TIBCO Software Reviews

Former Employee – worked at TIBCO Software

Pros – Good products offered for various technologies.

Cons – Upper management treats employees poorly.

Current Employee – been working at TIBCO Software full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – A twenty word minimum is difficult to meet in this area. It's like having to wirte a minimum number of word essay for Jr. High School where you just babble to increase the word count. TIBCO has nice working facilities and a lot of extremely competent and passionate over worked employees.TIBCO subsidizes the costs of the cafeteria and "feeds" their employees as rewards. Donuts and bagels on Friday, holiday lunches, holiday parties, summer picnics.

Cons – Over the years it has gotten worse with management at the top making the calls that should be handled by lower level more directly involved management . Almost dictatorship-like from the top. Senior Management is "taken care of" which is clear from company reports and company "filings". The hours required to get the job done are ridiculous due to the lack of needed headcount. There is little accountability for employees making the competent employees have to work harder. Yet workers are taken for granted and perceived to be a dime a dozen even though the "lip service" from the top is TIBCO employees are the best and most talented employees. HR is the worst...there is no support from them and their lack of realistic
"benchmarking" drives the low wages. Merit increases are never there yet there are record quarters. Reviews are a formality and here is little to no follow up regarding them. Acquisitions are handled poorly and it is clear by the feelings of the employees acquired. Morale is very bad throughout many organizations.

Advice to Senior Management – Use the old school "MBWA" - Management By Walking Around.
LISTEN to your employees, talk to them like they are humans not machines. REALLY read their quarterly meeting questions and don't hand pick the ones you want to "dance around". On second thought never mind, because the quarterly meeting are a thing of the past. IF Senior Management can't take the time to present at the meetings in person, don't expect employees to go to the meetings.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at TIBCO Software full-time for less than a year

Pros – The money is decent. Many of the people are brilliant and dedicated.

Cons – The brilliant people are working stupidly long hours on triage and bandaids and fixes while the core functionality is not improved upon. Strong tendency to over-promise and under-deliver to clients. Too many new sales with too many customizations for the existing staff to handle with any quality.

Advice to Senior Management – The solution is not to hire more support staff, but to fix the core product. This company was a startup and was purchased by TIBCO and is expected to grow to support huge major new clients with many millions of customers. The platform can't handle it.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at TIBCO Software

Pros – Compelling technology, solid engineering employee base

Cons – They simply do not get the notion of work/life balance and will be the first to tell you that your butt in your seat is more important than your productivity. You are watched when you come and go vs. how much work you actually get done. They have no concept that you can actually be more productive when you are happy and have flexibility. Admittedly would rather lose talent than accommodate a flexible schedule

Advice to Senior Management – Get with the times...it's 2012; people don't need to be in the office to be productive. Also, C-level management needs subject matter expertise and knowledge, not just friends of the CEO

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at TIBCO Software

Pros – Great technical workforce
Willing to share technical knowledge between each other
Relatively good compensation for senior consultants & architects

Cons – $, $$, $$$ - This is all Senior management care about. Forget about time with your family, what you like to do, or profit sharing. Senior management likes to VERBALLY praise you. And that's pretty much all you will get for sacrificing your personal life for them. Good workers tend to get overwork yet uncompensated, while less than stellar performers gets a free ride.
Managers who knows how to smooth talk but without a good technical background leads to unrealistic, unsustainable expectation that sets employees (& the company) up for failure

Advice to Senior Management – Respect your employee
Treat them as human, not a machine
Do not take advantage of people who needs green card sponsorship. There should not be modern day salavery. Don't not over work people
Be fair to your customers. Do not lie to your customers and charge them an exorbitant amount for a junior consultant who only knows the product for a few days.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at TIBCO Software

Pros – good products, keeping technology pace with changes in software industry

Cons – middle management is not competitive. plays lot of nepotism. gives wrong feedback to upper management. Misuses the power & their access to upper management. Upper management completely neglects employee satisifaction.

Advice to Senior Management – upper management is not concerned about anything other than getting projects done. They should start caring about the goose that gives them golden eggs and not the fools that manages the goose.

Current Employee – been working at TIBCO Software

Pros – a) Extremely good products b) Good mix of competitive people c) Good Office culture d) startup culture in an SMB

Cons – a) Non-Effective transparent top management b) Low Communications top-to-bottom c) Management encouraging and promoting wrong employees d) too much of politics and back-stabbing

Advice to Senior Management – Perform and encourage independent management appraisal along with employees
Poor management fails to motivate employee morale
Improve effective management communication which is truly unbiased and transparent

Former Employee – worked at TIBCO Software

Pros – Talented employees, good technology, aggressive sales team.

Cons – Senior management is virtually incompetent, with few exceptions.

Advice to Senior Management – Retire.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at TIBCO Software

Pros – Talented people, technology innovation, flexiable working environment

Cons – Bad top level management, still in startup mode, lack of business vision, no growth, unfairness when it comes to compensation, stock options.

Advice to Senior Management – Get a new CEO who can grow or sell the company

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at TIBCO Software

Pros – A good place to learn enterprise software technology, and learn from some very smart peers.

Cons – Vivek and his inner circle are aloof, arrogant and believe their own bulls*. Talented managers and executives either get frustrated and quit or get fired because they speak truth to power or they get in the way of sycophants. Rank and file is demoralized after losing good leaders and pay cuts.

Advice to Senior Management – Vivek should have sold the company or kicked himself upstairs years ago.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend