Calligo Reviews

Understanding the history of Calligo is a start to understand why there are so many bad reviews. The company started back in 2012 and for most of its life had around 20 - 30 employees. A small company in a small island of Jersey. At the end of 2016, they got Investcorp to invest $20 Million in the business and with this money, Calligo started to buy a handful of businesses. AMS Systems PFS (Luxembourg) - Sep/2017 Fusion Systems (Guernsey) - Sep/2017 3 Peaks Inc (Canada) - Oct/2017 Mico Systems (Canada) - May/2018 Connected Technologies Inc (Canada) - Mar/2019 DC Networks Ltd. (Ireland) - Jan/2020 Here is the big problem, they keep acquiring companies and not spending enough time and resources to run as one company. The CEO even said once "One Calligo" instead of saying Calligo Canada or Calligo Jersey but in reality, those are 7 different companies with barely any management running under the Calligo brand. -Management Bad! With so many acquisitions, Calligo has way too many people with management roles. It would be Chief of something, VP of something else, director of the same thing with a different name, coordinator of another thing who used to do the same work and has a manager of the exact same thing who manages a team of two employees. Besides the non-sense of job titles and managers, the real management team has zero skills in managing PEOPLE and services. My former boss was fired and it took them a month and a half to tell me who I was reporting to, zero performance reviews, zero feedback, zero understanding of what you are working on, zero knowledge of who you are and what you are good at. Often one of the VPs would try to get me and other colleagues to do the work of his team. if we refuse the task he would intimidate us by sending an email cc'ing all the executive team and posting only his side of the story. -HR/ Culture The Company Org Chart changes every month, executive and senior members come and go like they were never there. One time they scheduled a last minute meeting with my team to say the someone was stepping down as the head of the department and someone else would be taking over. Unfortunately half of the team wasn't even aware of the person who was stepping down. We were reporting to a director that nobody knew! HR is unreliable . Usually, the turn over of the position is super high with an average of 6 months. 1vibbey: They have this "Culture" tool which is more like a popularity contest, every month the employee needs to vote on 8 of your colleagues from different areas, whoever gets the highest score gets $1500 as a bonus. The idea is to "motivate you" to be a nice employee and interact with others. In the real world, it becomes a contest and very often the executive team wins because employees are scared of voting against their bosses. If you don't vote, the CEO calls you out in the monthly company meeting and you get ashamed in front of everyone. -Clients and Service Obviously, bad business decisions and unhappy employees would affect the service, every department is overloaded and clients aren't happy. It seems that clients are leaving. This was for me the worst, hearing the client's complains and knowing no matter how hard I work there is nothing I could do to change the situation. Many of my former colleagues were rethinking their careers in tech because of Calligo. It is frustrating to work in a company that doesn't care about their product or their employees. I've seen many of longtime (5-10 years) employees from either Calligo or any of the companies they acquired leaving in the last 12 months which clearly shows the direction the company is going. I apologize for the long review and I appreciate it if you read through. If you are a former or current employee and you don't agree with me. I'm glad! It shows they are changing and there might be hope. If you do agree with me. please share your experience and help current and future employees to get out of there! There is life out of Calligo and it is AWESOME!