Sierra Atlantic Reviews in Hyderabad, India Area

Pros

Time Flexibility is the best reason

Cons

Salary constraint is very less

Advice to Senior Management

Projects

Pros

It is hard to find the proper projects.

Cons

Not advisable to join if your technology is other than Apps

Advice to Senior Management

Senior Management is not Aggresive Enough to put people under the Projects

Pros

1.Opportunity to work in multiple projects, which can last for 3-4 Months.
2 Exposure to learn new modules.
3.Lot of Opportunities to work at Client Places.

Cons

1.Not at all Process-Oriented in day-to-day administration of various departments of the Organization.
2.No clear strategy in Project Execution/Delivery, even though it has been in the industry for over 15 years.
3. No Scope of Career Growth for functional resources.
4. Compensation is below Industry Standards.

Advice to Senior Management

Being in the industry for over 15 over years demands the Organization to have clear and set policies enabling the Administrative and Project Execution/Delivery a seamless process. Identify key resources in the Organization and provide enough career growth opportunities & Leadership Training. If these are not taken care, there is a strong possibility of attrition of Competent Employees.

Pros

There is a scope to learn a lot.

Cons

There is lot of pressure on freshers.

Advice to Senior Management

N/A

Pros

Company has some projects/ onsite engagements basically projects which no one else would bid for like couple of reports/enhancements etc.
Good for people who may want to join as directors, as there is no great work to do except playing politics (If one is good at it).
Although its ok to work, but its highly dissatisfying experience to observe the way people play politics in the name of documented policies.

Cons

Company does not offer serious growth opportunities.
It feels like to work in a family owned business enterprise.
Few managers are talented, however, most of them lack the sense of judgement.
Boot lickers get onsite opportunities
Lot of pressure on Projects, and no support from management/offshore team.
People in middle management level like Practice Heads etc are more concerned about their own position rather than company and people.
Once you travel to onsite, getting your claims settled is a big pain, finance team under the leadership of the CFO is all set to screw up your happiness.
Lot of politics.
The company does not have basic policies in place for things like Variable pay, allowances and reimbursements.
No more flexible timings, as attendance regularization is being rejected by HR, and salary is being cut when you exit the organization.
Lose out on all your money which organization owes you in case you resign before settling the dues like onsite refunds/ variable pay

Advice to Senior Management

Wake up. You have already lost a lot of talent due to your inconsiderate attitude towards your people. The taking over by Hitachi is not the solution to problems in your own home.
Clean up the mess before you get wiped out of business.

Pros

It is very good company for Oracle Apps etc

Cons

If you join Sierra in the DW (Cognos/BO)field then you are finished.You couldhardly find any projects here and there is more kind of body shopping here.

Advice to Senior Management

Please recruit people if you have any proper projects in relevant field

Pros

Good Work env.
Good Onsite opportunity

Cons

Less salary .

No other benifit

Advice to Senior Management

NA

Pros

Work Environment, Culture, special activities

Cons

Salaries, Salaries, Salaries, Salaries, Salaries,

Advice to Senior Management

Be professional towords employees

Pros

1. Work and life balance and flexible work hours

Cons

1. Compensation is way behind the industry standards for an similar position
2. Runs more like an family business and minimal or no professionalism.
3. Most of the employees come to office to do everything other than work.
4. No intentions to retain right talent and cannot extract best out of the employees.

Advice to Senior Management

Normalize the compensation to Industry standards and run like an professional company

Pros

The work timings are sometimes flexible
The campus infrastructure is decent with good bathrooms, coffee machines and Nintendo-Wii gaming console

Cons

80% of employees are local making it a nightmare if one does not understand the language
The management is adamant and poor, the culture is one of a typical family-run organization
There is seldom appreciation for quality. Unless you butter the management there is no prospects for growth
The cafetaria is very poor with horrible or no food during the weekends and overstay. Poor cab facilities

Advice to Senior Management

Try to have a diversity in your culture so as to appear like an MNC rather than a typical Indian IT company at one corner.
Learn to come out of the shell - you are no longer an Oracle shop, you are becoming a systems integrator.
Pls GIVE UP politics for good. You need to learn to encourage quality even if it does not come from the regional flavour