CA Technologies Reviews

Pros

Good ethical values
Strong business strategy
ITMass new concept to implement in IT
Cloud summits and working 14k employees as one CA

Cons

Mid level management is not upto mark and not competitive
Always have communal favoritism specially in ITC.
Does not evaluate to one's talent in open minded ness

Advice to Senior Management

Excellent senior leadership with strong vision and values
Motivation and coach to their staff required by mid level management
And support encourage people and their ideas/thoughts

Pros

Good products and solutions for the market place.
Smart people.
Opportunity to make an impact.
Lots of potential.

Cons

Unsettled internally.
Lots of change--need to identify effective model and stick with it.
Fragmented at times.

Advice to Senior Management

Energized, genuine and committed leadership acting together is needed.

Pros

Best Company if you have a stable consistent product with local team.
Best campus and facilities.
Comparable and competitive pay.

Cons

Strangely, my entire team sits in US and communication is one hell of a problem.
Also, team org changes happen so often that in a year, I have had 6 different managers.

Advice to Senior Management

Cut short the clause that for internal mobility, 18months is mandatory. Please make it to max 6months so that people who are dissatisfied with their team and work can look for better options inside the CA rather than looking out.

Pros

Money is best and no hidden clauses.
campus is too good.

Cons

Management apathy towards employees concerns
No transparency in processes.

Advice to Senior Management

Please be employee centric.
Reward performance based culture.

Pros

Love my job. Challenging. Well compensated. Great co-workers.

Cons

Wish company would spend more time developing from within instead of buying companies for growth.

Advice to Senior Management

Listen to your people at the lower levels, they are the ones that really know what is going on with the company.

Pros

Management team has propped up a promising technological strategy for at least the next few years. Even though the company is playing catch up in the cloud/SaaS territory, they've recognized the need and are trying very quickly to fill the gap.

Pay is competitive for the Bay Area, and although it's an East Coast company, it is striving to make the necessary compensation changes for those working in a completely different Bay Area compensation environment.

Because of a high turnover rate in the company, starting from individual contributors, to upper level management, there is room to grow, if one should decide to stick it out.

Cons

Generally speaking:

The CEO recently described a lack of self-motivation on the parts of employees in the company "passive non-compliance". There are too many legacy employees that display this behavior, and something needs to be done about it.

Speaking for the APM business division based out of the west coast:

Until recently, immediate management chain was very weak in handling individual contributor performance problems. The problem hasn't been rectified yet, and will probably cost them some of there better skilled, self-motivated and top performers, but they are now aware that heads need to be chopped or else it will come back and bite them.

The offshore division is a wreck. Plagued with incompetence starting from the basics - communicating via email, to technical ineptitude. They rely completely on some of the core teams working out of the US, and do their darnedest to push their work responsibilities back to onshore teams without hesitation (and or backlash from upper management). There is a serious leadership problem in the offshore team, and a serious "quality of labor" hiring problem with them as well.

The company has a hard time filling job reqs, and because of this, tends to hire the best of the crop that have applied, not necessarily the best of the best. I have seen how time and time again, this comes back to bite existing employees who have to deal with individuals who work at particular title and receive a particular compensation level, but are less skilled than a fresh-out-of-college graduate, or even a community college-level intern. Most of the times, these hires just don't make the grade, and end up either perpetuating the "passive non-compliance" work environment, or dragging down the productivity of high-performers they surround themselves around and suck the life out of.

Advice to Senior Management

Do not compromise on quality - you need to hire engineers and people who are SMARTER than those already working at the company, and you need to make sure those not meeting expectations are let go ASAP.

Pros

Work/life balance was embraced. On-site childcare center. Challenging projects to work on. Awesome benefits.

Cons

Limited training opportunities for personal development.

Advice to Senior Management

Continue to offer work/life balance for the employees. Strive to be the best in the industry with the quality of work produced.

Pros

Compensation and Incentive Plans for Sales is strong and competitive
Great Technology for the most part
Strong Sales Reps and people that do care at lower levels

Cons

Lack of Trust and Positive Culture
Terrible Leadership
Misalignment of goals across organization
Terrible Brand Image
Stock price and growth are sluggish at best

Advice to Senior Management

Break apart pieces and form new independent companies. Abandon CA name. Clean house on executives across the board and hire people leaders.

Pros

flexble work timings and loook ad feel of company

Cons

poor management qualities.Not getting recognition well

Pros

Flexible working schedule, no direct supervision, good benefits

Cons

little growth potential, managers only care about selves, only time they tell you your doing good job is when performance reviews are due.