Avoid this company, being run into the ground - Anonymous employee Quest Software Employee Review

1.0
Sep 15, 2017
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Some decent front-line employees still work here, and some of the products are decent.

Cons

Management is the worst I've ever seen at any company or industry I've ever worked in. The company is falling apart from the inside-out. hey are highly unprofitable, which is amazing for a software company considering the margin on software. The investors that own Quest Software made a bad investment and are now scrambling to cut costs and try to fudge the numbers to make it look like Quest is profitable, but you can only cut costs and fire people to a certain extent, so this strategy is not going to work for long considering the enormous drop in sales after being divested from Dell. The remaining employees are dealing with pay cuts and purposely unattainable quotas. There is no strategy to dig Quest out from the deep hole it is in, management has an outdated mentality and no clue on how to fix the situation that they have created for themselves.

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Quest Software Response
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There is a miscategorization of cost reductions following the divestiture from Dell. Staff reductions resulted from two things: the change in organization to accommodate a Go to Market structure focused on business units and the difference between the needs of a 150,000+ employees company versus a much smaller company. Quest is investing in growth through product development. Our results were sufficient to pay a mid year bonus to employees. There have been no pay cuts anywhere in the world - anywhere. I see a very different company than you do. Best of luck in your new role.

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