Soulless, visionless legacy tech company sputtering along
Pros
• You can make an impact, but you will constantly swim upstream • Easy to coast if you're into that • Most people are easy to work with • Pay and comp are average (I guess) • Genuinely trying to improve • Some real change agents trying to push things forward
Cons
—Lack of urgency, passion and vision— • Many are just collecting paycheck and/or jaded from years of whiplash • Company vision is basically just "execute" — no real vision for future of technology, enterprise software, even the company itself • Many leaders are just middle managers with no vision, knowledge of their market or modern tech • Superficiality and artifice valued over SME and rigor • Textbook Peter Principle company —Extreme silos with lack of transparency and accountability— • Shadow projects all over company and globe • Gross, pervasive lack of intellectual honesty resulting in knee-jerk strategies, failed commitments and constant "CYA" busywork • Political turf wars create constant confusion and waste • Hushed layoffs are common • Politics exacerbates the already disjointed software products —Lack of organizational support— • Almost non-existent training on anything (job function, products, tech) • Progress towards best practices often impeded by inexperienced ops teams who act as gatekeepers of historic debt rather than modernizing agents • Almost non-existent support from HR • No support for best practices or standards for remote work with teams across massive time differences • Senior leaders too busy putting out fires to support and grow team • Ironic for a company that sells HR software —Total lack of company culture— • Remote-first exacerbates silos and confusion (seems like mostly a cost saving measure, not for any desired employee culture) • People fill calendar with fake meetings so impossible to collaborate • Everyone is just pixels on a screen bouncing from call to call until day is over • No sense of connection or shared purpose —Legacy software and SWE practices— • Archaic siloed software products stitched together with Frankenstein architecture • Focus on flavor-of-the month, half-baked new tech to show "innovation" instead of addressing core tech debt • Most "innovation" is just repackaged software from other companies • Little use of modern development frameworks • Archaic development practices • Abysmal UX after years of same people trying to fix with smoke and mirrors —Gross lack of investment in internal tools— • Trying to compete with the big names while using internal software from the 90s and 00s • If you thought every software company uses X tool, you'd be wrong when it comes to Infor • Attempts to improve tooling get mired down in years of committees and approvals • Finding accurate information on products, policies, procedures is next to impossible without years of institutional knowledge • Good luck making data-driven decisions with no data! —Gross lack of diversity— • Only 3 out of 16 executive leaders are women • Black and Latinx representation practically nonexistent • No visible efforts to address this beyond tokenism • Ironic for a company that sells HR software to help companies meet DEI goals —Privately held company owned by Koch Industries— • Bizarre to aspire to compete against tech heavyweights like Oracle, SAP, Microsoft and Workday while being beholden to an oil and gas conglomerate • Obvious moral dilemmas
