NDS Reviews

Pros

Work life balance
good compensation
opportunities to learn
employee friendly management

Cons

recently few stupid managers hired from service industry

Advice to Senior Management

please do not hire stupid managers and bring more transparency in promotions

Pros

employee friendly policies, benefits
free food
right place for some one who is particular to settle in the life and good in politics.

Cons

poor quality of work and learning curve is negative.
the middle management is occupied with old employees of NDS, most of them are hopeless, good in politics.
blame game is common and there is no peace of mind.
 not the right place for Java Professionals. outdated java technology plus corrupted management will make the life mess.

Advice to Senior Management

do something for the middle management politics

Pros

good salary
free food, pantry
good work culture

Cons

politics
recognition of work doesn't depends on how good you are in work but how you will present it to your senior..even if you didn't work doesn't matter you just shout that you have worked very good because of other team or person it's getting dealy

Advice to Senior Management

judge who is right person for recognition, not who is having godfathers or good selling skills

Pros

Good place to work.
Benefits and salary are good.
Work-life balance can be achieved.
Company sitting pretty now, but needs to guard against going in the wrong direction.
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Cons

Company heading towards inverted pyramid of too many managers.
Developers crucified for making mistakes by program managers who feel that it is unheard of introducing defects in stack.
There is not much of management anyways in this company, not a typical service company with headcount mindset. Some managers are awful, generate a lot of email traffic and preach the same but don't practice :)

Advice to Senior Management

Time has come to find managers with technical insight as this is an engineering company. Architects or Senior Integrators can take care of most management with project co-ordinators help!!

Pros

Good work environment.
work life balance.

Cons

Not much learning Opportunities.
No push from management to learn new things.
Dull and mostly maintenance work.

Advice to Senior Management

Be more open and promote the right person.
Avoid politics.

Pros

1. Good Salary, bonus
2. decent HR Policies.
3. work life balance ( depends on the team )
4. good canteen facilities , free food, snacks

Cons

1. technically outdated, using century old java version. no hope of learning further and high chances to degrading the personal technical background.
2. management is very conservative to change.
3.very old employees were treated royally.many of them promoted to senior positions. they are totally outdated/ .they are good in lobby, politics .
3. need to shout for anything..spam the inbox. then only the things would move.
4. there is no fair policy in promotions. normally the people in the good ranks with senior peoples will get promotions .
5. the people good only in talking are treated good. people who never coded anything are holding the position as architect .
6. after few years will become technically outdated , need to pass the rest of the life in NDS only. as no other company will respect this skill set.
7. called as product company but working in service mode

Advice to Senior Management

1. instead of promoting the old employees bring technically talented people from outside
2. do something to eliminate petty politics
3. don't bring managers from service industry,

Pros

1. Good food and canteen facilities.
2. Good work life balance if you are an manager and above
3. Yearly Bonus out of Salary
4.Leader in the Set Top box software, can learn lot about the domain
5. good place to retire.

Cons

1. outdated java technology used. will forgot everything in java after working for a year in NDS
2. the old employees were promoted too early. they are lagging badly on technical skills as well as managerial skills. working under them is quite difficult.
3. politics on high end. only the people are friendly with managers and architects will get promoted. architects play a high role on promotions. they will deny promotion if the candidate found more talented when compared to them.
4. there is no open policy and nothing stable at NDS. company management is worst.
5. the old employees behavior to the juniors is very worst.
5. after working in NDS for few years , the person will be outdated badly in the technical skills, no other company will take them. needless to say..they have to pass on their life in NDS only.

Advice to Senior Management

1. improve the technical background on the products. throw away the java 1.0 version. bring the latest technology
2. dont entertain the old employees lagging on the technical skills. they are ruining the life of many talented peoples.

Pros

Flexible
Informal
innovative and challenging
Great opportunities to work across regions

Cons

middle managers are techies who are not always good at managing (but often awesome at passing on knowledge)

Pros

Good facilities.
Gread atmosphere to work.
Good Work-Life balance.
Chance of getting good work.

Cons

Not a great place to learn many new things.

Pros

great place to work.
nice environment..
nice bonuses if u are sound in technical....

Cons

no CMM level to this company .... it means it need to change its process