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Company Quickly Failing, Bad Product, Layoffs, and Employees Jumping Ship - Anonymous employee Caliber Public Safety Employee Review

1.0
29 Jan 2015
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Great starting salary, fellow team members are great to work with. Benefits are good, not great, but good.

Cons

Big Layoff to start off 2015, and employees jumping ship every week. Interact use to have a great product that catered to small to medium sized 911 centers, but they've created a brand new CAD from the ground up, forgetting the stuff that was important to those current customers. Trying to play in the big leagues and not having a product that, in its foundation, just works. You can't expect an entire state to use the product and be happy if you can't make a 3 person dispatch center just work. Many unhappy customers threatening lawsuits, and others making moves to other vendors even though they just had the InterAct product installed. The company rushes to do installs and upgrades just to make the numbers look good. Salespeople that tell customers something just to get them to purchase, and once the customer is hands-on they see that the software really doesn't do what was promised. The integration between products is terrible and is not seamless to customers. Usually makes 911 dispatchers have to work harder and take more steps, thereby slowing them down. Because of the problems with the software and unhappy customers it seems that the employees have to do everything last minute. Employees are scheduled to be somewhere but at the last moment everything changes, causing more money to be spent on changing flights, plans, etc. There's no consistency in trying to have a family life as Upper Management is totally disconnected from those who actually do the work. Being salaried to InterAct means that they are more than happy to work you every hour of the day. Expecting you to bounce from site to site to site with no real breaks, sometimes being told that you have to work multiple locations without returning home in between. Lots of Mid-Level and Senior-Level Management have been hired from another CAD vendor, where there, they seemed to did the same thing they are doing to InterAct. They don't know how to run a 911 Software company and are so far out in left field they are quickly forcing the company to close it's doors.

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5.0
19 Jan 2025
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

A great company to work for and good pay too! They really know how to take good care of their employees.

Cons

You have to be flexible with your weekly work hours to fill-in with others are on PTO or out sick.

4.0
23 Aug 2015
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Interact's strength is the large percentage of front-line employee's who have Public Safety experience. The employees that carry out the day to day operations at the customer level are by far the greatest group of people I have ever worked with.

Cons

The company was hijacked by private equity as a play on cloud-based and SaaS computing. 4 years worth of investing, positions on the board, C-level leadership from silicone valley who were too arrogant to listen to the fact that public safety is different than the latest start-up app. They wanted to flip the company for hundreds of millions. Instead, the "revenue is king" strategy brought the company to the edge of the cliff. The new company that bought up Interact will eventually right the ship, I believe, but it will be a long process.

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