Sasken Reviews

Pros

1) Very friendly work environment
2) Transparency in Employee policies
3) Very good learning environment

Cons

1) Very less projects
2) dependent on some top customers
3) Incompetent managers
4) Unfair promotions

Advice to Senior Management

Please expand the portfolio of the services you are providing, act earlier quickly than waiting Hire some good managers and fire all of the non performing managers. We need aagressive management which strives for success

Pros

Excellent Place to Work
High Learning Opportunities
Excellent Leadership
Definitely a People First Company

Cons

Mid Level Management is not so good and there seem to be lot of politics at that level

Advice to Senior Management

Job Rotation for employees across different functions. I have seen employees accumulating more than 6 years of experience in SAME project and that results in no improvement of skills.

Identify High caliber engineers and convert them to leaders. You have proposed an excellent Sasken Leadership Program, which should be implemented literally.

Pros

Best Team to work,good training provided to freshers.Senior are very good and best management team i had ever.

Cons

lot of travelling required for field test engineering job and some time required night travelling also.extensive travelling and short campaign .

Advice to Senior Management

good management team

Pros

Homely atmosphere and nice campus.they should hire people with high calibre and also look at hiring from IIT's and IIM's.Also look at cross functional rotation

Cons

very indian management and not aggressive.they should hire people with high calibre and also look at hiring from IIT's and IIM's.Also look at cross functional rotation

Advice to Senior Management

they should hire people with high calibre and also look at hiring from IIT's and IIM's.Also look at cross functional rotation

Pros

Work Life balance
Good opportunities to learn and grow
managers are very friendly and understanding
flexible timings are always allowed

Cons

very poor compensation benefits to freshers and employees with less work experience
cafeteria facility is pathetic
not much recreation opportunities are there

Advice to Senior Management

please align the compensation benefits as per the performance of the employee
raise the base level of compensation as per industry standards

Pros

very open culture, transparent, high opportunities for your growth

Cons

at times get bureaucratic and seems to have lost it's way.

Pros

Good industry exposure - Opportunity to work across different parts of the telecom value chain

Low stress environment - Pace of learning is moderate and overall, good work-life balance

Long winter break - 3 week winter time-out!

Cons

Overall lack of cohesion among senior management - Things change every 6 months without a clear long-term goal

Business isn't growing resulting in limited individual growth opportunities

Advice to Senior Management

Look back at what worked best in the past for Sasken and do more of it. Sasken was known for being the industry leader in human capital and product development. There is a very relevant space for Sasken here. Why compete with other generic IT majors on their terms?

Pros

Good working environment and Culture
Used to - employ engineers from elite club - IIT/IISc/Top tier Colleges
Positioned as a 'tele&com communication" (Pro&Con)

Cons

Retrenched valuble resources in the Key Device Mgmt, Datacom domain
Make a wrong move of 60/40 during the recession time.

Advice to Senior Management

Immediate need to re-align in the telecom industry
Too many dead-weights in the leadership team.( Heard , all GMs are promoted to Asst.VP) - Duh ?!

Pros

- Employee friendly policies
- Transparency in decision making.
- Integrity of senior mgmt.

Cons

- Career path for senior technical staff has been a challenge.

Advice to Senior Management

+ Engage technical staff, many don't see future after 8-10 years of work. Need some one who can mentor 8 years - 15 years senior technical talent to stay motivated.

Pros

good exposure for junior level employees
good package
exposure to now technology

Cons

Not much technical growth options for experienced employees

Advice to Senior Management

Be more reachable to emplayees