Borland Software Reviews

Pros

open culture, great legacy. Please still have the old mentality. Lots of great stuff to learn. Very good work environment.

Cons

management does not have a vision for the company. Boralnd was great at one time but times have changed, so embrace change.

Advice to Senior Management

Profitability is the name of the game, work towards that. Find a niche that will grow the company to profitability

Pros

Being able to say you worked for a former "Titan of Silicon Valley".

Cons

Borland started in a downward spiral and could never get out of its own way to turn things around. Management was consumed with personal "land grab" initiatives and paid no attention to employees, their efforts and achievement or their career paths.

Advice to Senior Management

You did a fine job ruining a great company. Congratulations!

Pros

Great people in worker roles; management not so much.

Cons

Bullies for managers; if you don't ascribe to their point of view you will suffer.

Advice to Senior Management

Since they are gone now, nothing. Micro Focus destroyed them with Eric Prusch's help.

Pros

A lot of very smart, friendly people work here.

Cons

The pay is way below market, senior management make poor choices.

Advice to Senior Management

Let people closer to the products run things a bit more.

Pros

Good pay and benefits
Good middle managers
Friendly atmosphere
Senior Management was highly motivated and eager to improve the company

Cons

A lot of senior management churn, particularly in the CEO position. Too many CEOs came in with different directions and focus for the company. Once it was clear that the company was going no where fast, the CEO hit the road and left the company to flounder.

Advice to Senior Management

Borland was acquired by MicroFocus so there really isn't anything that can be done now. Before the acquisition I would have recommended that management pick a strategy and stick with it.

Pros

Stable and nice colleagues. They are helpful and professional, I recommend for this company.

Cons

It's slow in making decision, and the requirements keep changing.

Advice to Senior Management

Stop cutting cost and treat developers nicely.

Pros

Borland was a well-known name. Majority of the development community knows Turbo C and C++Builder from Borland.
Possessed a lot of cool software.

Cons

company's direction was not clear
too many product lines
performance review was not useful
sometimes employees were not treated respectfully.

Advice to Senior Management

instead of going big, it should have been going small. going big meant no real focus in the company. the ALM implementation did not seem very realistic.

Pros

Cutting edge methods and tools, access to new tech including open source; latest development methods; good equipment, smart, technically competent colleagues are fun to work with

Cons

Company is being acquired by Micro Focus who is not even a US company. They have already said there will be layoffs. MF just wants the testing products and may not want the people. Very gloomy atmosphere; employees are upset and angry. Upper management makes out like bandits. Employees may be left with no jobs and minimum severance in a bad economy

Advice to Senior Management

Positioned the company for sale w/o letting the employees know what's up until the last minute. Shiney new offices weren't for employees--they were all for effect for sale. The employees gave their all---now they get nothing and you get millions. How can the execs sleep at nite?

Pros

Used to be a great place to work, mgrs respected employees and wanted thier input

Cons

Was a good place to work... lots of fun. Became a dog eat dog work place. Upper mgmnt doesn't respect their employees

Advice to Senior Management

Remember that your best assets are your employees

Pros

Nice gym in building that is free to use. Nice view.

Cons

Managers are bush league. They act unprofessionally and treat all of their employees unprofessionally. Very unprofessional, disrespectful environment.

Advice to Senior Management

Clear out the hacks and get some real pros in there. Otherwise, Borland is just going to go down the tubes.