Informatica reviews

This is probably the worst place I have worked at in my 17 year IT industry career. Salary and benefits are good, but the pressure and stress they put you under makes it not worth it. If you are a workaholic, have no life, and/or your family doesn't care that you are not present, then it's a great place to work. I have been micromanaged, overburdened, and under trained from the day I started about a year ago. My manager hired me with only partial skills for my job, fully aware of this, then he tells me afterward that he doesn't have the time to train or mentor me, but still has the expectation that I will come up to speed quickly. Had he told me this before I was hired, I probably would not have taken the job. Problem is, they think this is my failure. I can go back to any company I have worked for in IT, have gotten very good reviews and came away with friends from every IT company I have worked for prior to Informatica. Informatica's management team is trying to squeeze every ounce of productivity from its employees, overburdening them with unrealistic expections. It is definitely a sweatshop. It is difficult to say of course, how much of this is my group vs. other groups, but I have heard similar things from people I have spoken to who have joined in the last 1 to 2 years. They have a very strange culture, it is not a warm atmosphere at all. Perhaps the long time employees are treated better.

-Work itself: You will be overloaded and burnt out quickly. No one can keep up and have a life at the same time. Not to mention, you will be expected to do junior-level work. This will actually take up most of your time and will leave little time for the fulfilling parts. And, when you do actually get to the fulfilling parts, it will be so rushed that chances of success will diminish. -Management: Management is under such pressure that you should be prepared to be micro-managed at every turn. But, also they aren't there to help and support you when you actually need it. -Training: Neither I nor my colleague received any training. We face constant pressure from management to excel in all aspects without any formal guidance. They don't tell you how to do anything operational and expect you to just figure it out and if your mess up because you're just trying to figure it out managers/leadership will be mad. -Communication: Communication is poor and your priorities are constantly changing but, too often I'm not told that direction has changed and then reprimanded if I'm not "on top of it." Connecting with Team: There is no room for personal conversations or connections at Informatica. It's literally all work and no play. Knowing what I know now, I would not accept a job within Informatica's marketing department. It's a mess.