Glorified service based not product based BT India
Pros
- N% higher than market salary - Flexible work timings - Job designation, whatever you ask for - Gem of technical resources
Cons
- Zero, I really mean it, work life balance for techies. May not be so for managers, who distribute work like reputed postmen and leave for home, henceforth disturbing the balance for technical resources. - Too much focus on non-technical Line Managers, who don't even understand a fig of what his reports work on. - Fickle and narrow minded lower management, which perceives any performing resource as threat - The lure of HR mentioning this as product based org clears in 3-4 weeks as you understand the dynamics of org. Since vendors are still there for BT, working in parallel, so the management asks you to justify your package by comparing only the quantity as they shift-deleted "quality" from their dictionary long time back, while working with vendors like TechM, TCS, Accenture n Infy. - Finally, comes the rating system, which evaluates you every quarter and the micro management comes to the fore, wherein you would discussed about tea-breaks, that one sick leave and a bad rating to start with
