Sphera Solutions Reviews

- High turnover at all levels including executive team. CFO, CMO, CHRO and CSO have left in the past 6 months alone. 3 of the 4 of those roles remain open. - Management is highly disorganized. Spending is based on emotions. If you’re in sales, your budget is effectively a blank check. But wait…are the sellers actually selling and meeting targets? No. - Budgets continue to be squeezed. No investment. Some teams are heavily overworked meanwhile some don’t have enough to do. Ironically, the budget and resources are being stripped from those overworked teams. - Mass layoffs at least once a year. Jobs continue to be offshored (more layoffs) with unqualified talent to save a couple bucks. - Despite all those cost cutting efforts, the bonus this year paid 10%. Yes, ten percent. - Compensation continues to trail the market. - Entirely too much micro managing from the top that don’t translate into valuable results.

Sphera is a private equity owned company, so its corporate culture and employee benefits pretty much speak for themselves. In just a few short years, Sphera has been through several rebrandings and rounds of layoffs, and senior management is nothing short of incompetent. All the senior managers and the CEO care about is whether the revenue figures on their spreadsheets are ticking upward, not about actually safeguarding the company’s performance by tackling problems at the source or adhere the preached culture values. They lean on the capable people to do all the work, repackage those results as their own personal accomplishments, keep their ears filled with flattery from the incompetent, and then cut heads if the numbers on their little spreadsheets don’t go up. The result is they can’t hold on to talented people, low team morale, and they’re left with a pack of directors, managers and VPs who have impressive titles and not a single subordinate. This company is sliding downhill a little more every day, and frankly I’d be amazed if it manages to survive another few years without being sold off by its private equity owners.