Infosys reviews

3.6

67% would recommend to a friend

(122,467 total reviews)
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Salil S. Parekh

72% approve of CEO

66% positive business outlook

Infosys has an employee rating of 3.6 out of 5 stars, based on 122,467 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Infosys employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Tecnologías de la información industry (3.9 stars).

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1.0
Jul 1, 2009
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

-Big Campuses in remote areas in the cities far away from most of the employees' homes. -Nice Gardens maintained at the cost of employees' Salaries..

Cons

This year, the employees recieved a letter from their CEO informing them about the financial crisis. Employees were informed that this year, there will not be any salary hikes or promotions. They were also advised to accept any project they were alloted, irrespective of their specialisation, or be ready to get a tag of poor performer and get sacked. A few days after this, the board took a collective hike of more than 10 crore. This included the CEO who took a hike of more than 50 lakhs. More follows here : -The training process is a big sham. They effectively teach nothing in the traning. Non - computer science graduates are as clueless to programming after the training as they were before it. -No consideration of employee's traning branch at the time of Prjoect allotment. Java trained persons are alloted Mainframes projects and Vice versa. Thus only thing that matters here is the availability of the person. And the Employee is punished in appraisal if he does not perform well enough in a technology he has no idea about. - No consideration for employee's choice of location too. They are just randomly alloted. -Management is highly incompetent. They are ignorant of basic principles of man management and try to get the task done from anybody they can get their hands on. Most of the mangers are the persons who could not get jobs anywhere else due to their incompetency, so they just stay here and make other's lives miserable. - Managers keep on lying to the employee about his career plans. Promotions and onsite are provided only on the basis of flattery and sycophancy. Straight trees are always cut in Infosys while the sycophant creepers at Management's boots are promoted to the top. -Middle level management has absolutely no accountalbility. They even have the right to choose the employees who will provide a 360 degree feedback about them. They can make or ruin a person's life based on their whims and fancies. -Personal grudges are settled at the time of appraisal and Promotion. Performagic - the appraisal tool is totally useless. The real rating is done by a Draconian CRR system behind closed doors and is thurst upon the emplyees without any say of the latter. -Policies affecting employees get secretely changed and applied on back date, to hit most number of people. For example - They made it mandatory to spend at least 9:15 hrs (Increase form 8.8 hrs in past) in office effective from a quarter before and the people who were found not to comply to this in the last quarter had to suffer in form of leave deduction and salary cut. Thus they got punished for a crime they never committed. -HR is totally apathetic towards employees. Only thing they can say is -" No body is keeping you from joining other firms". -I do not think I need to say anything about the compensation. A Lot of people have alreaady exposed the truth.

1.0
Dec 11, 2019
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Most of the employees are so talented and work very hard to delivery good value adding work. This is a huge pro as this is why BB is able to survive right now as it is truly despite the wrongdoings of the leadership team.

Cons

As the title suggest working at Brilliant Basics has been the biggest disappointment of my career. The reason for this is that the CEO/Founder (AV) and some of the leadership team are just sales people who have no interest in doing actual good work for their clients, this leadership seems to care only about hitting revenue targets. This has a direct result on the employees as with such a focus there is an immense pressure from the top level (AV) all the way down to making sure that this target is hit. This has resulted in a toxic work environment where people who have no place being on this leadership team (no leadership skills) are promoted to it anyway as they are also good salesmen and are able to convince clients to spend their money with BB. This has resulted in an incredibly quiet, demotivated and frustrated office environment (despite the investment into the new office which is really just to show off to clients..) where requests for development, training or anything at all that does not directly lead to increased revenue are ignored. This month (December 2019) alone so many people have left of a mid-senior level (15% of the workforce) because they realise that despite trying their best (and these people are incredibly gifted!) for the the last year there is no willingness of the management team to listen. BB is able to survive right now DESPITE the leadership team. We all know revenue is important but to not even achieve basis employee satisfaction is embarrassing to say the least. Compensation and benefits are not on par with competitors in London so if everything else is rotten as it is people will keep jumping ship.

2.0
Jan 9, 2019

Associate

Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Free time, time to think or in many cases rethink your career

Cons

Management sucks and they are nothing but cutthroat rats and will blame you if a client withdraws from them . They will tell you one thing and you will hear another different thing especially when its client work or moving expenses which is a expensive decision. For example they hired people for the rtp area and as soon as people moved here they were trying to make them move again. (They hire in bulk just for the NC tax break until 2020) Managers do not care about your personal preferences just to make their quota. You also just sit there all day and twiddle your thumbs when you are not on a project or do one their pointless showcase projects for bootleg IBM knockoffs. (Why they dont want you working for IBM in contract clause). Lastly if you do get project work make sure its not higher than your pay grade. Managers will sometime stick you to project manager level style work that is beyond skill and comfort level and work where it requires you to be up at India time in the US. (but they wont tell you that until you are officially on a project, or the manager for the client tells you)

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