Company Died When Sam Did - Anonymous employee Sterling Commerce Employee Review

Constant State of Layoffs Big Dreams by Executive Team with No Extra Resources to Achieve Those Dreams Executive Team is Concerned More About Themselves Than the Company All Decisions are really made by CFO. Executive Team and Ex-CEO were mainly evasive and dishonest in their communications and actions with employees. Ex-CEO was really just a mercenary and had no technical skills himself although he was supposed to be a technology leader. He never programmed a line of code in his life. Too many decisions made behind closed doors with a few friends of management ever knowing what was going on. Killer grapevine. The old secretaries pool was a source of constant "killer" gossip. Everyone's salary information and business was out there and being discussed. Middle Management was pretty incompetent and for the most part resting on their yrs of service. They mainly came to the company with good resumes and they all have pretty low technical and product knowledge. There is no master plan for the company. Just hit the EBITA targets and if you don't then group cuts and layoffs are the first and easiest answers.