Covansys Reviews

Pros

Fast Track Promotions, fair compensation packages

Cons

Lack of Work from home policy

Advice to Senior Management

none

Pros

Great medical benefits. Prompt communication from the program manager about any changes/updates.

Cons

Not interested in work life balance of consultants. We have to work more than 10 hours and weekends for nothing

Advice to Senior Management

Listen

Pros

People friendly company, good immigration policies

Cons

Low salaries, not much growth

Pros

A decent sized company. Good to work only if you don't have experience of working in a big company.

Cons

Very bad work culture. They had too many vice presidents and also some very bad sr. managers/directors. These guys will always get fat salary hikes and leave nothing for the team. No long term strategy from any one in senior management. Aweful HR. Overall rating 1/5 or may be 0.5/5

Advice to Senior Management

have 360 degree feedback mechanism, release all those VPs/Directors who do not get good reviews. For promotions look at performance, skills, experience etc. treat good performers well and pay good performers better than market.

Pros

client place visit and Onsite opportunities. focus on task driven by management. excellent compensation as compare to peers and other it companies

Cons

regional groupism is prevelant. HR are not too co-operative and do not stick their benefit plans committed before joining the company

Advice to Senior Management

Please be more employee friendly rather than only listening to only clients. Managers should more educated in terms of people management

Pros

exellent and the manager takes care of the employees
rewarding and free gift certificates
food and drinks free over the week
laundry

Cons

location not all over the US so need to work in California only
tight monetary policies and timesheets are a must or else you dont get paid

Advice to Senior Management

Keep going..you are going good and take good care of employees..I am trhrilled to be a part of it.

Pros

Give good salary
Give good benefits like life insurance, etc.
Career growth will be faster if you are a TB!

Cons

Will get fired if there u r in bench and have no support from manager.
Techincally not competent.
Work environment and culture not upto standard.
After CSC's takeover, there is no respect for Covansys employees. They are treated as second class employees. Before you join, make sure which side you join.... CSC India(in DLF) or CSC India(in MEPZ or Covansys). Better to join CSC India in DLF(the real CSC).

Advice to Senior Management

After CSC takeover Covansys, I expected things will get better as CSC's international standard. But, it happened the other way, CSC got spoiled with Covansys culture and CSC's standard is coming down.

Pros

Covansys is a good company for who does not have out standing technical skills and who expects buttering. This company is totally good for new comers and not for outstanding performers. No process, No protocol, No growth, No appreciation from Acct Managers. Ofcourse Compensation and Medical benifits are bit Ok than other employers and 401 k as well.

Cons

This company ios losing reputation because of Account Managers and all full time employees are leaving this company just because of Account level managers and they are not getting any benifits and recognition, just account level managers are treating fulltime employees like a slave, and no respect at all. No employee can expect any growth if you want to be in this company and work as a donkey without expecting anything...even if you operform well at customer site the accout level managers do not give any appreciation and they dont pass this to HR or higher management they are just becoming like a big wall between employees and HR management. There are many politics going on at customer site, and they are taking full of sub contractors in place of fultime employees, even when the budget cut happens at the customer site they wantedly remove fulltime employees and keeping sub conmtractors unwantedly this is happening sice couple of years everywhere in customer locations in Covansys. Just because of commission they are taking sub contractors and keeping at customer site, even they are not eligible for that perticular position and even they do not have minimum performance.

Advice to Senior Management

Please evaluate all Account Managers performance and remove them from the company, and keep eye on all accout level managers and how they are performing and treating employees at customer location. Please give first priority to fulltime employees instead of sub contractor when you do follow these steps this company will be in good shape otherwise this company will lose all good performers.

Pros

Benefit and vacation package good - we were outsourced and they were forced to give us what we originally had from our previous employer. Close to home.

Cons

Management treated employees like a number. Employees were overloaded with projects, sometimes juggling over a dozen at a time. Project management was non-existent. Even though they had a project management office, once project was in your lap, the management was gone.

Advice to Senior Management

Management needs to trust and reward employees who continue to perform. Treat employees like the professionals that they are. Work success should be rated by project, not the time they get in or how many hours they work per day.

Pros

There aren't many. However they have a very good medical benefits policy, 401k with company match, disability insurance etc

Cons

In the US they are pretty much a body shop. Dont expect any career growth unless you have some godfather looking after you. Your billability is more important than your aspirations and career growth. Join a competitor such as Cognizant or Infosys. At least in those companies you move up the ladder, however slow. In Covansys you are assigned to a client location and then conveniently forgotten.

Advice to Senior Management

Your resources are more than just billable bodies - they have a lot of potential in them to grow and help improve the company. Senior Management needs to encourage this growth.