Headstrong Reviews in Bangalore, India Area

Pros

1. Good focus on training people on domain knowledge.
2. Friendly people

Cons

1. Work environment differs drastically from project to project.
2. Appreciation for good work is few and far between.
3. Only 15 days leave (including sick leave) in the first year of your tenure. (From next it becomes 20)
4. Expansion in workforce is leading to ordinary intake and IITians and IIMites are leaving the company.
5. Too much emphasis on process, impacts delivery at times.

Advice to Senior Management

1. Work well on retaining golden talents.
2. Employees should be appreciated for the good work which most of the times go unnoticed due to politics of Middle Management.

Pros

1) Some Good projects
2) Openness
3) Good Managers
4) Playstation

Cons

1) Lots of not so good projects
2) Processes
3) Policies

Advice to Senior Management

1) Please get feedback from the employees
2) Please get an opinion on decisions

Pros

1. Good for freshers.
2. Good for professionals with less than 5 years of experience.

Cons

1. Not suited for senior profiles.

Advice to Senior Management

1. People satisfaction not good and need to be enhanced.
2. Management trust and communication inside the company needs better motivation and positivity.

Pros

- good focus on domain and financial services industry
- good work life balance on most of the projects.

Cons

- over the last few years the management strategy has changed. It doesn't want to be a niche player in fin services anymore. It wants to be the next infosys and tcs. the hiring bar and compensation have gone down considerably as well.
- too many mediocre people at junior/middle management levels.

Advice to Senior Management

no advice. for the strategy they have adopted they are doing good.

Pros

Great culture, smart peers, great domain knowledge, open & transparent culture, non-hierarchical, good client list, onsite opportunities, flexible hours, fun environment

Cons

Sometimes overly performance oriented, customer focused hence tend to focus too much on clients, high expectations, average benefits, focus on performance

Advice to Senior Management

balance performance with effort

Pros

Flexible environment
Flexible to move to other positions

Cons

Needs good appraisal system
Needs good leadership

Advice to Senior Management

Needs good appraisal system

Pros

Join to work with investments banks as clients,If you have interest in finance.
Good clientele across the finance domain.
Salary little better than typical indian services companies.
Training on various financial topics.

Cons

Horrible politics by middle management.

Highly incompetent people at middle management,whose job is nothing but to do office politics and get up in the hierarchy not by doing good work but by doing flattery and being nice to their seniors.They are technically weak who just love to have credit with them and blame is given to juniors in case of failures.
Favoritisim and sycophancy plays major role in promotion.

There are no doubt very few smart people are still here left out.

Lacks fairness,Good work is not rewarded unless you have good chemistry with managers.The irony is that each time our centre head talks high about the the fairness in the company in common gathering,which is just not existing anywhere.

Processes[DAG] sucks,40% of team man hours goes in just filling datas in irrelevant excel sheets ,and in the end employee has to stretch his hours to make it up for development.

Interview process is no longer stringent and thus its quite easy to clear the rounds now.People with very minimal knowledge and analytical ability are getting through and bringing down the quality of code and thus brand name of company.All good and intelligent guys are slowly leaving company and anyone thus go and takes interview ,that brings in less competent candidate in the company.
Earlier it used to recruit freshers from IIT/NIT now they go for any b-grade colleges for recruitment.The idea is to cut cost as much as possible by any means.This company is loosing its past sheen with each passing day as all the smart and intelligent people are leaving company.

Even with profits and economic boom,cost cutting is going on.No dustbin,sharing phones,open space,no privacy,no mineral water ,no snacks and eatables in pantry..just everything is gone.

Canteen food sucks.One may get frequent stomach problem working here.

Advice to Senior Management

Give respect to juniors.come out of politics and do dome real good work.Sr management should get rid of incompetent middle managers and should care and value talent ,not sycophancy.
Please increase the leaves in company.It is still way too low.
 HR policies are not good.
Justify the name Headstrong and value your employee talents,know the fact that good and highly talented people are just leaving the company here because of bad managers.Please take corrective measures before it gets very late.

Pros

Financial Domain if you want to learn.

Cons

Please make sure you wont get distracted with Headstrong.com website which states that its a CMMi L5 company in 2002.Its a CMMI Level 3 company, so all the guys from big companies please think before coming here.

Apart from that, its a client driven company and management also works on the same basis.It doesnt have any pillar of its own. You are handed over to client and he is your Godfather for everything.Its a kind of good as well bad, but from company perspective, its not good as it doesnt let the company grow as its a client driven organisation.

Advice to Senior Management

Please update Headstrong website accordingly and with true content.

Pros

Only reason I see to be in Headstrong is to treat it as a bridge to reach a compensation you desire. Suppose if ure at 3 lpa with an IT giant and want to double ure salary figures come to Headstrong get a good raise , work for a year and move on . Headstrong can really boost ure salary because when they are in desperate need they do give a good hike and most of the time they are because there is hardly anybody who sticks to this company for more than 2 years

Cons

DAG sucks , they've got some unusual processes which will suck the blood out of you . Processes generally take 30% of your time, come to Headstrong and see the number grow. HR policies are the most annoying , Ever heard of a company with no sick leaves, if not "Welcome to Headstrong". See more of these when you join. Very Very Very billing oriented , if ure billing all iz well , does not matter what you do , even if you are a 6 years experiences and end up with crappy work , company is Ok as long as you are billed. Management mowed down by clients and probably they would go to any level to win deals. NEVER heard of a person who wants to build his/her career with Headstrong

Advice to Senior Management

Learn the art of getting people stick to you , with attrition reaching 30% in May 2010 you aren't going anywhere. Respect people who work for you and witness the change around.

Pros

The only reason for headstrong to work was great peers. But not the level has gone down and it is no better than general TCS, WIPRO & Infosys. Infact it is worse due to its very small size. Nobody in the company grows. If u want to join in at junior level and grow then forget it.

Cons

No clear policies. Policies like minimum 9 hours clocking is there. The managers are in capable. It is a company that if you will have to follow ur managers as gods, then only u can be happy in this company otherwise u will have be fired or u will have to leave the company

Advice to Senior Management

Please support own team and have roadmap for their career.