Employee Review
- Current Employee, more than 3 years★★★★★
Horrifying company!
Apr 24, 2016 - ManagerRecommendCEO ApprovalBusiness OutlookPros
- Office location is great and they are opening a brand new office soon. - Fantastic product - Benefits are average to on par with simular compeanies - Pay is good
Cons
- Senior leadership is absolutely insane. - The founder, Alex Fernades thinks the insanely high turnover rate is normal. Its not normal. There is no rhyme or reason to who is fired on any given day, week, or month. The most turnover I've ever seen. - Alex has a very closed door policy. No one ever sees him walk the halls. He is not social and does not care about his employees. At our town hall meeting he gave a speach about how if you are not a good fit for the company you should leave. And that people that don't fit the culture (what ever that is) and stayed would proably be terminated. - Management is concerned about negative glass door reviews. Rather than listen to the feedback and/or try to make any adjustments their solution was to try to pad the comments in Glassdoor by telling employees they need to go post positive reviews. - The founder started and sold a a much smaller company before Avigilon. He thinks this makes him a highly qualified CEO, but he is not. He is trying to run this $350 million dollar company the way he ran his small company and is failing miserably by micro-managing every aspect of the business and not trusting the people he hires. He still approves almost every new hire position, including managers and specialists. - Management will lie to employees about Glassdoor reviews "that was the old leadership and its changed", "those reviews are mostly from sales people that were let go from the company for cause", "this is a great place to work, those reviews don't represent what we're really like", etc. - When interviewing make sure to ask how long each person has been with the company. Avigilon is nearly 10 years old. The majority of employees have worked there for 0 - 3 yrs. The average is probably about 1yr. It's very hard to find anyone that has been there for 5 or more years. No, not every company has a long list of 10yr employees, but the lack of tenure at avigilon is staggering. - I've been here too long. I want out! I wish I knew about Glassdoor when I started.
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Other Employee Reviews
- Current Employee, more than 5 years★★★★★
Friendly place with great technology
Feb 11, 2023 - Senior Software Engineer in Somerville, MARecommendCEO ApprovalBusiness OutlookPros
Friendly people, many highly skilled and knowledgeable people to work with. Lots of opportunity for advancement
Cons
There is tension about going back to the office vs working from home.
- Former Employee★★★★★
Pros
Compensation, Stock Program, Technology and Solutions, Name Recognition and Presence
Cons
Politics, M&A Challenges, Supply Chain, Mid-Level Management