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      QAD

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      QAD reviews

      3.2

      47% would recommend to a friend

      (597 total reviews)
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      Sanjay Brahmawar

      32% approve of CEO

      40% positive business outlook

      Ratings by category

      3.6

      Diversity & inclusion

      3.4

      Work/Life balance

      3.2

      Compensation and benefits

      3.0

      Culture & values

      3.0

      Career opportunities

      2.9

      Senior management

      QAD has an employee rating of 3.2 out of 5 stars, based on 597 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The QAD employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Tecnologías de la información industry (3.9 stars).

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      597 reviews
      1.0
      Dec 12, 2025

      QAD is Slave employer

      Developer
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      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Nothing. None to say as of 2025

      Cons

      The CEO, Sanjay, treats employees like slaves. He forces them to work 24/7, and once the job is done, there’s no praise or recognition—instead, he fires them. This guy lays off the very people who built the product. We were dependent on those experts, and now we’re not sure how we’ll move forward. He’s trying to loot the hard-earned company, ignoring its future while filling his own bank account with company money.

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      QAD Response
      4mo
      Thank you for sharing your feedback. We take reviews like this seriously, as they highlight the intensity of the environment during this phase of our company’s evolution. We acknowledge that QAD is currently navigating a critical period of rapid transformation. Our shift from "Reactive Firefighting" to "Proactive Execution" —including major initiatives like "Operation Bug Kill" and our aggressive integration of AI across our specific segments —has understandably created a demanding pace. Our leadership’s goal, including Sanjay’s, is to modernize the business and transition fully to Cloud/SaaS to ensure QAD’s long-term viability and success. While this requires difficult structural decisions to ensure we have the right skills for the future, we deeply value the contributions of the experts who built our foundation. We do not condone a culture of burnout, and our aim is to move toward a model of working "smarter" rather than just harder. We would appreciate the opportunity to discuss your workload concerns specifically. Please consider reaching out to HR directly or utilizing our internal feedback channels so we can address these pain points constructively.
      2.0
      Sep 28, 2022

      No longer what it was

      Senior technical writer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Before Thoma Bravo acquired it in 2021 and took the company private, QAD was an outlier in the tech industry. There wasn’t much employee churn and it was not uncommon to feel like you were still the new person on a team, even after working there for six or seven years. QAD offered stability, familiarity, and security. It was common knowledge that employees were underpaid, but the security, stability, and kind coworkers made the low pay a tolerable trade off . The acquisition announcement in mid 2021 did not cause the kind of anxiety it would have caused at a more modern tech company. Employees who had been there for decades had never experienced anything similar and took management’s word that this was going to be exciting and positive. Only after the deal closed and entire departments were let go, only to be reconstituted with off-shore contractors, did people start to see the writing on the wall. Remaining U.S. and European employees with drive and skill started leaving of their own accord and their positions were either left empty or filled with off-shore contractors. The software itself looked dated five or six years ago as they rolled out their new Web UI. In an effort to meet aggressive deadlines from upper management, the engineers didn’t rework the 40-year-old code to the extent it should have been rewritten but instead wrapped the old code in a façade and tried to pass the package off as new. QAD is no longer what it was and as changes continue to pile up as the months pass, I would not recommend it as a stable place of employment for anyone considering a full-time job.

      Cons

      Because the older employees remained at the company for 20+ years, there was very little opportunity for advancement. The Fast Track program was an attempt to infuse new blood, but after the recent college grads realized they would not be able to advance in the next 10 years, they'd leave for brighter opportunities. QAD had and still has managers who are not ideal for the positions they are filling. A good manager does not need to be able to do the job of the employees he manages, but if he doesn't, he needs to then actually be a good manager. Not fulfilling either of those functions leads to unhappy employees.

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