Thread regarding CA Technologies (CA Inc.) layoffs

Political minefield

CA is a really crappy company to work for unless you are a Golden Boy or Girl. If your boss likes you, you get ALL the plum assignments, but if they don't you get the really crap jobs/accounts or nothing. I saw this happen multiple times, and I saw people promoted very quickly just because they were "chosen ones" who got assigned to all the best opportunities. Those people got all the accolades and couldn't fail.

It's a political minefield there, major reorgs were done every year I was there, and head chopping occurs often from the exec level down to the field infantry. I've never seen a company where so many good people got shot so often.

I really grew to hate working there, and I never had ANY trust or confidence in my bosses. Decisions appeared to get made that just didn't make any sense, and many of us labored hard in darkness while the favored ones got everything handed to them on a silver platter. Glad I'm out of that awful place - it was driving me crazy and actually endangered my marriage because I grew very depressed and acted negatively because of it. If you value your emotional and mental health, don't ever go to work there.

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years of hell---most unorganized company I have ever been with.

Re-Org is constant (not just once a year) and back stabbing is the way to survive.

I can't see this making it to the 'long haul'

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Post ID: @1Ygnr+NmwCbhB

That was CA in a nutshell when I worked there during the Wang/Kumar/Artz regime. Easily the worst experience of my career.

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Post ID: @Uvji+NmwCbhB

so true

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