Infosys reviews

People are often overworked and uncompensated for their extra work. In my time of less than 2 years in that company, it was not a work environment suitable for people wanting to progress or growth in terms of careers. Upper management, majority from India, had a very bad habit of promising so much, and not acting on those promises. In one case, in one project, the team was promised a Christmas party and this was not even delivered. To help the team cope with end of year festivities and also not to be left out, I had to organize our own event funded by our own pockets and majority from my own pocket. What I really hated was a comment by one manager, when I had inquired why the agents were not being paid their due "overtime" and was responded, (i quote) "we did not ask them to do overtime, so why should we pay them for it?" . . . from that point on, it was on a down hill slide. I had of course had to advise my teams on the manager's response and to help them to have a suitable "Work-Life" Balance, requested that they abide by their schedule and log out on time. If they require to finish some work or project by client request, they had to first get an written email request from their managers or team leads to perform the overtime request. Compassion seems to be an alien word to some of the managers (mostly indian). Out of 6 indian expats I had met, only 2 had a compassionate heart. For those planning to work here, just always have yourself covered by documentation appropriately.

1. 70% of the crowd has no work-life balance 2. Talks about lot of things like solutions, non-revenue growth, but is a very conservative company and wants profit before investing a penny 3. Lot of dead-wood meaning lot of senior folks just staying around doing no work (fooling around in the name of initiatives) and paining folks around. 4. iRace has done one more pain - they tried to make everybody below 14 years to be billable. Folks who have not worked for 2-3 years are still not going to work, and they will get into billable roles and further increase the load of other junior folks genuinely working in the projects 5. A place where work gets delegated down in the hierarchy. 70% of the Project Managers think they have attained the CXO levels and dont do any work (under the pretext that it is a low-level work for their role). 6. The company created cheap policies and irritated employees during the recession. Seeing the alarming rate of attrition they are easing these policies, stating some rationale like they are doing this based on employee feedback 7. Their certification process is waste of time 8. The crowd is mainly generalists (no cutting edge, business or domain knowledge) 9. They will not spend money on specific tool training. Except for the fresher training, trainings on advance topics and tools are very low quality. Employee is expected to slog and learn on the job (20 hours per day). You are supposed to be an expert without even seeing the tool. Not a very professional place, and a sweatshop, but what other options do you have in India?