InterSystems Reviews

3.7

57% would recommend to a friend

(405 total reviews)

Terry Ragon

77% approve of CEO

59% positive business outlook

InterSystems has an employee rating of 3.7 out of 5 stars, based on 405 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The InterSystems employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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405 reviews
4.0
24 May 2015

Nice atmosphere, but golden handcuffs

Recommend
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Pros

During my internship with InterSystems, everyone I talked to seemed extremely happy and satisfied to be there. Based on what I heard, the pay, benefits, and atmosphere were top notch.

Cons

InterSystems works with their own technologies. If one were to work there for an extended period of time and then wanted to leave, I could see it being difficult to get a job elsewhere using more common technologies like C or Java.

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InterSystems Response
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Thank you for your feedback. We are happy to hear that you had an enjoyable summer, and you were able to get a strong sense of our culture from our full time employees. While we have our own internal programming language that we use, we recognize that our employees and interns enjoy expanding their skill set in more languages than one. Just recently, a number of our employees were able to take a week-long JavaScript class, a language we plan to use more frequently in the near future. While Cache Object Script is currently our primary language, our Developers are gaining experience utilizing other programming languages as well!
3.0
1 Jul 2021

Successful company that needs to adapt to changing times

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Very successful, well-established, privately held company. Good work-life balance - work ends at the end of the work day and it's rare to take work home. Competitive pay and decent benefits (e.g. 23 days PTO to start, and all federal holidays off).

Cons

They are requiring employees to work in the office full-time starting 9/1, and the CEO and VPs don't seem like they will budge. Almost every employee I've talked to is not happy with this, and I know of at least ten people who have already left the company on that basis alone. I myself will probably resign at the end of the year if they have not updated their archaic policies. Additionally, they are trying to hire a lot of people at the moment and will not be able to do so if they continue to disallow remote work. There are plenty of companies that offer comparable pay and benefits that will allow employees to work from wherever they are comfortable. Lower/middle management is feeling this burden hard, and upper management does not seem to be listening to their concerns. To add insult to injury, the company requires a business casual dress code (e.g. no denim or shorts allowed), the only tech company I've heard of to do so, which makes going into the office even less enticing.

1.0
1 Oct 2017
Recommend
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Pros

Intelligent and smart colleagues, interesting projects, private offices, good compensation

Cons

- Extremely poor leadership at top level - Old-boys-club politics - Extremely dubious practice of depending on PI tests for recruitment - Extremely resistant to upgrade systems/technologies to deliver quality products by todays standards - Dress codes [oh fun!] - Lack of gender and racial diversity - Fun way of doing projects without requirements until something shapes up - Way too many people in middle management layer, acting important and doing nothing because they wrote a piece of software 10 yrs ago, which only they have the know-how now and is irreplaceable because they say so!

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