Progress Reviews

Cons

- did have a large reduction-in-force back in January under new management team. Was sad to lose some good colleagues but hopefully the cost reductions will put us in a better position to succeed

Cons

Executive management team changes strategy about every 3 years.

Cons

Top Management does not care for emplyees

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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.

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!

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 will talk about for months and then move on from when the next idea comes around.

-Constant acquisitions of other organizations were difficult for all employees and made hostile work environments while hire management spoke negatively about people they did not know.

-There are no opportunities for growth

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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 they were thrown into these positions suddenly a year ago during the huge downsizing. Their one mission is keeping their own jobs and hide any inadequacies so expect to be thrown under the bus if you report to them when things get tough. Company can't decide if partnerships are important or not.

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Continuous changes. No clear growth plan and strategy. Not growing company.

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-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 to wait for direction. When one direction is picked they go with it for a few months and then turn around and change their minds.

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The decisions made at the C-level are puzzling at best and harmful at worst. So many acquisitions have flopped over the years, and so many good people laid off with no consideration of knowledge, experience, value, etc being lost to the company. With the continued offshoring of work, there is no stability and great people are leaving right & left.