Quest Software Employee Reviews

Huge opportunity, with a fantastic all new leadership team that are giving great communication and direction.

This used to be a great company to work for. The pay was not the best, but the culture made up for that. It was a team and we all contributed towards the common goal of making the company great. All that ended when the current "leadership" rolled in. Went from "on target" to barely 70% in sales.

A great place for career advancement

Best company in terms of employee satisfaction, benefits wise and remote option

It's like a family or village - very open, very flat hierarchy

Open communication and transparancy around the vision for the buinsess

Always strive for progression over perfection

They are always working on to make Quest as great company

They regularly communicate with employees through emails, weekly videos, quarterly all hands and are always eager to recognize good work.

They are passionate, bold, and leading us in the right direction to become a true market leader.

Showing humility and listening to people who talk to customers

Posted 15 days ago

Understanding the human element, not just the numbers.

Honesty and transparency. The workers are not dumb and can see through your corporate double-speak. If you are shopping the company, make it a team effort. Don't take away the few benefits like 401k matching to try and resell this heap of tech debt.

Giving a single hoot about employees. This is a company run by accountants with one goal - reduce costs. For them, people are simply a cost and have no more value than a desk or a coffee cup. Given their collective history, getting better is not an option. Only getting out will help.

Executive leadership was hired to slice and dice the company from what was leftover from Dell. No growth plan, no thought about employees, no real management skill. Profit targets are all that matters no matter what the long term impact is.

It is fair and comparable with the overall market

Posted 15 days ago

Comparable or slightly higher with industry average

Flexibility between business and family time

Review from Sales Dept

The 401K match is a generous 5% and vests immediately. I also enjoy the Wellness Benefits, through which I can earn hundreds of dollars for simple activities like reaching my daily step goal.

Generous PTO and personal allowance.

I have worked as hard as I can. They first reduced solutions I can sell, then they reduced customers and finally they doubled my quota. That not a fair treatment for such a long-term commitment.

Benefits are a joke. Leadership puts policies on paper and then only enforces them when it suites the company. Treat your employees like humans, not numbers in an excel sheet. Maybe some actual training or feedback instead of wasteful SKOs that marketing and c-suite think make an impact.

We are losing allot of people to other software companies who are paying much better than quest.

Review from Sales Dept

Due to the numerous sales of the company, they have averaged < 2% raises for the past 7 years. Even "top performers" are only getting 3% on good years but then nothing the next because of budget constraints.

On average (according to most web site data) people are paid between 12% and 17% less than the area average

Everybody tries to work together despite the chaos that’s at the highest leve

Posted 15 days ago

Team is helpful and collaborate with one another. Sadly, most have been cut already. Not much knowledge is left.

Work together to get the job done

Strong, common values and fun team

Review from Sales Dept

They are the frontrunners to acheive anything in terms of customer satisfaction, building great products

The immediate team and being insulated from senior leadership

Posted 15 days ago

Open communication and willing to embrace change

Consider everyone opinion and suggestions in every meeting

Opportunities to learn and connect with others

There are lots of programs to recognize and reward employees. The Equality & Inclusion Council does a great job on activities that make me feel like I belong at Quest.

Management should listen to employees. Employees are undervalued.

Look for good people managers with an open mindset. Some of the middle management haven't changed since years. Take a look on fluctuation and consider where to place new management.

100% change in executive leadership and senior management.

The amount of communication by the HR team

Posted 15 days ago

Transparency about the job nature

Human and comfortable style with correct deep analysis of my capabilities

Review from Sales Dept

3 rounds of technical interview, follows by HR

I got to talk to people I would be working with.

Achievement indirectly contributes to company's success

No pressure, independent to improve quality

I like knowing my work makes an impact.

Feeling like I make a difference.

The staff I work with is amazing.

Everybody thinks there’s some magic silver bullet that AI is going to enable. Be realisti

Posted 15 days ago

Put money into R&D and less into legal "shakedowns" of old customers. No one wants to renew when the products are unchanged for 3+ years and the costs are 3x the original

Because the marketing budget has been cut to the bone, nobody knows who Quest is anymore. Once, a very recognizable company is a shadow of it's former self. Improvement can only come from a sale.

Stop looking at the 6 week plan and start looking forward. The short term decisions which allow the execs to make their profit targets (and therefore their bonus targets - 50% for most execs) is killing the company. Either commit to growth or sell it but don't keep with the death by 1000 layoffs

A 100% turnover in the executive leadership team (along with most of the senior management).