BMC Software reviews

The culture is not great, you are expected to work as many hours as it takes to get the job done (I've pulled several all nighters) with little to no appreciation. It seems like there are clicks and if you aren't apart of it then you are left in the cold especially if you're not at HQ. There is no formal process for receiving raises or promotions. You boss has to request it for you and most don't know this is what is required so you can languish for years without any kind of salary adjustment. When I asked my boss after 2yrs of service if I was going to get a raise they replied " i have no idea what you're talking about". I don't see a lot of upward mobility at least in my current role which is disheartening. There is no career training unless you are in sales and your managers doesn't talk to you about how you can advance your career. Being recently acquired by a consortium of private equity firms the state of the company can be tenuous. We're waiting to see if we will be sold off as a whole, or by group or taken public again. Communication company wide is horrible. No one knows what anyone else does.

The QA organization has lost a number of people in the last year due to reductions and attrition. Management seems to think that they can just shuffle people around to take up the slack without understanding that the skill set needed to understand how to test a product thoroughly does not always easily translate to another product. Management talks about the greying of the R&D organization and how they need to address it without recognizing the knowledge they are losing because they are not acting fast enough for those retiring to pass that knowledge on. Management is also aware of the many single points of failure (staff that provides critical functions with no backup) yet make no obvious effort to address them. There is no career development in the R&D organization. Promotions are few and far between.