Ghastly place to work unless you are in sales or mgmt. The company sells coveted Gartner Group Magic Quadrant software. - werkgeversreview Was Never Informed What IT Was bij Systar

1,0
6 okt 2014
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Goedkeuring directeur
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There is one pro, and it is a big one: They compensate well. At least they do in the United States of America.

Minpunten

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.

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4,0
24 nov 2013
Anonieme werknemer
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Goedkeuring directeur
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Pluspunten

Very intelligent people. Fair compensation. Family atmosphere. International culture.

Minpunten

Results are the focus. The European culture is one where people speak their minds. It is not for the faint of heart.

2,0
19 okt 2010
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Goedkeuring directeur
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Pluspunten

Good pay and good benefits

Minpunten

The product is completely unwieldy. They have a proprietary development environment. Developers have to learn the language and way it connects and drives code. Then they have to learn the about the business they are developing a solution for, and then they have to finally develop the product. They do not adhere to any Agile or rapid development methodologies, other than pressure on teams. The people developing the solutions were also wasting cycles building monolithic specifications. Then building monolithic one-customer solutions. Customer satisfaction was generally low, as well as employee morale. Upper management was more interested in communicating about industry analysts' perspectives than they were about creating a better product that was easier to maintain and scale in a corporation's growing infrastructure.

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