Open Solutions Reviews

Pros

Challenging, remote employee, flexible, great customer base

Cons

There are a lot of information gaps due to company restructuring which was a result of the banking bust.

Pros

Close to home but far from reality

Cons

Never let you move up in poitions and no pay raises No movemment within company

Pros

There are very likely worse places to work. Truly, it isn't such a bad place to work...it just isn't a good place.

Cons

CEO has no clue about our business or how it is run, though he seems to be good at acquiring companies and then mismanaging their content. The company is only interested in making decisions that will lead to the greatest profit TODAY. There is no interest in making decisions that would make more money in the long run (anything longer than 1 week!). In my department (Implementations) the staff is horribly overworked, and continually looked upon as the cause of all problems with customers, despite the fact that customer reviews continually note how overworked our group is, and how consistently poor the software is.

Pros

If you want to work long hours and be screamed at to boot by people who have no idea on how to run a company this is the place to go. Lower level workers for the most part are nice and bust their humps trying to make things right but for the most part they are being abused by type a+ mean personalities in upper levels.

Cons

Management is totally and I mean totally incompetent. 80+ work hour weeks are the norm in the financial area. Forget about getting any type of positive feedback on any work you've done. It's all negative feedback and it's all about the blame game. For a software company it's almost comical how bad their internal systems really are. The bus is always being warmed up at this company just in case some one needs to be tossed under it.

Pros

You have direct input to make change. It has all the potential to become an industry leader if the senior team focuses on thier core deliverables. Managers are flexible with hours. There is investement in technology.

Cons

The products clearly show the company's lack of investment into quailty and care. Upper management ignores the few quality products it has acquired. It is either a false or delusional belief that what they have is great however, sales speak for themselves. Make a good product and it sells itself, everyone but the senior team seems to understand this. Layoffs occur while we are being told ther company is doing great and we have the best in the industry which leads to a very poor corporate culture. Senior team is a good ol boys club many hired from the same company.

Pros

It used to be a fun place to work. Most of the people are great people to work with. We used to have a great Product. The great Product and most of the people that made that product great (Development) have been let go.

Cons

Most of the non-management works are great people. Some of the Managers are good people and some SHOULD NOT be in the position they are in. We have many layers of management that is not needed. They do not share info with the employees and always tell us how we are doing so well. Yet we are closing office everywhere, if that is how we are doing OK . Who ever is feeding into that is clearly delusional. Our cleints are not stupid and can read between the lines why can Management!

Pros

Core is a great product with ongoing creativity for development, albeit limited. CEO is advocate for clients. Employees are the best of breed and really great people. It used to be a great place to work with a family atmosphere.

Cons

Other products purchased through the years are not developed. Financials are questionable, service and product development stripped down to just get by. Consistent reductions for many years, ongoing. Employees don't feel secure about their future are are overworked. Unless you are "in" no opportunities. Regardless of delivery or years of dedication, you are "let go" without trying to find another area where your expertise could be used. Worked long and hard hours, including nights and weekends. Road Warrior is putting it mildly. No contribution to 401k. Needs to be purchased by someone who cares in order to go to next level.

Pros

Open Solutions has some of the highest caliber people I have ever worked with. We experienced exponential growth over the past 6 years and had to make some changes that have been hard on our clients. It also created a workload that cause some good people to fall out. We now have a president with an operational/service background and he has put quality people and strong disciplines in place to enable us to scale for the next 20 years. We rewrote our entire front end and our clients are now seeing the benefits and glowing about the changes at our annual conference.

Cons

We still have some work to do. Open Solutions has a tendency to bite off more than it can chew and that puts a lot of pressure on our employees. Better than being stagnant though.

Pros

Very nice physical work environment and many good, smart & dedicated people working there.

Cons

At one point it was a great young company with lots of enthusiasm and growth, but unfortunately upper management's culture of demanding more, appreciating less permeated the overall atmosphere of the work environment. It became on old/young boy's club focused on self-serving goals. It was very sad because I was one of many devoted, dedicated hard working employees who eventually burned out on the stress, lack of acknowledgement and appreciation of the tangible success that was demonstrated. Employees feared upper management who were known to show great disrespect to employees...no one wants to work in these conditions! I quit and moved on!

Pros

Huge improvements in service and leadership from 2 years ago. The company has invested millions in software and internal systems. Teamwork is improving and there are a lot of very dedicated long-time employees that keep the wheels turning. The company has the most modern platforms in the industry but there was a lot of pain in getting there. Good place to move up in the ranks due to the growth.

Cons

Fast moving company in competitive market and the bar is high so there are heavy demands on employees time. Need to phase out the legacy platforms but I beleve there is a plan in the works for all except one which will be kept long term.