PolyVista Reviews

3.3

56% would recommend to a friend

(25 total reviews)

Shahbaz Anwar

63% approve of CEO

57% positive business outlook

PolyVista has an employee rating of 3.3 out of 5 stars, based on 25 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The PolyVista employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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25 reviews
2.0
2 Apr 2012
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

The product is developed and works great. If you are looking to get into a career in software sales where income is your only concern, then this is a company for you. Also, they have Friday lunch catered in the office.

Cons

There are no other opportunities outside of sales. Management's hidden goal is a sell-out (though they would never tell you that) eventually so there will likely never be other opportunities outside of sales. Management has little to no experience in actually managing people with career progress ambitions, only software and sales. Corporate communication is non-existent from the top-down and you will never know what is going on. I don't recommend working there.

1.0
3 Sept 2014

Please look elsewhere

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

You will feel good with the pay in your first couple of months then you will get hit with reality. The reality is that the company cannot acquire a client and had not for the last 3 years. All operations besides sales are outsourced overseas. Us jobs are not valued as you are only valued if you can generate 10 sales a week. This is something that is garnered impossible as there are only to local techs.

Cons

Office culture is open but breeds redundancy. You will be held to booking meetings everyday that will not transpire into anything more than hurting the account strategy within your personal accounts. Upper management is hardly ever there and does not seem to really care. No work is done outside the office, meaning that everything needs to be done over the phone. Product is week in terms of visualization compared to other products and price point is unfair as it relates to the competition. Owner will not be supportive over the long haul as you are just a number.

1.0
26 Jan 2013

Bleeding Money

Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

You can make a lot of money

Cons

Launching a career here is not a resume builder Dealiing with the outsourced HR department is painful You are compensated for how busy you are, i.e. completing introductory meetings to sales leads no matter how useless you already knew that meeting was going to be because that person was not a budget holder, decision maker, influencer, or even in the right department; and not the value you bring to the company, activities including market research and qualifying leads It takes an astronomical amount of meetings for sales executives to close one deal Performance metrics are based on superstition and not on industry norms or historical data Compensation plan changes so often you will never know how much you are going to make Projects are never completed when they are planned over several days or weeks they are always abandoned Lack of coaching from senior staff, you are berated and threatened to perform at their standards but are not instructed on best practices to reach them or the advice you are given is so general that it is useless, cookie cutter advice No pricing model for the product, profit margins are non existent Anyone who has studied business can see that the PolyVista Kalamazoo office is reminiscent of ENRON. Financial stability of the company is kept secret, employees are bullied to reach unattainable sales metrics and ethics are questionable.

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