1. General culture of the group.
2. People, especially senior leaders from Indian background, have big egos. In fact while working at a client, the client leaders mentioned this to me in confidence (minus the Indian part though but the leadership was majority Indian so it was obvious).
4. Even though the group has very clearly organized service lines and verticals, if you belong to a service line but work on an assignment that is being run by another, you are virtually invisible to your service line and they take no interest in you as long as you are billing.
5. Unethical, I was laid off just before Christmas, even when I had a rating of 2 and above in all my previous performance reviews. 1 being superstar, out of the world rating and 3 being the acceptable rating.
6. I was told by one senior project manager that he does not believe in team bonding over lunch or dinner or anything other than work. As long as the team gets the work done he is okay and does not care who you go to dinner with. Very lousy reasoning and reflected in the way team worked - no interaction other than in meetings and no bonding whatsoever!
7. A client is a client, if it is a not a fortune 100 client, does not mean they deserve your snobbish behavior!
8. Lack of talent in key areas, for example - pathetic offshore project managers with bad team management and client management skills, and pathetic testing team. Offshore developers were not bad though but they were the ones who paid for the crap created by their leadership and onshore folks!
9. Mismanagement of offshore resources by treating them like second grade employees. No, I was not an offshore employee.
10. Even though it is excellent for fresh graduates, I fail to understand how some fresher from psychology background can understand core business concepts of a traditional manufacturing company just because she is pretty! So in the end fresh graduates like these get a lot of exposure in terms of client facing roles and travel, but really, they are essentially technical document writers and just vomit on MS WORD - whatever the senior business analysts dictates to them verbatim.
