Q&A With CA Technologies Employees

Yes, depends on org and role.

A few. Reserved to very talented individuals whom we cannot replace with locals. As an Agile environment, CA strongly promotes colocation for scrum team members and their direct management.

Absolutely most of the team I'm on work remotely. All departments have remote people on the teams.

Long and frustrating

Long and unclear

Relaxed but tough. We're interested in top talent only.

Since Broadcom it is like a prison cell for most.

Quiet and sometimes sombre, not loads of folks in the offices often.

Support, Services and Engineering teams are quiet like a library. Sales is more upbeat and noisy.

Extremely intense. Very high rev/RPM pace. Ultimately it is a culture of performance and everyone know what is expected of them. I can work as many hours as are available. It is difficult to disconnect at times. With travel I am working in excess of 70 hours per week.

At times its pretty toxic.

Extremely skilled and professional. These are "Alpha" level players or they don't stay around long.

It depends on which business unit you are in. When visiting a customer CA often has more employees at the meeting than the customer.

Deliberation of leadership.

I will tell you when I get one.

Introduce yourself to anyone whose passionate about working here, and ask them to refer you.

Learn Mainframe related technologies. Come from an IBM or Oracle background.

Execute, Measure, Adapt. Rinse and repeat.

Improving, particularly since education tracks covering leadership and soft skills were introduced to help mid management. CA also organizes multiple surveys a year, and actually appears to take thoughtful action upon results.

Happy, but not satisfied with the pay.

I like what I am doing at CA and more importantly the people I am working with.

Easy. I am married, able to visit my folks, have some fun, and practice my religion! The work-life balance is great!

Not too hard. CA practices flextime well. Organized social events are also relatively frequent and enjoyable.

Lots of fun when they occur, but it depends on the team.

Used to be great. Namely nearly everyone was participating to CA World. That went downhill along the last few years.

That my first team would be narcissist, arrogant jerks.

CA is lacking dearly on strategic HR, which has a negative impact notably on individuals’ career development.

With the Broadcom purchase it could not be lower, I have seen death row inmates have a more positive view of the future.

Not so great because of too frequent layoffs, lately. Frequent acquisitions with uneven culture match, value and integration propositions are also an issue.

Kinda lame. Just the basics.

Cubes or open office.

Nothing totally unique, but we are competitive with most companies our size.

401k with company matching contribution, and also an annual contribution linked to results. Child care center and gyms within facilities, in main office locations. Very good healthcare plans. Life insurance, legal advice, ...

Dead quiet

People talk but it does not get noisy

Mine was easy but I was hired off my reputation.

Too varied to answer

They were actually pretty defensive, I received little to no help.

Typically via NPS score

It is very reasonable. If you are a work from home employee. You receive $75 per month for office expenses. You can order a router and desk phone with an office extension. You can still go into your local office, which I do frequently when not traveling. Essentially, you are treated like an adult.

Smart in the problem space, aware of the competitive marketplace and finally hyper-engaged in the user and customer success factors.

It was extremely flexible

Business casual.

The pace is frenetic.