Ariba Reviews

Pros

Generally a good place to work. Decent opportunities for advancement, and lots of time off given. Overall it's a good workplace.

Cons

Senior management doesn't really lead by example. There are occasional inequities in compensation that I've noticed. Not much budget allocated for personal growth.

Advice to Senior Management

Work to lead by example. Provide more opportunities for employee personal growth. Work to make compensation equitable across the company.

Pros

ARIBA is an MNC.
It's doing well financially and the pay is acceptable.
You will--very quickly--learn a lot about fixing bugs and defects.

Cons

A toxic, hellish environment where you will encounter the worst kind of inefficiency, bureaucracy, back-stabbing and unethical behavior.

I faced constant workplace harassment by the manager and bootlickers.

Advice to Senior Management

We need to have a dialog with senior executives in the US. The corporate culture, especially in management and HR, cannot ignored.

Pros

Fun, energetic, motivated workforce
Recognition and awards tied directly to performance
Great benefits, time off
Management fully understands work/life balance
Monthly involvement in different charities
Community involvement

Cons

Salaries could be more competitive
Global operations are sometimes inconsistent.
Sales, delivery, and operations are somewhat misaligned in their objectives.

Advice to Senior Management

Try to make more of an effort to interact with employees at all levels. For a smaller company such as Ariba, this could be very feasible and prove to enhance morale. After reading through some of the posts from teams in IDC, it sounds like they could really benefit from 1:1 interactions with our executive team.

Pros

Low key environment and good benefits, lots of vacation time. Over all I like Ariba a lot. Good place to work your way up.

Cons

Work long hard hours, it can be highly demanding at times. Management changes pretty often compared to other companies I've worked for. People switch positions a lot.

Advice to Senior Management

Management could have a better understanding of how demanding the work can be at times. Thats all the advice I have.

Pros

Good technology, financially stable, subscription base is stable

Cons

micro management, very unfriendly, no exposure to external technology

Advice to Senior Management

better treatment of employees

Pros

In the heart of the city
Decent enough package

Cons

1) Work, Work and Work. Its modern day slavery
2) IDC has no serious management people. All the managers are just there to implement what Sunnyvale thinks.
3)Promotions have nothing to do with meritocracy... Its all about being in the directors good book. If you are in good book even p2 level peoples can become managers.
4)Be ready for 12-14 hr days and threatening calls from your manager in the middle of the night.
5) Be ready for hour long scrum meetings. (The manager would sit in the stand up meeting and rest would be standing all the time)
6)The product is old and everything is in house. You would not be learning anything new or marketable skills. If you spend some 2-3 years here, then you are as good as gone in the market.
7)Skeletal work force. So much of attrition and no new joiners. So work is almost doubled per person.

Advice to Senior Management

Understand that there is a deep cultural problem. Weed out those long timers sitting in bench and not growing. Be open to the employees and encourage their career development also.

Pros

market leader and improving strategy re saas

Cons

incompetent, duplicitous direct manager
politics
customer dissatisfaction

Pros

1.Little flexible culture
2.OK business model

Cons

1.A bug fixing company.If you want to fix only defects,you can join this place.
2.Patronizes only veterans who simply find themselves in their comfort zone.
3.All they have is customization.You will hardly write code.
4.IDC does not have any role to play.
5.A place full of politics.
6.HR policies are not people friendly.
7.Developers need to cajole their managers who are close to management.
8.It's only and only about defect & bug fixing.

Advice to Senior Management

IDC management can not do anything about it.They are just sitting on side lines and watching the game.No need for an advice.

Pros

huge upside if the company dumps legacy views, and thoughts that we don't sell software

Cons

12 hour days, every day

Advice to Senior Management

none

Pros

Market leader in the space, products work and do drive customer value, great people to work with, very well know provider.

Cons

Leadership has either finance or consulting background, compensation light compared to market, revolving door, losing a lot of long time employees.

Advice to Senior Management

Share the wealth, Ariba (Senior leadership) makes a lot annually. Compensation for the individual contributor seems to get smaller and smaller each year, pay peopel and they will stay.