Satyam Reviews

Pros

Good place to start the carrier, lean mixed technologies & manage teams.
Exposure to good clients and teams to work.

Cons

regionalism- people of one ethnicity rule the show, it gives out of different world feeling.
People from goverment sector who join the organization have major egos and temperament to work with.

Advice to Senior Management

Transparency with employees, remove regionalism and caste creed boundaries,
Accumulate people of same professional experiance other than people of various streams.

Pros

Good enough for MBA applications

Cons

Poor mid level managers need to be kicked out

Advice to Senior Management

Be more aggressive.

Pros

Good location at central of singapore whc is raffles place but now is very far away from city
insurance benefit cover dependent like spouse n children and maternity as well
cost of living allowance is not bad

Cons

no work life balance, working like crazy
no recognition
no reward for ppl who work hard in project
salary hike is very less
no aws bonus

Advice to Senior Management

most of project manager are a desk manager,they dont want to dirty their hand to pick up and resolve any project issue and moreover just asking their team member to solve it as easy as point finger. Pls hire good and qualified project manager

Pros

Don't have to slog. You can balance your personal & work life.

Cons

Politics, red-tap-ism, favoritism, lower pay.

Advice to Senior Management

Identify & reward honest people instead of rewarding your own political favorites within the team.

Pros

1. My work was well recognized.
2. Good support from superiors as well as subordinates.
3. Flexible working hours
4. easily approachable management
5. Pay was always given on time.
6. Good "Fun at Work" initiatives like Satyam IDOL.

Cons

1.The Annual appraisal are not very fair. I feel there is a lot of favoritism over talent recognition.
2.There was a lot of apprehensions amongst employees about working in internal projects and client projects. internal projects were not considered as the best.

Advice to Senior Management

Management should educate all the freshers about how it is same to be on internal and external projects.

Projects that have been neglected due to the changeover from Satyam to Mahindra Satyam should be revived.

Pros

Very good work environment and good opportunities and
 growth
 is there. Employee Friendly, one can balance personal as well as professional life

Cons

communication gaps from manager to middle level employees

Advice to Senior Management

should improve the communication from senior management

Pros

A chance to learn about outsourcing
Donning different hats

Cons

forget about fair or any salary increases...it actually declines compared to the rate of inflation

Advice to Senior Management

You really need to work on respect, honesty, integrity, and credibility. Open communications with humility from the top-down. Work on eliminating cross-geographical & cross-cultural politics

Pros

The opportunities and responsibilities for freshers is one of the best in industry.
Training program prepares you well for the rough ride in IT industry.
Best place to learn office politics

Cons

Growth only for cronies of senior management.
And lot of regional feelings (Telugu vs. ROW)
Pay hike only possible by switching jobs.

Advice to Senior Management

See the world with a neutral view. Companies have gone much ahead with their transparency. And the Software Engineers are also human, not machines.

Pros

File H1 visa for its employees
Had good clients

Cons

Difficult to get promotions even if you work hard
Now lost most of the clients in north America. So not much opportunities in this region
Salary package is too bad

Advice to Senior Management

Please make sure that performers are getting rewarded. Sack incapable middle level managers

Pros

it's a global company that you can work with coworker all round the world. You have many opportunity to face customers directly.

Cons

Employees are not cared very much by managers in our department. Sometimes, managers are not frank to employees, it's bad.

Advice to Senior Management

Managers should show more careness and respect to employees, can conduct some team building. And managers should learn to be frank, especially when they delivery bad message to employees.