Amdocs Reviews

Pros

company is cash rich, in problems try to win using money power only.

Cons

They have very bad system of ratings, all is match fix, they decide without reading the claim put by employee, they have spy(HRC) every where for higher management and our VP/directors listen to HRC more as compare to Managers. Really a bad company for Managers to work.

Advice to Senior Management

please remove these HRC concepts, these ladies are acting as personal assistants to VP/directors.
while employee evaluation these ladies has more voice as compare to respective managers.
Try to create more transparent system,
Please work towards employee care in true sense,

Pros

You get some benefits, you get to stay in a good vacation place in Cyprus, but on the first major braking of your priciples, start seeking a new job (your skills and thinking and common sense, etc will be broken a thousand times more again and again).

Cons

The worst managers ever, no managerial preparations; intercultural issues (for example working style enforces others to make longer, useless working hours without any real gains to the project), checklist management style (do it in anyway but check it done)
Unproforssional profitors are encouraged in amdocs, expect that in most cases a non-technical manager will take the worst, techincal decisions.
Do not trust anyone, do not expect any trust or profesional respect.
Salary is average and will actually prove insignifiant for the demands you will get (when you realize this you went to far, quit fast).

Advice to Senior Management

Lear to trust, Shut up more, listen more, technical decisions are to be taken solely by technical people, stop the steel factory work style, stop commanding and start sharing.
All managers should have real business school preparations, a software developer hibernating 5 years in a company does not grow managerial skills.

Pros

reliability, good for beginners, Hebrew speaking

Cons

relatively small salary, difficult for self development

Pros

Benefits are some of the best I've seen.
Flexible work hours
Ability to work from home
Opportunity to experience different parts of the company

Cons

Very political - "escalations" at the drop of a hat
Meetings about having meetings about what's going to be on the agenda of the next meeting
Difficult to get your head around the different parts of the organization. Plus, it's constantly changing.

Advice to Senior Management

Improve the PMI process to include newly acquired companies into the Amdocs fold more fully
Set objectives that are complimentary across departments rather than conflicting.

Pros

Wide range of technologies
Chance to work with People from various countries
Very good exposure to telecommunication knowledge
World top telecom providers as clients
Nice breakfast including weekends, Discounted Lunch and Dinner
Different Clubs for various extra curricular activities if interested
Fixed number of Club points every year to spend on events like trekking

Cons

Not a very good compensation when compared with co-workers. Person who joined as a fresher with good grip on the project after one year will be getting less package when compared to a person who joined with 1 year experience very recently

Bad Work life balance

No chance of choosing a project who joined as a fresher

Mostly, Support kind of work

Not many good leaders are there lead the members in the right direction

Advice to Senior Management

Management has to consider the employee's choice of choosing the technology he/ she wanted to work on before placing him/ her into any project

Pros

good env and work culture

Cons

work presssure a nd less pay hikes... needs more dedication ..~ 50 hrs /week atleast

Advice to Senior Management

don't be politicle

Pros

Good benefits package (healthcare, 401K); flexibility to work remotely

Cons

Heavily international culture (Israeli, Indian) can make communication challenging; implementation-focused project workload; compensation peaks once you hit the upper limit of your band; annual bonus structure is heavily weighted to favor top performers and even then you rarely hit your target; lack of incentive to work harder than others; high workload means everyone is stretched very thin (quality can suffer)

Advice to Senior Management

Incentivise your consulting employees for the work they do -- since they are selling the products & services offered by the company on a daily basis, they should receive recognintion/compensation for this. Company-wide communication should be slanted in a positive manner rather than a negative manner. Determine what you want the company to be and brand those divisions accordingly -- there is a lot of cross-pollenation between the development, consulting, and testing organizations, which are all viewed as one by clients.

Pros

- flexibility on working from home when you need to
- excellent benefits for FT employees
- you get to work with people from all over the world, great multicultural enviroment

Cons

- absolutely no work life balance, most of the projects are greatly understaffed so you are asked to put a lot of extra hours

Advice to Senior Management

none

Pros

Nice and Cheap Food.
Free Snacks and fruits in morning and evening
Opportunity to go abroad
Good perk when you are on site work.

Cons

10-12 Hours of working everyday
Very Less Salary Hike
Money is very less compared to work
Will not find even read a news paper in whole day

Advice to Senior Management

Employees are not robots. They have a personal like. Pay attention towards maintaining a good work life balance in the company

Pros

Technology leader
Market leader
Challenging projects
Strong teammates

Cons

Abrasive management style
Strained customer relationships
Grueling travel

Advice to Senior Management

Senior management would benefit by balancing the hard driving results oriented approach with more outreach to employees and appreciation for the hard work that is getting done.