Symantec Reviews in Pune

Former Employee – worked at Symantec full-time for more than a year

Pros – Symantec will be the 1 preference for all time as a work best work place

Cons – No downsides at all Symantec will train you,will guide you will care you all time

Advice to Senior Management – Best management ever

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

Current Employee – been working at Symantec full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Work culture is very good

Cons – super in the market in providing good work culture

Advice to Senior Management – good compant

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

Current Employee – been working at Symantec full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Challenging domain and very good working environment.

Cons – Micromanagement and laid back attitude.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

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

Pros – Challenging domain and very good working environment.

Cons – Micromanagement and laid back attitude of dev teams.

Advice to Senior Management – New management initiatives look promising.

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

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

Pros – Core CS work.Geeks may get satisfied.
Wonderful Work/Life Balance.
Compensation will only be good if you work here for a loong term like 5-10 years.

Cons – 1)Very less compensation which repels industry and university talent.
2)No perks like Food, Transport.
3)Some products became so old, freshers get mainly maintainence, bug fixing work.They will say you have to learn first and god knows how many years you have to do only bug fixing and small tiny features.
4)Very old technologies used so flexibility to change to other companies is very less.Ofcourse this is also a system engineering company and in India we have more Application companies.
5)Managers have no idea how to build careers of freshers and mostly end up destroying them because after 2 yrs you look back and you nothing to tell outside what u had done.

Advice to Senior Management – Concentrate on people's careers.
Ensure good training practices.Products are 15 years old and code is so huge we get simply lost in the forest.
Remember that Compensation and perks are very important to retain talent.

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

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

Pros – product company, good domain, have rsu

Cons – not so stable management, keeps changing strategy

Advice to Senior Management – i think they should stop changing org every year and focus on improving quality of products

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

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

Pros – Few Very talented folks and managers to work with if you are lucky enough.
relaxed work culture.
work from home facility.
Good office environment and less-nagging managers.
Good work - life balance.
stock options
good health benefits, Best doctor advice etc.
Good CEO

Cons – 1. Recruitment standard has gone below par mark after Veritas and Symantec merger.
2. Marathi company.
3. Most of the recruitment is by referral which comes from 3rd and 4th tier colleges.
4. if you are coming from Tier 1 college, you will be highly frustrated by the intellectual level of folks in Symantec.
5. dirty politics and favoritism for marathis.
6. Most of the Sr. management is Marathi and mostly communications are tilted in local language.
7. if you are non-marathi speaking guy, you will have trouble understanding their quotes and intentions. off course at the same time, they will not be able to understand what actually you mean when you try to strike good intellectual conversation in English.
8. There was a time when Veritas salaries and compensation were comparable to MS, Yahoo of 2000. Now HR compares compensation with companies like persistent.
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Advice to Senior Management – 1. 5 Tier 4 college grads can't work as good as one IIT/NIT Guy. You can surely get 5 of MIT, Pune students/ Persistent/ Infosys folks for 4 Lakhs each. Consider hiring a IIT/NIT Guy instead and pay him well, S/He will be asset moving forward.
2. cut the FAT. you really need not to be 17K+ company. company similar to your business and much greater growth rate are 1/10 of your size.Veeam is hardly a 30+ folks team while commvault is 300+ only. (including everybody)
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No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

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

Pros – Good salary and great company to work for.

Cons – 24/7 work requirements, makes it grueling. Sometimes you have to work on weekends.

Advice to Senior Management – Managers change all the time, they got to find a way to retain managers!

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

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

Pros – Good work culture
Good employee benefits
Ample opportunities for growth
Competitive compensation

Cons – Like any other organisation there will be ups and downs in your career but one needs to remain focused and committed.

Advice to Senior Management – Management is doing a fantastic job

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

Current Employee – been working at Symantec full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Great place to work. Good work life balance. HR policies are friendly. Competitive pay

Cons – Management direction changes quite frequently. Need to have solid future plans about the products.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend