TIBCO Software Reviews

Pros

TIBCO was the first company I worked with.
The management is extremely helpful and will do everything possible to make you feel comfortable
The focus of the organisation is more on innovating and technology
Compansation structure is good too.

Cons

Facilities could be improved. Pick up drop services especially for women.

Advice to Senior Management

Management is doing its job well

Pros

nice colleagues around you working
intelligent people, you get to learn from them
HR team is very helful
They give nice training

Cons

some nasty managers which recruited from other service companies
you dont code much

Advice to Senior Management

keep training for new managers teaching them culture of the company

Pros

Tibco provides flexibility in work schedules
Tibco provides ability to be innovative
There are great people who work there
You get an office

Cons

There is no career path to follow, little opportunity for promotion, poor performance feedback and pay is below the average

Pros

TIBCO Software is a great company, nice and smart people and very good technology. Interesting customers and a lot fun.

Cons

hard to step up, communication with management

Advice to Senior Management

Improve carreer path

Pros

Individual contributors are very nice for the most part but they form silos.

Cons

Extremely cost conscious and traditional management (9-5, no remote working, etc), Some serious cross-department politics, sr Management seems to have ego as motivation rather than the advancement of the company when making decisions but this is the case in most companies...

Advice to Senior Management

Make sure departments cooperate with each other. Seems there are a lot of silos. Be a little more proactive creative to motivate employees other than sales.

Pros

The technical knowledge and sharing of the knowledge among the field people is great. Just send an email with a question and you will get at least 10 responses by the end of the day. The products are leading edge that cause companies such as IBM to duplicate the message/products.

Cons

The Club Awards for non-quota carrying people seem to be arbirtary based on how management feels that day. Management seems to make decisions without communicating to employees why the decision was made.

Pros

Smart PeopleMost are very motivated to be here
Dedicated to hiring smart people
I was recruiterd to come here from another firm
Good life/work balance

Cons

Very Process oriented
Too much red tape

Pros

TIBCO is a serious competitor to the much larger super players Oracle, SAP, IBM and as such places special emphasis on product and service performance and quality. This dynamic also lends an air or urgency and shared passion for success.

Cons

TIBCO has a much higher degree of bureaucracy than is necessary for a mid sized company. The legal department is very ponderous and overly conservative (contracts revenue recognition) , there are a million systems for compensation, expenses, vacation etc, poorly supported by a provincial IT organization, Benefits choices are not great although at par but a reasonable team there. In all, these are a distant second to the pros above.

Pros

has reputation for good products

Cons

TIBCO acquires companies but there is no synergy in sales. Upper management provides no support. Allows stealing of deals - thus no commission. Very little communication. If you don't mind being treated like dirt then this is the place for you!

Advice to Senior Management

Upper management from India. Treats people like lower caste. Management should treat its employees with more respect and stop jerking employees around. Constantly change comp plan making it worse for the AEs.

Pros

You get your own office and the palo alto location is nice and central. The cafe is good and if you like travel, you get some nice opportunities.

Cons

When I started my job here in the depths of the recession, I thought I was the luckiest person in the world. That feeling blew to bits after a couple of months. I started looking for another job almost immediately. People here are mean spirited, egocentric, constantly kissing undeserving management butt and have made a full time job out of it. If you are in marketing services department, you are basically the managements' bitches and they have no respect for you or your life.Its not much better if you are in the other groups like field marketing or product marketing. The management is too lazy to provide any kind of strategic direction. They are petty little people throwing tantrums like little children. They are contantly laying people off from marketing (2-3 per month out of about 75 marketing people) and it has absolutely no correlation with how good you are. I know people who come running to justify why so & so was laid off - but it really just has to do how much posturing you do. I have been most diappointed to see the few decent people around here either leave or get laid off. Sales knows you have a short shelf life and just ignores you making your job that much harder. I am always shocked we make the numbers - a few good sales guys and deep accounts do the trick everytime.
Anyways...I have an offer another company which I have accepted and am screaming happy about it. Bye TIBCO and I hope our paths never cross again! :=). If you are unemployed with a job offer here, my advice is to keep looking even after you join. If you are employed dont quit just yet. There are better companies where you will get offers.

Advice to Senior Management

Go to management school - again - and pay more attention in class this time.