Optiva reviews

3.7

68% would recommend to a friend

(285 total reviews)

Robert Stabile

91% approve of CEO

58% positive business outlook

Optiva has an employee rating of 3.7 out of 5 stars, based on 285 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Optiva employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Telekommunikation industry (3.6 stars).

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285 reviews
4.0
Jul 20, 2025

Trying Hard

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

interesting space and AI will change a lot

Cons

technical debt and customer retention

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Optiva Response
8mo
Thank you for your feedback. We are proud of our company's commitment to innovation, growth, and our people, who make our success possible. We value your input and will utilize it to shape ongoing improvements and continue to make Optiva a great place to work.
3.0
Jun 1, 2025
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Learning, Challenges, Remote Work, Work Life Balance

Cons

Management's Vision, Uncontrolled Approach for new development

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Optiva Response
8mo
Thank you for your feedback. We are proud of our company's commitment to innovation, growth, and our people, who make our success possible. We value your input and will utilize it to shape ongoing improvements and continue to make Optiva a great place to work.
3.0
Mar 23, 2025

Average Company

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

1. Only pros I found is WFH.

Cons

1. No process followed here. 2. In the salary structure, you will have a variable component (10-20%) and that you will get only 20-30% of your variable component. Many times company is not able to meet the goals. 3. Whenever you have meeting with your managers they said you are doing good, but at the time of appraisal they will not give you a good rating and will give you number of reasons. 4. If you are working on legacy part, there is no learning and lot of pressure. 5. The managers doesn't care if you are liking the work or not. They just assign work to you, to a developer they can ask to write automation script also, 6. The leads here don't know how to give estimations, they give estimations on the fly and after that team suffers as in those estimates the work is not doable as legacy code itself has it's own challenges. 7. The managers here are with no technical background, they don't know what you are doing, they will just argue with you if some assignment is taking time. 8. Hike is very low max 2-3% and sometimes no hike.

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Optiva Response
8mo
Thank you for your service to Optiva. We are sorry to hear about your experience. Many new changes have taken place in management. We invite you to check out the changes and consider Optiva if you look for new opportunities in the future.
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