Optiva reviews

There are plenty of downsides i have observed since the acquisition of NSN BSS by redknee i.e. since last 1.5 years. 1. Poorest Management of Products. 2. Everyone comes and adds his more mess into it and leaves products in the worse state then they were. 3. Most Pathetic arrogant Project Management officers they need to be replaced. 4. Terrible and pathetic Appraisals throughout Redknee Pune. 5. HR has no clue what is going on in Company and has no Say at all. They are just the underdogs. 6. There is no learning left in Redknee at all. All you have to do if you join, is to add your mess to existing one. 7. Few good products lack the scalability so they cant be upgraded or reconstructed for tier 1 clients and thus only maintenance is left. I believe redknee does not have better tier 1 clients. 8. Their whole purpose is to sustain in the market than grow to bigger extent. The list could go on and on but I think this should suffice anyone's purpose if they are at all thinking to join this company. A word of Advice to them who are planning to Join - The grass always seems greener on the other side. And all that glitters is not Gold (read between the lines). So just because they are offering you good salary don't get lured by the offer.If you have a better one then join there. These views would be of almost every alternative employee of Redknee Pune. I am just being their representative four putting up these thoughts upfront.

Now it is a private team of cohorts and boot-lickers of the CTO. Initially he seemed to be a good chap with good intentions of reviving the company fortunes after ESW, but over the last 4 years, it has become clear - he is a selfish person with no vision and acumen for architecture. 1. He brought in his own bunch of jokers with 0 experience of the Telecom BSS world. They screwed RnD and burnt up the 60 million USD they were given. All new joiners take 2 months to ramp up, thereby increasing overheads by 3 times of what was required earlier. 2. The company has become a more of a SI than a product company, with nepotism (Founders of DT, the company supplying Order management and Catalog are friends of the CTO) and suspected kickbacks (Repeated deals to a company called EnS, at costs higher than their own people who are forced to train EnS persons) reeking in all deals. 3. The managers from Belfast are absolutely biased, especially towards the people from the Indian subcontinent. Every effort has been made to blame them, while the European and Belfast teams enjoy all the benefits and Work-life balance. 4. Off-late, the icing on the cake - after the announcement of the JV with Qvantel, the CTO has offered to Qvantel all the recent deals Optiva got, This is to secure his own position and to hide his failures in the ongoing product development and deliveries. This guy has single-handedly, with the active help of his cohorts, managed to mislead the CEO and the board. The message from the CTO is simple - lick my boots, or else you will be booted out.