India Compliance - Missing Leadership and Misplaced Priorities
Pros
-Good work life balance. You almost never have to carry work home or work beyond six, except days when there are global CEO talks which are interesting. -Great colleagues. Most are out of college with an average age of about 22 which make them have a fresh perspective at work. There is a sense of teamwork in the team and the employees help each other -Good senior global leadership. Work gives a lot of visibility to the seniors in US even though it might be repetitive. -Office is at a prime location and is very easy to commute.
Cons
-Severe lack of leadership: The Gurugram leadership is either absent from everything or irrelevant. They come and go as they please. Take leaves as they please. In the six hours (yes, they don't even work eight hours) that they spend in office, no one has a clue what they do between the dozens of cigarette breaks they take. There is virtually no communication with them even though they sit in the same office space. -Leadership is grandfathered in and have little to zero knowledge of compliance. They spend their time worrying about the step in and step out times of junior colleagues and the duration of their meal breaks. No conversations on work is ever done. - No vision, mission or purpose is ever communicated by the local management and all we hear is from the top global leadership through global talks. Individuals are hired to work on a single activity without definitive career plans drawn out for them. If they excel too much, the management gets insecure and tries to demotivate them. -This team and the office, work in a silo and unlike other global offices, global management doesn't visit the office. The local management takes advantage of this and runs it like a family business. Acquaintances and friends with zero track record are hired into the team and made to look like prodigies even though in their previous teams (where they spent a significant time), they were under performers. - Information, no matter how simple is withheld from the junior employees as a means to keep control. "Decisions" and those activities with visibility in front of the global management is only made by the "core team" of incompetent friends and acquaintances hiding inside meeting rooms. These acquaintances and "friends" have no training or idea about compliance but are elevated above those working on the same activity for over 2 years with an agenda to make them appear like they are indispensable to business. -Once employees complete a few years and the local management is clueless about their career trajectory, they are harassed by unnecessary emails about step-in and productivity so they leave while the "acquaintances" go about doing nothing all day under the watchful eyes of the management. Some employees have been lucky to escape this cycle.
