Trianz Reviews

Pros

-Friendly and Transparent Environment to work
-Potential to grow big with many Fortune 500 Companies as Customers
-Employee Friendly HR Policies and excellent remuneration
-Encourages employees to own and perform at the 'Next Level'

Cons

-You might not have the 'Name Tag' of a Fortune 500 Company. But Trainz is a Medium Size company that's on growth path and has diversification

Advice to Senior Management

Continue the current pace of expansion and transparency you have with the employees in sharing business updates. Improve more on Brand Building Excercise

Pros

In the last one year, I have seen quite a few changes. I have joined Trianz through an acquisition. I was worried of the culture fit, and leadership team attitude - all my worries were put to rest in the last year. I am working on the development of a solution. I have seen that the leadership has taken keen interest in teh work with regular meetings with all team members, participating in various industry events (relevant to the solution I am building), and other investments. I received my hikes as promised, and I feel confident of the growth and my career path here.

Cons

There is little communication between various offices. Decision making is not fully decentralized.

Advice to Senior Management

Need to build a culture of short-term team rotations in all locations to get better exposure.

Pros

The organization has been making right investments in adding resources lately - a lot of hiring going on. This is a positive sign, and also boosts the motivation levels. There has been a good flow of client visits, with clear follow up new project initiations - agian inspiring the teams to put forward their best given the growth. Leadership team has been quite transparent on the organizational updates.

Cons

Not all resource choices have been the best, but I guess there is no fail-proof method for this. We have not had any social gatherings and employee events in a while - this is important to keep everyone in the right spirits.

Advice to Senior Management

Conduct more employee events.

Pros

- Focused approach for priority technologies and domains. Good investment and growth as well.
- Very strong experience and SME team for certain technologies.
- Excellent client retention.
- HR policies getting more employee friendly, can certainly use more improvement.

Cons

- Business units / Services that are not a 'priority', do not have much market visibility, or sales investments.

Advice to Senior Management

Focused approach is good; but also consider diversification.

Pros

I have been working with Trianz in Bangalore for about 4 years. The team at this office is very friendly and supportive - we have informal gatherings regularly, and I have built some good relationships here. At the same time, when it comes to delivery all the team members are very focused and detail oriented - it has been a great learning process for me.

Cons

Though there are some education and training programs, I feel they can be greatly improved.

Advice to Senior Management

The employee education programs should be further enhanced.

Pros

Flexible work culture. Follows process during execution.

Cons

Very few clients. Dont have long term vision.

Advice to Senior Management

Should have long term vision and goals.

Pros

- Performers are recognized and rewarded
- 100% client retention with several fortune 100 clients added
- Continuous focus on client satisfaction and improvement in employee retention.
- Last 5 successive quarters of growth after integration…..in a recession
- Adding over 150 employees in a quarter
- Business was won against competition from the big guys
- Delivered compensation changes worldwide
- Rewarded outstanding performances in special ways
- CEO has been on the road for more than 250 out of 365 days in the past year meeting all the clients and employees

Some fo the other focus for the comapny which are postive and would recomend continue doing: -
- Continued emphasis on growth and on client satisfaction
- People investments-scaling HR, training and career development.

Cons

Further strengthening the middle management layer
Inductee more fresh graduates
Implement 360 feedback for appraisal
Need to strengthen and focus on other geography

Advice to Senior Management

Have more frequent open houses and have more social get together

Pros

I have been with Trianz for a while now, and have had an opportunity to work on some interesting projects with large Fortune 500 clients. Very helpful and supportive managers - I got a great deal of mentoring from senior management. I witnessed some exciting business growth in the recent past, this is certainly boosting the team morale, and I also see new and exciting HR initiatives.The leadership team is transparent on company performance and updates.

Cons

Need to integrate all locations better - low visibility of activities across the organization. Low bandwidth of middle management.

Advice to Senior Management

Improve resource utilization. Expand technology service offerings, and scale teams.

Pros

Better worklife balance than big "x" firms (Iittle to no travel)
Opportunity to learn via practical experience
Smart people willing to share / help out
Growth potential
Starting to sponsor formal certifications / training (e.g. PMP)

Cons

People get experience at one of the big clients and get stuck there for a long time
Challenges in matching roles to level of skills (sometimes people keep getting assigned to certain roles and they want to be in roles at the next level up)

Advice to Senior Management

Invest in developing your people, and don't forget the people within you can promote.

Pros

Trianz could be a very interesting experience for someone who likes challenges and is not frightened to work very hard. I'd good opportunities to learn all about hi tech processes especially around sales and service operations. This experience provided me opportunities to consult with Fortune companies and molded me well to take my career to the next level in consulting.

Cons

No brand equity outside Bay Area and lack of new initiatives in building new practices.

Advice to Senior Management

If you are serious about growing consulting practice, invest in building your brand.