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Yogesh Gupta
85 Ratings
Pros
"There is great work/life balance and trust - if you are trustworthy" (in 59 reviews)
"Flexible working hours along with WFH option" (in 23 reviews)
Cons
"Recent changes disconnected senior management from employees" (in 14 reviews)
"Usually upper management gets the boot first" (in 11 reviews)
Helpful (2)
Great place
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I worked at Progress
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Knowledgeable workforce. Good work life balance
Cons
Lacks vision. Constantly changes strategic direction
Progress2018-09-21Progress Not Progressing Fast Enough
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Doesn't RecommendNeutral OutlookApproves of CEOI worked at Progress full-time for more than 4 years
Pros
Telerik: -Progress hires some terrific people who are extremely knowledgable and care about the products, as well as their teams. -Leadership is extremely intelligent and dedicated to make the business grow. -Progress' product offerings seem fairly stable and have high retention rates. -Provides good benefits, like a match on 401K, Employee Stock Purchasing Program, great work/life balance, as well as unlimited...
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Telerik: -Not enough sales enablement training. The products in Progress' portfolio are rather complex, and while there are resources to learn the products, there isn't enough training. Customer Advocates still don't seem like they have received enough training. -Old business model - The majority of Telerik's business relies on renewals, and the licensing is based on a perpetual licensing model. Get with the...
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It seems unclear where the Telerik business is going, as competition with their UI tools have gained some ground. There needs to be a commitment to be more forward thinking and adaptive rather than reactive. Additionally, the discounting on products needs to be managed better, and Marketing needs to coordinate and communicate better with Sales. Progress has done a better job being transparent internally, but they still...
Show MoreProgress2019-02-18Helpful (3)
Manager
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Doesn't RecommendNegative OutlookNo opinion of CEOI worked at Progress full-time for more than 4 years
Pros
Great compensation and benefits. Technical staff are friendly and helpful.
Cons
Executive management team changes strategy about every 3 years.
Progress2018-08-10Helpful (3)
Sales Manager
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Doesn't RecommendNegative OutlookNo opinion of CEOI worked at Progress full-time for more than a year
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Good CMS prodcut which has value for money for customers
Cons
Top Management does not care for emplyees
Progress2018-07-16Helpful (5)
Sr.Customer Order Management
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RecommendsPositive OutlookApproves of CEOI worked at Progress full-time for more than 20 years
Pros
Great open atmosphere and culture, both departmental and company wide. Open time off policy recently instituted. Great people and CEO gets himself among all the company workers.
Cons
Company has been around since 1984. Few people actually work here over 20 years and even fewer retire from Progress. With the changing of the company's mission and direction, fewer of the old guard/mentors remain, if you are feted at a 5/10/or15 years of service dinner, many of those at the dinner will be victims of the next layoff. Rule of thumb is don't stop upgrading your personal skillset.
Progress2018-06-07Helpful (10)
Constant Layoffs and churn
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Doesn't RecommendNegative OutlookNo opinion of CEOI have been working at Progress full-time
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Good benefits, good people and good product
Cons
Our div. has had 5 layoffs in the past year. The constant threats of layoffs and churn creates a bad work environment. Also just announced a new extremely expensive facility in Bulgaria the same day the latest layoffs were announced, terrible planning!
Advice to Management
Listen to your teams and utilize the talent you have in the USA instead of building expensive and unnecessary facilities offshore.
Progress2018-06-26Helpful (8)
Marketing
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Doesn't RecommendNegative OutlookDisapproves of CEOI worked at Progress full-time
Pros
People you get to work with
Cons
- Management needs manager training. Due to a large amount of layoffs, particular managers were promoted who had no understanding of how to treat employees and that being a manager meant building a team (instead of just relying on everyone else to make them look good). -Managers will take credit for work you have done in front of the entire organization -There are a lot of "new ideas" in this organization that you...
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Take a class
Progress2018-06-04Helpful (8)
Great Products, Decent Benefits, Some Paranoid Sales Management
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Doesn't RecommendNeutral OutlookApproves of CEOI have been working at Progress full-time
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Competitive pay and benefits. Good products and decent new go to market strategy and messaging, smart coworkers, trying to modernize, some of the best marketing in the industry. Top level execs are competent and bringing new ideas and seem to want to be more of sales led company.
Cons
Challenges with resources and antiquated systems and process. Finance led company and culture don't help with this. Some front line managers are paranoid, defensive, and completely scared of upper management and the C Suite therefore manage up and don't support their teams. These front line managers don't have the experience, understand sales, account management and strategy or where their revenue comes from because...
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CEO and team need to skip over hovering managers and communicate directly sometimes with customer facing team so they really know what is going on and can address issues and barriers to revenue that exist. Train new managers better so they won't be so scared. Open up real lines of communications at all levels without repercussions from direct managers who only say what they think the CEO wants to hear. There is a...
Show MoreProgress2018-04-25Helpful (5)
Sales
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Doesn't RecommendNegative OutlookNo opinion of CEOI have been working at Progress full-time for more than 6 years
Pros
Not to many positive things to say about Progress.
Cons
Continuous changes. No clear growth plan and strategy. Not growing company.
Advice to Management
Focus. Execute and stop changing every day.
Progress2018-05-20Helpful (13)
Progress Stopped Making Progress
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Doesn't RecommendNegative OutlookApproves of CEOI worked at Progress full-time for more than 6 years
Pros
-They simply hire the best people, the brightest most talented people you will ever meet -They have great benefits -Many offices have a "young startup" feel -The pay is reasonable for most roles
Cons
-Where they hire the best talent they don't seem to retain them, the best people are all either let go or leave for better opportunities -The is a major communication problem at this company -They are constantly changing direction -Incredibility depressing to work here over the last few years. They don't seem to know what they are doing, everything is held together with chewing gum while their amazing talent is told...
Show MoreAdvice to Management
-Provide more guidance to your staff, be more involved on a smaller scale, the company is not so big that the CEO can't meet with every employee at least once. -Learn more about your talent before they leave for other opportunities -Make each employee feel like part of the company, like they matter to the grand plan
Progress2018-04-03
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Progress Response
May 1, 2018 – Social Media Manager
Thank you for the balanced and constructive feedback. We are always looking to be a better company and will take these perspectives into account as we evolve our culture and the organization.