AppLabs Reviews in Hyderabad, India Area

Pros

AppLabs has reached where it is today primarily due the to its current Chairman and MD, Mr Sashi Reddy.He is a man with a great vision. At a time when companies where struggling to run, he foresaw the need of independent third party testing services.

AppLabs has an extremely aggressive work culture. Right from the RFI stage to the proposal,business, engagement initiation ,planning.....closure...the company displays amazing attitude and aggression. This is one of the reasons why applabs has got a decent percentage of repeat business.

As employees, there is a fair amount of recognition for the work done. Performers have enjoyed an amazing growth rate and achieved enormous success.

Overall, it is a great place to work...especially for the testing folks.

Cons

1. There are some incompetent people in key positions which is not good for the company.

Advice to Senior Management

Have the right folks managing the different L'sOB.

Pros

1. good accounts and scope to learn for freshers .
2. Gud onsite, pray god

Cons

1. Every 1 is a hero particularly few section of ppl .
2.appraisal discussion will happen by 1 manager , appraisal was given by another .. least bothered about feedback ..
3. Things changes over night related to project, work
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Advice to Senior Management

want to pen a lot but i feel it is waste of my time.. I can't imagine why they expect employee's to work as slaves at times. No work/Life balance..

Pros

One of the best testing methodologies in the industry. The training for freshers (college grads) are excellent. For those entering into IT and need QA experience, AppLabs is a good start.

Cons

Poor work-life balance - lower level tester are made to work shifts and even weekend. Sometimes, working for weeks without a break. Room for advancement is limited if you are not from AP or speak the local language. At times, capabilities are over exaggerated.

Advice to Senior Management

Respect your employees. Instill work-life balance. Have diversity within the organization at all levels. Manager training - do not promote someone as managers just because they have been in the company for a long time.

Pros

- May be you will get change to work with more tools in a short time
- All are small projects, so will get chance to explore in more domains

Cons

- No process as such
- Heavy load on you since project has to be delivered in limited time
- You will totally mis out side world if you are in side office

Advice to Senior Management

Process is there in papers, but have not seen it implemented