Commvault reviews

3.8

71% would recommend to a friend

(1,160 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 1,160 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
Nov 2, 2014
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Good product, One Interface for managing entire enterprise worth of backups. Challenging work, good opportunities for growth. Engineers are allowed to work fairly independently. Office will be moving to new building, pretty exciting.

Cons

Requirements are never clearly defined. Developer has to start working on it due to commitment made to some high stakes customer. The initial (poorly defined) word of mouth requirement then keeps changing throughout the time of development making overall software design and code quality very poor and flaky. Its very easy to find C++ code with > 1k (sometimes more than 5k) lines of functions. Many times some code is written as POC and then just left around as real product, since no time is allocated to clean it up, and sold as a production ready feature in product. It feels like there is not much sense of ownership of code. Good development practices are not setup. Code is checked in randomly without good code review most of times (not for first few days as junior employee, but after that you are all set to mess around), causing lot of build failures and feature breakages pretty much every build, making your life miserable if you are caught in wrong place (team) at wrong time. Engineering has unlimited vacation policy which is awesome but not when abused by few people, also it totally depends on your manager if you are eligible for it, have seen some people going on vacation for months, which is totally unfair to others who are not allowed the same. Very unbalanced work environment, pretty sure some people put in less than 40 hours per week while some have to work crazy hours sometimes even on weekends.

3.0
Oct 21, 2013

Great company, if you have your manager's support

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Solid products and technology. Great place to learn a lot, if you have the right mentor(s). Excruciating attention to detail helps ensure that operating policies and procedures are followed.

Cons

If you fall out of favor with your manager, it's like being excommunicated. You will no longer be provided with what you need (tools, information, support) to fulfill your responsibilities effectively. Managers like to take credit for the good work of team members, but are quick to lay blame on staff.

2.0
Sep 20, 2013

Caution

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Good pay, good benefits, stock is doing very well. Opportunity to work for a company that is the leader in the magic quadrant. Competent technical peers.

Cons

Company is overly focused on driving the deal and over managing the process. Engineering is focused only on new features rather than management of the product which makes it overly complex. Sales management focuses more on scrutiny rather than removing obstacles to selling. Sales teams get bogged down from selling with existing customer technical issues.

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