Sovos reviews

3.4

59% would recommend to a friend

(580 total reviews)
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Kevin Akeroyd

44% approve of CEO

45% positive business outlook

Sovos has an employee rating of 3.4 out of 5 stars, based on 580 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Sovos employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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580 reviews
1.0
Mar 6, 2016
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Pros

I recently posted a review titled "Avoid STS"...they changed the department title to "compliance services associate", we use to be called analysts...maybe by changing to associate they are hoping employees will expect less?

Cons

Absolutely avoid. refer to my last post--awful environment, truly toxic. sleezy gross operation. the fact that they have to trick people into accepting/interviewing for the position is sad (this in itself should be enough to keep you away)!!! you have been warned. :)

1.0
Jan 15, 2018

Crooked operation

Anonymous employee
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Pros

An opportunity to learn the complexities of sales tax.

Cons

100% annual staff turnover is the goal of the organization. It destroys its reputation and its solution to correct the matter is to change the name of the company. The CEO and his 8 - 12 cronies are getting rich, while their employees are barely earning enough to survive. The firm has a policy to hire low-level recent college graduates and long-term unemployed senior level staff. Hence, they are hired at below scale salaries. The successful senior level employees will work there for 1 - 3 years until they are brought into a conference room and told that their position no longer exists. It appears that management spaces out the elimination of those positions in a manner to avoid age discrimination laws. However, several former employees have approached the Department of Labor Relations.

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Sovos Response
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I’m deeply affected by your negative perception of our senior leadership team. In our last engagement survey, employees agreed the company and, by extension, our leadership team operated with strong values and ethics. This result, based on anonymous feedback we collect from our employees, is a source of pride to me personally and the rest of the leadership team. Let me assure you high attrition is not an organizational goal. Quite the opposite. The leadership team sets goals each year for employee engagement as indicated by lower employee attrition. Our organization has grown from 170 employees to well over 1,000 employees in just a few years. I recognize our fast growth and the accompanying change is not easy on either our existing employees or those employees joining our organization by way of acquisition. Despite the challenges of a high growth and rapidly changing organization, I’m proud to celebrate the nearly 100 people passing long tenure milestones with our company in 2018. As for compensation, our salaries and benefits are regularly benchmarked to industry standards and for geographic location. We are diligent in this regard, which has led to a continuous stream of compensation increases, benefits improvements and other work life enhancements. As just one example, we have not increased health insurance premiums for 3 consecutive years despite average increases above 5% in the United States. Rest assured, we will continue to improve our total compensation and benefits package to assure we compete effectively for top talent in an increasingly competitive world. I feel badly that somewhere in all the change, we lost your personal engagement. Again, I’m deeply affected to think a former employee may carry this animosity towards the leadership team and the greater Sovos organization. We understand and openly acknowledge the Sovos work environment is not for everyone. We further acknowledge we have areas to improve and are proactively working to address them with the help of our valued team members. Let me assure you one of our overarching goals is to create a workplace where career-minded individuals come together to take on the unique challenges of a growing organization while advancing in their careers and thus improving their individual way of life. I remain personally committed to realizing this purpose - as does our entire leadership team. That’s the bottom line for all of us. - Andy
1.0
Feb 9, 2017

Typical Equity Partner Aqusition with Short-Sighted Executives

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Will give you the experience necessary for work elsewhere. Some of the staff are exceptional human beings

Cons

Convey Compliance (the Minnetonka Office) was an extraordinary place to work. The culture was fantastic, pay was competitive, and the work was fun. Once they were acquired by Vista Equity Partners and merged with Taxware (Wilmington Office) the Executives of Convey were let go, and the Executives at Taxware took over. The Executives were in-charge of a small and failing company until Convey was merged with them and provided a much needed infusion of money, experience and expertise which was quickly alienated. The culture changed rapidly to a churn of employees to satisfy the reduction in Cost of Goods Sold in order to position for the next sale of the brand. Human Resources is a joke, you are more likely to be fired for looking at them the wrong way than to be able to discuss real issues relating to your employment.

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