Commvault reviews

3.8

70% would recommend to a friend

(1,159 total reviews)
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Sanjay Mirchandani

90% approve of CEO

68% positive business outlook

Commvault has an employee rating of 3.8 out of 5 stars, based on 1,159 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Commvault employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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3.0
Apr 19, 2013

so so

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Pros

Growing market share.. profits are increasing... so sticking around may be rewarding in few years... i.e if your manager needs you....If you are servile... Customers used to buy Simpana because it was the cheapest.... Backup and Recovery is a low margin business... so the market leaders do not add new features unless there was a big revenue opportunity. Commvault was/is ready to develop anything for customers. It is a good virtue in this market and it gave them foothold and now it is too late for big guys (losers) to switch to Commvault's model. Commvault has added lots of features over the last several years... It takes long time for a competitor to do the same... All Commvault can offer to customers is in one place... a single product that has so many features... Its brings up its own problems however.. But it is better than having multiple products that cannot be used together... Customers are voting with their wallets... no one can dispute that...

Cons

The pros say it all....Managers know nothing outside of their s/w... and they think they are very technical... and want to give technology leadership to R&D projects... No original research.. .just a reverse-engineering shop... According to them manufacturing leather covers for latest iPhone should be considered as 'staying at the forefront of cutting edge technology". If you work here for few years you will be useless outside... you will learn all bad ways of doing things... very little original R&D... It is just copying features from competitors... Products are developed because the employees work like dogs... not because there is a good R&D process.... Commvault puts every new thing in the old bottle... Don't join here if you don't like copying other companies products...Last time I heard they were copying Drop Box. :-) The only thing that CommVault can be proud of is managing a large monolithic product.

2.0
Feb 4, 2013

Insecurity

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Pros

Good product for marketing , nothing much that i can think off

Cons

Would categorize as , technical , Operational , HR , Sales , support , Engineering Technical (Product related) : -Single platform : sorry cannot be true always . Its like too many cooks spoil the broth , so many features clubbed into 1 platform !!nice for sales but not so nice for engineering/support - Sorry but the Commserve cannot be installed on non-windows OS - Easy to tweak the SQL DB and modify the tables/values on CS . Security compromised to the core !! -- You need to disable AV !! Why in the world should i disable Anti-virus on my servers , other vendors do not have any issues with the co-existence of AV AND BACKUP APPLICATION , in most cases engineering says data is corrupt because there is AV installed . Will be surprised to know how the product will work in a host running real-time AV scans !! - The list goes on and on. HR : - HR in India office is dummy , its just a medium to relay information to the employee while firing !! . HR works from direct orders by the VP /director of engineering/support . HR is not an independent function here . Not sure about HR in US - strategies designed overnight OPERATIONAL : - Lot of favourism . - Work culture is very informal which could be an advantage and a disadvantage - Senior management team works on direct orders by US senior management - Manager in India does not have the same powers as that of their US counterparts SALES : - Life is miserable for contractors and to some extent sales rep . - cost of PS is way too high !! ENGINEERING : - Technical interviewers are useless when conducting interview for new employees - Working in commvault you will just get a good commvault product exposure but no additional skill sets - No budget is spent on non-product related trainings - only the VP/director dictates terms , opinion of other's are considered useless - RSU's given only to higher management , profit is not shared with employees - Movement to other department is very much internal and is not open , favourism again !! - Hire and fire rule applies here !!

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