Informatica reviews

4.1

79% would recommend to a friend

(351 total reviews)
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Amit Walia

73% approve of CEO

69% positive business outlook

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1.0
May 6, 2016
Recommend
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Pros

- Engineers were taken on a trip to Thailand - Most of us got major pay increases

Cons

- We got manhandled in the Big Data space by much more nimble competitors - Our cloud strategy is basically on its last legs, because of the Private Equity investor bean counters - Pricing is so hard to understand you need a PhD to even explain to customers - Re-org after re-org has turned INFA into a communist dictatorship with VPs more focused on showing the size of their org chart in meetings instead of how they are going to execute on strategy - Promotions are directly proportional to how well you know the SVPs

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Informatica Response
10y
We regret that you had a bad experience working at Informatica. Your criticism, however, does not match the facts. Rather than being “manhandled” in Big Data, we have been leading the industry. Our Big Data Management Platform v. 10.1, with its introduction of the Intelligent Data Lake, has won high praise from analysts and customers alike. As for the Cloud, in Gartner’s 2016 “Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Integration Platform as a Service, Worldwide,” the leading analyst firm positioned Informatica as a “Leader” for our “ability to execute and completeness of vision” for the third straight year. Not only has Informatica been positioned as a Leader for iPaaS, but we have also been recognized as a Leader in the Magic Quadrants for Data Integration Tools and Master Data Management by Gartner. It is true we have had a lot change in the past twelve months, but that is characteristic of a dynamic industry such as ours. To help our employees manage the transformation better, our Learning & Development team created an entire curriculum around coping with change available online at no cost. As for career advancement, we have placed renewed emphasis on developing goals and working with managers on a regular basis (rather than only at annual review meetings) to monitor performance and identify opportunities for our people to develop. It is unfortunate that you did not enjoy our environment, but – according to our Glassdoor ratings – the vast majority of our employees around the world do (4 out of 5 stars overall). We hope you have found a workplace that is a better fit for you.
4.0
May 5, 2016

The sky is the limit...

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Pros

- Visionary products - Smart, dedicated people that care about their colleagues and customers - Very competitive compensation

Cons

- Some product areas have focused more on new features and functionality rather than hardening the existing products which has put the burden to deal with customer satisfaction issue to Support and Services personnel which can wear team member down. - Work/Life Balance at times seems difficult to achieve. - Lack of equity position for most employees - This is something that changed when the company went private, and may change in the future.

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Informatica Response
10y
We couldn’t agree more with your upbeat headline. Data is core to business and organization success, and Informatica is the company of All Things Data. With any technology company there will always be a dynamic tension between creating new and innovative products and features versus “hardening existing products.” While we are not perfect in this area, the fact that we have won top honors for customer satisfaction from TNS for ten years straight suggests that our customers, at least, feel we are doing a good job. Thanks to you and your colleagues in IPS for being so essential to that effort. “Work/Life Balance” is always somewhat subjective, but – according to your peers on Glassdoor – they rate Informatica between 4.23 to 4.3 (out of 5) on that category. If you are having difficulties in that area, please discuss this with your manager or your HR representative. As for the lack of equity and sharing the wealth, Informatica has developed an alternative bonus program to ensure that our employees do share in our success. As our CFO, Doug Barnett, pointed out at our last All-Hands meeting, being a publicly-traded company is the proverbial “two-edged sword.” The way the markets have treated tech stocks recently, our move to private ownership seems fortuitous in its timing. We will take your advice to heart, and again accept our appreciation for taking the time to share your thoughts.
5.0
Apr 26, 2016
Recommend
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Pros

Awesome place to learn new technologies which are currently trending in the market. Also, because of direct interaction with customers, we get a bigger picture of the projects and what it is all about ? . Great employee recognition and complete work satisfaction . Training for new releases are given on a regular basis. Also kept informed on what the plan for each engineer is and the products they plan to be introduced to as part of the job. Salary hikes much above the industry standard. Very few changes seen since the privatization even though there was much talked about . Company also provides lunch and dinner in the office .

Cons

None that I can think of .

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