Q&A With CA Technologies Employees

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.

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.

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!

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.

Nice, and sometimes helpful.

Smart, engaged and dedicated folks all around.

My team is like family.

Pay for my role is slightly lower than norm in industry for this GEO.

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.

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.

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.

Find someone inside and let them be your advocate.

Apply for a job online and make sure you match the requirements.

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

Too long, like 2 months+

It can be very long 3 weeks is about average.

1 month

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

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

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.

Extremely challenged.

Enough to keep interested and focused.

Reasonably: we keep goals attainable, yet challenging.

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.

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...

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.

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.