Aricent Reviews

Pros

- Great culture
- Best minds to work with

Cons

- Need to be daring to venture in to new horizons

Advice to Senior Management

Dare to dream beyond telecom

Pros

Work life balance and work from home for some Employees

Cons

Less salary and now a days problems in getting promotions

Advice to Senior Management

Just give good work life balance to employee, Promote them on time so that they never get disappointment

Pros

Fresher training program is good
Work environment is good
Flexible working hours
Get to work on decent projects
that's all

Cons

Fresher package not increased since 2006
Remuneration not adequate as per talented workforce
Minimal onsite opportunity (that too for test engineers almost none for developers)

Pros

1) Good exposure to Telecom and Networking Domain.
2) Better than most IT services firms in terms of Pay and Work environment
3) Flexi Timings
4) Continuous learning and Development programs
5) More like a training institute

Cons

1) Capabilities of senior management is debatable.
2) Living in the past glory of the earlier brands ( Hughes, Futuresoft etc). No risk taking appetite.
3) Very very Mediocre middle management and off late the quality of intake has also come down considerably
4) Cannibalizing the iconic Frog brand

Advice to Senior Management

1) Improve quality of intake before its too late
2) Do what you do best instead of reinventing the brand again and again.
3) Stop using the Frog brand to elevate yourself. Instead let the frog brand evolve and use your own guts to fend off the wipros and the HCLs
4) Clean the house before mediocrity seeps in.

Pros

Good company to work with, ethical environment, good HR, good policies, good management, planning, direction, strategy, competitive, everything seems to be good.

Cons

I do not see much wrong things, although some delays in making new policies or changing policies from time to time.

Advice to Senior Management

Management is doing overall good, seems to be working on all fronts / departments. Some axis to be improved can be

Pros

Flexi timings. no formals required. Can't remember any other good experience to which aricent has contributed. overall it's a bad experience

Cons

managers do not hesitate to play with people's carrier. in some business units, people are moved around testing and development teams. Some times they are even asked to do work of an operational engineer.

People responsible for initiating the new projects (STL and above) are highly incompetent. they are old timers who worked once on C and never explore other technologies when a project comes (C++ is untouchable in large part of the organization, most of them have not heard of design patterns)

no respect for employees. transport department of admin is more corrupt than a government organization. bus service is run at employee cost and employees are constantly threatened that bus service will be stopped. employees feels that aricent is serving to its vendors rather than to its customers.

Advice to Senior Management

try to diversify in areas other than telecom. improve compensation. try to show some respect for employees. For particularly sudip nandy: commenting on yammer that aricent is company without caste but not without class do not help. What class we are talking about if employees have to face constant humiliation and red tapism in IT results in the frustation of our customers. If you ever get time, do look into the accounts of transport dept.

Pros

no network security

you can take exception in each and every process.

Cons

bad incentive policy
bad travel policy
policies are not equal for all
inactive HR
no power in HR hand
process are just for formalities

Advice to Senior Management

management???? there is no management. there has been 3-4 restructuring happened in last 2-3 years....they are still not able to decide who n how the business will run!!

Pros

flexible work env.
no problem wih leaves

Cons

no onsite
not good pay
no work from home

Advice to Senior Management

management is good

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

Good Work Culture, Employee satisfaction is given priority

Cons

Not enough expertise, Not much of innovation

Advice to Senior Management

Keep it up