Systar reviews

Systar (since absorbed into Axway) is and was a French owned-and-operated company. The French masters expect every employee to come to work ready to do things as they are done in France. There is no way around that. They don't offer lessons on the French way of doing things. They expect you to read their minds. If you are a software developer outside the place where key decisions about software development are made, you adapt or you fail. Top executives established a culture in which leadership traits are absent. For example, top executives do not communicate, do not foster collegiality, and do not consider professional advice from the troops valuable. It's strict command and control with emphasis on control. They say "jump" are you are to ask "how high?" Tick them off and you are gone. Projects can be started that are understaffed and still must be done by date certain. Think eight months, 16-hours per day, 7-days per week. Not so much as a phoned "thank you." And sales still managed to lose the big account. End-user documentation is a joke. Apparently end-user documentation opens the kimono a bit too far. You got some new technology to learn? It is sink or swim.

No work life-balance Too much travel Poor training from higher management Good old boy club present in US employees