Avaya reviews

Ever since the company has gone private, financial information is not available for review, but that is typical. With the decline in the economy, Avaya sales have been impacted and many engineers and middle manager have lost their jobs. Many of them had 20-30 years of experience, the same people who made Avaya a market leader. Employees on the east coast of the US have been hit the hardest by the downsizing. This environment is causing many to leave on their own or are considering it. Avaya's future is very cloudy.

Avaya is attempting to transition from a first generation technology company (a hardware maker) to a 3rd generation company (software as a service). Based on what I've seen, this transition will not be successful. Avaya has a long history of buying small technology companies and integrating their products (with more or less success) rather than building things in-house. For software development in the US, Avaya is a losing proposition. Development (and some other activities, like technical writing) are being moved offshore. The strong culture of work-at-home or remote work makes networking with coworkers and working collaboratively very hard.