Rocket Software reviews

work/life balance can be difficult at times

Then Rocket shifted its strategy and decided to attempt to combine all of their resources into "Centers of Excellence". This was a major re-organization. They decided not to renew the lease on our offices, making us all remote employees. At the same time they began openly saying that they would no longer hire remote employees, and that they wanted all of their employees centralized into the "Centers of Excellence", where possible. Next, our manager retired and Rocket at first assigned a salesman as our manager, and then eventually a remote manager from the HQ in Mass. That manager then retired in a mass exodus as Rocket incentivized more experienced, and highly paid, engineers and employees to retire from the company. Next, Rocket took away the projects which we had built and maintained for 20 years from the founding engineers and gave them to engineers in China, assigning the founding engineers to other maintenance tasks. Rocket is moving as much of their development to India, Russia and China as possible. They have cut their USA overhead, resulting in a large reduction in experienced engineers and managers in the US. It appears that they are attempting to maximize their software maintenance revenues by reducing (expensive) US engineers and replacing them with sub-standard 3rd world engineers. I expect a drop in quality will result, but that management is seeking to exit before this becomes too apparent. It looks like a short term exit strategy. I quit once I became aware that Rocket management's strategy was to outsource as much as possible of their engineering to the 3rd world, regardless of how profitable the individual units were and the cost to the engineers who had faithfully worked for Rocket. Rocket is a multinational corporation, they are not an "American" company. If anything, they are un-American.