HCLTech reviews

3.5

64% would recommend to a friend

(53,132 total reviews)
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75% approve of CEO

67% positive business outlook

HCLTech has an employee rating of 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 53,132 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The HCLTech 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
Nov 30, 2012
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Pros

maybe the benefits are pretty good, although I've never taken advantage of them as I got out of the company as fast as I could once I figured out how bad they were

Cons

Pay is average, not great work life balance sucks The company is closed from Christmas - New Years but makes employees take their own time off or go on leave without pay - total BS get everything in writing - the company will lie to you to get you to work for them. They will even change your job title, reporting manager, salary after what they say in a signed offer letter The insistance to only honor that which is put in writing but yet ignore your own formal practices that you mention in writing really creates a climate of distrust.

1.0
Nov 22, 2012
Recommend
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Pros

Nothing Everything is Hell DB project is worst. Think before you join : U need to have good mental strength, they deduct your performance bonus every month, managers will exploit you as they are getting less salary than you

Cons

Managers Policies HR team Transport No one listen to you once you are in the company The only way to exit the project is resignation and when one resign they will make your life hell

2.0
Oct 27, 2012
Recommend
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Pros

I worked at HCL America for over 4 year. My old company outsourced my product development to HCL in 1998. They gave me a retention bonus earned after staying for a year, which is nice.

Cons

I am one of the many senior software engineer in the team. Every year, they kept laying off current senior people and outsourced their responsiblities to India. Some Indian programmers are pretty good technically. But they only do what you tell them to do. They don't have much other common sense. If you spec is missing a few details or is wrong, they would just code it anyway. Also, there is no career opportunities for existing developers from the transitioned company. You are there for knowledge transfer only. I see all these junior/mid developers rose the ranks to become managers or leads over the 4 years that I worked there. Their idea of employee first is really Indian people first. Also, I got like less than 1% raise every year. The only reason that I stayed was because my manager, who is out of state, let me worked from home (which is a real big convenience). Their HCL America web site was really confusing with a lot of sites that are not connected. I had to create several credentials. But over the years, they improved it a lot, actually. But as of 2012, it is still not as good as my old company's internal website (2008). There is a lot of bureaucracy within the organization. We tried to get a laptop and had to go thru like a dozen approvals and took over a year. Also, HCL does not really know how to do product development. All they are about is their bottom-lin and profit margin.

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