Working at Accruent in Austin, TX: 9 Employee Job Reviews by Real Employee working in Austin, TX Area

"Accruent is a company with great potential, but many growing pains not yet addressed. The tools are available, the perks are many but they are under staffed and responsibility is high with many in leadership putting out daily fires over bringing solutions to the people doing the daily work."

"Company has strong growth potential, but lacks strong mid-level leadership to drive necessary improvements. The organization lacks the internal controls environment necessary to scale business successfully. Day to day work can be improved with stronger data integrity, and systems management."

"Accruent has a strong culture with great people. Unfortunately, the compensation is incredibly low and doesn't seem to be changing anytime soon."

"First as an MS SQL DBA and then as an Oracle DBA, I was employed by Siterra Inc., a Calif. software company in 2005. The company was acquired by Accruent in 2010 and I remained the Oracle DBA for the application until Oct. 2014. Accruent provides facilities and real estate management systems that deliver long term, best in class operational and financial performance. Accruent has over 500 employees and over 3300 customers."

"Accruent provides a great learning experience when starting out. Ultimately the problem domain fails to maintain the interest of an experienced programmer."

"I've worked for accruent for almost 3 years. It used to be a smaller / better company with a lot of smart people, but now that it's growing there are a lot of people who can get and advance by doing not much of anything as long as they are good politically. Also the pay is just plain terrible."

"The biggest advantage of Accruent is that they will hire you with very little prior experience. Generally, if you work hard and do quality work, you will get promoted in time. Promotions also usually come with hefty percentage raises.The bad is that starting salaries are very low, and the unspoken rule is that you need to work incredibly long hours to even be considered for promotions.My advice: Work here if you have little to no job experience, get promoted, then move on."

"Accruent is a great place to get started. They have a very friendly atmosphere and genuinely helpful group of people running the company. Work is fast pasted and rewarding, even if the workload is not spread out enough."

"Expect long hours and little pay; for those with no experience, may be worth it."

What do you like about working at Accruent?

"I'm allowed to work a pretty relaxed schedule. There's a bi-monthly beer bash."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"You really don't need experience to get a job here, but you will need to pass the an assessment test. The test is intended to measure problem solving skills and helps determine if you are a good fit for the company's values."

What don't you like about working at Accruent?

"Unreasonable expectations. Project deadlines are too aggressive for even teams of seasoned software developers, much less distributed teams of primarily green and midlevel engineers. Intense pressure to work long hours on a regular basis. Working til 4am to solve customer issues is not unusual. The product is in a bad state, obviously. Salaries for engineering run about 20-25k less than other companies in the area. Benefits are average. No 401k matching. Pay raises officially don't exist."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Raise salaries to be somewhat competitive. Also, give people the resources they need to be successful (currently no real product training for engineers, very few domain experts, skillset books and development tools are limited, access to code base and servers needed to complete tasks is slow and sometimes never given at all). Game room and free beer are great things for the vast number of young people in the office, but being paid reasonably and being given the tools for success would make employees happier."