Compuware Reviews

Pros

Pay. People and work and customers

Cons

Leadership. Innovative customer satisfaction and very conservative

Advice to Senior Management

Risk and look outwards

Pros

Nice facility
Support of many charitaties with employee involvement
Good health benefits

Cons

Management lied in my interview about growth opportunity, overtime, scope of work, and evaluations.
Very inefficient work environment
No growth opportunity
Shortly after working there, one employee laughed when I said I was looking for a career with the company.

Advice to Senior Management

Don't let poorly managed departments ruin a great place to work.

Pros

One of the best reasons to work at Compuware is the variety of interesting projects and clients the company has to work with both in the U.S. and internationally.

Cons

Lack of communication between Account Managers and Project Managers.

Advice to Senior Management

More communication needed at the mid-manager level to bridge the connection with employees working at clients and the company.

Pros

Good Health Benefits and I work closely with a great team of people
The technology is solid and ahead of its time. The vison of where Compuware wanst to go is there.

Cons

Lack of Vacation time and paid Holidays, the Corporation runs like it did in the 1980's. There is no clear messaginging about what we do and the sales philosophy is outdated.

Advice to Senior Management

Dramatic change to the corporate culture and philosophy- if they want to be ahead of their competition they need to change the way business is run-from Finance , Marketing and Sales. They have vision, but there is poor execution

Pros

Management rewards performance. Positive changes in team structure has now created new career paths, especially on the sales floor.

Cons

only 2 weeks vacation; however, if performing, and you need more time nobody is going to hold it against you.

Advice to Senior Management

Speed up some of the decision making at times.

Pros

Support staff is somewhat helpful - speak English fluently, unlike other employers who outsourced support to offshore places

Cons

Company has archaic reimbursement policies, e.g. reimbursement for using my car for company business is less than what I pay for gas + oil + depreciation; When not traveling for business, management expects you in the office from 8-5 despite the fact that you left town Sunday at noon and got back home last night after midnight. Attempts to find other jobs within the company are viewed as disloyal. 401k and retirement is a joke. Management blames employees for its mistakes.

Advice to Senior Management

CEO should retire and let someone with vision take this company into the future.

Pros

Great healthcare benefits
Pay for certifications
Salary ok for Milwaukee area
Great coworkers
Small pool of good clients

Cons

Terrible vacation time
If you are on the bench for more than 2 months watch out you will be cut if you have not been with company for a long time
If you are billable than they love you!
Sales team not aggresive obtaining new clients- For example if your assignment ends with a client they want to resubmit you in another area of the client first before they consider you for another opportunity with a client.
They state they are practice focused meaning they have projects that they work on outside of the client location. They are trying to go the Accenture model. Very hard for them to adapt to this.
RFP process hands down sloppy constant revisions and they take in consideration of the recruitement team over the technical expertise.

Advice to Senior Management

To evolve the company to be like Accenture you need to be ahead of the curve. Slow to adapt to technologies.

Pros

Great building, nice people to work, I have no complaints about management, free parking in Detroit downtown, Hard Rock Caffe and few other stores on the same building, along with nice Fitness Center (but paid), New Horizons (Day Care) facility inside the building as well, closed to everything in downtown ...

Cons

No tuition reinbursement, no 401k match, 2 weeks of vacation during first 5 years, not well structured training process (lag on training), telecomute available but very restricted... old fashion view

Advice to Senior Management

Be more supportive to the employees, especially in areas related to professional development and project intiatives, needs to improve morale.

Pros

Great potential with products and services.

Cons

Too set in monolithic ways, lack of agility and modern IT business practices. Very much a "old girls" network. Promises continually made, promised continually broken regarding opportunities for compensation and career advancement. Old timers carry all the clout and don't seem to be open to innovation - "not invented here" syndrome. Organization is totally strangled by Finance and HR, not a Sales driven environment.

Advice to Senior Management

Get a clue. Facilitate the growth with better compensation to drive the needed behavior - more sales. Too much process and lack of innovation to for business process improvement.

Pros

Great People
Amazingly good products
Good enough to be the number one market leaders

Cons

Management are like puppets from head office
Atrition is very poor
Marketing is not strong enough
There is not enough industry knowledge of the products

Advice to Senior Management

People try and remember that people are your most valuable asset