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Q&A With CA Technologies Employees
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How employees describe working at CA Technologies
Good company with good benefits
Decent salaries and bonus packages
It is a group of alpha level players where performance is rewarded
Review from Sales Dept
Reduce the beurocracy and greatly reduce the layers of management.
I liked my work very much, but saw a lot of bad decisions higher up
Review from Customer Support Dept
What it's like to work at CA Technologies
- CA Technologies employees generally work 9.4 hrs a day
- Employees at CA Technologies report the work pace is moderate
- On a typical day, employees at CA Technologies have 4+ meetings
- 92% of CA Technologies employees look forward to interacting with their team every day
- CA Technologies employees most often take unlimited paid vacation and sick days each year
- 65% of CA Technologies employees report they are happy with their work life balance
- CA Technologies employees typically get valuable feedback on how to improve at work Once a quarter
- 73% of CA Technologies employees call their work environment positive
Q&A With CA Technologies Employees
IDX: 0 TOT: 73
What do people at CA Technologies think about the CEO? What do they do well and what can they improve?
People respect and despise him, he goes by "Biker Boy" due to the incredible amount of his personal likes and desired that the company funds and he has 48 million reasons to be happy with his sale to Broadcom.
I think the CEO is largely ceremonial in nature. The issues that CA struggles with are in management but it's typically weak and scared SVP's that are roadblocks to change vs the CEO. If you see an SVP who is not supporting the status quo that person will not be employed in the next cycle - SVP's are the force that stops progress.
Out of touch with how to make money and grow.
How's the vacation policy at CA Technologies?
Officially unlimited, but actually depends on business needs and group dynamics.
Corporate policy is unlimited vacation and HR enforces the policy.
unlimited in theory. subject to direct mgr approval. No guidance appears to be in effect from corporate, so basically you are at mercy of your mgr whims. Often pinchy and make you feel guilty to take time for yourself.
How's the work life balance at CA Technologies?
Top Employee Response
This varies by role but CA supports balanced life and is active in the community and local events. Very family oriented.
Typically pretty good.
On paper it is GREAT, in reality, it is what you make of it. If you are driven to succeed you may find it is hard to pull away from the grind and benefit from the opportunities for balance and their are many!
If you could make changes, how would you improve the culture at CA Technologies?
Top Employee Response
Remove strict governance that shackles creativity... being people into the process. Remove bauerecuracy within the corporate marketing department.
Reduce the fluff, there are many roles and teams that are created to solve a problem but they really just create issues and noise. Examples Customer Success Teams, Marketing Huddles, UX teams etc
I would not change the culture.
What are your coworkers at CA Technologies like?
Top Employee Response
Tenacious, helpful, friendly, and ambitious!
Nice, and sometimes helpful.
Smart, engaged and dedicated folks all around.
What benefits does CA Technologies provide?
Top Employee Response
CA offers Medical, dental and vision plans with reasonable employee contributions and copays. They offer 401k with limited matching funds. They (optionally) contribute to 401k fund annually after FY results. You can find a lot of info about other benefits on there website
excellent benefits and higher than average pay. Unlimited vacation. con - just instituted a must-be-in office for 3 days per week policy.
Generous PTO, competitive salary, great medical/dental/vision, 401k match, etc
What do you like best about the leadership team at CA Technologies?
Top Employee Response
Seem to be always for ways to make the company better.
They see the transformation that needs to happen,are embracing it, and leading us through the transformation.
The leadership of my business unit is good, I don't know much about the larger CA organization. We have freedom to do what we want.
What are some of the best things about your team at CA Technologies?
Top Employee Response
Everybody is able and willing to help their peers
Collaborative and self motivated
My team is like family.
What is the best part about your compensation package at CA Technologies?
Top Employee Response
Base salary is very competitive and the additional bonus compensation is icing on the cake.
High base and bonus + equity
Pay for my role is slightly lower than norm in industry for this GEO.
What part of CA Technologies's business is growing fastest? What part is having difficulties?
