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Innovyze Reviews

3.8

69% would recommend to a friend

(58 total reviews)

Colby Manwaring

77% approve of CEO

67% positive business outlook

Innovyze has an employee rating of 3.8 out of 5 stars, based on 58 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Innovyze 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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58 reviews
1.0
13 Mar 2019

Stay FAR away as this place is TOXIC!!

Anonymous employee
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Pros

- Parking - Scheduling - Paid holidays

Cons

Where do I begin... Innovyze is probably the single worst company I have EVER worked for in my career. Here is a laundry list of the cons: - DREADFUL communication, as in non-existent. Nobody answers their emails, and nobody wants to take your calls. Good luck trying to get anywhere with the HR staff and even better luck trying to hear anything back from an internal communication with anyone from the executive team. - Disorganized - Tons of turnover. They will fire you without notice and even those foolish enough to stay around won't for long. I seen over 15 bodies come and go in less than a year. If that doesn't steer you away, nothing will. - Rude employees. So many entitled employees who think they are better than you and don't want to help. Attitudes galore. - Awful, awful management. Management at Innovyze are comprised of individuals who only have their own interests at mind. They will talk down to you, verbally harass you on the phone, be very rude and condescending. NEVER in my life have I been so poorly treated by members from an executive team. - Dirty office full of old stained and stinky carpeting. - Completely obsolete and archaic phone system. NO prompts for different departments when you call in and employees don't like giving out their own numbers so they give out the only number for the local office which is an 800#. - They will LIE to protect themselves. Having a contract in writing doesn't mean anything to Innovyze. They will sidestep and lie to avoid honoring anything to do with contractual and financial agreements. They have done this to several employees. - NO training whatsoever. If you enjoy drinking from the end of a water hose, then you will be just fine, because they literally throw you in without any sense of organization, training schedule or give you ANY idea of what it is you will be doing or need to do until that time comes around. - They only care about the $$ and the sale. If you value rapport building and establishing relationships with your clients, think again. Innovyze just focuses on the sale and they don't care what you have to do to make it happen. Once that sale is complete, the client is left in the dust with little to no support. - Merger nightmare. Two companies merged in late 2017 and it has been a complete disaster ever since. It's still like working for two separate companies and the disorganization and chaos is overwhelming.

2.0
9 Sept 2018
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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.

1.0
28 May 2015

Iceberg. Dead ahead!

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Great staff, united in adversity. Strong track-record and market leading set of software products. Great UK working location.

Cons

No clear strategy. Limited / non-existent promotion opportunities. Confused management structures and overbearing management of UK operation from the US. UK senior management has either made for the lifeboats or been thrown overboard.

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