Pros
I loved my coworkers and I still miss them. The people at GT Nexus were its greatest asset. Smart and friendly. Hours are mostly flexible, but this is fairly typical of Bay Area tech companies.
Cons
Things started spiralling downward after the TradeCard merger. Some departments "won" while others "lost", and Engineering was one of the departments that "lost". Very quickly, TradeCard Engineering called all the shots and prior to and immediately after the merger, many TradeCard mid-level management were promoted to Directors and Vice Presidents while everyone on the GT Nexus (Oakland and Bangalore) side had to report to TradeCard (New York). By the time I left, most of the senior engineers had already left. Many in mid-management had left. Almost all of the original executive team had left. The Infor acquisition made things very uncertain. GT Nexus SaaS was fundamentally different than the shrink-wrap software the Infor sold. Several of the engineers in Oakland are from Bangalore on L-1 visa, which is a terrible way to exploit foreign workers. They are not paid nearly the prevailing rate as domestic engineers. The Bay Area is an incredibly expensive place to work, and I know that they are severely underpaid. But while on L-1 visa, you are stuck and can't change employers, and as far as I can tell, there is no effort on behalf of the company to convert them to H-1 or green card. The technology is ancient, mostly because of the old code. There are some half-hearted efforts to move the company to newer technologies, but this is understandably difficult with the inertia of over a decade of old code. The GT Nexus Oakland office is mostly forgotten. Employees are leaving, and there are few new hires. There was a time when IPO was a real possibility, but in the end, the company was sold to Infor, so there was no longer a reason for me to stay. I wouldn't recommend working here. There are better opportunities elsewhere.
