Steelwedge Software Employee Reviews about "people"

Cons

Some employees holding on to "the way we used to do things" can create negative vibes. New talent coming in can rally support, but there is the need to address those resistant to evolving along with the company. The company solves strategically important problems for market-leading companies, so sales cycles can be long (although this is the case in many companies selling enterprise solutions.)

Cons

Worst product management team ever seen, they dont know about product. they dont know what they are doing. Worst Development Management poor in technical simply people management and politics. Worst dev managers & leads they dont know about technology but they are technical leaders. (e.g .Net guy leading java developers, sql leader for java developers, Weblogic administrator lead java guys) Worst testing ever seen, always try to create more politics. Lot of technical never share the information for newly joined persons especially who are staying more than 7,8, 10 years. All technical guys already left the company because of old employes, they will not share any information and management also encourage those people and retain if they are resign, management not encourage who working professionally. CTO & founder is out is good thing, but still we have other who are staying 7,8, 10 years with out technical knowledge they dont know latest technologies.

Cons

Everything is dependent on your manager and managers are not trained for people management. No Onsite opportunities. Very bad leave policy. No cab facility If you get late.

Cons

Product development hasn't produced as expected . Haven't met growth objectives or expectations Lots of employee turnover especially in sales.

Cons

No Vision Struggling with sales from more than a year Previously company used to think about value to customers. Now it is more of milking the customers. New CEO never understands the ground realities and doesn't have any trust on employees. CEO takes quick and dynamic decisions, consider view from couple of people, out of which few are new and others just respond for the personal gains. So many times these decisions backfire. Decisions change a lot faster, people just need to run around those.

Cons

* Waste of talent The company's rather unique idea of getting the best deal out of new hires is to capitalize on the initial honeymoon period when they're giving 150% of effort. Once you are settled in, buh-bye! The cycle then repeats for the next batch of hires -- unless you're being grossly underpaid where it's still a great deal for them to retain you, in which case you should leave on your own anyway to get a 40% pay raise at, like, any other place. * Lack of support to those on the front line The high churn-rate means very few people have holistic or in-depth knowledge of the product. We're either dealing with new people who aren't familiar with the system, or veterans who don't get to survive till this day by being, well, entirely open and forthcoming. Either way we get fed BS. This makes the lives of those of us who directly interact with customers extremely difficult, as it's virtually impossible to get a straight answer of anything when we're being helplessly grilled by the customers. * Waste of VC fundings Let's rent and furnish a new office in a tech hub, hire some people, then fire all of them in a couple of months and shut down the office, with zero productive outcome to show for! Those poor people moved with their family and kids and were quickly out of a job. Go on, spin it and rationalize it for me on how all of the workers were 'non-performant' or 'won't adapt to new ways of doing things'. Hello, it was a new office which you just opened. Who hired them in the first place if they sucked so badly? And after a few months you thought the whole thing was a bad idea? Superb foresight and planning! To the VCs who poured money into this sinkhole, I hope you're feeling good about how your money is being spent. At least you got to party at five-star hotels in SF with them. Oh, you weren't invited? * Head-in-sand attitude towards problems I'm actually glad they're posting those fake five star reviews laced with corporate doublespeak. They are the perfect proof of how problems are dealt with at this company: pretend everything is fine, label independent thinkers as 'poor fits', fake everything publicly to cover up all the crap underneath. Don't kid youself with the so-called 'open door policy' -- you'd just publicly make yourself a target of an expedited exit. They want rubber-stampers, yes-men, death march followers, not leaders or critical thinkers who have standards. People ain't dumb, we know your schtick. See the surge of people sneaking into meeting rooms or outside the building to takehe surge of people sneaking into meeting rooms or outside the building to takehe surge of people sneaking into meeting rooms or outside the building to take private phone calls? Hint: they aren't talking to their beloved sickly grandmother. The ship is sinking fast and we are looking to get off. May God have mercy on the sucker who even entertains the preposterous notion of acquiring this hopeless company.