Mismanagement, Buyouts, and Layoffs Coming to an Office Near You - Network Operations Center Administrator Edline Employee Review

1.0
Aug 2, 2014
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

The company that I was working for was purchased by Edline and, although layoffs were plentiful, I was asked to stick around and enjoy the free soda.

Cons

Mismanagement from every angle... With information security, procedures, and protocol already in place at a medium/large business, you can only imagine the nightmare of letting a key systems engineer go here and a key developer go there and a key network engineer go here and... It was as if employees were not even evaluated during several buyouts but, instead, randomly picked to stay based on shear luck. New management was so detached from their acquired product that the company almost went defunct within a year and had to be bailed out and bought up by Blackboard.

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5.0
Feb 16, 2017
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Great people at Edline. The product is great and is something to be proud to sell.

Cons

Things started to change when they were acquired by Blackboard.

2.0
Nov 28, 2011
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Some of the best folks I've ever worked with at the middle management levels down to the guys in the trenches. Good compensation, decent budget for hardware etc.

Cons

The higher levels of management are basically chosen because they are good at making the levels above them feel good but lack any real technical skill needed in this kind of field. The company uses fear to keep people in line, and the atmosphere at the head office is like something from a prison movie because of it.

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