Axway Reviews

The company is always focused on trying to buy another company, it is the the only strategy the executives at higher level in the company know how to do. They don't even know how to manage the company and products they take over. Most of the products that end in the company get removed after a few years despite them being profitable. All financial figures only ever show case modest growth even competitors in the same market showed huge growth. According to some older employees the company has never had a successful product developed in house, all the development happened in the startups they took over. And if you have seen the constantly changing priorities and strategy you know why. A lot of executives were ex IBM and have had a huge impact on the executive culture, the CEO keeps telling a story about the corporate jet from his days in IBM. No one knows what is happening in this company, a regular occurrence is that a bunch of middle manager meet and decide something but none of them do anything about it. They don't even know what to do about anything. They spend a lot of time and money with external consultants. Axway was spun off from Sopra a French consultancy and outsourcing company and a lot of processes and structure remain.

Lacks vision so they copy existing ideas. Process over people, always. Creates very technical and complex solutions to meet customers needs and then tries to re-invent the wheel again as the last one was too complex. This gives the appearance of siloed information when the solution was complex and there are few left understand it. Only listens to a few big customers. Managers (Everyone actually) have too much to do to listen to suggestions so they push back. Had really become a grind so I left.