Informatica reviews

4.0

77% would recommend to a friend

(3,424 total reviews)
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Amit Walia

72% approve of CEO

71% positive business outlook

Informatica has an employee rating of 4.0 out of 5 stars, based on 3,424 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Informatica employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Tecnologías de la información industry (3.9 stars).

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3K reviews
1.0
Oct 24, 2015

Get A Clue

Recommend
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Pros

Great products and install base. Happy customers. Sales comp plans were good.

Cons

Unrealistic goal setting, major disruptions in sales territories and coverage assignments have caused high turnover and hurt sales growth. Communication from exec management is poor.

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Informatica Response
10y
Thank you for your review. When a business undertakes the kind of fundamental changes Informatica has, there will be significant impact throughout the organization. We tried to anticipate that and prepare our customers and employees accordingly. Feedback from customers has been overwhelmingly affirmative. Employees have been generally positive, as well (Informatica still rates higher on Glassdoor than our peer companies, for example). We put particular emphasis on communicating as frequently and openly as we can. And we recently introduced an additional bonus program to reward our people even more for their efforts. We also paid out our existing corporate bonus at 103% of plan. We continue to monitor our environment to ensure that Informatica remains one of the most desirable and rewarding places to work.
2.0
Sep 20, 2017
Recommend
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Pros

You never feel overworked. You never have to stay too late (this may depend on your manager though). Regular raises keep salaries competitive.

Cons

Location is far from downtown Redwood City. Java code base is 10 years old. C++ code base dates from the mid-90's. We're stuck on Java 7 and pre-C++ 98. Code has many obvious bugs and performance issues but feature development is prioritized over any kind of code audit or cleanup. In practice we wait until a customer hits one of these issues before fixing them.

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Informatica Response
8y
Thank you for your review and sharing your experiences working with Informatica. Informatica has multiple products and we use combination of technologies, including Scala, Spark, Kafka, Java, Sqoop, C++, and many others, to provide innovation, optimum performance and stability. Our products consistently earn the highest customer satisfaction scores in the industry, so they deliver for our users. We appreciate your comments and wish you all the best.
2.0
Sep 6, 2017
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Probably the best reason was that it was (and still is) a market leader and set the bar for innovation in the space of Data Management. It still is after all these years (somehow) an independent and as such Informatica is able to set the direction in which all others follow. Being an independent gives it so much freedom to direct the product in whatever way they see fit and a lot of the time these decisions were quite good.

Cons

Back in the day Informatica hired bright out of the box thinkers, somewhere along the line it became all about the politics, you play the political game well, you will achieve a lot. Also be prepared just to follow the words and desires of the people you report to, independent thinkers are just not listened too. If you are innovative and care more about your customers than the numbers, you probably wont do well at Informatica.

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