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      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

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      4.1

      Culture & values

      4.1

      Diversity & inclusion

      4.0

      Work/Life balance

      3.9

      Compensation and benefits

      3.8

      Career opportunities

      3.6

      Senior management

      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
      2.0
      Sep 7, 2016

      Sexism abounds and is constant

      Anonymous employee
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      CEO approval
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      Pros

      Work life balance. I have never seen less accountability amongst employees in my whole entire life.

      Cons

      I have worked in IT for 20 years and I am used to being the only or one of very few woman. There are a fair number of women here and consistently, they are treated like wall flowers who really shouldn't say too much. I have never seen women so dismissed in every conversation as I have with this company. There is a real culture problem. Consistently, men take over conversations, interrupt women, promote men over women (except in one case where yes she is dating a VP), ask men who report to women if what the woman has said is correct. Honestly- there needs to be some change here. Other con- It feels like high school 2.0 where little is accomplished, the strategy is unclear other than to increase margins. The only solution the company has is to cut costs while at the same time pursuing low margin Cloud business. The executives are shifting around. They seem like good time guys and not really have a good focus on how to properly run and company and meet deadlines. They are all over the place.

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      Informatica Response
      9y
      Senior Vice President and Chief Human Resources Officer I regret to hear that you have a negative view of what it’s like for women working at Informatica. As the head of Human Resources, I take this very seriously and strongly encourage you, and anyone else that feels this way, to reach out to me directly so we may discuss these concerns. Please know that Informatica is opposed to any type of discrimination and it is only by pursuing such instances of bias that we can properly address and resolve them.
      2.0
      Aug 1, 2016

      In Total Chaos

      Senior sales consultant
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      + Product Stack People Know + Old Name that never dies + Mostly good colleagues + Work/Life ok

      Cons

      + Management who are unfamiliar with the product and the problem customers face + Product improvements completely out of line with what customers ask for and what competitors are bringing to market + CEO And VP have no interest in interacting with you as an employee or person even at events. They just stare and walk away. + Extremely Rude and Condescending Management + Old Dinosaur Culture that is un moving and stuck in the " this is the way we do things" + Unlimited PTO a farse.. as having been told by one superior "well you took PTO before you joined our company", why do you need it over summer. (Mind you management of course took it to sit on a Mexican beach). + Losing Ground to competitors very fast. In short order the newer cloud group will be unable to compete with folks like Mule & Snap & Boomi. + PE Play a total disaster as are most of these acquisitions. As one colleague optimistically put it "maybe we'll ipo in a few years", which resulted in giggles at the pure idiocy.

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      Informatica Response
      9y
      We regret that you have a negative view of your former workplace. Since we cannot know how long ago you left, it’s hard to address your comments. A lot has changed, and mostly for the good. Senior leadership has had some changes, but the executive team we have now joined us from blue-chip companies such as Oracle, IBM, SAS, and other firms. Our PTO policy does require your manager’s approval of your requests as it would at any time. As for going private, that strategy has been explained in detail to employees several times: we did so to gain the flexibility required to spur innovation and adapt our organization to the ever-changing world of business solutions. Being publicly-held is just one financial model, and it is appropriate for some businesses but not all. Whether or not we return to the public equity markets is not something about which we would speculate in an open forum.
      1.0
      Dec 24, 2015

      Outsourcing and cheap labor

      Software engineer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
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      Pros

      None anymore since the private equity guys took over.

      Cons

      What used to be a technologically innovative company is being slowly reduced to ashes thanks to the bean counter Private Equity guys and overpaid myopic Informatica management. Highly talented American engineers were laid off last August and the layoffs continue in small bunches despite management promises not to layoff anyone else. Now that Informatica is private, they no longer have to file WARN notices. Entire engineering teams have been laid off and operations outsourced to the Bangalore R&D office. Management then collects air miles flying back and forth not really doing anything productive. Whatever code gets produced takes twice as long to debug and there was intense pressure during the v10 final build. The Indian engineers are then brought in on L1B visas (for which no prevailing wage exists) and pressured to work long hours which they do because they have no worker protections.

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      Informatica Response
      10y
      You make a lot of assertions, but the facts do not support them. Informatica continues to be recognized for technical innovation - Gartner lists Informatica as a "Leader" in seven distinct enterprise software Magic Quadrant categories (as recently as this week) and a "Visionary" in one more. At the time we announced the completion of our privatization, we laid out the re-structuring strategy and the timelines for it. We also made a commitment that no additional layoffs were planned and we have kept that promise. Your accusation that the Company mistreats its workers is, to the best of our knowledge, completely without merit. If you have evidence to the contrary, you should take it to your HR Business Partner. Informatica has a written policy to protect whistle blowers, so you can make your case without fear of retribution. Your characterization of doom and gloom doesn't jibe with the fact that we have exceeded our revenue projections since we went private (and announced it to all employees as part of our commitment to open and transparent communications). Your comments indicate that you are clearly unhappy at Informatica. No employer is right for everyone. We would encourage you to use the holidays to reflect on your career. All of us have a choice: we can embrace the mission and vision of Informatica and do our utmost to make it a success, or we can find someplace else where we can do so. We hope you make the right decision for you and have a happier 2016. Good luck.
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