Sapient Reviews

Pros

- Open Culture
- Competent Management
- Practical Management
- creativity is encouraged
- good compensation
- transparent performance appraisal process

Cons

- less focus on DW/BI domain

Advice to Senior Management

Nice Management

Pros

no timings issue,no formal dressing,facebook access,very open culture,fabulous tranport facilities,great technologies to work upon,great place to work

Cons

no personel life,no time for family,projects are very small,lots of work is done on CMS,very high pressure

Pros

Growth opportunities, Technically and technologically advanced, open culture, flat hierarchies, feedback oriented, employee friendly, traveller friendly policies, good brand recognition and rewarding.

Cons

The attrition rate is very high in India.

Pros

culture, respects the relationships between peers and managers and
help is there when u need that.
very open feedback culture.

Cons

sometimes estimations of the projects are not up to the mark.

Pros

Empowers with great responsiility
Flexible working environment
Open culture
Good learning initiatives
Great learning exposure
Leadership is very appoachable
Great vision.moving in the right direction
Some great leaders

Cons

Lacking vertical capabilities initiatives
Sometimes the work is hectic (very specific from project to project)
Fire and Hire for poor performers

Pros

Ground breaking work, massive self belief, very talented people. I have never worked anywhere like it - a unique cross between agency and consultancy

Cons

Sink or swim - you need to figure it all out - the systems, the people, the processes. And if you don't there isn't much there to help you

Advice to Senior Management

Senior people need a lot of support when starting at Sapient if they are to stand a chance of being successful

Pros

Emlployee development and working on cutting edge. Besides the sapient as a company has some excellent HR policies that employees find attractive

Cons

The company has too much of work pressure on its engineers, to the extent that people can actually spend their weekends in the office

Advice to Senior Management

I think they should execute projects in a more planned way, and bite only as much as they can chew. They should not over commit.

Pros

Innovative
Fast paced Environment
Young
Hip/Cool
Cutting Edge
Great maternity leave
Great sick time policy
Very casual environment
Great company parties

Cons

Poor Organizational structure
zillion hour work weeks
Very little training
Limited information
Confused direction/vision
Little concern for employees well being
Crummy bennies: Bad health plan if your not young rich healthy and childless. Crummy 401K match.

Advice to Senior Management

Please focus on house cleaning. The infrastructure that supports all your top dollar executives needs serious reinforcement. Why cant we be innovative and do for ourselves what we do for our clients? Improve the systems, minimize the manual nature of everything, train your managers to manage people, train your employees to do their jobs better. Make Sapient a place where most employees will want to stay for more than 1-3 years.

Pros

In my time at SapientNitro I have worked on an interesting variety of challenging projects. I travel often and work a large number of hours so I wouldn't say that the consulting world is for everyone. I will say that if you are looking for a place where hard work is respected and rewarded Sape is a good place to be. The company has done a good job of finding and hiring some good hardworking "type a" personalities. I have only once encountered someone who was not a performer and he was washed out rather quickly. If you are willing to put in the time, manage your own career path and travel, I think Sapient is a good place to be.

Cons

Work life balance is an issue for some people. It's not uncommon to spend a large amount of the day in client meetings and large part of your evening working with your team.

Advice to Senior Management

Accelerated growth has the risk of watering down a good culture. Continue to diligently vet future hires and avoid taking on staff augmentation type projects. There is also a large disconnect between the teams in the field and the teams in the office.

Pros

- Company values and culture. Management truly promote and recognize people for upholding company values and they are not just words.
- Management respect the employees and value talent. Outstanding performance is always recognised.
- Bonus schemes are equitable
- Good opportunities to grow as well as work in different areas as part of your growth targets. Feedback is encouraged, though in practice on busy teams, this may not always work.

Cons

- Work life balance is poor, although this seems to be the general trend in the technology industry with a 24*7 work cycle.
- If you are manager or above forget you can enjoy holidays in peace, you have to be available for conf calls and respond to emails. This does mean that you do not truly unwind on holiday.
- Majority of the delivery staff is based in India. High staff turnover in the country for most companies means Sapient keeps this group more coddled and appeased than local staff. This does lead to delivery and working relationship with client, challenges, as India office may often dictate terms in how a project gets delivered

Advice to Senior Management

- Do develop and take care of staff in India, as they are key component of GDD model, but not such that they dictate terms on how projects are delivered. Leadership of projects should always be local to the client.