Advaiya Reviews

Pros

Advaiys is a fair firm to consultants that offers good compensation; competitive benefits and paid time off. They also have some very good recruiters.

Cons

Once the employee is hired there is not too much interaction with the consultants who are placed at different client offices.

Advice to Senior Management

It would be nice if they can offer training opportunities for employees and consultants, at least some books or online training.

Pros

- You can get experience on small marketing projects
- Chances of gaining experience on Microsoft documentation projects
- Located in Bellevue which could be helpful given close proximity to Micrsoft. (most of the project's are with Microsoft.)

Cons

- The company has a very bad reputation on Bellevue/Kirkland area.
- Focus is on getting new work than delivering good results.
- I was very skeptical on joining given the previous reviews/reputation and I must say that all the previous reviews are completely true.
- They let people go even for few hundred $$s. If a consultant does not have a project for a week, they'll him/her go irrespective how strong the skillset is.
- No vision/business model.

Advice to Senior Management

- Focus on gettting some good senior leadership.
- Focus on the skillset of people on just on pure raw numbers.
- Dont let go smart people for few $$s. They are your real asset. You can make a good Consultant base and lot more revenue in the long run.

Pros

- One gets to work on latest technologies.
- hands on many technologies and not one or two particular technologies.
- Good salary especialy Udaipur being a tier III city.

Cons

- Bad and poor management.
- Incompetent senior level staff, playing bad politics.
- the HR is not at all in the interest of emplyees.

Pros

- Work on small/low hanging MSFT projects.
- You can make connections with Microsoft employees.
- Apparently CEO (from my few/brief conversations) is better than other folks but he cannot alone run the company.

Cons

- Very unethical place
- Be very careful and they will do a full on sell job while offering the job.
- Senior management is full of unethical and dishonest people (specifically COO).
- COO thinks that he has got the best business sense in the world but he zero idea of how to run business .
- They can let you go anytime without any prior notice all of sudden.
- Dont fall into the trap at all.

Advice to Senior Management

- No advice as it would fall in deaf ears. Senior leaders think that they are the best business brains and know what they are doing.

Pros

Great people. Good location. Nice office.

Cons

Overselling and not communicating.
Misalignment of expectations.
Hair-trigger knee jerk reactions.

Advice to Senior Management

Your people are your most valuable asset. Include them in the communication loops. They often have better insight into what is really going on than you do.

Pros

- Lots of opportunities to work across various divisions of Microsoft
- Always work with the latest beta software and hottest Microsoft technologies
- Never a dull day
- You'll make the prettiest PowerPoints you've ever seen

Cons

- No work life balance (expect to work a full day then go back to work at 9:00 PM for your calls to India).
- Horrible senior leadership (no long term strategy and will do anything for a quick buck)
- You'll be thrown under the bus - they will sell a service you have no experience with and make you the client face)
- Many many more but I'm not allowed to rant - I'll just say the average turnover must be at least 90% with an average tenure of 3 months.

Advice to Senior Management

Get some real leadership, chase larger projects, diversify. If Microsoft cut you off you'd be closing the company tomorrow.

Pros

Advaiya is a great place to work for people looking to get exposure to a random selection of Microsoft products and services through a project shop vendor. The company has strong vision and consultative engagement with their customers (all Microsoft internal). The company also leverages offshore (India) workers for most projects which provides good learning and opportunities for those seeking H1B worker jobs.

Cons

Project delivery is not a strong competency and deliverable quality is frequently compromised as requirements are poorly defined and scope creep sets in. Layoffs are frequent (yearly to seasonal) when sales and conversion targets fall short of projections. Workers are usually not informed until the day of termination, and offered no severance. Talent and past delivery do not ensure long term employment, unless matched with immediate high-value projects, leading to a 'cut-throat' athmosphere.

Advice to Senior Management

Focus on delivery to build reputation, and repeatable revenue streams. Less focus on offshore cost, and more focus on worker competency. Leadership and Sales teams need greater post-sale engagement with customers to ensure that customer requirements are clearly defined and understood by PM and actionable by assigned teams. Repeat layoffs are a management failure, not a reaction to market fluctuations.

Pros

f;exibility of worlking and shaping the business

Cons

ad hoc processes which can improved

Pros

If you like working with Microsoft technologies and creating marketing content, this is the place. It doesn't get any better. For projects you work on, you are literally building the content and strategy for Microsoft to go to market.
The business model is really effective when you have the right team - a team oriented project environment that works around the clock.

Cons

Your teammates will be in India, so you need to expect to be working odd hours to accommodate.
When things go wrong on a project, it takes a long time for management to react.

Advice to Senior Management

Get a real, experienced business leader to manage the finances and keep the doors open. Layoffs are not acceptable, and re-doing the company structure every six months is not good.

Pros

A small company where you can learn alot.

Cons

Turn over is more than usual. For a small company that "family" feel is not there, it's just business.

Advice to Senior Management

Do one thing very well instead of many things OK