Nothing grows fast here.
New acquisitions always get a bump in business, after 3-5 years of short-sighted vision and limited investments products start to diminish.
SaaS will NEVER make money, but that is where they are putting all their eggs. On prem and mainframe are the cash cows.
What makes you most happy at CA Technologies?
Top Employee Response
Work Culture and employee focused
Good coworkers, interesting, challenging work.
The ability to make a difference.
What is most positive about the culture and environment at CA Technologies?
Top Employee Response
Flexibility. Employees are equally treated irrespective of their level or title
Enjoy spending time with each other. Management cares about employee happiness. Using great technology (some teams).
Seems like we're all focused on making the company a better place to work.
What's the company culture like at CA Technologies?
There is a culture of inclusion and pride in diversity. There is an underlying sense of being part of a winning team.
CA pretends to be hip and cool and welcoming to all. And it can be a very heavy handed toxic organization.
Expression of our DNA.
What interview questions does CA Technologies ask?
We are meant to ask specific questions but typically you suffer the personalities of the interviewers desires.
They use a fit guide for dimensions based upon the DNA principles. https://www.ca.com/us/company/about-us/the-ca-mission/dna-of-ca.html
I can't recall the specific questions asked during my interviews, but it was nothing challenging.
What's the best way to get an interview??
Top Employee Response
Develop a relationship with someone who works here and ask them to refer you.
Find someone inside and let them be your advocate.
Apply for a job online and make sure you match the requirements.
What are you most excited about working at CA Technologies?
Wondering what our severance will be and when it will happen.
Impacting customers to help them solve their problems is what I really live for - I think the CA Accelerator is on the forefront of building solutions that matter to customers and I hope greatly that they invest in projects showing promise.
ability to try new things and domains I haven't before
how long is the interview process?
Too long, like 2 months+
It can be very long 3 weeks is about average.
1 month
What's one thing you would improve at the company?
Stop the silos! Shrink the SG&A and reduce management layers.
WE should go private. It would allow us to be more nimble and flexible
promotional and leadership opportunities
What's the pay like for Sales roles at CA Technologies?
Competitive for base salary, healthy commission and equity awarded annually if you achieve your quota
Pay is great for the sales roles within CA. Hence the expression "making CA Money"
I believe if you are set up for success you can make a good salary
How's the leadership on the Sales team at CA Technologies?
We have some of the best sales leadership in the business.
The leadership team depends on which business unit you are in. Its very traditional top down control. After all they know what is best for the sales people vs. asking the sales people what they need to be successful.
The answer to this question depends on which business unit you are in. In general its a top down hierarchy, command and control culture.
How challenged are you at CA Technologies?
Extremely challenged.
Enough to keep interested and focused.
Reasonably: we keep goals attainable, yet challenging.
What's the best part of your job at CA Technologies?
The opportunity to make an exceptional amount of money working with some of the world's premier businesses doing really exciting projects that move the needle for our customers.
The purpose.
Learning new things.
What kind of people succeed at CA Technologies?
yes men
Talented people with good character who can adapt.
Brilliant talkers, Marketing/Sales and executives poached from Oracle or IBM. They even get to lead Engineering...
How much diversity is there among employees at CA Technologies?
No it's a mans world in sales with a few token women.
Better than industry average.
Every which kind. A lot of immigrants from China and India. Quite a few from Europe, Russia, and other places too.
How secure do you feel at your job at CA Technologies?
Enough not to obsess over an exit strategy and keep me on my toes.
Not the least. Too many layoffs. Often excellent professionals get the boot, just because they got stuck on the wrong project at the wrong time.
Not very secured. They have an annually conducted RIF.
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Should I work at CA Technologies?
32% of CA Technologies employees would encourage their friends to become coworkers, whereas 26% are neutral and 42% would not recommend working at CA Technologies to their friends.
| 32% | Promoters |
|---|---|
| 26% | Passive |
| 42% | Detractors |
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