Commvault reviews

3.9

71% would recommend to a friend

(1,164 total reviews)
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Sanjay Mirchandani

89% approve of CEO

71% positive business outlook

Commvault has an employee rating of 3.9 out of 5 stars, based on 1,164 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Commvault 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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2.0
Jul 6, 2010

Evaluate your options carefully before joining!

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Pros

Commvault has grown solidly over the past decade. They have a very good product and in general, will go out of their way to make sure that their customers have a good experience with their solutions. They have a good (not great) eco-system of partners, which depending on the area of country are helpful to the overall sales process. Financially, Commvault has very strong balance sheet for company of their size, but they are fiscally very conservative. This has bode them well in the current economic climate and will continue to do so in the near term.

Cons

Commvault's boarders on the fringe of being brutal. They have had HIGH turnover in the sales ranks for the last 4 years. "High" is defined by greater than 30%. Moreover, they have turnover more than 50% of their first line managers in the last 6 quarters. They recently split the sales force into 2 functional groups: "Enterprise and Core". While it a good strategy overall (for companies that have critical mass), this has been somewhat disruptive for the sales organization as they enter FY'11. The managers at Commvault beat up their sales people with process and documenting the sales cycle, to the point where it is almost punitive. A great deal of recruiters have stopped working Commvault because of their recruiting process, which further lends to the perception of the culture. Sales people can make money there, but be advised that is all about the territory that you take over. Commvault's market share is less than 10% of the data management space, so the competition is formable and Commvault is clearly out-manned in the Fortune 500 by larger competitors Symantec and EMC, although they have been steadily chipping away at Symantec's market share for some time now.

2.0
Mar 20, 2010
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Pros

Challenging job role, first hand look into some of the latest technologies, for example cloud computing, de-duplication, and a lot of proprietary technology which cannot be posted on a public forum.

Cons

The new management has started strangling the work environment making it very difficult to work with your full concentration and capacity. With the introduction of a global queue of support, unrealistic and irrelevant performance level comparisons with different GEO's are being made. Classic case of comparing apples to oranges. The engineers in US work in a direct support model as compared to the partner based structure in EMEA. The annual appraisal form does not contain the benchmarks against which the employees are being accessed; they are no longer accessed based on their experience level or their technical competency but based on the region they belong to, which community are they from etc. What matters most is whether you share the same surname with the senior management or are you a buddy of the manager, whether you used to work with him in your previous job. Knowledge transfer between different members of the team is no longer done. Trainers hired to conduct in-house training for the employees in order to keep pace with the upcoming technologies are in-competent and are hired only because they are pals of one of the senior managers. The trainers credentials are not even checked before hiring them. Before joining the organization, employees are promised 250 RSU's per engineer, and it is also mentioned in their offer letter. However, after a month, they are told that they will get only 50 RSU over a span of 4 years. This has happened with 5 different engineers in the India Development Center.

1.0
Jun 12, 2025

Toxic work place

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Great organization to work for overall but few conditions.

Cons

After the new India Director took charge of the Customer Success Management (CSM) team at Commvault, the work environment has seen a significant decline. What was once a collaborative and relatively transparent culture has shifted into a toxic, micromanaged atmosphere that prioritizes control over trust. Team morale has plummeted due to the Director’s leadership style, which many employees perceive as authoritarian and unsupportive. Constructive feedback is often dismissed, and dissenting voices are silenced rather than acknowledged. This has created a culture of fear, where employees are more focused on avoiding conflict than doing their best work. Talented team members are actively looking for opportunities elsewhere. The lack of psychological safety, unclear strategic direction, and favoritism have become major concerns. There is also a noticeable disconnect between upper management and the ground realities faced by the team.

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