Advice to Senior Management – Better execution planning, inter division communications, attention to right folks hired especially for management positions, better global management.

Current Employee – been working at innoPath

Pros – Innopath is in a unique mobile space. Although there are competitors, Innopath competes well in terms of product offerings.

Cons – The company has not innovated new technology in a while. Innopath is catching up to competitors like compression algorithm. Carriers are already offering features that Innopath is just developing (the company is a bit behind the times in the product ideas and roadmap). There is no sales strategy to grow the business. When was the last new customer?

Advice to Senior Management – The highest management, for example, the CTO and VPs do not work well with each other. The CEO allows this to happen thereby creating high employee dissatisfaction and high turnover. How come the CTO is managing IT and not leading technology innovation? Teams do not work well because top ranks lack leadership and spend too much time finger pointing and pleasing the CEO.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at innoPath

Pros – Capable, hard working colleagues below senior management level.

Cons – No respect for employees and for hard work and dedication over long tenure; overiding policy is "Management is always right"! No recognition for work done excellently (despite hostile environment), but constant tendency to "shoot the messenger" and find scapegoats.

Advice to Senior Management – Employ capable senior managers who can deliver!!

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at innoPath

Pros – Nice industry to be in, wireless will take over so this company may catch the LAST wave.

Cons – Im reading everyones comments about dinners at the company and they think its great but its the way they wants you to stay and work 14+ hours a day.

Company has lots of internal issues, hires people that only the VPs like, CTO doesn't care about the product let alone understand it, 90% of your day is spent on politics and kissing bu*t to your manager. Turnover is like 80% and all the new hires come from one company.

Departments don't talk with each other and each manager sucks up to the CEO. After completing a major release your manager may buy you pizza for working the last 24 hours and then gives you an unreasonable time to finish your next project. Final QA on the product is poor. Automation and jobs being outsourced.

Advice to Senior Management – Management is beyond help. Stay away and get real.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend