Pros
Good office location when COVID ends.
Cons
Accept a position at Linedata only if you can't find anything else - even if they offer more money! You won't gain anything other than a salary from Linedata and you'll be dealing with constant disappointment and aggravation. Furthermore, your skills will deteriorate there and you'll leave less marketable than when you arrived. They don't invest in their employees, don't empower them, and won't allow you to make a meaningful contribution. Instead, they'll have you labor over endlessly changing, rushed, and poorly thought through tasks designed to give middle management a list of short term accomplishments they use to justify their existence and provide little to no value other than creating a false perception that they are needed. The company has been on a slow and steady decline for years and they will drag you down with them. Their products are outdated, use old technologies, and are nearly unmaintainable. They hire a revolving cast of "experts" to tell them what they want to hear - that there is a simple and cheap fix out there to turn everything around. Inevitably they fail, the "expert" leaves after a couple of years, and they start all over again. Nothing gets accomplished, the products and technology continue to age, and your skills will continue to atrophy. To fully understand Linedata, you need to learn about their history and culture. They started by acquiring the European business that ADP was abandoning. They invested nothing to grow this business and just syphoned what remaining revenue there was to be had. Then they used this revenue to acquire the next business. This is their model. Longview, Capital Stream, Gravitas - all the same story. No investment just milk them for what they're worth and buy the next company. The owner has little interest or knowledge of the industries the companies he acquires reside in. A person of Napoleonic stature and temperament. His decisions are often rash and impulsive and this has fostered an environment of fear among management, who exist to serve him a positive message, even when none exists. The senior manager in North America seems completely unstable. He's the type of person who will talk for hours and at the end, leave you with the realization that he hasn't said anything of substance at all. He provides a good example of the culture at Linedata. After a young receptionist was fired for among other things, crashing at the corporate apartment without permission after nights of drinking, it came out that he was having an affair with her. He made the lives of HR so unbearable in retribution that nearly the entire department quit. The rest of middle management tries to justify their existence by overseeing a steady stream of menial tasks that do nothing to advance the company or its products. They self promote and play politics to retain their positions. They have little interest in the company or their employees. Make the best decision of your career and avoid Linedata at all costs!
