Compuware Reviews

Current Employee – been working at Compuware full-time for less than a year

Pros – Great pay, great title, many large project won

Cons – Long hours, no clear direction

Advice to Senior Management – Define what is the future of the company and invest in developing it.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at Compuware full-time for more than a year

Pros – relaxed work culture, good benefits,

Cons – average salary, no proper management

Advice to Senior Management – use common sense

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Compuware full-time

Pros – Emphasis on people - especially when it comes to travel makes this a very solid technology company. I believe this is a testament as to why so many people have elected to remain with the company for so many years.

Incredibly good products and a long history of professional services success in and around the Michigan area.

Cons – Limited upward mobility. This is especially the case for anyone employed in the regions outside of Michigan.

VERY limited vision / forward thinking within the Professional Services Division. I am not sure whether or not this is a result of failure to plan, inability to realize the services product, or simply an utter incompetence by senior executives.

Advice to Senior Management – Please review the business as a whole. If divisions aren't being successful, either fix them, sell them, or cut the head off the snake. The latter is an absolute necessity for some of them.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Compuware full-time for less than a year

Pros – With the new management (CEO/COO), changes are finally happening (all positive).
Good people - most willing to stretch wings but not always asked.

Cons – A lot of legacy directors, not enough doers.
Long-standing employees resistant to change.
Antiquated employee rating/grade//titles - doesn't match industry standards.

Advice to Senior Management – Streamline finance/purchasing/expenses - crazy processes around non-impactful dollar amounts.
Hire people who don't punch the clock - and encourage more flex schedules: customers don't always fit 8-5.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Compuware full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – - good benefits and salary
- Casual work environment, how many work places permit flip-flops n shorts in summer
- good work.life balance

Cons – - Clogged with process delays, sometimes it is tough to get things moving forward
- Limited scope for learning new technologies & growth

Advice to Senior Management – None

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Compuware full-time for more than 10 years

Pros – Compuware gives me a great sense of empowerment. They emphasize collaboration. I believe that I am part of something big that is happening here. I like the great benefits, vacation and very competitive salary. The headquarters downtown is a beautiful state of the art building with all of the amenities we could want as employees.

Cons – still needs to clean up years of nepotism. Need to accelerate the pace of change with what is not working.

Advice to Senior Management – continue to reward excellence, continue to value execution and results. continue to empower and value your employees.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Compuware full-time

Pros – Great place to work, work/life balance is perfect. Unlimited personal and sick days...Compuware doesn't believe you should take your vacation days if you're sick, your child gets sick and you need to leave or need to go to the doctor. The atmosphere is professional and not micro-managed and everyone is positive. The building downtown is awesome and offers a full gym, daycare center and cafeteria and private parking garage with a tunnel into the building so you don't even have to be outside. Also, you start with 15 vacation days!

Cons – Very large so sometimes you work doesn't directly impact organization but you will be recognized by your manager.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Compuware full-time for more than a year

Pros – Excellent company to work for. Great people. Great location. Well paid. Lots of support from management.

Cons – Company has been struggling to make profit goals, which worries employees and raises concerns of staff cuts.

Advice to Senior Management – Keep doing what you're doing. Compuware is in great shape. Remind the employees that we aren't going to sacrifice people for profits.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at Compuware full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – Basic benefits are OK and the people in the company are mostly very nice and well intentioned. If you get hired in as a new employee you get a reasonable salary.

Cons – Given that the company has very good margins you would expect that the company would take better care of its employees. New employees are higher paid then existing employees and there is no thought given on how to equalize a persons salary. 0 equity in the company and employees have no vested interest in seeing the company do well. Benefits are average for the Detroit area which is severely depressed and benefits are below average for anyone who works in an area other than Detroit. Management has absolutely no concern for employees and when one was asked about salary by one of the employees the answer was insulting and obscenity was used in reference to the employee. Many employees live in fear of loosing their job with how depressed the job market is in Detroit and take a path of least risk to their job which translates into the companies under performance. Compuware handles acquisitions in a disastrous way, for example the Gomez APM SaaS is falling apart and since the acquisition there was a mass exodus of dissatisfied employees and there are a mere handful of employees left at Gomez that were there when the company was acquired. If you don't work in Detroit there is no hope for promotion. Its a high pressure environment with low returns. The APM group is quickly loosing customers to other solutions, especially customers who have been customers for over 7 years.

Advice to Senior Management – Respect your employees, treat them with respect and dignity. Reevaluate your entire management team from the top down. To many senior leaders of the company have been at the company so long that they are completely out of touch.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Compuware full-time for less than a year

Pros – good work environment. good pay.good work life balance.

Cons – I have not experience yet to tell the negative of the company

Advice to Senior Management – No advice as of yet to the top management.