Mixed: great opportunities to develop new concepts and products; unfortunate tendency to discard and repeat sometimes. - Recensione dipendente - Dipendente anonimo presso innoPath

4,0
15 apr 2012
Dipendente anonimo
Consiglia
Gradimento del CEO
Pronostico commerciale

Vantaggi

Mobile device support is a line of business with excellent growth potential. That's what InnoPath does, and the company has enjoyed some success with it. There are a few major customers. The CEO, John Fazio, is a great fan and booster, and is by nature InnoPath's best salesman. The engineers and other staff are very good. When some layoffs were necessary at the beginning of this year, some excellent people were let go; however, it wouldn't have been easy to choose better, as there weren't really any slackers or marginal performers to be found. Engineering has been reorganized into interdisciplinary vertical groups that are beginning to adopt some agile practices. This leads to easier collaboration than in the past, when QA, mobile, server, database, etc. were more separated.

Svantaggi

Due to a necessary transition in its business model, InnoPath is facing leaner budgets than in recent years, and has shrunk a bit. This is hard on the morale of those remaining, and is in contrast to many local technology companies that are growing this year. It may be a bit harder to compete for needed talent under these circumstances. InnoPath does some innovative things (it's in the name, after all), but often seems to be a bit late getting started. The strategic role of marketing may not be emphasized enough (something that's true of many young tech companies, actually).

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5,0
3 feb 2020
Consiglia
Gradimento del CEO
Pronostico commerciale

Vantaggi

Great place to work, loved all nine years. Many friends

Svantaggi

Sadly, defunct. Got purchased by local company. Miss my friends

1,0
16 dic 2008
Dipendente anonimo
Consiglia
Gradimento del CEO
Pronostico commerciale

Vantaggi

InnoPath had signficant potential in the mobile space. It has a relatively strong presence on the carrier side as well as the handset side. It also has reasonable IP & dedicated employees. It has potential which it needs to exploit.

Svantaggi

The company is driven from the top by the CEO. He is a complete micro-manager, even though he claims that he wants to let go. Additionally, he has a temper which has manifested itself on many occasions. The exec staff is not cohesive & tends to be disfunctional as a result. Because the fear that the CEO instills in the organization, his VPs are unwilling to stand up to do the correct thing for the business. The CEO also believes that he is a subject matter expert in all areas - engineering, marketing, HR, sales, and operations. He has overrriden his organization multiple times with little information; this has sometimes had disastrous results. The exec staff, particularly the CTO, is quite political. The CEO allows this type of behavior and on occasion fosters it. ICs tend to be demoralized because of years of promises of doing an IPO. Fostering this have been promises of salary increases but most people have not seen an increase in 3+ years.

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