SunGard Reviews

Former Employee – worked at SunGard full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Loved my colleagues, many exceptional engineers.

Cons – Lower management is petty and plays favorites while upper managements only concern is to make sure that the Blackstone group gets it's cut.
Soul crushing on-call
Good old boy mentality with director level management and above.
Aging architecture doesn't really align with it's wanting to be state of the art.

Advice to Senior Management – Spend the money to bring in the right tools and technology or sell the business to someone who will.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at SunGard full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – Plenty of different technology to learn. Schedule gives plenty of days off.

Cons – No leadership qualities in management. No accountability. Projects are rarely fully thought through. A lot of micromanagement, does not promote a culture of creative thinking unless in a clique.

Very few written processes or impossible to find if they have been written. Feedback on how the process is working is not asked from the people that are required to follow it.

 Lower Management promotes Favoritism.

Advice to Senior Management – Promote cross-pollination of information between different departments. Change the mindset of pushing back tickets to the original assigning group to moving the ticket forward. It's all of our jobs to help the customer.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at SunGard full-time for less than a year

Pros – good jumping board to move up

Cons – horrible management, no career advancement

Advice to Senior Management – be smart about people management

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at SunGard full-time for more than 8 years

Pros – Was a good copany to work for, my product is closing on end of life, and there are no propects else where in the company for me, strange for such a large company

Cons – no inter company movement, or mechanism is in place, or, it is very hard to find

Advice to Senior Management – inter company movement, needs to be improved, I have heard for years that it is iproving, but I have not seen any improvement

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at SunGard full-time for more than 10 years

Pros – The job provided a wide variety of responsibilities, and opportunities

Cons – There is a ysfunctional management team.

Advice to Senior Management – Get some women in senior management positions. Listen to employees and allow them to make mistakes when trying something new and innovative.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at SunGard full-time

Pros – Ability to network and find opportunities in other companies.

Cons – Management, management, management. Inexperienced management with no concern for the growth of their employees. Stale management that are all very comfortable in their present positions, with no desire to learn, grow, or advance professionally. This unfortunately does not allow the people that they manage to grow and results in forcing the smarter, harder working, more motivated talent right out of the company. This is rampant in the Sungard VPM segment of the business. In addition, all focus is on billable hours. The core of the company is like a bad car dealership, caring only about sales and nothing else.

Advice to Senior Management – Change. A comprehensive change in management is desparately needed if there is any hope of being successful and competitive in the future.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at SunGard full-time for less than a year

Pros – good salary
good working environment
good equipment

Cons – procedures not clear
managers not oriented to service improvement
security restrictions affecting production

Advice to Senior Management – provide clear answers
provide clear procedures

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at SunGard full-time for less than a year

Pros – Company is good, salary is competitive and they fight for their employees when they try to leave.

Cons – but is slow on making decision at production level, no sense of criticality.

Advice to Senior Management – You need to be more energic with your engineers, way to soft.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at SunGard full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – smart and intelligent people, excellent experience obtainied in field

Cons – Lack of strategic direction, not concerned about clients, no backing from senior management

Advice to Senior Management – Allow people to do their jobs, pay market salaries for management, stop laying off the best talent

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at SunGard full-time for more than a year

Pros – The benefit package is competitive and they have a very good 401K. Co workers are friendly and there is always plenty of work to be done.

Cons – Lack of flexibility
No communication
Constant reorganization
The environment feels more like that of a kindergarten than an office, employees treated like children, scolded for various actions, like that of a child
Workload distribution is uneven, many have nothing to do while a few select employees have more to do than they can complete in an eight hour day
Overtime is encouraged and admired, hours worked are broadcasted by many as an accomplishment, it almost feels like a competition on who can work the most

Advice to Senior Management – Treat those that work hard with respect and remove those that do not
Communicate better with employees
Realize that some who log in long hours are milking the system and stretching out their responsibilities. This is partially in response to low to no raise etc.
Provide a career path
Stop trying to pacify employees with hollow remarks on how management is taking steps to improve morale, we are smarter than that and it sounds ridiculous. We know change will never happen, its the Sungard way.
Odd behaviors are overlooked and almost encouraged.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend