EMC Documentum Reviews

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

Pros – Management knows what they are doing. Very promising long term strategy for IIG. Open communication and on a regular basis.
Customers come first.
Team spirit.
Focus on mobile, cloud and new user.
A lot of smart people around.

Cons – Catching up since a few past Presidents took the company to the ground.
HR allows no negotiation during compensation review.

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

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

Pros – Work/life balance, decent benefits and health insurance

Cons – Documentum is going downhill, for several years. Actually, starting from D6, which was an engineering disaster. Each year same incompetent managers are getting shuffled from one group to another, leaving behind a trace of bizzare decisions and failed releases. According to company's financial statements, R&D investment in Documentum (IIG) is gradually declining over past few years, so does revenue and customers. Interestingly, at the same time R&D cost for the rest of the EMC is going up.

Career growh is for managers only, engineers eventually hit the glass ceiling. Yeah, I know, there was one engineer who became an EMC fellow many years ago, and managers have been using this carrot in front of the donkey for years. Well, in this case, only donkey will stay at the job. The rate at which good engineers are fleeing the company is alarming (or should've been alarming for people who care...).

Advice to Senior Management – To this management? Sorry, don't have any. R.I.P. good software product.

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

Former Employee – worked at EMC Documentum

Pros – It has the benefits associated with a large company, such as a good health insurance plan.

Cons – EMC is squeezing every penny they can from Documentum with as little investment in the product. Less than six months after I began working on the Documentum product, I was tasked with training a junior software engineer in Bangalore, India, to do my job. There was no chance for career advancement, and the offices are a ghost town from all of the layoffs over the years.

I have nightmares of returning to work at EMC Documentum.

Advice to Senior Management – I'm unsure if the situation at Documentum can be remedied.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at EMC Documentum full-time for more than 8 years

Pros – Work-life balance is mostly the only thing why you would never want to leave EMC.

Cons – They really don't care about how good you are or how knowledgable you are and decisions are always based on how you align with the management and their ideas.

Advice to Senior Management – The middle management is becoming more and more harmful and might slowly make documentum land in a yahoo like position.High time you respect and take care of skilled people and not only those who align with management blindly.

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

Former Employee – worked at EMC Documentum full-time for more than 10 years

Pros – Good people and work environment

Cons – No where to move up, upper management wasted talent and a good product and let it stagnate.

Advice to Senior Management – Don't just try to milk a product for as long as you can. Try to innovate and not let all the competitors leapfrog you.

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

Former Employee – worked at EMC Documentum

Pros – Good work/family balance. Good benefits.

Cons – Documentum has been on a death spiral for many years. Despite numerous attempts by different management teams over the past 5 years to transform the business, Documentum has lots its mojo. Each year a different management team seems to take over the product and try to rearrange the deck chairs on this sinking ship.

With EMC's resources, they should split this group up into smaller teams and try to truly create new, smaller businesses rather than trying to hit a grandslam with this huge team, based on old code.

Advice to Senior Management – Give up on the old Documentum business, mvoe on.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at EMC Documentum

Pros – - Good benefits
- balanced work life

Cons – - A culture of smile, nod in agreement, and go along with what Management tells you.
- Strategy is fragmented and put together by 'C-' Executives
- Marketing dept. is 90% useless with messaging and leadership. Need to totally clean-house.
- Lots of former FileNet folks coming over but feedback is that most are not 'A' players but 'has beens'. It's shocking to say the least.

Advice to Senior Management – - Hire competent people and don't hire just because someone knows someone ... you are killing the company with your sales leadership hiring this way.
- Dump your marketing dept leadership with 'new blood'.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at EMC Documentum

Pros – Complimentary drinks and snacks
Friendly Environment

Cons – Bad Project Management
Missing the development spec

Advice to Senior Management – good vision needed to be backed up by development team. would be the best if the management can evaluate the what the team can do within certain time frame before the project begin