Their only purpose now is to enrich the lives of the mgmt and senior mgmt and employees don't even figure in it.
Inspite of my results and contribution, I worked without hikes and 5 to 8% instead of 15% as promised bonus every year as I was being reassured by the senior mgmt that they would correct it next year!
They don't pay well to begin with and don't do any kind of market correct also.
The HR team and couple of other engineering teams do open nepotism, hiring without proper scrutiny their own relatives and friends. Some teams try to get in their friends through a friendly manager for their teams and claim referral bonuses.
If you are close to the engineering directors then you can do pretty much whatever you want:
- HR person becoming Program Manager without proper skills and scrutiny, not doing much but still growing
- getting your friends into the company, getting your fresher relatives in easily etc.
- site leader choosing only one community charities for company social causes
The products are good, the processes are good but India office has really bad HR team and some leaders and employees due to which it becomes suffocating