CA Technologies Reviews

Pros

Good technical opportunities.
Great team members.
Leadership that values people and allows them to succeed.

Cons

Reactive rather than proactive, at times. This is the nature of the business.

Advice to Senior Management

Keep valuing your most worthwhile commodities. YOUR PEOPLE. You are doing a great job promoting a healthy atmosphere.

Pros

You can make a ton of money.

Cons

It is very hard, the name is poor in marketplace and internal policies make it hard to get anything done.

Advice to Senior Management

Become better communicators. You never hear from SR. managers down on their strategy and what they are doing to drive the business.

Pros

great benefits, extensive learning opportunities, ease of remote collaboration

Cons

constant reorgs, zero job security

Advice to Senior Management

13,000 employees should be valued -at least equally respected and rewarded as are company's shareholders per short-term financial predictions

Pros

work and personal life balance

Cons

there is less diversity among employees

Advice to Senior Management

bring about diversity among employees

Pros

Well funded
Many customers
Chances for promotion based on technical excellence

Cons

Elaborate processes to affect changes

Advice to Senior Management

Be less rigid in consideration of new or different ideas

Pros

very good work culture and great people.

Cons

lots of management changes, product names keep changing

Advice to Senior Management

stick to a long term plan and work on it.

Pros

Very good work life balance

Cons

very slow .. zero risks.. hence no opportunity to grow

Advice to Senior Management

Take atleast measured risks

Pros

Leading vendor in many areas, many locations, many varied opportunities. Benefits are good. People that are not in management are usually good to work with and helpful.

Cons

Upper management keeps changing and does not keep its promises. Layoffs occur every year, sometimes twice a year. Workers don't trust company. Company cares more about stock price than its people.

Advice to Senior Management

Keep promises to employees. You care more about the stock price than your people. Your people are your 'bread and butter'.

Pros

At CA Technologies, I really enjoyed the people and how eager everyone was to support and help one another. The culture of innovation and teamwork is highly evident.

Cons

With such a large company, communication between key team members is often limited to phone calls rather than in-person meetings.

Pros

CA Technologies has evolved in a true technology company that encourages innovative thought and inventive ideas. Rather than just relying on acquisitions, internal culture changes have encouraged teamwork, open communication, collaboration at all levels, and a very different and positive atmosphere unlike anything at the old "Computer Associates" I was hired into 15 yrs ago

Cons

CA Technologies still has room to grow in the area of internal employee growth and advancement opportunities. In an effort to find new ideas and new leadership, long-term employees have been largely ignored for any level of promotion in favor of external hiring of (mostly) former IBM employees.

Advice to Senior Management

Trememendous knowledge, experience, and capability exists within the employee workforce already within CA. Stop looking externally for new management and technical leaders from your own background and previous employers. This action gives the appearance of rewarding former friends and coworkers with high positions and even higher salaries. Promote from within.