BMC Software reviews

4.0

80% would recommend to a friend

(2,876 total reviews)
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Ayman Sayed

85% approve of CEO

69% positive business outlook

BMC Software has an employee rating of 4.0 out of 5 stars, based on 2,876 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The BMC Software employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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1.0
Oct 2, 2024
Recommend
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Pros

My direct management and team

Cons

BMC has zero strategy and an executive leadership team that can only make decisions in the best interest of them and their private equity owners, not the other 99.9% of employees. If your long term strategy changes every 6-12 months, then you don't have a strategy at all. BMC's idea of "growth" is just continually cutting costs, even if that means not giving the employees they decide to keep their annual increases to keep up with market and cost of living. Ayman, the CEO, is a poor communicator and a terrible leader, which the executive team follows. Quit acting like we are some sort of cutting edge company and can compete with the likes of Broadcom and ServiceNow. Let's stick with continuously improving and investing at what we are good at and quit trying to fix a problem line of business. If you can't fix it in over a decade, cut ties and move on.

5.0
Oct 26, 2017

The best place I have worked....again :)

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Pros

I have done the "circuit" over the past 10 years -- BMC and many of the major competitors....I am now back at BMC again based on great people, great products and a vision/strategy that makes sense and is working! * Great, great people * Very supportive management that "has my back" * Challenging and interesting work dealing with large customers and complex environments * Some of the smartest and savvy people I have ever worked with in my career

Cons

Big spread out organization -- you need to reach out and connect in person and remotely with a lot of people

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Thank you fro your feedback and review today. Your comments and insight, as well as experience in the industry, means a lot to us. We are very proud of the culture and environment we have created and appreciate that you value our efforts.
1.0
Mar 16, 2017

Engineering/Product Development

Anonymous employee
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Pros

You are lazy and don't want to contribute anything meaningful to the world and you work at BMC then you can coast forever.

Cons

This company once had a great vision to build products for IT. But over the past 5-7 years has lost all its direction. Every year there is a new class of executives that come in and graduate. They make money and leave the company worse than how they inherited it. All big acquisitions have been marginalised. No innovation; Just continued lipstick on the pig. Employees are treated unfairly when it comes to roles, responsibilities, compensation. Even post-privatization, the focus is on rebranding and not reinventing. Business has been on a decline for over 10-15 years. Executives are paid for a soft landing and not for delivering new products etc. No modern technologies in use. You spend more time working across time zones. Most projects are split across 3+ time zones that will take a huge toll on productivity and work-life balance. You are better off working somewhere else.

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