Pros
Great history, good people throughout the company and nice locations.
Kontras
The key to good management is making ethical, intelligent and data driven decisions. In spite of this, decision making at Perforce is insular and lack of communication through and across the organization leaves it vulnerable. The entire management team shares a common background from a previous organization where they started from the ground up to establish trust and internal communication. Treating a leveraged takeover of Perforce the same as that old org was an oversight. The time was not taken to diagnose what made Perforce successful prior to the acquisition and much of the decision making in the initial round of lay-offs was made on based on a pessimistic view of California work culture and put a premium on cost savings. This resulted in an exodus of talent and loss of face for the new management team. Management asks for trust and sacrifices as they race to find the bottom line but continue an insular approach and disregard input from those who are exposed to the results of their decisions. Successfully managing change is one of the hardest things to accomplish but it has gone poorly for Perforce. Office culture is poor, benefits are sacrificed for the bottom line, and your input isn't valued.
