Tata Consultancy Services Reviews

Pros

- Good salary compared to other employers (Indian and Indian MNCs)
 - Onsite oppurtunity is available rather easily after a certain years of experience
 - Corporate structure is strong
 - Knowledgeable HRs

Cons

- Lack of merit based assignment of role
- Lack of merit based salary rise structure.
- Annual rating is a sort of musical chair affair
- Some corporate process do not make sense. (Such as making the employees visit a set of TCS forum just to get a visit count even when the employee has no use for them)

Advice to Senior Management

We have good corporate structure backbone, a good HR/Admin/Other support staff, a good brand value, great oppurtunitites when it comes to onsite. The things that need updation/change are the Role assigners - RMG and the whole musical chair affair that is rating and curve fitting - Global Speed.

Pros

Job Security & re-location all over country

Cons

Employees are treated badly..
No value for employees personal life, only motive of higher management is to make associates work like a machine work until they say take rest.
Un-Professional way of making employees to work in Saturday, Sundays and national holidays.
Less compensation, for the amout of work done by associates it is Peanuts.
Impossible deadlines for completing project with limitted number of resources
No adequate planning

Advice to Senior Management

Wake up!!!.

Be real in commiting deadlines.. At least have discussion with associates before commiting any timelines with clients..

Pros

Salary is good.
Job security.
Government style job so job hours are not a problem

Cons

Resource management and project management has no respect towards employees especially lateral joiners.
Experienced professionals are billed for freshers role and responsibilities.
Inconsistent mapping of technical skills, experience into projects.
When you try to discuss this their attitude is like so what if you have experience you have to do this work.
Highly bureaucratic structure , horrible politics,
To get opportunities make sure your are in very good books of managers else forget it.
HR should be renamed as team to please managers.
Managers and resource manager is always CORRECT and you are always wrong...don't try to argue with them...it's hopeless...
Horrible Transport

Advice to Senior Management

Yours is the most bureaucratic government style organization.
Majority of the experienced professionals are technically horrible due to the kind of projects they work in,
You bill experienced professionals for freshers role.....
Your project managers and resource managers treat laterals like thrash.. disrespect them like anything.....please share the business trick that continues to make you Top IT company in India.

Pros

Great ethics to be in Tata group overall.

Cons

Extremely dissatisfied with the performance reviews. Core work is not given importance by bosses. Too many people taken in which don't allow you to choose between projects and technologies.

Advice to Senior Management

Focus on innovation and not just services.

Pros

Lots of Opportunities for everyone...

Cons

Lack of co ordination and lesser pay for people who stay for long duration.

Advice to Senior Management

Improve work environment related issues.

Pros

Global company,
Large Knowledge base

Cons

Informal Training,
Informal Communications,
Unorganized Management
Project Manager is unprofessional

Advice to Senior Management

Promotions should be given based on performance and not just randomly.

Pros

1. Frequent travel to outside of India
2. Large range of technologies to work and learn from.
3. Flexi time working (depending on project).
4. The recognition of brand TATA all over the world.

Cons

1. Huge size and hence no visibility.
2. HR is thoroughly incompetent (not in all branches though)
3. Senior management can be quite oppressive at times.
4. Immediate managers frequently have little or no management capabilities.
5. Compensation is below par wrt industry standards.

Advice to Senior Management

1. There should be strong employee recognition systems.
2. Valuing employee more than client.
3. No touch of employee whatsoever with higher management.
4. Putting importance to numerous surveys that are held.

Pros

Good Work Life Balance,Easy Life, Large number of Projects and good Clientele

Cons

Pathetic Compensation, No recognition for High Performers, Inefficient Performance Management.Very few advancement Opportunities

Advice to Senior Management

Track the career of an associate throughout the Project.Right now changing a project means similar to changing a career.And reward Loyalty and get your HR facts right.Promoting an EP to AST at 6 years of service while an associate with good performance struggles to be an AST at 8 years..Simply pathetic.!

Pros

Initially, It provides a good training for the employee, and tests and puts them in a apt position. It gives exposure to the external world and gives full space to open up and do your work with a cool mind.

Cons

The main drawback is for the employees who want a quick career growth.

Advice to Senior Management

Nothing Much

Pros

Salary is not bad
Medical Insurance
Being part of a Big Brand
Certification reinbursement
30 day Christhmas bonus
Law Benefits
Not much pressure
Can work from home

Cons

There is no career path
Middle management doesnt get involved with people
Lack of training
Performance review is a joke
Big and very slow process . It is like an elephant trying to tie his shoes . Its just too fat full of useless steps.

Advice to Senior Management

Stablish objectives and metrics and make diffusion to all employees on a timely manner.
Follow your own process every time not only when it is convenient.Train your people.
Ensure process difussion and follow up
Less is more.
Less steps better performed to a more agile and efficient execution