Aricent Reviews in New Delhi, India Area

Pros

-Good Place to make a career start
-Good set of technologies, most work in C and Unix, VxWorks, Real Time Operating Systems

Cons

-Majority of people are looking to shift into management positions as it is viewed as a cushy job with no resposibility
-Most managers view their job as purely managerial and tend to shy away from any sort of technical work which is sad
-Previously used to be a company which took niche projects but now is going for any project which increases profits
-Growth/promotions based on time spent in Aricent and not on the basis of contribution or quality of work

Advice to Senior Management

-Position of manager is a specialized position and not everyone should be made a manager, people who should be considered for a managers position should be extremely ethical, should be extremely technically sound so as to give correct effort estimates, review work done by subordinates, distinguish between actual quality and quick fix solutions. Currently anyone who seems to have covered the tenure and who seems to show lack of interest in technical aspect of work is being made a manager

Pros

A number of technologies to work with.
Nice environment.

Cons

Promotions are time based rather than performance based.
Support services (like pantry, cafeteria etc.) are very poor.

Advice to Senior Management

Get rid of politics and work toward employees' growth.

Pros

Get to learn the latest technologies.
Good for c/c++.
High customer focus

Cons

No work life balance ,there is too much work pressure.
No weekends
Bad paymaster ,poor growth
Some managers are very annoying.

Advice to Senior Management

Give some opportunities to freshers.
Must enforce 1-on-1 meetings between employee (all levels) and line supervisor.
Managers should be well mannered .
Minimum/Adequate transparency should be maintained at all levels

Pros

Flexible working time
Comparable pay
Many exceptionally good people to work with.
Quite good library and recreational facilities, they have one building with library, GYM, cafeteria etc.

Cons

Office location is not good, traffic jams around office is regular.

Too much politics, you have to be loud for your presence to be felt. Golden rule is do 60% of work but advertise 100%.

Not good work if you are a freshers, you would end up doing doc or excel related work. Or work which no one else wants to do.

No work from home, only for managers and above and in some groups only.

No effort is put on making things optimized, managers just want it to run. so just forget all optimization etc and just make the thing work.

Growth is BU dependent and so are the salary. If your BU is in profit you get good hike.

Advice to Senior Management

Give more quality work at the fresher level.
More fairness in promotion and hikes.

Pros

Flexibility in terms of when u come and go to the office, clean and good promotion philosophy.

Cons

It is not same as when it was hughes. It is more becoming a regular services company with average salary hikes and cost cutting in place everywhere.

Advice to Senior Management

Need to work on employee satisfaction more

Pros

1. Freedom
2. Better Salary than many famous Indian Companies
3. Good projects and good exposure to latest technologies

Cons

1. Senior members will always get first opportunity irrespective of their talents.
2. Promotion is defined by the number of years u spend in the company.
3. Variation in pay among employees of same experience.

Advice to Senior Management

Performances are recognized at the right time. However only experience in the company defines your growth. This perception should be changed.

Pros

we can learn lot technically
decent growth opportunities

Cons

bad management is encouraged
lot of internal politics
ever changing management

Advice to Senior Management

resign as your predecessors did...

Pros

1)good culture and environment in aricent
2)nice projects with few long term onsites
3)happening place and a rocking young crowd.

Cons

1)lesser onsites depends on project to project
2)lots of work in few projects
3)salary disparity between newly hired and existing employees

Advice to Senior Management

1)Provision of better admin and finance services
2)Better promotion policies are required.
3)Better work distribution is required in certain projects

Pros

even salary has becom worse
there some great minds to work with.
getting benifit of being located in NCR

Cons

lot of favourtism
no work life balance
ctc means ctc:- no other benifits
lot of boot lickings
bleak future
incompetent managers
sucks employees in the name of performance cycle
no help from HR team

Advice to Senior Management

concentrate on your on line managers. they are making sure the the person having more talent and wich could be threat to their existance should no staya in the this compnay.

Pros

Aricent is good place to work but it depends on in which BU u work....salary is Ok, work loadis ok. your voice is heard by manager n management

Cons

no appriciation for the work u do

Advice to Senior Management

identify incapable managers, who r raising high dissatisfaction among employees