CA Technologies Reviews

Pros

Employee seniority recognized and rewarded;

Cons

difficult to achieve work/life balance without cost to career advancement

Advice to Senior Management

Should focus more on preserving/promoting the technologies and talented people behind them instead of low cost labor overseas

Pros

Has some flexibility and sometimes relaxed work schedule. But crap always flows down. Executives are grab the credit for the good work and give the blame for the bad kind.

Cons

HIghly political environment. They think changing senior level management will change the culture but there is a big middle layer of directors and VPs that is retaining the sick culture of the company. Cost cutting means cut/offshore the worker(engineers). General morale is : if I work my ass off the executives reap the stock options. If I don't then I get laid off or off shored.

Advice to Senior Management

None

Pros

In comparison, good salary range

Cons

Opportunities for advancement are not well communicated and seem to be limited

Pros

Many tech stuff to learn from

Cons

Lie to employee and fool employyee

Advice to Senior Management

Change culture from their heart can make ca a great company, put more budget in support to delight customer, don't lie. Employee are good at pretending as well

Pros

Plenty of products and large installed base

Cons

Conflict between sales units and conflict between sales and every other function. No strategy that anyone understands and few believe in. Culture of fear. Senior management are milking the cow until it dies and patronise the workforce.

Advice to Senior Management

Please leave or sell the company so that a fresh start can be made. You guys made the problems so why do you believe you can fix them when history shows otherwise?

Pros

Quality of work is good

Cons

over 90% of middle management and team leads are Telugu and they speak in telugu all the time in office. Even in team meetings they speak in Telugu which is a very big concern and people from outside the state feel left out and ignored.

They do not change their habbit even if a non telugu speaking person is present in the team.

Facilities like work from home is for the name sake and you need to convince your team lead in all possible way to get even one day of work from home.

Overall middle management and team leads lack basic sense of ettiquettes and are highly biased towards language and region one belongs to. So it demotivates and alieanates the employee who do not speak telugu.

Advice to Senior Management

Bring in professionalism in ITC and make the team leads and middle management listen to all the team members.

Pros

Gym, Daycare center, Working with some fun people every now and then.

Cons

Company has an identity crisis since Wang left and DPA in early 2000's. Company has not grown in 10 years of business. While management seems to think we are on the right path there is no ignoring that fact. We change for sake of changing. Hopefully cloud pushes us in right direction.

Advice to Senior Management

Unsure what advice to offer that will be listened to but i think once Canon opens its doors to its new facilities down the highway there will be massive attrition out of HQ, maybe that will shake things up?

Pros

work life balance is good, they give the opportunity to work from home and in multiple offices if available.

Cons

-poor dirction of senior management.
-consistantly changing focus
-senior management tries to instil strategy, values and themes that they don't follow themselves
-company is hiring many executives from large old operating model organizations which is fortifying old style of operations and leadership. This is a failing model to work with in a highly adaptable market the technology sector is in today.

Advice to Senior Management

practice what you preech!

Pros

CA pays good money for sales people. 2 sales rewards holidays for making your numbers and right now there are two Aston Martins in the car park, bought with commissions.

Pretty good atmosphere and people are pretty friendly.(unless its layoff season). Line managers are competent and communicate.

Easy parking, lovely grounds and onsite gym, restaurant and Montessori childcare. Opportunity to transfer to other offices (depending on your manager)

Great online training facilities and global leadership development programme for the chosen few.

Cons

In the back office, its fairly uncompetitive salaries, little thanks from the leadership and the continuous threat of offshoring to cheaper labour in the Hydrabad or Prague offices. Very difficult to get payrises, with around a 3% salary rise for 2011.

Strategy and leadership changes depending on each quarter. There also seems to be an annual cull of salespeople and strategic layoffs depending on flavour of the month.

Generous severance packages mean longtime employees hang around after they've lost interest guarding their fiefdom until they get the golden parachute when they're no longer required.

Communication void between Islandia, NY HQ and the rest of the company.

Advice to Senior Management

Communicate your strategic intent. Devolve some power outside of Islandia. Value your workforce equally, not as Sales or overheads....

Pros

Gym managed by Club One membership at Pacific Shores
People are friendly
Opportunities for training

Cons

Support engineer and developer moral low
General age of employees are old
Development moving to India
Limited opportunity to travel if not in presales
East coast based company not competitive recruiting wise compared to California
Not a very fun place to work
Removed company picnics, holiday celebrations, and breakfast programs

Advice to Senior Management

Learn some employee retention skills from Google, Facebook