Ariba Reviews

Pros

Most middle managers are very good, great time off & benefits. Work/Life balance is geared totally towards Life, which at times can be a con.

Cons

Promotions and raises are rare. Those that are promoted are often undeserving and promoted only because it is less expensive than paying a competent replacement. Employee moral is low. Top Management has no clue or simply does not care what is going on with their eployees.

Advice to Senior Management

Keep your competent employees and drop the dead weight, instead of promoting the dead weight and letting your competent employees leave. A dollar per share hit now is better than all of the problems that you are going to have. An ounce of prevention...

Pros

Able to work from home

Cons

not being able to meet the people i work with, but that is by choose

Advice to Senior Management

keep up the good work

Pros

There is usually a parking space, so no need to worry about getting a ticket. Free tea, coffee or juice.

Cons

Watch your back. Trust no one - especially do not trust sales management in UK. Demands made of employees and their families will catch up sooner or later. Do not believe the hype. No checks or balances regarding behaviour of certain managers.

Advice to Senior Management

You either have no idea what's going on, or choose to ignore. Ensure UK management are accountable - some excellent workers who deserve much better.

Pros

* Culture is fantastic, people are great
* Work hard/play hard
* Respected by my manager and my peers, great atmosphere
* Ariba hires top notch, sharp, well rounded and diverse employees
* Benefits are best of the best
* Market leader in the space
* My manager supports and advocates his team, fights for resources and visibility
* I am proud to work for Ariba, I am challenged and rewarded

Cons

* Salaries could be more competitive
* could be a more formal career path (growth) track for some areas

Advice to Senior Management

* Quarterly Town Hall meetings are valuable and appreciated, it's valuabe to have access to Senior management to ask questions and get updates on the bigger picture

Pros

nice place and good people....especially my team

Cons

not many opportunities and too much stress

Advice to Senior Management

think practical

Pros

Interview process very rigorous, they hire smart people
Team and family outings once in a while
People cooperate with each other

Cons

There is no good work at Idc (no idea about US)
They promise wrongly during interviews but the main work is only bug fixing, always.
No free food.
If you work here for 2 years, you become out of date with technology

Advice to Senior Management

Provide good work to Idc. Everyone is frustrated.

Pros

* Good place to learn meta language, UI dev.
* Good parking lot

Cons

* A very bad, non-technical and hence incompetent senior management
* No process, no management.
* A horrible, unethical, unprofessional, toxic work culture where sycophancy is expected from employees and not hard/good work
* JOB means Just Obey Boss. Dont try to bring in your education, qualification and expertise to office.
* As a result of focussing away from work and onto sycophancy, a lot of bad characteristics have cropped up in the org - grapevines, backstabbing, bootlicking.

Advice to Senior Management

No advice. They wouldnt read or wouldnt understand or wouldnt follow.

Pros

Go to market messaging and overall strategy
Compensation & Benefits
Smart, hardworking people in the team
Few deals are lost (once advanced in the sales stage)

Cons

Not a great working environment
Upper management micro manages which filters down through the ranks
Too many touches within the sales cylce

Advice to Senior Management

Issues are known and its time to act upon them. Go on a management course and improve leadership style at the very top. Shake-up at the top might do wonders.

Pros

Good work life balance
Competitive package
Good onsite opportunities for TSC team.
Talented and motivated team
If you are working on any of Ariba products and willing to build your career on Ariba, this is the best place to work.

Cons

Only Ariba.
If you are thinking of building your Java skills along with Ariba Products, this is not the right place.
Product engineering team might be dealing with some cool stuff, but not TSC.
If TSC, get ready to work on lot of upgrades, implementations and assessments which could be repetitive and boring.
Learning management skills or process is very difficult. All the important and management work related to setting up of process or building tools is done in US. In India it is mainly a back office job.
You need to wait good amount of time to get onsite opportunities. As everywhere there are talented people in line.
If you have any other career plans apart from working on Ariba, be sure to discuss with the mangers and directors in Interview. Ariba may not encourage you to pursue your some education that does not fall in line with company goals. Its difficult to convince once you join.
Don't have the idea of moving to a different team once you join. It is usually not possible. You will have to work with in TSC.

Advice to Senior Management

Management need to concentrate on proper documentation. Though the knowledge bank is huge, proper documents are never available. There are no documents/ trainings related to the domain. There are no documents related to the Ariba technology (Technical documents). Just the Ariba features and functions documents will not help in developing a holistic Idea of the product.

Pros

The efforts get recognised with rewards
Team has some smart brains

Cons

No technical growth
HR policies are partial for employees in India vs elsewhere
Management is taking the company in a service company route

Advice to Senior Management

Company will do good in US but India office will suffer till some senior management / HR from US does not shift and understand the setup and issues here