Pros
- If you're interested in the sports industry and technology, this is a fantastic place to work. Not everyone is passionate about sports, but many are and it shows in the culture and the related workplace events - Lots of opportunities to move around internally - Laid back office culture, many managers are from the "just get your work done on time" mentality as opposed to micromanagers/bean counters - Extremely passionate client base and employees - many, many employees have been at the company for 10+ years. - Solid on-boarding/training programs, which continue to improve
Cons
- Oftentimes felt like a sales company with software tacked on as the afterthought. Lots of development effort is wasted on projects designed to land a single customer or to keep a griping customer happy. Squeaky wheel clients received far too much grease and drove too much of the development priority process, which resulted in projects that required huge time/resource investments but ended up being used by a tiny % of the client base. - For the geographic location and job, salary was consistently below-market. Companies doing similar work in the same general geographic area were/are paying at least 20% more in several of the roles I held while at Paciolan. - Some upper management personalities appear to have been entrenched in their roles for too long and are difficult to reason with - Sale of the company to Comcast-Spectacor seems to have the company trending in a negative direction - it felt like we were getting ground down and that a lot of what made working at Paciolan appealing was slowly disappearing. The "this is great that we've been sold to Comcast!" thing is really getting shoved down people's throats.