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Strafford Technology

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Over-promise, under-deliver... - Anonymous employee Strafford Technology Employee Review

2.0
Feb 7, 2015
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

The company has a long history of success and a good reputation in the enterprise performance management consulting marketplace. The office is comfortable, conveniently located, and co-workers are all very nice people. Highly-skilled team of outside consultants working on client projects.

Cons

The company does not have a clearly communicated vision of the future. The core consulting services around on-premise Oracle and SAP Enterprise Performance Management and Business Intelligence software implementations are being disrupted by SaaS solutions. There's increased competition for the dwindling number of large implementation projects driving the revenue for these projects down. There are no plans to address these apparent threats. Micromanagement from the top with no communication of business values, strategy, and goals. It's a very small team of about 10 people and each person's responsibilities and tasks are silo-ed from the rest of the group. People who have been there for a while have given up trying to bring their own thoughts, expertise, and ideas to their job and resign themselves to working from task lists handed down directly from the business owner. Compensation plans for sales professionals are designed to attract top performers with promises of high earnings but in reality the commission structure isn't in line with compensation targets. The commission percentages are far too low, the company does not pay commissions up-front on long-term contracts, the sales cycle is very long, and the deal close rate is low. All of this makes high-end commission targets out of reach.

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5.0
Jul 30, 2018
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Great Benefits Offered Family Friendly Flexible Professional, Courteous and Cooperative staff.

Cons

Can't think of any at the moment

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5.0
Sep 3, 2014
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

I liken the company to a "diamond chip," all the qualities of a Fortune 500 company but at a manageable scale. Ready access to the two managing partners, "best of breed," heavily invested infrastructure, hands-off management style, nimble, strong market focus {Business Intelligence (Oracle-Hyperion, Essbase and SAP-BPC)}. They have a good (and flexible) benefit package, 401k, and 18 personal days the first year!. They have the ability, desire and actions to do what it takes to stay ahead of the curve. Strafford is a 20-year old successful company with well-grounded management style. By "sticking to their knitting," they have a great installed CFO-level client base, and the respect of C-level clients and vendors. They own their projects! Finally, they are growing, and seeking "the right" additional talent to help them continue scale up.

Cons

The office is not next to my house. I drive a long way to get here every day but it is well-worth the effort. Your inclination is to stay until the work is done, and do so without issue.

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