Pros
I met some life-long friends at Hyland. I gained some life-long skills at Hyland. The work was interesting. Hyland was something rare.
Cons
The new cast of R&D “leadership” seemed to want to focus all resources into anything other than the flagship product that lifted Hyland to where it was. It felt like they were a child that didn’t want to clean their room and would cry, kick, and scream, spending an enormous amount of time and effort resisting instead of taking the five minutes to pick a few things off the floor. Almost like they were jealous of OnBase and thought they could think of something better. (protip you can’t, that’s why you were acquired lol) The layoffs were the final nail in the coffin of Hyland's reputation. If you were involved in that you should be ashamed of yourself. I can't imagine there is any amount of respect left in the chain of command in R&D after that. Now Hyland seems like: -No longer a place to be mentored by great leaders. -No longer has leaders, it has bosses. -No longer a place to be yourself. -No longer a place to grow. -No longer a place to feel safe. -No longer a job to brag about. -No longer a place to take pride in. -No longer a place you recommend to a friend. They are trying to attribute their turnover rate to the 'great resignation' when in fact it seems like they are just disassociating from the truth about how R&D “leadership” basically nuked the company from within and are now gravitating towards the dead sea effect. They have a racecar driver and a golf dude now so I guess it was probably worth it.
