Avantages
Work from home. Somewhat stable company.
Inconvénients
I have never worked for a company that found so many different ways not to pay you. Any type of variable compensation, be it commissions or bonuses will NEVER be what you think they will. First off comp plans usually come in after the first quarter, so you spend the first part of the year not even knowing the details of your target. When you finally do get your plan, it is usually an unattainable number that far exceeds what is possible or what previous years indicate is feasible. If you are lucky enough to actually hit a target, that’s when the true Infor compensation killing war machine goes into effect. Product doesn’t do what the customer needs? Infor will promise it, and collect the sale revenue but deny sales compensation because of futures. Close a sale but the customer is slow to pay? Well you don’t get paid until 2 months AFTER the customer pays, not signs. In effect Reps are now also collections agents. Proud that you worked hard and closed a deal? Be prepared for the compensation Nazis to cut your anticipated payout because they didn’t deem your contribution to be worth full payout. Told your compensation will get credited for your work on multi pillar deals? Be prepared for over two years of “confusion” on how to credit your business unit and thus avoid paying out what they promised. I don’t know many people that would continue to work for a company that takes over two years to pay them for their efforts. I certainly wasn’t one of them. As for products, know this. Infor is a software holding company. They don’t innovate. They’ll put lipstick on a big with their Hook and Loop graphic design department and claim they have state of the art, industry specific applications which is a joke. Benefits are the bare minimum. Health insurance is expensive and substandard. 401(k) match is a measly $2400/year with a 4 year vesting. They take away benefits and reimbursable expenses while charging you more and continuing to look for ways to compensate you less. I may have missed the class in Psychology 101, but asking people to do more and more while you give them less and less is not a way to motivate and keep the best and brightest. If it were a bad market and the company needed to tighten its belt to survive and avoid layoffs, that would be one thing. When the economy is strong, you are supposedly making “record sales” and this happens, talent will leave for where it is more appreciated. Some claim that the belt tightening is because Infor plans to go public. That might be great for the Koch brothers to get profit from their 3 billion dollar investment, but it means jack to the rest of the company that gets no promise of equity, if and when this IPO ever happens. Avoid this company unless you are desperate for a job or you want a place you can fly under the radar and just collect a check, not caring about advancement or growth.
