CA Technologies Reviews

Pros

Ability to work from home when needed. Very smart people. Decent benefits. Managers have an open door policy. Great place to get started in technology.

Cons

Very fast paced atmosphere. They expect extreme sense of urgency. which somtimes causes more waste. Money is tight. They tend to pay on the low end. Layoffs are the norm. Management is very heavy at the top and employees are micro-managed. They expect alot from you and very quickly. Employees are young and inexperienced. Mostly lateral moves. Promotions are few and far between. Training has gotten much better. Reviews are done twice a year. They will hold it against you in your review, if you don't give them ideas. Employees can be competeive.

Advice to Senior Management

Motivate your employees with better opportunities for advancement and pay increases. Create better mentors. Instead of people competing for jobs, pay people more for what they are worth. Loyalty is not a one way street. Instead of laying off long term employees, perhaps, those employees can be offered an opportunity to serve else where in the company even, if they have to take a pay cut.

Pros

Benefits are good
Pay is acceptable
Colleagues are supportive and professional
Official corporate culture is employee-focused
Internal infrastructure for employee needs is well-designed

Cons

Acquired product companies have not incorporated the CA corporate culture. Unfortunately, executive management has been able to create a ruse regarding the same. Any individual that attempts to communicate the truth is systematically removed from the organization through a designed "fire for cause", without providing legal substance; enough such that the ex-employee can obtain unemployment benefits. The corporate culture of this particular division is also engaged in activity that is "litigatible" due to the size of the company. This falls back to the refusal to accept the corporate culture of the larger establishment, and maintain the culture of the smaller company which is was before acquisition.

Advice to Senior Management

I cannot advise management, as the corporate culture issue stems from the top down. It is the responsibility of the business on the non-acquired side to manage the acquired side and dictate that the human resource indiscretions and management infractions are eradicated. The corporate culture must be overhauled from the top down, which cannot occur through advice to top management.

Pros

There are opportunities to travel outside the US, as the company is global. Also, a chance to work with smart people.

Cons

Too many and too frequent changes in middle management make it very difficult to execute and fully complete long term projects.

Advice to Senior Management

Before making any changes to business processes, please take the time to learn what is being done now. Sometimes, processes that almost work are replaced by "better" ones that don't work at all. Or we end up re-doing work that was done previously with a different platform, and we don't really advance, but are continually reinventing the same things.

Pros

Great motivation for employees towards innovation.

Cons

Not concentrating on creating the new products. Always concentrating on the existing customer base.

Advice to Senior Management

Management has to concentrate on delivering the new products into the market.

Pros

Pay is good
Benefits are good

Cons

In most of the teams...Culture is very bad...typical indian culture..service based company.

Pros

Solid money
Good technology
Ability to acquire competitive technologies.

Cons

Four hours a week dedicated to reporting numbers to management.
Inconsistent messaging on expectations.
Bullying.
Little management insight on how to sell.
Matrix organization with lots of competing interests.
Very little customer empathy.
It's all about the bottom line with little direction as to how to get there.

Advice to Senior Management

Sales executives rule through intimidation and are not skilled in helping their employees sell more. An inordinate amount of time is spent on reporting numbers for the benefit of the top sales managers with little time spent going over accounts and how to accomplish goals. Part of the issue is there is little trust on the sales reporting tools which are misaligned with corporate reporting requirements so there is a lot of filtering that occurs between the reporting tool (Salesforce) and the numbers which salespeople announce twice a week at a minimum.

Pros

good benefits, lots of career opportunities, company is quickly improving and learning how to become a growth driver

Cons

company is still in transition, so with that comes a lot of change

Pros

Good benefits,time off and salary

Cons

Horrible hours, no work life balance, management lacks mgmt skills and basic knowledge of tasks. They are more worried about appearances then doing the right thing for company.

Advice to Senior Management

Start managing

Pros

Came in contact with some other great technologists to work with, not only in knowledge and skills but likewise driven by a desire to do our best and provide superior results. Most job functions were self directed with a high degree of independent judgement and apparent (*) upper management support.

Cons

My experience (your milage may vary) was with management that primarily were interested in their own visibility within the company - very political in nature. No useful direction, only after the fact negative judgement. *In hindsight it became clear that they unfortunately were hedging their bets and waiting for final results before taking a position so they could be on the winning side of the issue and throw the subordinate under the bus to take the blame. In retrospect, Mind-reading was apparently expected as a requisite skill. Some of top management proved to lack moral value; apparently driven by greed for money and power. The Company has a history of growth through acquisition followed by brutal gutting.

Advice to Senior Management

Focus more on growth of new products, services and technologies from within instead of acquisition. Clearly distance yourself from negative reputation of past upper management.

Pros

Work Life balance and salary

Cons

Layoff,outsourcing,poor management of products acquired, no investment for building product organically,politics by old school guys

Advice to Senior Management

Please recruit upper management who are just not so called "Managers" but should be passionate ,show experience in building world class and innovative IT products.Recruit young talent from colleagues instead of paying lump sum to old guys