BMC Software Reviews in Houston, TX Area

Pros

benefits are the best reason for working at bmc

Cons

Working long hours and not receiving raises

Advice to Senior Management

management gives mutual feedback

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

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

Some very good products, a number of great employees, smart senior management

Cons

Sometimes the company ignores the strength it has in it's people, often makes decisions and changes based on the next quarter's results

Pros

Growth, money, market share, good management, BMC looks for hardworking people and pay for it.

Cons

HEARD of corporate polotics. Doesn't mean it's bad since I HEAR most companies have it worse.

Advice to Senior Management

Some reorg changes don't need to be as often.

Pros

Great co-workers and benefits. Great stock growth.

Cons

All decisions are top-down and individual innovation is ignored until it becomes the idea of someone at the top.

Advice to Senior Management

Find out what people at the lower levels are doing. Let them execute their ideas and benefit from them.

Pros

Respected company, flexible abilty to work from home, cool campus

Cons

Very bureacratic, teams in the company operating in silos

Advice to Senior Management

It's not very wise to keep fired employees around just to train new employees--that's poisonous.

Pros

Pay package and medical benefits are decent.
Beautiful campus - Many places to hide especially when you are in stress caused by ineffective and inappropriate team dynamics (especially when you are running from your business unit and your Manager).

Cons

Politics, Politics, Politics - They groom you to be a back stabber at the end of the day.
Management is caught up with just making money, they hardly recognize the real people that got the job done. Instead all promotions and laurels go to the wrong idiots.

Advice to Senior Management

Know your people and try hiring "real Talent" for a change. (thus avoiding the typical "friend's friend need a job" model)

Pros

Great place to work. Everyone is intelligent because they have good recruiters. Great managers to train you. Great resources available to do your job well. Great work/life balance.

Cons

There really aren't any cons to this job. They expect a lot out of you and so you must deliver on that.

Advice to Senior Management

Continue doing what you're doing. The training gets better and better through constant attention and evolution. The morale is very high, great job!

Pros

VERY flexible, wonderful 401K, excellent benefits (work from home, flex time). Young

Cons

The job deserves more in compensation

Advice to Senior Management

Promote more within the company