CA Technologies reviews

As the title says, CA is a place where products go to die. I was part of their corporate ASE program for recent grad hires. They flew us out twice, provided lodging/transportation, and food for a fun training program. My first week on the job there was a layoff of QA. 9 months later, it was a sub-40 person layoff. Now, it looks like the site will be shut down. Our jobs are being outsourced because they think some idiot overseas is even worth 1/3 of an engineer here. Managers and directors were overworked and overstressed. Many good products bought by CA are run into the ground. Attrition is high, and an uneasy feeling of job security looms everyday. They couldn't even commit to more than a year and a half for a new hire they put through their corporate program.

CA is a very corporate environment where polices and procedures are dictated from the top down, by those who have no idea how the workers actually do their jobs. CA survives through acquisitions, they buy a company and incentivize the developers to stay while they make as much profit as they can, then, as everyone quits because they simply can't take it any longer, CA moves on to the next acquisition. You have to deal with different departments and systems that don't integrate or talk to each other and archaic legacy backend systems that were never designed to work with modern software offerings. It's a nightmare wrapped in an enigma covered up by corporate greed and politics.