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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1.0
Aug 7, 2017

ambiguity and increasing resource constraints

Anonymous employee
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Pros

- Some really smart, conscientious co-workers (emphasis on some) - Good career-building experience - Pre-buyout, terrific internal training and investment in employees

Cons

- Zero career advancement opportunities - Total breakdown in communication at every level, every day - Morale-breaking organizational decisions - Lackluster executive team in love with the sound of their own voices - No equity and long dry spell with no bonuses listening to sales get offered incentive after incentive - Stuck on a private equity LBO hamster wheel that seems to only be speeding up over time - Cavalcade of VPs being hired, but no new resources to do the work they generate - Competing priorities that constantly shif - Compete lack of creativity and initiative - Culture seems purposely divisive, siloed, and hierarchical - Pays lip-service to being customer-first - Unlimited PTO a farce if you have to work when you take it - Company so lean that there's no redundancy or back-up - "Quality" is a foreign concept - Collaboration loses out to competition and complacency - Lack of clarity of roles and responsibilities, despite constantly talking about it

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Informatica Response
8y
We regret that you have such a negative view of Informatica. Your peers at Informatica on Glassdoor rate us 3.8 out of 5 stars overall, and 74% would recommend Informatica as a place to work. Our own employee engagement survey shows 87% of employees are engaged and actively contributing to our success. Gartner ranks us first in the six industry categories in which we compete, and we have won top honors for customer satisfaction from Kantar TNS for 11 years in a row. We are excited to have the extraordinary opportunity to be the undisputed worldwide leader in Enterprise Cloud Data Management.
3.0
Jul 25, 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Good & knowledgeable peers to work with (degrading quality though). Work from home, some managers are really nice to work with at lower level. Few employee engagement activities, Yoga classes & gym in office premises. Live snacks counters at reasonable (not subsidised) prices.

Cons

It is sad to see good people are leaving the company. The old timers are replaced with freshers, people for lower salaries & contract employees. Hectic work load during last release (management promised retrospection and partial positive turnaround) An indirect salary cut by vanishing individual contribution of 50% in bonus amount. Individual performance is used for further cutdown of bonus, With company performance in last 4-5 years, it is going to be 5-10% salary cut. The iLabs finance touched the bottom by denying perDiem to the people served at Infa world saying provided lunch at venue.

1.0
May 6, 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
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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.
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