HCL Technologies Reviews in Hyderabad, India Area

Pros

Recognition to one's good efforts.
Good management.
Work life balance.

Cons

Less compensation compared to its competitors
Work politics

Advice to Senior Management

Employees under certain business units does not get proper salary hike due to various budget issues irrespective of their performance.

Pros

Good Colleagues,
Good Projects
Decent compensation (When you join)
Good work life balance

Cons

No communication with mid or junior level employees
Appraisal are not good
Takes time to get into next level

Advice to Senior Management

Please be interactive with employees

Pros

cool job... no timings.......Friendly nature....
Comfort, Innovative teams, Technology & People
Work Life Balance
Employee Friendly Policy
Open Communication

Cons

hikes are less
not that much of good projects
Try to impliment the suggesions captured during the reviews
Less project - benchstrengh is big which is more a threat then streagth

Advice to Senior Management

please do proper planning from hiring to deployment of a employee and look at the concerns raised in the cons section

Pros

Nice Onsight Opportunities.
Easy environments of work & good exposure/liberty to observe and learn and only iff the project requires you badly.
No gain even if there's a pain so the rest is assured and high job security.
Global leadership/Amazingly talented/top notch leadership qualities comprise the top level management.

Cons

Uncertain variations in the packages of employees sitting on the same band/working in equally rated projects technically.
Yes, The project assignments to the hires could get inappropriate in some cases.

Politics grow inevitably in the forums of the middle level management. Unhealthy clouds due to lack of process addressing burning issues; Middle level management: Insensitive to employee needs or concerns, non-transparent, monopoly heads with insensible &obsolete managerial skills from the business solutions perspective.

Gape holes in the Appraisal system and unclear/frequently changed HR policies: "better is the recession for it's a known evil". Fear and insecurity prevails with uncertain appraisals.

Advice to Senior Management

Please provide suitable % percentage of hikes more often than never to the most successful employees and who eventually bring in great results and customer satisfaction to the organization(before they leave).
Honestly, Have the middle level bricks of the wall with true quality or atleast with the elements which become those kinds of bricks before the 'employee first to be lost'. Please bring in the real managers from whatsoever institutions in both. middle/operations levels who are challenging, lucid, sensible/sensitive towards the growth of Org and an employee and business.

Pros

Good Salary Structure. No work pressures. Good worklife balance. Not much work to prove yourself.

Cons

Very Very low salary as per the industry standards.
No technical growth.
Very bad hikes
No good projects.
Very long notice period.

Advice to Senior Management

Please provide atleast good pack, if not the better pack.
Please take care about the people who are working at client location.
Please plan sync up meeting with people who are working in client location and according to that please give the hikes.

Pros

no hectic work . Can balance both personal and professional life
salary structure is good.take home is good. good medical policies

Cons

Poor Salaries.
People recruited with dotnet developer skills are given a role as Test.
Very poor hikes
will have to at any cost serve 2 months notice period even though its mentioned in offer that you can buy.

Advice to Senior Management

Please take a look at salaries.Help people grow. Give oppurtunities for employees who want to work on technologies they are actually interested in.

Pros

HCL is a company that provides an employee with several opportunities to learn and develop skills. The company has a wide number of large projects which require team work. This helps in developing interpersonal skills. By dealing in various complex issues a person can also improve his technical knowledge and skills.

Cons

The pay provided is lower than other companies in the same industry.

Advice to Senior Management

Improve pay structure.

Pros

Job security is very high. They don't have any deductions. I mean, take home will be good. Very good salary structure. But salary is low.

Cons

salary is toooo low. Appraisals will be in single digits.
I know many people working in HCL with less then 3L package and they have 3 years experience

Advice to Senior Management

Please don't promise more and give less. Pay people based on there experience. What is the point in paying less, when client paying for 3 years experience. Client pay same to all then why less(tooo less) salary to some people?