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Onna Technologies Reviews

3.3

48% would recommend to a friend

(55 total reviews)

Salim Elkhou | Kelly Griswold

55% approve of CEO

29% positive business outlook

Onna Technologies has an employee rating of 3.3 out of 5 stars, based on 55 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Onna Technologies employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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55 reviews
1.0
18 Oct 2022

What a mess

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Decent pay, lots of great people to work with. Everyone was very friendly and supportive.

Cons

Unfortunately, the writing is on the wall. This company is imploding. It's another inevitable startup death agonizingly drawn out. They're now going through the second round of layoffs since June, when they were hiring as recently as May. Just goes to show the quality of the decision making occurring here. The June layoffs were supposed to be the final round, but given that sales are coming in far below the expectations that assessment was predicated upon, Onna is where it is now. This is a clear sign of an irreversible death spiral. The problem with Onna is an unfixable one. It's a good solution, but the problem the solution solved was never clearly identified. They basically stumbled onto eDiscovery, a niche and saturated market. This is never a recipe for success, and is a failure new employees and re-orgs can't solve. If for some reason you are offered a position at Onna you'd be wise not to accept it as it will be ephemeral. Don't count on the paltry equity they offer being worth anything.

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Onna Technologies Response
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Thank you for taking the time to share your experience. We appreciate and value all of our current and former employees’ feedback. Our industry and company have faced challenging times as of late, and as a result we had to make difficult decisions. We acknowledge we have some room to grow and are working hard to make Onna the best place it can be for both our customers and employees. Thank you again for your feedback.
1.0
12 Nov 2022

Company fell off a cliff

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Pros

-Have some nice enterprise clients -Give people a long runway of not hitting quota without firing them (until recently) -Work/life balance

Cons

-Leadership is so far removed from reality. This started with the founder who pushed new use cases for the software when we were in an infancy phase of the only one that created revenue (ediscovery). It didn't stop there, the head of sales was never on your side, comp plans are one sided and overall there is an extreme lack of start up experience -The software. It rarely works, there are so many issues. The time it takes to move large amount of data is laughable Team - for awhile this was a pro but when the company forced extreme growth without hitting any revenue goals the talent diminished greatly Career Growth - There was one AE that was promoted... 1 Quota - 10% of the team hitting quota Layoffs - there has been 3 layoffs since June. The company went from ~200 to ~60 in 4-5 months

2.0
13 Nov 2022

Time to start looking for other opportunities

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Everyone was super friendly to work and collaborate on projects

Cons

A thriving company many years ago, but the ship is now sinking. I and many others who survived yet another round of layoffs are now interviewing with other organizations. The company is attempting to blame the economy, yet the problem is leadership. There were many great ideas for ediscovery features these past few years that required assistance from other teams. Still, the execs insisted on having other teams work on other unvalidated projects instead of allocating resources to the money-maker features.

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