Terrible company, Micro Management and Wannabees - Anonymous employee IFS Employee Review

1.0
Aug 18, 2020
Anonymous employee
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Pros

Biggest pro is I learned quick that this company is a joke with poor products and very poor mid-level and upper level management

Cons

Where do I start. - New management who manages with a stick - CEO and execs took a small paycut when COVID hit while requiring everyone else to take larger % reduction in pay. - Laid off employees due to "COVID" and then hired replacements 2 weeks later (to avoid paying severance) - Smoke and mirrors - shows their old capabilities to prospects which IFS is discontinuing and moving to a new platform. Customers are not being told about this migration which will cause a ton of pain to redeploy (substantial upgrade at minimum) vs. being transparent. - People working here have been with the company for 20 + years in some cases. Typically this would be viewed as a positive, but I found most of these people are extremely lazy and know nothing other than IFS (don't know the market, don't know the competition, have stopped growing).

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IFS Response
5y
While we respect different opinions, this post is loaded with falsehoods and slander(LR).

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Rapidly Advancing Technology and Approach Sales led, and driven organization Access to Leadership to address any issues Open to ideas and generally appreciates their Employees

Cons

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IFS Response
1mo
Such an insightful review, with clear advice and feedback to the business. Thank you for sharing your thoughts. Good luck with your career at IFS. SS
2.0
Jun 22, 2026
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Pros

Other consultants in the trenches with you. Great customers.

Cons

Absolute terrible management. They care about one thing and one thing only. Sales. This has hurt them in the market because they have a reputation now of not being able to deliver. They have not had a single project finish on time in years. They are more focused on "messaging" and "optics" than actually being able to deliver. In the same time frame that they cut benefits, refused to hire more developers and consultants and raised the billing targets, they have hired no less than 15 VP's, C-levels, and directors. In that same time frame, they rented out the entire Universal studios and spent Millions on unbudgeted dinners and parties for sales and pre-sales. The ROI on this does not exist. This same team turned around and stated we will miss year end revenue targets and there will be no raises or bonuses. Seems well managed huh? You are completely barred from bringing this up as well. Management will threaten you, call you names and bully you into submission or until you leave. Once you decide to leave they bully you even more and bad mouth you to your current customers. IFS has a great product. The benefit to the customers in the market is huge. However, IFS corporate is unable to deliver on this promise anymore. This company from an implementation standpoint is in massive free fall.

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