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2.8

27% would recommend to a friend

(1,666 total reviews)
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Tom Krause

20% approve of CEO

28% positive business outlook

Cloud Software Group has an employee rating of 2.8 out of 5 stars, based on 1,666 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an average working experience there. The Cloud Software Group employee rating is 27% below average for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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1.0
15 Aug 2023

Tom Krause is an incompetent psychopath

Anonymous employee
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Pros

My boss and immediate co-workers are all great people. They're the only reason I haven't left post-Krause.

Cons

Tom Krause is a petty, whiny, incompetent coward of a man in way over his head. Presumably he was hired strictly for his extreme lack of empathy to quickly conduct the post-merger mass layoffs; presumably he too will be fired once his personality defects are no longer useful. He appears to sincerely (and oh-so-wrongly) believe that 1. he is the smartest person in any room he enters and 2. he is here because he has somehow earned it. He does not understand software. He does not understand enterprise software customers. I can only imagine Broadcom's CEO rubbed his hands together in delight when he finally got the chance to unload him and let him fail upward to become someone else's problem. Krause appears to fancy himself a sort of mini-Musk, terrorizing employees by threatening their jobs using arbitrary and ever-changing metrics - did you not badge-in enough in June? Maybe Krause will order your manager to fire you. Did you make below a certain number of code commits in July? Maybe Krause will order your manager to fire you. Did you close enough support tickets in August? Did you generate X number of sales leads in September? Next month it'll be a different secret and arbitrary metric - all designed to scare the employees talented enough to have other employment options (which invariably pay more, to boot) into quitting so Tom can continue his stealth layoffs and avoid paying more severance. As he seems constitutionally incapable of personal growth and reflection, I can easily picture him fuming while reading this and ordering someone nearby to try to track down who wrote these words - sue Glassdoor if you have to! - so he can cowardly order their manager to fire them. I wish I could recommend CSG as a good place to work - but it's not with Krause in charge, and I'm not sure the damage he's inflicted will be repairable even after he ultimately slithers out hugging his pile of mercenary blood-money.

1.0
29 Nov 2023

A real nightmare

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Pros

The only pro is that anyone you speak to is as miserable as you are except the c suite who seems to live in an alternate reality with their millions — though they are severely incompetent and are seemingly rewarded for uselesness

Cons

It’s quite difficult to describe how miserable we all are at Csg. Whether you were in tibco or Citrix we worked for years to build something meaningful, products that delighted our customers - only to be mauled by a psychopath CEO who seemingly has a severe issue in short term memory loss. The executive leadership seems to have been handpicked based on who will shut up and do as a say and be extremely ineffective and useless in their respective departments so that more people will be fired or leave. It’s almost like they have some type of internal bet on who is the worst leader, who has more people leaving their organizations. Everything operates in silos now after years of trying to integrate our products. This is just a shell company for some private equity firm to fool someone into buying something.

2.0
4 Jun 2023
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Pros

Always has job openings due to turnover. If you never worked for Citrix, during its heyday, you might be able to deal with the blind corporate governance that exists here now, at lease for a little while. It will probably look good on a resume once you quit.

Cons

The new executive leadership has chosen to destroy the Citrix culture of caring for their employees and has shifted focus to becoming everything people hate about typical American corporations. They are trying to run this multi-billion-dollar corporation like a 'mom and pop' shop. Trading enterprise level business systems for open source Google software for all the main business productivity tools. Health benefits have been reduced, workloads have been increased, employee satisfaction is literally in the toilet, but that's ok since they stopped sending us global employee surveys. Accountability is a new focus, but only for the lowest level employees and is based on shaky metrics supplied by shaky business systems, interpreted by shaky managers that have no accountability for their own failures in team and project management ... most are living in a state of fear which is the only culture I have seen implemented by Tom Krause. Management is in no way held accountable for the struggles and failures that are happening due to the utter lack of leadership in the Return to office plan , IT tools, systems and processes. Project management is an actual nightmare for most team. Task management tools are being taken away as we speak.

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