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Netcracker Technology

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Beware - Worst company to work in. - Technical Manager Netcracker Technology Employee Review

1.0
Jul 22, 2016
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Pros

Salary Recruiter may sound sweet and hospitable.Don't fall in to their trap and promises.

Cons

Where do I start : 1. False promises from HR - joined as Tech Lead .Regret the decision till now.HR will promise a lot of things.Don't fall for salary trap.You won't have a team under you if you join as a tech lead.You will be working on their tool throughout your tenure here. 2. Late appraisals - The appraisals will take 15 months to take effect. you will lose 3 months or a quarter to their tactics.This is companies first year in Pune and appraisals were supposed to be effective in July.No information about appraisal yet.No intimation about the delay to employees.Appraisals delayed by a quarter(i.e. 18 months from April ) in their Bengaluru and Hyderabad offices since a few years 3. Admin and Facilities-- The guys don't even have proper housekeeping staff and basic necessities in their toilets/pantry, Old worn out tempo traveller instead of cabs.Pick points far from home (good joke).If you are lucky might be near your home, They height was their ANNUAL FUNCTION organised in May'16 in a rented cafeteria with non-AC facility where everyone was sweating.Can you believe it is a MNC ! 4. Promised me snacks and cab provided by company -No such services.Coffee machine dispenses froth.No canteen. Sometimes they run out of toilet papers and tissues.No tissues in pantry.Worst facilities in my decade old IT career across reputed and small scale companies 5. Unprofessional Environment- You will most likely be assigned to Russian manager who struggles to speak English and communicating would be the foremost challenge.Mostly you will be sitting idle or doing a freshers job.The Russian management/managers are incompetent and expect you to do freshers job.No help or support from them as they struggle with language and the technology and basic work etiquettes. Highly unprofessional environment.. 6.TECHNICAL SUICIDE for fresher and mid level - You have to work on their tool called Netcracker and no technology exposure.You will end up forgetting everything and be good for nothing when you are out of here. 7.Dictatorship and slavery under Russian management -- If you join,you might experience what life was under British Raj. Indian management is a slave and puppet to Russian people.Don't be surprised if you see a decade younger Russian leading a 10 year + experienced guy in their Indian offices. No career growth.No equal opportunity company. Lastly,if you have any doubts and still want to join,ask any employee who joined the organization at least 6 months ago.You will get your answers.

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Pros

Some historical context to start with. NetCracker was built by some of the brightest graduates of its time. It used to be an extremely successful scale-up because of a combination of two factors: 1. The right moment and place: a wealthy and fast-growing telco industry needed a fresh start in their systems to roll out the infrastructure the world is using today. 2. A business model based on consultancy-style principles: hire talented graduates and unsettled perfectionists, pay them pennies, work them to death, and make a reasonable margin because of that. It worked really well. And then they lost it all due to classic leadership failures and star syndrome. Key reasons to choose NetCracker: You will meet some of the most brilliant people here and make friends for life. You will learn how to make impossible things possible, and you will learn rigorous delivery frameworks executed at a level very few companies and people in the world can match. You will also learn team-based brainstorming of subtle and bold political maneuvering. And many other advanced skills you will probably never need anywhere else. This company truly values outcomes and those who can deliver. Their survival depends on execution, so high achievers have always been valued and quickly promoted. However...

Cons

Number one bad thing you need to know (beyond working unreasonable hours for decades and learning non-transferable skills): There is a caste system. If you are 'delivery', you will never be admitted into the higher caste of western office decision makers, nor will you ever be equally paid. They will work you to death, promote you into even more impossible missions, but will never consider you at the same level, despite you owning the entire delivery process (revenue generation!) and managing teams of hundreds of people. NC operate in a highly chaotic and politically heavy environments of impossible transformation programs. They frequently commit to delivering programs that cannot be delivered, so they burn their high achievers to exhaustion and then praise a caste of politically savvy, non-tech 'managers' whose main role is not delivery but navigating the heavy corporate games of dinosaur-like or inertias telcos without any measurable outcomes. NC charge clients for software implementation, they pay you like you are doing some leisure product development, but in reality, company and tech teams at the forefront are driving painful full-scale transformations for which western-world consultants would charge $ thousands per hour. Ever heard of leadership skills? Forget about it. The entire leadership vertical has none, and no intention to develop any. (On the senior management level think of micromanagement, lack of EQ, team dysfunctions, lack of transparency, favoritism and all other toxic traits of poor leadership). Heard of things like QBRs, strategy planning, OKRs, etc.? Non-existent. Real program management or portfolio management? Non-existent. The entire workforce outside of Boston is treated like a body shop. No transparency of the company strategy. It’s both: there is no comprehensive strategy planning in place and a 'none of your business' attitude. The so-called department managers also have zero general management skills. No understanding of how to direct, plan, or execute strategy. And 90% of them don’t possess even basic people-management skills.

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