Founder - Anonymous employee Apax Software Employee Review

5.0
11 Nov 2017
Anonymous employee
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Pros

tough to do this because i'm one of the owners, so #hugeconflictofinterest - we are super culture & core values focused. honestly, it's our number one strength. I know everyone says that, but the ways it looks in terms of money and time we spend on it are: - we spend 10-20% of our revenue (not profit) on culture building activities - things that enhance the connection & camaraderie between everyone involved. for example we did an all expenses paid ski trip to colorado last year for 20+ people and many of their significant others. - everyone gets core value trained. our janitor knows our core values.

Cons

- we aren't rich (yet) so we can't pass on super high salaries to our employees. they are average for the area, but we'd obviously like them to be above average.

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5.0
14 July 2025
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Pros

They may not remember me since I wasn't there long (hint, I shared a first and last name with one of the owners), but Apax gave me my first full time job (1099 hours) when I graduated college with a CS degree. I do feel I was able to learn a lot. The company culture is great. The owners/devs as well as senior level devs were all a pleasure to work with. The variety of projects was nice as well, I particularly enjoyed the Django/Angular stuff when I was there. The experience gained at Apax has played a part in advancing my career substantially in the last 10 years.

Cons

The only con (if you can call it a con) was the pay at the time, but keep in mind I was fresh out of school technically. I was hoping to eventually get brought on full time but I guess at that point in my career I wasn't at the level they needed, and while I think I would've been eventually, I came across an opportunity elsewhere and since I had loans and was recently married I had no choice financially but to accept the other position. I personally held no ill will towards Apax and I don't think they did towards me either. I've grown quite a bit since then as a Software Developer, and do think if the opportunity to ever return arises I would be happy to work at Apax Software again.

3.0
17 June 2026
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Pros

flexible time and work schedule and has a friendly team

Cons

limited resources, you will have to wear many hats, not a ton of internal structure to support the specialty team members

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