Ariba – “Ariba is a good place to work for a short period of time.”

Pros

I enjoy working with my coworkers. The medical benefits are ok and Ariba also offers educational reimbursement. At times the enviroment is a "sink or swim" type of enviroment which can lead to great (or not so great) learning experiences. Ariba does offer a lot of vacation time along with winter break (week after Christmas Ariba is closed). There are other perks depending on where you are located....if you are in the CA office you get a free gym membership, work your own hours, have a special time off policy and get to rub elbows with the "big dogs". If you are not in the CA office you most likely have a different time off policy that says you lose your time at the end of the year, no free gym but you do get free cans of soda while in the office.

Cons

I have not had any assistance with career devolpment. Upper management never seems to be able to make a decision so we just keep going with the flow. There are a ton of manual processes due to Ariba's internal structure but managment still refuses to make a decision about changing the processes to save time/money. Every decision that is made by managment is based on how other managers will feel about this change. No one seems to want to be the bad guy and make the difficult decisions. A lot of Aribas policys are not followed and employees are advised that the policy is just a guideline and the ultimate decision is up to your manager. This allows for a lot of anger to build due to one group being allowed to do one thing but another is not.

Advice to Senior Management

You're employees are unhappy - make some changes that are good for them.