Circling the drain; work here at your own risk. - Anonymous employee BMC Software Employee Review

1.0
Jun 5, 2015
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

- Compensation plan largely good - They still offer good benefits - if you don't like current management, wait and they'll be replaced

Cons

- the only unit where they're competent managers is mainframe/Control-M; the other units are whip-sawed by yearly management changes that have led to vicious (and probably fatal) exodus of talented staff. - sales-obsessed culture run by mediocre sales people -- the departure floodgates are so severe, they are actually offering "retention bonuses" to sales people, thus incentivizing exactly the wrong talent to stay - very much a "work harder" (not work smarter) culture - Agile response here means in about 2 years.

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Cons

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Cons

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