Very cool but needs some help - Solutions Manager Ippon Employee Review

2.0
Mar 21, 2018
Recommend
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Pros

Amazing Engineering Talent Culture was Crazy Good Great HR and Tech Managers Leadership in Technology and Innovation (jhipster for example) Engineers that have great minds for client solutions

Cons

Lack of Leadership from Top Too many departures in engineering (gathered by linkedIn, public knowledge) Low in Marketing Outreach Sales People seem to not last long, average departure one year (gathered by LinkedIn, public knowledge) Scalability or Growth

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Ippon Response
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Thank you for your review. As a global organization, we are always striving to improve. Whether it be our local or global leadership, or our offices in USA, France and Australia. As you were a former employee in one of our offices in the USA, there is some confusion as your review seems to focus on a more global scale. Maturity of each Country’s offices differ at Ippon Technologies. France began in 2002, Ippon USA opened our first office in 2014, and Ippon Australia opened in 2016. As you can imagine, each country is at a different level of maturity. However, we are all driving toward the same goal. To be the best at what we do, and offer to our clients. In regard to the specific issues you list relating to employee turnover, we are actually well below industry averages for employee turnover here at Ippon USA. We have a high retention rate for employees ranging from Engineers to Staff. Business Development at Ippon USA is a highly visible and highly regarded position. We view our Business Development team as leaders in the organization and the industry. This includes being authentic and helping our clients with their business and technology problems.

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Cons

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3.0
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Pros

Pros - The people who are still there are talented and good to work with — what's left of them. - The original culture and attitude made it sound like a great place to work

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Cons - Culture is dead. - 4–5 rounds of layoffs in 3 years at a company this small, accompanied by a steady exodus of strong engineers. That trend is the clearest signal you can get about the state of leadership. - Leadership has stopped pretending to care about employees. There's no camaraderie left and no real effort to build any. - They'll drop you in a heartbeat. - Pay is below market and there have been no real raises or bonus payouts in years. You're expected to absorb the risk of working at a small company without any of the upside. - You'll constantly be told to "overdeliver" while being told to do 10 other things outside of client work.

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