Pros
Great travel opportunity, great people from the Blackboard side of the business before the merger. If you mingle with the right senior management, you're pretty safe. Blackboard Learn as a product has improved in leaps and bounds after the merger though. Probably the only good thing out of the merger. Hopeful for new CEO who is neutral and neither pro-Blackboard or pro-Anthology.
Cons
HR is all over the place with zero interest in retaining employees. Employees are not a priority to them, their salary and the company is. Poor knowledge of local nuances in countries outside of U.S. The senior management from Blackboard were decent and well-respected for the most part. After the merger, Anthology kept their friends in senior management and got rid of the Blackboard peeps. Sales leadership from Anthology's side is incompetent and not well-liked by people outside of the U.S at all. More like a football cheerleader. Kept his friends in marketing leadership who have absolutely no idea what they're doing. Nice people but ineffective for the marketing business. Finance doesn't pay vendors on time, resulting in poor relationships between vendors and field team. E.g invoices submitted in December unpaid until May despite strenous T&Cs in contract. Constant chasing (waste of valuable field time). Totally preventable.
