The only reliable thing in CA are layoffs. They come constantly, after every quarter or whatever other opportunity they see fit, and it doesn’t matter how good you perform or how experienced you are, if you stepped to someone’s toe, you will get axed.
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Correct! Step on someone's toes for me meant doing my job as a professional always proposing new and more efficient ways of doing things. Well, if your management team has been collecting paychecks doing status quo for years, they're not going to welcome that. It means they will have to work too. You are out! CA had a fear driven culture with incompetents (somebody's friend, an informant, etc) everywhere. I made the mistake of trying to manage one of them out of my team. This person was the lowest performer on the team with 15 years in the company! My associates could outperform this person. Hell broke loose with Sr mgmt folks bidding the case for this person. But I had it fully documented, following all procedures and it was hard to argue when no basic skills are there with a senior title. I had a senior mgmt level person arguing over the performance rating! Then complaining to my Sr mgmt. Absolute nonsense. I have no reason to fabricate a poor performance. Here's the work samples I reviewed repeatedly for the same types of problems over and over even after giving explanations and examples. The engineering team even complained about this person's poor quality of work to me. Senior mgmt was hiding this person who kept their job by secretly reporting up on everyone's activities. A gossip! One of many deplorable behaviors supported by senior level mgmt that I experienced.
It took me 2 momths and a threat to hire a lawyer to get my separation package. Management keep the thier friends that they hired that didn't know a thing about writing or testing software. Heck one of the people they hired into the click hadn't work a month oit of the year and three months that he was there before I was laied off. Worst company to work for I recommend that if you are offered a job or you see a job posting feom CA ignore it and run the other way.
Could you explain how you were treated?
I have renamed CA's HR more accurately 'Inhumane Resources' - the way my layoff was handled was straight out of the how not to treat people textbook - a horrible way to end a successful career there.