Nuance reviews

You won't make any money here. Your benefits will be utterly nothing and you'll avoid going to the doctor because if you go and something's wrong, you can't afford to have the tests to determine what it is. PTO time? I guess if you're upper management the PTO is all day every day, but if you're typing or editing, forget it. They will begrudge you the tiny bits of time you do get off. You will probably qualify for government assistance with food and housing if you work here. While you're working, you'll be expected to do all sorts of work-related things off the clock because if you do them on the clock you'll be written up for not meeting your hourly production number. You'll be bombarded with "ALL HANDS ON DECK" emails all day and night long. The work they do have sounds like the dictators are not only unable to speak English, but they're also calling from Neptune on a cell phone. Good luck trying to decipher that.

the employee evaluation process is poorly handled... you are graded on a bell shaped curve... the process is handled like the prom queen elections... favorites plays a lot in this scale... no matter what you do... you are not going to advance on this curve at evaluation time... only the favorites of the manager will get a high end of the curve in score. While they demand a 45 hour work week, I have at times consistently put in 60 hour weeks and that only gets me an "average" rating while people who come in after me and leave before me (and let me finish the work) get better ratings. The supervisors are petty and consistently balance the budget by laying off people... it seems to be a few of the older people who get fired then a month or so later they hire a young kid out of school. Oh, but the also generally fire a very young person so the statistics look good "on average". There is very little severance package to speak of... They provide no reason for loyalty to this company. At times the business is slow and during one evaluation, I noticed that the management blames the employee for not working on projects. The management actually said to me it was my fault I was not busy even though management hands out the projects to work on and I informed management that I had finished my last projects. Bonus time does not follow the company policy of established formulas... the state a 10% bonus policy but I have yet to achieve it. They randomly remove some or much of the promised bonus amount from annual distributions.. I don't think I have received more than 5% of the bonus promised in my hire documentation. There is no transparency as to why they remove some or most of the bonus. I notice that the CEO is the highest paid executive in Boston area while they claim that the snack budget for the office has to be eliminated because of budget problems. There is lip service to family work balance but it is only "lip service" and employees who try to strike a balance are whacked at evaluation time.