Versata Reviews

2.5

20% would recommend to a friend

(25 total reviews)

Randy Jacops

82% approve of CEO

19% positive business outlook

Versata has an employee rating of 2.5 out of 5 stars, based on 25 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an average working experience there. The Versata employee rating is 35% below average for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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25 reviews
1.0
25 Jan 2015
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Passing an interview it's easy. Most of their HR guys have no idea what they are doing, the exam system can be easily cheated and .. yes some of the tech guys you're going to have your interview with are very poorly trained. You get a decent pay because you don't have to pay too many taxes except US who have to fill in the W2 form. Everything goes through oDesk or eLance so you will get ~85-90% from the total pay. It's mostly work from home if you like that. You get access to a lot of technologies w/o having to get through too many approvals.

Cons

Where do I start? Be prepared to be fired at any time w/o any prior notification. There is no concept of team-work or team build or good relations between the members of the same or different departments. The ones that create such relations are being investigated then, most of the cases, fired. Most of the non-management personnel has very bad English, poor internet connections. I once had an interview with them, I had no idea what the guy was asking. Management has no idea what they are doing, most of them are retired seniors bearers of the 90's corporate gene and they go by misinterpreting customer feedback and strictly respecting some poorly designed processes. Most of all they get easily offended if you go technical. Even the CEOs have their hands tied. Most of them are managing multiple companies inside the organization thus if you get to have a conversation with one of them you should consider yourself lucky. They will ask for their money back, if you do not comply with a certain set of silly rules. Another reason to get fired. You will get NO benefits or compensation, except for overtime if the management approves, not even a paid vacation.

2.0
22 Apr 2014
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Working here is a chance to learn a lot of skills that you did not really want to learn, such as being your own sysadmin and doing engineering jobs that someone else knew how to do, but they were laid off. There is no office, so if you like working from home this is ideal.

Cons

Extremely under-resourced, almost no HR or IT support, incompetent managers. Communication is difficult when staff is spread over many time-zones and speaks many different languages. Strategy and supporting tactics seem to be completely undefined.

2.0
11 Jun 2008

Versata - WTF?

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Young company, fun group of people. Interesting roadmap.

Cons

Not a pay for performance place. Old boys club. Product has evolved but still very esoteric. What does Versata do? Compensation wasn't very good. Lots of worthless stock options were granted during the .bomb. Employee morale in the toilet. Recognition only provided to top brass. Employee feedback non-existent. Work/life balance was out of whack. Respect for the little people/worker bees was little to none. Fairness wasn't always observed. Benefits got worse over time due to poor health care planning.

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