Informatica Reviews

Pros

-It is a Stable Company
-It is a Market Leader with solid track record
-The employees are generally enthusiastic

Cons

-It is a company in a non-creative field, and this is reflected in the employees' interests. Office parties can be boring.
-Generic company with generic office

Pros

Compensation was better than Oracle. Being apart of a growing company. Flexible. Well-loved CEO!I really liked the food and under-ground parking.

Cons

Typical cons with a workforce spread across the country and globe. As INFA got bigger it took more time to get things done. Working in Redwood City.

Advice to Senior Management

Keep hiring standards up. Let Sohaib run free like Steve Jobs, Larry Ellison and Bill gates do (did). Keep the edge you have on compensation or expect to lose your best talent.

Pros

A great team around me who are always there to help drive cross-functional projects. Our technology is second to none - appearing in the leadership quadrants of many analyst reviews, and our determination and approach to do the right thing for the customer are always at the front of mind. The people I work with every day are excellent and contribute to making this a great place to work. Leadership is focused on driving the company forwards in a clear and communicated manner.

Cons

Don't work here if you expect a free ride. Everyone is expected to knuckle-down, roll their sleeves up and get the job done - whether that be the CEO of the most junior individual contributor. If you don't like hard work then this is not the place to be. That said, work hard, play hard and enjoy one heck of a ride - it is very fulfilling.

Advice to Senior Management

Remain focused, keep the communication channels open and ensure that "keeping the customer first" remain in place.

Pros

The best things about Informatica are its growth, salary, benefits and they do have smart business managers, but they leave a lot to be desired as people managers.

Cons

This is probably the worst place I have worked at in my 17 year IT industry career. Salary and benefits are good, but the pressure and stress they put you under makes it not worth it. If you are a workaholic, have no life, and/or your family doesn't care that you are not present, then it's a great place to work. I have been micromanaged, overburdened, and under trained from the day I started about a year ago. My manager hired me with only partial skills for my job, fully aware of this, then he tells me afterward that he doesn't have the time to train or mentor me, but still has the expectation that I will come up to speed quickly. Had he told me this before I was hired, I probably would not have taken the job. Problem is, they think this is my failure. I can go back to any company I have worked for in IT, have gotten very good reviews and came away with friends from every IT company I have worked for prior to Informatica. Informatica's management team is trying to squeeze every ounce of productivity from its employees, overburdening them with unrealistic expections. It is definitely a sweatshop. It is difficult to say of course, how much of this is my group vs. other groups, but I have heard similar things from people I have spoken to who have joined in the last 1 to 2 years. They have a very strange culture, it is not a warm atmosphere at all. Perhaps the long time employees are treated better.

Advice to Senior Management

You are approaching the $1B level. Unless you guys change the way you treat employees and give them proper work/life balance and more realistic expectations, then when the market opens up, you will see a mass migration of employees. You can't scale with the people you have now and if you expect to grow and attract the best talent, you need to create better job satisfaction. Bennies and pay are great, but they aren't everything. I worked for a very large competitor who payed me a bit less and their benefits were far inferior, but my job satisfaction was so much better, I would go back to them in a minute (and have put out feelers to them) as they would take me back.

Pros

Great leaders @ C level and below that its just people trying to so superiority
Its been better and now its just wayyyyyy low standard

Cons

Superiority complex in management
Some People can literally take your job away so that they can get promotion

Advice to Senior Management

Please have skip level meetings, you have the opportunity to speak to next level manager without being scrutinized for saying truth.

Pros

Good pay. Nothing else comes to mind.

Cons

There is hardly any work-life balance, people are forced to work in the weekends and not even fully compensated with a time off for the extra work. But during hiring they lied that work-life balance is good and also promised a promition within a year, but it is all lies.
Bad lunch, has no nutrition in it and is just full of carbs alone.

Advice to Senior Management

Be ethical during hiring.

Pros

Lots of personal time and 22 paid days

Cons

The technology is not that hot and a lot of the interesting projects are already mature

Advice to Senior Management

More time to communicate with engineers about what is going on in the team and what is coming

Pros

Very strong executive team
Little politics
Supportive management
Good work / life balance

Cons

High growth equals high expectations for performance every day

Advice to Senior Management

Keep strong focus on staying ahead of the innovation curve and improving on what has the potential to become a commodity solution in the future

Pros

great people, strong vision, unique culture, getting more global in how everyone thinks which is good. alot of potential for an amazing future, very little politics and a strong amount of collaboration do make this a really nice place to work

Cons

its getting bigger so we need focus on how we scale without getting siloed, how we continue to do as well as we have been doing on a more global scale. its challenging but exciting

Advice to Senior Management

continue to bring in outside experience to help us navigate the next big steps. we have lots of tenured people like me (and i love my parking spot - thank you) and thats great but we also need fresh perspective and to keep on learning, adapting and being ready to change. communicate more!

Pros

- The people - it's an opportunity to work with some of the smartest people
- The culture
- The values of the company and the people
- An opportunity to make a difference

Cons

Not many people outside of the IT field know about Informatica, however in today's world almost everyone is a part of "big data". We have an opportunity to make a huge difference in people's lives and we're not promoting our products enough.

Advice to Senior Management

As we grow to be a much bigger company, don't lose the personal touch - that's what makes this place a great place to be.