Infosys Software Developer reviews

3.7

73% would recommend to a friend

(4,915 total reviews)
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Salil S. Parekh

75% approve of CEO

69% positive business outlook

Software Developer employees have rated Infosys with 3.7 out of 5 stars, based on 4,915 company reviews on Glassdoor. This indicates that most Software Developer professionals have a good working experience there. Infosys is rated in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) by Software Developer professionals compared to other employers within the Tecnologías de la información industry (3.9 stars).

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2.0
May 16, 2009
Recommend
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Pros

The best reason to work for Infosys is the opportunity of be relocated into onsite locations like US/Europe. Infosys benefits of having a portfolio of some unique clients (this is eroding as clients try to diversify vendor risk). Besides from that, Infosys is long known for no massive layoffs in their 25 years of history. They do have nice campus in India (only). Environment at offshore locations is pretty relaxed, whereas onsite you are basically set with a laptop and a token to work 24/7.

Cons

There seems to be a lack of planning culture (not that they are not good planners), this impacts daily performance of teams. CMMI-People is not leveraged in all IBU's/Projects and its not a priority. Human resources has lots of challenges with an ever-growing company (110k employees as of April 2009), therefore it exists a sense of your position being easily replaced. Given its current maturity as an Enterprise, every day is harder to reach higher career opportunities. Onsite opportunities are defaulted to minimum legal compensation. And the imbalance of benefts is greatly noticed between offshore countries/onsite locations. (i.e. No bonus, no variable pay).

3.0
May 1, 2009
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Overall exposure in domains especially BCM and RETL. External certifications in infosys. The rigorous training they impart in you in Mysore is absolutely world class. Leadership sessions and training programs are very good(Atleast till 2006). Dont know how its today

Cons

No organic growth. The company has become too big to grow all its employees with itself Pay hikes are terrible compared to industry standards. Once u are 2 years in the company you will realise that the lateral who joined recently is getting double of what you get! u get disgusted and resign The C2C of the company is a big joke. If they promise you 50k as gross you would max get 30k in hand. And the variable component of your salary is too high. You get punished for the revenue goof ups that the DM and BD folks do. You have absolutely no touch with the senior bosses. All the good things you do remains only to the manager level but one bad thing gets escalated to the DM. Too much internal politics and you need to dance to your managers' and onsite guys' tune.

2.0
Apr 25, 2009
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

If you're lucky to get a developing/designing role, then its a fulfilling job. Also, if you're a US hire, you get sent to India for 6(8 months now?) for training. The training is unbelievably simple if your a cs or cpeg major, but the time in India was something you won't get anywhere else. If you're into traveling like I am, it was an amazing time. India is a phenomenal country and the campuses that Infosys has built there are unbelievable. You get to live in India without worrying about power or water outages and you get to see a place on the planet that's so different, but so amazing.

Cons

I've worked here for almost 3 years. I spent 6 months on bench after my return to the US. I was placed on a project where I got to do most of the design and implementation which I really enjoy. That's what I like doing. The problem is that the uniqueness wears off almost immediately. At any Infy function, I feel like an outsider. Even in my office, I have three other infosys co worker's and they always speak Kanada or whatever that language is. When we have events, its a 20 to 1 ratio of Indian to American, but at my client which is not an American company, you would never know. They participate in local events, and they they do local things. They make you feel like you're part of the community. If Infosys wants to be a global competitor, they need to make us feel like we belong. If I'm going to stay here, I want to feel like I'm valued and I don't have that now. It's obviously difficult with 100,00 people, but the company needs to focus on that, if they want to grow. Outsourcing cannot last forever. As the living standards improve and the competition opens offices in India, you need to separate yourselves somehow. You need to offer something that the competition does not, and low billing rates is a temporary answer.

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