Great employees but has lost its soul - Anonymous employee Actian Employee Review

3.0
26 May 2016
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Great employees and incredibly creative and hard working. Good benefits (not great)

Cons

Upper management does not see the forest through the trees. Having a difficult time bringing great products to market. Very low salaries that are causing the loss of key people and will continue to lose good people because they are delusional and think they are paying "Market Wages" The people leaving are excellent and are very kind at the review they give on the exit interview. Bottom line, if they don't start paying better and recreate what use to be a fantastic culture they are going to fail or at least lose C's and have version 2.0

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