A company being driven into the ground by a private equity firm while Kevin "Slim Pickens" Kennedy waves his cowboy hat - Backbone Support Engineer Avaya Employee Review

2.0
29 Aug 2012
Recommend
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Pros

Good Pay, decent benefits, Ability to work from home

Cons

At best leadership is dismissive of our customers, at worst they are disdainful of them. Constant "reminders" about focusing on customer satisfaction while leadership actively implements policies to stop providing services our customers are paying for without actually telling them. Strict adherence to the IBM support model of "It's easier to ask forgiveness from a customer than it is to do what they are paying us to do." Forced ranking of the employees provides absolutely no incentive to work harder. Being told several years in a row that there will be no bonuses and token .5% raises (no matter how high you are rated) while the CEO and Board each take multi-million dollar pay raises kills any loyalty and morale that may be left. Continued investment in support centers in India and Argentina when the past 8 years has proven that the employees (most of them) don't care about doing more work and getting better because they can dump it off on North America. The work always ends up back in North America where a work force that is drastically understaffed and over worked employees are constantly told they need to do better and more with less while half their team was just let go again.

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Pros

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Cons

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1.0
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Pros

The company used to care about customers, but they removed all the sales people who actually visited and consulted with customers to save travel cost.

Cons

The company's newest CEO, Patrick, only cares about getting back to a Cybersecurity company as fast as possible. Can't sell the company fast enough, but buyers can't get past due diligence periods.

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