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North Plains Systems

Is this your company?

Picture three cows strapped together, bleeding, dying in agony -- but kept alive til the last drop of milk is pumped out - Anonymous employee North Plains Systems Employee Review

1.0
3 Oct 2014
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Employees receive paychecks on a regular basis. It's entirely possible to go through a work day without doing any work, which some people will count as a benefit. I've heard there are snacks in the fridge.

Cons

Everything of value in this company -- its valuable systems, products, and staff -- was burned to the ground by the private equity firm Accel-KKR. The products are in the DAM market, which is new enough and complex enough that it is hard to tell fact from fiction, real worth from hype. In short, it's a good place for a scam -- and that's exactly what Accel-KKR intends to pull off, by selling the whole lot to some bigger company, ASAP. There is just one hitch: all three products are very intricate and require intensive attention to work as advertised. They *can* work and have in the past, but only with carefully constructed procedures and systems and oversight -- all of which have been destroyed. North Plains does have a plan, of course: hope nobody notices before they find a buyer. Who has been running this joint? Think of the people who colonized Africa and South America and Asia at the point of a gun. They burned down the villages, took all the gold, outlawed the local languages -- and then said they had done it all for the good of the natives. That's the kind of hypocrisy, cynicism, and delusion at play here.

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4.0
26 Apr 2016
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

The people I worked with are very smart and dedicated to their jobs. Benefits are great as is work/life balance

Cons

Unfortunately, damage was done by previous management. Hoping that the company can weather those with a clear and realistic roadmap and come out of it stronger. Good luck

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1.0
13 Apr 2015
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Executive Management has recently been fired. Some genuinely good people and great talent can be found, but they are likely unhappy and on their way out.

Cons

Lies, lies, lies! Lies about the direction the company was headed, lies about our individual and collective value, lies about preserving the current company culture, all contributing toward an overwhelming delusion of grandeur sponsored by Accel-KKR that Northplains could become a DAM industry-leader. This company couldn't even pay the office bills on time (fedex, etc.), let alone provide us with essential tools to do day to day tasks. After being told that our jobs were being eliminated all together, many of us were later asked to train our Canadian-based replacements. The previous reviews have summed it up well, employees worldwide were an absolute joy to work with, but the executive management team was too dysfunctional to tie their own shoes let alone run a company. They should have each been issued crash helmets, the special "I'm hugging myself" jackets, and a room with padded walls and an industrial-strength lock for Northplains to stand any chance for the future. Run. Run far far away, never look back. It's been almost 2 years since I left and I am so glad I did have never once looked back. The world is a better place without North Plains.

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