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Updated Jun 24, 2022
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- Former Employee, more than 1 year★★★★★
Pros
management people mng help growth
Cons
prj transion relocation assessment move to other depts
- Former Employee★★★★★
Pros
Challenging work, great team, flexible and great work life balance
Cons
Lots of changes in a short time
- Former Employee, more than 3 years★★★★★
Pros
Ample learning opportunities and a great team to work for
Cons
Healthcare plan could have been better compared to other tech companies in the area
- Former Employee★★★★★
Pros
Team focused on result and making good product
Cons
Not at this time, works well
- Current Employee, more than 1 year★★★★★
Pros
Awesome people to work with, a can do attitude, and they're all about helping each other out. Work life balance is great. Benefits aren't bad either.
Cons
Unknown direction at this time beyond Parallels as it is now.
- Current Employee, more than 5 years★★★★★
Pros
-Excellent life/work balance -Premium/Competitive benefits -Expansive opportunities for internal growth -A clear directive from management/executives -Under Corel, there are constant cross-functional opportunities for those who seek it -Internal culture is friendly and transparent
Cons
Many Parallels employees are high-functioning and have high-output for their productivity. So, a new employee or junior hire who may be entering early in their career may feel left behind without meticulous supervision and constant alignment. Merging of systems with new acquisitions or internal system changes is difficult to keep up with but it's clear the change is always to the benefit of the employee.
Continue reading - Current Employee, more than 3 years★★★★★
Pros
Great workspace, friendly community, fun kitchen perks
Cons
Personally do not have any cons to share
- Former Employee, more than 3 years★★★★★
Pros
You get to be creative
Cons
No room to advance career and legacy technology
- Current Employee★★★★★
Pros
Employees are provided a high degree of autonomy in their jobs. Flexible work schedule and ability to work from home. You are trusted with managing your own work load in a manner that suits you. Still growing, so most positions are cross-functional and allow you to work on a broad range of projects. Seems to be a lot of opportunities for growth and promotion. Most staff are former Microsoft employees, so you are working with individuals who have a high degree of industry experience and knowledge.
Cons
There are disconnects between departments and it's hard to determine who does what.There seems to be a lack of ownership and sometimes you have to harass people for a response. Everything must go through executive management for approval, which creates a bottleneck effect and slows down the process for action items, particularly when quick turnaround is required. The travel and expense management definitely needs to be improved. Individuals are financially responsible for their own expenses until reimbursement (no corporate cards). Having to do POs for every expense/invoice is slow, tedious, and the AP department does not submit payments in a timely manner so you have angry vendors. Egencia does not provide pricing for half the flights or hotels it shows as available, so you have to go back a few times to check different pricing to stay within the travel policy.
Continue reading - Current Employee, more than 1 year★★★★★
Pros
1 or 2 departments are lead by good management. flexible work hours. good people for the most part.
Cons
older, "jaded" upper management with sometimes "1950's management style" abusive tactics. no real direction, constant change to strategy, low morale, many overwhelmed at their positions within the company, each department is its own entity and does not work together well, very poor communication - a "hurry up and get it done" attitude, but impossible time constraints, constant "meetings" requiring many levels of presentation and expectations don't allow it
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