BEA Systems Reviews

Pros

nice place to work for techiqs

Cons

same line of work for the last 10 years

Advice to Senior Management

got bought out by Oracle

Pros

Found that people followed through on their commitments and treated each other with respect.

Cons

It was a smaller company struggling to grow to the next level and there were some hard choices that had to be made for that to happen.

Pros

Everyone at BEA Systems was very smart and motivated to be the best in the industry and beat the competition.

Cons

In it's efforts to cut costs, the company had under funded the products that drove the bulk of its revenues.

Pros

Great employees, great company, overall a great experience in a very successful company that consisted of intelligent engineers and overall staff of Executives who made right decisions.

Cons

The only issues that the company had was that a lot of people got tied up in complaining about not very significant issues.

Advice to Senior Management

Unfortunately no advice is necessary for the leadership at BEA Systems as it was acquired by Oracle in 2008 and all the individuals were either laid off or transfered on to Oracle

Pros

Great people worked there, senior management was a little challenged though
Good money, great technology

Cons

Lots of great people left

Pros

Pockets of innovation exist but are not integrated well

Cons

strategic dither among senior leaders

Advice to Senior Management

Consistency of strategy

Pros

You get to work on cool new toys like Fighter jets and feed your curiosity of how things are made.

Cons

A lot of back stabbing between employees. Make up stories to get each other sacked and even though the management new this nothing is being done to stop this menace in the workplace.

Advice to Senior Management

Don't just take one employee's word as a golden truth but thoroughly investigate the matter and actively put a stop to malicious defamation of character when these accusations are found to be falsified.

Pros

- some of the leadership team and employees are great people to work with

Cons

- Finance carried a tremendous amount of power, which is not what a s/w company needs
- Sales and Marketing had very little power, causing the company to build products and services that don't fit customer needs well
- Not a customer-focused company
- Since the company was struggling to grow revenues, there was little opportunity for advancement

Advice to Senior Management

Focus on the customer and empower Sales and Marketing to do their jobs. Stop giving Finance the head seat at the table.

Pros

Great technology stack which is industry leading.

Cons

Sadly Plumtree technology was left behind due to BEA forcing the two companies to still compete for customers against each other. Terrible to have an invisible line down the office separating the staff of each company.

Advice to Senior Management

Learn to integrate the two companies better. BEA has a wonderful stack of technology in the middleware area.

Pros

Tight knit groups with focus on doing things right and doing things well. We worked hard and we played hard. Very motivating environment.

Cons

Although it still had much of that start-up mentality tenure seemed to be more important than competency near the end of the company's life. As Oracle drew nearer things became much more desperate, much less team oriented.

Advice to Senior Management

CEO lacked focus outside of himself. Great Executive Leadership team despite CEO's lack of ability to lead. He knew how to spend money, but making it was a bit beyond him.