Commvault reviews

3.8

70% would recommend to a friend

(1,162 total reviews)
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Sanjay Mirchandani

89% approve of CEO

69% positive business outlook

Commvault has an employee rating of 3.8 out of 5 stars, based on 1,162 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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1K reviews
5.0
Jun 22, 2018

Distribution Manager

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Great Pay and Benefits with lots of flexibility

Cons

Handsoff management, little room for growth

1.0
Jun 21, 2018
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Unlimited vacation although in sales you’re expected to work through family time and vacations The support staff was honestly excellent outside of the development team who would go MIA without updates for weeks when customers were impacted by bugs. Fair pay Good benis

Cons

The shareholders are being misled due to a focus on revenue. What they don’t want you to know are their nut in a shell accounting practices. Margins are lower than ever. Expenses are through the roof and I saw firsthand the fiscal waste by my fellow coworkers. In some of the overlay positions, you can almost get away with doing nothing. They spend their time going to happy hours and lunches producing very little funnel growth for all their efforts. As long as you provide endless reports and PowerPoint slides you can stay off the radar. Thousands of dollars wasted every quarter to travel and perching in local drinking establishments 10-12k by many of my peers. I also was treated very poorly and had a number of EEOC issues during my tenure. I’m talking egregious problems. I didn’t particularly like working for used car salesman who did nothing but press the flesh, party, and micromanage multiple times a day sometimes. These weren’t little issues but I took the high road and chalked it down to a learning experience. I recall Bob (who I did like btw) stating he had no interest in an appliance.... he also didn’t see Veeam as a real threat...... he missed his chance at tarot cards or at becoming a mystic. It couldn’t have been more clear to those of us selling on the front lines. Bringing in ex EMC and Oracle execs accomplished nothing other than to turn the place into a meat grinder. The culture has taken an absolute beating and in middle management and leadership, Commvault employs empty suits with one job. Make people fearful and uncomfortable to sell at any cost so they can chalk up the revenue. Entire teams are dismantled meanwhile they continue to lead and rehire over and over. Attrition is through the roof. The execs collect proportionately out of whack bonuses for a company with less than 10% market share and terrible margins. Revenues consist of Pro Svc revenue while competitors like Veeam offer a self install offering. Commvault will pound their chest and tout their superiority, but Veeam is closer to 1B in revenues, with a loyal channel, and customer base. It took them ten years to pass what Commvault accomplished in 30. Competition is now fiercer so I’m warning anyone listening. Sell sell sell this stock. At this point maybe a sale to IBM or someone of the likes might save them from their demise.

4.0
Jun 16, 2018

Great place to work.

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Unlimited vacation. 401K matching. Excellent health plan. Great compensation. Many opportunities to try new things and grow your career.

Cons

Some miscommunication and unwillingness to collaborate between departments. Major departments are more like silos than a unified team.

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Commvault Response
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Thank you for helping us grow over the last 5+ years that you have been with Commvault. I agree Commvault is a great place for those who want to go above and beyond and don’t box themselves in. I agree with you that sometimes there is a miss with collaboration between departments and as we are moving through this transformation we have that front of mind as a leadership team. Your point on great experts don’t necessarily make great managers is a good one. While we strive to create career opportunities for our internal talent including a quite extensive set of development activities for those that aspire to transition into management, we also must acknowledge when we don’t have management ready internal candidates and in those cases hire from the outside. We actually did a study recently looking at the manager hires over the past 3 years and found that we have had a 50/50 split between internal promotions and external hires though with some variance between the various parts of the business. If you have any other specific feedback you would like to discuss with me, please feel free to stop by my office anytime. – Jesper Helt – CHRO
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