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!

I'm amazed that the we're still running as I'm guessing the interest paid on all the money borrowed to buy bad fitting companies might nearly be more than the money earned, and given the amount of people being sacked for no reason (there's hearsay that we've looked into getting rid of 50% of our managed services team?!) might we finally be about to die? Saying that, we'll probably find another mug invester or lender to keep us zombying around for a little longer. The CEO seems to be utterly clueless but has no idea or is too proud to admit that he's clueless (happily ignorant perhaps?) buying companies on a whim and seemingly soon after losing so much on them time and time again sticking his finger in the air to guess at a buying price. Supposedly the former CFO (long story on CFOs below) started with us and then stopped a deal within a few weeks after joining as he actually bothered to properly value the company and realised we were about to pay over 50% too much for it! This CFO is no longer with us and they've rehired a previous CFO. The CEO seems like he's now hired his daughter straight out of university to be an M&A analyst?!!!?!!, but even if we get the price right on a company, it still doesn't mean its the right company to buy?! His ego is out of control and the executive team seemingly never challenge him (reportedly earning too much to ever risk losing their jobs), he seems to be warned of obvious pitfalls but ignores advice and seems to walk straight into them over and over. The CEO seems so fond as having puppet executives that it looks like he recently hired a former Chief Sales Officer (who the CFO reportedly said himself wasn't very good but always did what he was told) as the new CEO of one of his spin off companies (Vybbe - read other reviews on Calligo to find more about this nonsense)! Supposedly he also fell out with the previous chief security officer who, supposedly, walked after the CEO was alledgly trying to get him to not report to their key client about security breaches that they were obliged to report. There's so much gossip about the CEO's mishaps that I'm suprised the board hasn't sacked him yet, but then the CEO is the one who will decide what the board hears or doesn't hear.... but poor performance should be enough? Perhaps, but I heard that the board previously brought in a COO (then CRO) to replace the current CEO because he's so bad, but then the CRO was let go (along with loads others). With so much smoke and mirrors I'm guessing the board (mainly private equity owner) didn't want to change the CEO at the same time as trying to quickly get out of their investment without too much of a loss. Someone mentioned a merger the other day but this is probably just a euphemism for a distressed sale to bail us out?! There was even a story where he was apologising through email to customers in Ireland for service being so bad after we bought the companies there and then ruined them, but supposedly rather than admit blame he instead named a former owner of one of the irish companies as having mental health problems as being the cause.... And we're meant to be Data Privacy consultants?!!! Guessing this was settled out of court at some stupid cost to the business. As mentioned about the current CFO, you have to feel sorry for him. It seems as though he was sacked and supposedly was going to be sued by Calligo (guessing he was thrown under the bus by the CEO for the CEO's seemingly terrible purchases in Ireland), but now he's back working for us again?! Do we really pay our top dogs that much that they'd silently put up with that kind of treatment?! The culture here is really bad because of these terrible relationships at the top. Why am I still here? I'm waiting for the inevitable letting go without following proper HR practices so I can get a nice pay out.