Pros
- Technical folks are really competent (product owners and pre-sales) - Portland's office (former XP Solutions) is nice and well located - They never get behind on salary payments
Cons
- Before the merger with XP Solutions, Innovyze was guided by CEO Paul Boulos. He was a difficult person to deal with, but he was brilliant, bold and a visionary. The current one came from a really small company and his vision and competence are proportional: he is petty, narrow-minded, risk-averse and really, really cheap. - The sales middle management has a mindset from the sixties and love bureaucracy, endless meetings and micro-management. For instance, the small company - XP Solution - which now controls Innovyze - believes that engineering software can be sold like a box and only by phone: there is no culture (or budget) of visiting with prospects and customers, especially international ones. - The lack of knowledge of IT software industry, water/wastewater industry and business culture outside the U.S. is appalling. Textbook ethnocentric company. - The Health Insurance provided is awful, compared to other global engineering software companies, making employees in bad luck or with children get eventually buried in healthcare debt. - Key-products are technically good, but the interface is from the eighties and the competition is free-software (VERY GOOD free software, by the way). This make nearly impossible to sell Innovyze software in emerging global markets (like BRIC countries, for example). They abandoned Southeast Asia and Latin America, and they have always been afraid to explore China and Russian markets. - Sales come from Government-based infrastructure projects, always granted to the cheapest bidder, what makes the sales cycle painfully long and the commissions small and paid in the long term. - There is virtually no Marketing effort, budget or plan. Same for HR.