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2.0
18 Jun 2015
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Benefits. Paid time off is excellent so if you want a place to make a pay check and have a decent work life balance, this is the place. Don't expect to be inspired or innovative. Ideas are lost in the political game. Team dynamics are the best you can hope for giving there is no real incentive to excel beyond doing what's best to support team members. Trust and morale are LOW at best. Psychological safety to explore innovative and competitive ideas are discouraged by leadership behaviors. Not really sure what all the chiefs are actually doing.

Cons

Pay is mediocre compared to comparable enterprises in the industry. No bonuses (at least in IT). If you have a brain, don't expect to use it often. If you enjoy check box type processess, then this is a good fit. "Agile" was a flavor of the year, replaced by traditional command and control from senior management guidelines. Middle managers we're nothing more than keepers of sticks and carrots, closely followed by a checklist status report sent to uplines. 10 years with this company and probably would have retired with the rest had it not been for complete apathy.

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Pros

1. relatively aloof culture for ICs to grow on their own 2. on and off few people are good 3. Actually consultants in india are better than some full time hires to work with. The h1bs in full time roles and some GCs/Americans are just 1 step away from unemployment line but there are some good quality consultants who can be directed well to bring in good work. Problem is lack of direction when middle management is just running after money.

Cons

1. top most management is clueless to what is going post the middle tier 2. middle tiers - VPs/SVPs/Directors and Sr. Directors are among the worst. Mostly cast offs from Consulting firms/Tech cos/Other Healthcare firms, this group has some of the worst, clueless folks who just think very narrowly about how to get rid of problems, maybe craft a story for higher ups. Get rid of this layer ( so called people management ) and co. could shine better on the work of ICs, decent software engineers and regular rank and file. 3. Main money maker distribution is different from tech group and the IT here is almost comical - 2 years ago in 2024 there were "directors" bringing AI agents with 90% hallucination .. I mean that has got to be an industry first!

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Thank you for bringing these issues to our attention. We are committed to creating a positive work environment and are disappointed to learn that we fell short. We are taking your feedback seriously and are making efforts to address the concerns raised. Please feel free to reach out for a more in-depth discussion.
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