BMC Software Reviews

Pros

Houston campus is awesome!!
work life balance
growing company
good pay

Cons

internal processes can take long to change
company needs to invest more on internal systems in the support roles vs all focus on sales

Advice to Senior Management

He who has the talent will win!!

Pros

Good for your career profile, beautiful campus to work on, extremely fast pace if you thrive on that

Cons

Layoff frequently, disconnect of communication from top down, constant change in direction makes it hard to achieve goals on big projects

Advice to Senior Management

Listen to your employees, stop living in an ivory tower

Pros

Flexibility around work virtualization - everybody works from home. Comp and benefits are fine in context of the current market place. Gaining recognition as an industry leader in their space - good for the resume.

Cons

Very little attention paid to talent development and advancement from within. Convoluted, ever-shifting org that affects maintaining effective communication and streams of work. Constant vacillation in the level of transparency maintained.

Advice to Senior Management

Spend more time focusing on talent - not just the acquisition of new/external talent, but the development and promotion of talent that exists within. Doing so will incent development of tenure - ignoring it will result in the shedding of top talent as feelings of apathy grow and opportunities present elsewhere.

Pros

Chance to work in very niche domain

Cons

Management looks confused, needs to be little more pragmatic

Advice to Senior Management

Shun experimenting, trust employees and look to reduce with useless processes

Pros

Good products
Flexible work environment
Good technical teams

Cons

Poor sales management
Poor leadership at management levels
Do not treat people like their most important asset

Advice to Senior Management

Treat your people like your rmost important asset.

Pros

1. Trainings
2. Infrastructure
3. work culture and environment
4. powerful sales organisation
5. Few of the people are very good. ex CTO

Cons

1. Managers / Senior Management
2. there is saying internally that BMC stands "BIG MEETING COMPANY". couple of days in week just goes in useless meetings.
3. sometime it becomes very monotonous
4. you get into comfort zone easily
5. Lot of good HR policies get rolled back without any reason

Advice to Senior Management

1. have bench strength.
2. follow like service organisation manager structure, hiring manager, resource manager etc
3. having good reporting tools in place.

Pros

Flexible work environment
Great at spinning its marketing messages
Spends lots of money on sales training

Cons

No work life balance
Incompetent management
Money is the only thing that matters
Software Sales staff are coddled and are treated as kings
Very political environment
Churns its organization every spring with or without good reason
Sales force is a 'hit and run' organization

Advice to Senior Management

Needs to treat its non-sales staff better
Needs to make its software sales force accountable for Customer Satisfaction

Pros

Package is one of the best in the sector
Salary is one of the highest in the sector

Cons

No respect for employees
No respect for customers
Very instable and faulty technology
Poor management
Continuous change in focus
No strategy
Work on Saturdays, Sundays and every day in 24x7 model required by the managers

Advice to Senior Management

Focus on customer satisfaction
Listen to employees opinion

Pros

Stable company
Great campus
Excellent benefits
Great 401K
Work from home

Cons

Management is so focus on money that they make you work like a slave, at quarter ends you work up to 86 hours in a week. Record overtime has been 22 hrs of straight work. If you are single with no life or if you hate your family this is a good place for you. Compensation does not exist, they expect you to work hard but you wont see any increment in your salary or promotions. If you are young there is no much room for growth.

Advice to Senior Management

Management should focus more in developing new talent and less politics. Compensate your employees better considering the significant growth of this company in the last years. Do not abuse your employees with ridiculous amount of over-time.

Pros

Work env is very good

Cons

If you work for long time, sal rise is less. Management is not too supportive.