Q&A With Quest Software Employees

Nothing. They are on the right track

Remove the hatched people from executive management followed by getting some really knowledgeable software people in at the director level.

Standing on the shoulders of some great legacy software and having a complete lack of understanding of innovation.

Be willing to take substandard pay and be micromanaged.

Not really. Once you're in a place, you're there. They have so few people that a single person leaving can reduce team size by 25% (more in some cases).

Pretty good. Based on time but the week of Christmas is PTO.

Why do you want to work here?

There is none. "here's your computer, your login, and the work to do...let me know if you have any questions"

Fair. Not horrible but if you have family insurance options, it can get pricey.

The past. When we were actually a software company, it was a great place. The last couple of acquisitions (Dell and Francisco Partners) make me embarrassed but being close to retirement, I'm coasting. The current version of Quest has nothing to be proud of - just another software meat market.

None as a group...everyone just wants to get out of dodge.

If you know how to suck up, you really don't have to do work. Just blame the process when things go bad so they can add more process and you can do less work. It's like riding a bike downhill.

Standard VSP...meh.

Like every other company....meh.

You can't get promoted due to pay caps.

That they were in the process of being taken over by a venture capitalist firm and that the CEO is simply a cost slasher.

6 weeks is the norm but very few interviews are taking place and when they do, people decline when they hear about the pay.

Pajamas are frowned upon but still allowed. If you can be seen in public wearing it, you can wear it in the office.

You can't promote any longer. They have put salary caps in place and rules that state that you must make XXX% of the new position to be promoted. Since those ranges are now out of range of the caps, promotion is simply not possible (at least in the US).

It's on its last legs. They have a few more years of milking the old legacy products but with nothing in the future pipeline (that works), the future is pretty bleak.

Agree with whatever upper management says and nodding your head up and down.

If you provide positive feedback, you're safe. Any negative feedback is seen as a threat and layoffs are the solution