Commvault reviews

Regular sales turnover, comp plans changes too disruptive. Lack of transparency (senior to upper management level). Poor execution track record. Management look down on women. Culture of fear in Development. Culture of friends+family in upper management. Too political to execute+pivot (can't even release a working feature because it "wasn't invented here" or didn't have someone's rubber stamp on it) No well-defined career paths. Seen too many try to grow out of Support or Development, and get their careers dashed by the respective heads from Sydney and Tinton Falls because they take leaving as a personal affront to their leadership. The disruption is coming and CVLT is not ready. (Azure Backup/ASR/Amazon Backup anyone?) CTO is too busy focusing on being the technical 'superstar' at the expense of the company, his office, and customers. Seems intent on being a one man army SE, a Sales guy, a product manager, a evangelist, but has zero intent on being a CTO and a leader which involves taking a step back to trust other teams do what they are paid to do. Results in promises made and broken, fractured work repeated in multiple locations, of which all trying to fly under the radar just to push the needle forward, and no major strategic initiatives can be executed because they gain visibility that clashes with CTO, and we lose in the field as a result. Development focused on shipping features too fast, checking boxes as they go, instead of releasing quality code and measuring their efforts. Pretends its a startup from the 90's, changing priorities every week to the point that no deadlines, delivery dates, or promises over functionality can be trusted until technically heavy SE's have played with the feature themselves, or have used the product in the field.

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.