Infosys reviews

- Low salary. A serious discussion about higher salary only possible when handing in your letter of resignation, which in many cases is way too late. Do not expect any promotion or salary raise even if you're told so. At least you will not be disappointed. - You don’t receive any bonus salary in the first 3 months and also not in your notice period (last 2 months) and they will also take away the 5th week of leave if you quit. That means you can forget about the promised 5th holiday week in your last year of employment. Those are basically all the benefits the company offers. The other “bonuses” are just empty points to fill the list. - Incompetent IT department – Total disaster. Some months ago the whole IT department resigned because of “dissatisfaction” and all the knowledge was gone. The company hired new people who cannot handle the load and have no one to train them and pass on the knowledge. - Receiving tons of spam emails every day. Those emails are usually messages about some Indian people’s birthdays or how happy they are at work. Those are the moments when you experience Indian mentality at its finest. Out of 50 emails there will probably be 2 relevant ones. But you have to find them first. Good luck! - The company intranet is a user-unfriendly joke. Tons of applications that are not thoroughly interconnected. The system is slow, links are not working. Needs to be redone from scratch. - The company’s reaction time on many important things is too slow. Approvals are needed for almost everything and it takes enormous amounts of time. The company is centralized in India and Indian approach is very… different from the European one. Do you have a problem? Please create a ticket and wait...and wait. - The ubiquitous cost saving policy affects everything around you. - Promises... those promises… – Just take a look at other people’s comments. - The company is so desperate for having good reviews on the Internet that it organizes meetings on “how to appear great without spending money” and asks people to write something nice about the company.

Infosys requires their consultants to relocate for every project, and their relocation package is limited. Therefore, you could be relocating to a new city every 6-12 months. The only people that seem to be willing to do this are consultants that they bring over from India, on H-1 visas. I had taken their offer out of desperation, during a recession. Their compensation offer might sound ok on the surface, but really consists of a lower base salary with performance bonuses. For the year you might come out with what you are looking for, but on a monthly level the pay might not be what you are looking for. This is also a company that seems to have grown too fast for its own infrastructure. I felt that there was very poor communication amongst management, and that this was a very disconnected company. My hiring manager was in India, and just pawned me off to the project manager. The company's new hire orientation is done via a conference call, with a PowerPoint walk through. When I turned in my resignation, they were a little pushy about seeing if I would stay longer, and acted as if it was my responsibility to find my replacement. My co-workers told me this was normal. I'm sure they just handed out another visa and sent someone over from India. Unless you are in need of visa sponsorship or are in a desperate situation, then advise you not to make the mistake of working there. Any company that uses the services of Infosys is typically getting a project team that consists 100% of Indians on H-1 visas. Therefore, they are taking jobs away from citizens. I have the utmost respect for the consultants that choose to work here on their visas. I just don't understand why an organization would have such little concern for the work-life balance of their employees, that this statistic would be so lopsided.