Great company for non-engineers - Software Engineer Jama Software Employee Review

2.0
Aug 6, 2014
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Everyone is very friendly and easy going. Employee on-boarding is very good and everyone is very eager to help you succeed. Great company if all you want to do is put in your 7.5 hours and bike home.

Cons

There is no real engineering management or direction. There are some very good engineering managers (mine fell into the great camp), but zero technical direction or leadership as a whole. The software arm of the company consists of mostly simple feature work dictated by project managers with little-to-no engineering knowledge. Everyone is out the door at 5pm sharp. No real drive to do anything exciting technically, and the software is very rudimentary. Trying to improve processes or technology, or being critical of anything at the company, is looked on poorly. My experience was that the higher ups simply want you to shut up and follow orders. Spring and Hibernate Java with ExtJS front-end application that scales poorly. This is from the perspective of an engineer working on back-end services, so YMMV.

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5.0
Mar 18, 2026
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Pros

- Great people and strong collaboration across departments - Attentive and supportive onboarding experience - Encouraging environment for new ideas - Supportive and responsive People team - Diverse customers with interesting, meaningful challenges to solve - Great product that is staying current with new technologies - Strong support for remote work

Cons

- Fully remote environment requires strong work habits and discipline - Need to be proactive to stay connected when working remotely

2.0
Jun 2, 2026
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Peers are a true pleasure to work with and it's easy to cross-collaborate.

Cons

Leadership is all-in on AI and confident that they will be the exception to the second wave of regret you see other SaaS companies who adopted earlier expressing. Leadership is demanding faster output and criticizing and eliminating any old guard who flag concerns around the approach.

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