Infosys reviews

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.

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.