Omniture Reviews

Pros

Great energy; caring individuals who work hard and play hard; great sense of commaraderie. Promote within. fair salary /compensation. Strong management. Passionate co. head.

Cons

Work can often be overwhelming at time. Plan to put in about 50-60 hours per week.

Advice to Senior Management

none

Pros

Great initial pay. Most of the coworkers are extremely smart. If the management isn't working, they aren't afraid to shuffle people into positions where they are needed.

Cons

At Omniture, you do not always feel like you are getting rewarded, via pay or promotions, when you think you may deserve it. The medical benefits are not even close to the best. They claim the HSA plans are the best you can get, but 90/10 plan would be better in most occasions.

Advice to Senior Management

Reward the people who make Omniture's products better, that make Omniture more money. If an employee isn't doing his job and complains about working at Omniture, it brings everyone down, don't keep him on.

Pros

I love working at Omniture because they take the time to not only get work done well and on time but also they take time to make sure that I am happy. They take care of my family and provide ways for me to release. It's an amazing place to work and gives you many opportunities to grow through interactions with other companies. I also like that I can VPN into work and work from home when I am unable to be in the office.

Cons

It's on a hill so when it snows it makes it hard to get to work.

Advice to Senior Management

You are doing a great job. Keep it up. I hope that you'll stick around and keep the culture as it is and that the company will continue to grow.

Pros

Fast growing company, on track to become first $1B Utah software company.

Cons

The quality of the department management team varies. Although effective best practices have been developed for my field, senior managers and Omniture "old timers" tend to ignore requests for implementing these more effective processes from the top down. This reluctance frustrates junior team members as they try to resolve intra- and inter-department process deficiencies that exist because of Omniture's rapid growth from startup to industry leader, and the disdain for ideas that "weren't invented here." These deficiencies are situational, and vary by department, but they definitely exist.

Advice to Senior Management

Solicit anonymous feedback from your staff. Listen to their concerns. Come out of your office, interact with your teams, and be a leader -- not a just manager.

Pros

Great community. Excellent benefits. Fun place to work. Good support from management. Opportunities to learn new skills. Remarkable perks. Great facilities. Industry leader. Excellent at providing necessary resources. Open to new ideas. Some of the best talent in the area. Pay is first rate. Many opportunities for advancement. Everything you need is provided for you.

Cons

Team coordination is sometimes lacking. Not enough collective effort. Because the company is large, slow to adopt new technologies. Software suite seems to have a split personality--strives to be integrated but based on different technologies and development strategies. Mostly waterfall development methods, but with some agile components thrown into the mix.

Advice to Senior Management

Product-based teams are becoming obsolete as application suite becomes more integrated. Should consider alternative methods that promote cross-team collaboration.

Pros

Culture, culture, and more culture! This company has done an excellent job of branding throughout the years. The company is switching over to green-colored computers and hardware to further this ideal that we have. Popular mottos include "Mean People Suck" and "Work hard and play hard!" This is definitely true. If you want, you can make Omniture a nice part of your life, and be proud to work there. They are VERY understanding your personal life's needs, and they also allow a certain degree of freedom in trying new things/taking risks.

Cons

The hiring process is slower than watching paint dry. While I can understand the need to have multiple interviews and a thorough vetting of potential employees, the whole process is quite inefficient overall. Also, the overall structure seems to slow down the group to a certain degree.

Advice to Senior Management

Think a little more outside the box. Innovate the next big thing in the industry. While it's good to be optimistic about our company, we also need to be a little more realistic and emphasize the improvements we want to make. Use organizational behavior strategies to maximize organizational efficiency and eliminate needless bureaucracy.

Pros

Management is family-oriented and supportive of family issues.

Cons

Stagnant product vision. Genesis is the only potential game-changing product in the company's portfolio.

Advice to Senior Management

Web analytics is becoming heavily commoditized. There needs to be more compelling, must-have products in Omniture's product line. Almost everything that Omniture sells, I can get for free from Google. Advertising is a much bigger business than Web analytics, yet Web advertising companies need Web analytics to bolster their value proposition. Advertising companies, such as Google, Yahoo, Microsoft etc, will be happy to give away for free more and more sophisticated Web analytics/optimization applications if it helps create more demand for advertising. This does not bode well for companies like Omniture who's bread and butter comes from selling these types of applications. Company needs to be more selective about where it invests it R&D resources, instead of consistently going after markets that Google and MS will dominate.

Pros

They are clearly, in my view, the leader in the field, both in terms of products/services and domain expertise.
Compensation is above industry average and the benefits package (Health, Dental, Pension, Options, 25 days holiday) is superior to most.
Senior management and the executives are all very approachable and there is very little internal politics and egos are not appreciated.
A large degree of autonomy is given to more experienced saff. You are managed, but not micro-managed.

Cons

There is an ingrained long hours culture. No-one keeps a clock on you as such, but without the extra hours you'll struggle to keep your head above water.

Lack of headcount - the above is partially a symptom of this. As with most US organisations, Omniture is very much a sales led company. We're perpetually in 'catch-up' mode in terms of personnel. This is hardly atypical but because Omniture has witnessed stellar sales success in recent years, the headcount shortfall is worse than most.

Advice to Senior Management

Concentrate on core products for a while isntead of acuiring new businesses.

Pros

Good market opportunity for Omniture in the SAAS / analytics space.

Cons

Not a technology company at its heart. If you're a geek, be ready to be disappointed and shocked!

Advice to Senior Management

Get your act together, invest in smart people, hire intelligent engineers. Large teams != output. Smart teams == success

Founders as CEO, isn't a great idea once a company has matured. Jerry Yang @ Yahoo! should teach us something. Omniture needs a neutral / impartial / unbiased / passionate CEO.

Pros

Sector in full growth
Interesting product line
Company aggressive M&A strategy allows extensive synergies across different products.
Great marketing organization

Cons

Lack of knowledge sharing hinders growth. Some of the applications are in need of architectural updates.
Company is not very generous with workforce - lack of incentive-based pay for low level employees.

Advice to Senior Management

Delegate more and share information if you want the company to grow to the next level.
Empower lower level employees and offer bonus incentive to the people that make the company's product: developers.
Foster creativity by getting developers from different product line to interact more frequently