Alluma Reviews

Pros

All ideas are taken into consideration, even if they don't fit within the current state of a project.

Cons

The endless resources and understanding of career growth!

Advice to Management

Keep it up, good work!

Pros

Health Benefits and PTO and the regular perks of working just about anywhere nowadays.

Cons

Terrible management in the finance department, unorganized and chaotic. Deadlines that are unrealistic and finance tends to be months behind schedule. Too much gossip and huge egos. Work life balance is terrible.

Advice to Management

Be open more open minded to change and suggestions. Stop ripping your employees to shreds when suggestions are offered and seriously stop wasting employees work time on unnecessary gossip.

Pros

Decent benefits. Great holiday time off.

Cons

Leadership, leadership, leadership...or lack of. Incompetent managers. Incompetent employees. Dishonest executives. No freedom to do your job. It’s a do as your told environment or fear getting fired. Don’t be fooled by the “new” name, Allumna or something stupid like it.

Advice to Management

Close this sinking ship. It’s a joke.

Pros

We have products in the field that help people who need help. A lot of employees can't say that about their employer, but we can. Working on technology to help people can be a lot more satisfying than working on technology to sell widgets. The current management is trying to improve SIS. One of the ways this is evident is the direction of newer hires - many are savvy, experienced, and eager to make a difference....

Cons

What you must understand about SIS is that it is a company in a state of change out of necessity. There are many areas that need work, and not everything can change overnight. There is inertia that resists change, and not every member of the senior leadership has their eye on the correct goals. The biggest con is that product quality is frequently second to the almighty calendar. Rescheduling a big release to allow...

Advice to Management

Employees must be empowered to stand up and say "I'm sorry, this just isn't ready to release", it must be safe for them to do so, and they must be heard. Currently there are SIS employees who feel completely dis-empowered and have all but given up on caring about their job. These employees feel that they cannot make a difference and that they cannot prevent predictable negative outcomes, because management will not...

Pros

Work, which most people do not do - because the company does not have any if you do not belong to their only revenue project.

Cons

Become part of the furniture, lose your guts to move out and become incompetent like their management.

Advice to Management

Fire all of yourself, all the elt/slt - life will be much better and productive.

Pros

Smart people to work with, and some interesting work.

Cons

Very ineffective middle and senior management, resulting in low employee morale and high turnover. Most work thrown away or wasted. Upper management within the policy team have poor consensus gathering or communication of rationale. It’s a do what you are told culture. No room to really express yourself—unless you are expressing support for their ideas. Lots of unhappy employees. The vibe is very negative, gossipy,...

Advice to Management

Screening should be done to see if managers and directors have the personality/ character traits and communication skills to be an effective leader. Place emphasis on compassionate leadership. Require management training for all new managers. Managers and Directors should have some business/operations in their background so that they can actually understand, respect, and execute that function of their job.

Pros

Good pay and benefits, good mission, lots of potential

Cons

Weak middle management, still improving technology processes, absent Chief Operations and Client Sevices

Advice to Management

Continue efforts to improve operations, focus on new product, purge remaining old management

Pros

- good benefits (retirement, health insurance, etc.) - there are some really nice and passionate people - inspirational goals and mission in a unique space - love the policy influence across the organization - so much potential

Cons

This just isn't a healthy environment - differences with managers in opinion or strategy are discouraged - very hierarchical and bureaucratic for a nonprofit or tech company - lack of transparency in actions from managers or leadership - not relying on evidence-based metrics or advice for products or decisions because people are too emotionally invested in a particular path - micromanaging and lack of autonomy...

Advice to Management

It's okay to change course or reiterate if something didn't work. Listen to the concerns of lower level staff and communicate more. Middle management is more concerned about how they are perceived rather than how they treat others or the rigor of the work.