Steelwedge Software Employee Reviews about "manager"

Cons

Managers in US have no respect for Indian employees. They want all employees to work on Festival days and when the idea is resented, US manager's abuse the entire Indian community with filthy languages. Our beloved HR team is worthless, other than for signing relieving letters. They are incapable initiating any action even when harassment is reported. Higher Management, instead of taking action against harassment, educate Indian employees to become stronger towards abuse. If the same thing had happened in US, world would be upside down by now. Indian pride is at stake and still the Indian management has no guts to initiate action US managers, such a pity. No point working in a company wherein managers doesn't have spine in the back.

Cons

Worst product management team ever seen, they dont know about product. they dont know what they are doing. Worst Development Management poor in technical simply people management and politics. Worst dev managers & leads they dont know about technology but they are technical leaders. (e.g .Net guy leading java developers, sql leader for java developers, Weblogic administrator lead java guys) Worst testing ever seen, always try to create more politics. Lot of technical never share the information for newly joined persons especially who are staying more than 7,8, 10 years. All technical guys already left the company because of old employes, they will not share any information and management also encourage those people and retain if they are resign, management not encourage who working professionally. CTO & founder is out is good thing, but still we have other who are staying 7,8, 10 years with out technical knowledge they dont know latest technologies.

Cons

Everything is dependent on your manager and managers are not trained for people management. No Onsite opportunities. Very bad leave policy. No cab facility If you get late.

Cons

1. Newly joined CEO Parvinder Johar, an IITian from Roorkie, taking company for a toss. Making drastic organisational changes instead of improving sales process, just like in his previous organisation Manhattan Associates. Now stop saying Manhattan, heard it enough, that irritates all of us. 2. Took a bad decision by hiring 3 dozen IITians in 2016, and could not cancel the offers later due to losing organisation credibility. Hence cutting down the appraisal/hikes for the existing employees from 2016, just to pay the new guys. 3. Bad time started for the organisation from 2016 where half of the manpower left including top good managers & CTO due to internal politics, no good business, bad management decisions, severe work pressure, and no hikes. 4. No new learnings, limited career growth and your career will come to a stand still if you work longer. You will be working here for the rest of your life on what you were initially trained on. 5. A Budget Hit Company - No hikes from 2016, last anniversary was celebrated back in 2013, no team outings since 4 yrs, project team lunches stopped, free services like tax filing stopped. Can't say what's else there in the store to be stopped. I think their next plan is to cut down cab services and internet reimbursement. 6. Management's expectation is to be available 24/7. Work extends several hours till mid night everyday and weekends as well. 7. While hiring HR will show you the green, greener, greenest side of the organisation. Once you hit the floor after training, you will realise what's on the other side of the coin. Very chaotic. 8. Humans are not machines and need leaves. This is not accepted here. For planned leaves and personal emergencies you are left to the mercy of managers who will screw you up to the maximum extent making a deal to cover the hours. If you are under a good manager, you are the lucky one. 9. Work from home is an option you can take if you can provide over hundred reasons why it's needed. Again depends on couple of good managers whom you report to. 10. The organisation is just surviving on couple of cash-cow clients who are being taken care by few hard working guys and their skills and strengths are never recognised. 11. Every quarterly meeting goes excellent as planned, hiding all the facts and showing only good figures in the presentation. You will be perplexed and feel like you are competing with Google, Microsoft, Facebook etc. 12. Another colorful feather in the company's cap is the way lay off's are followed since Jan-2014, it cannot be more cruel than this. Mostly on a Friday, a team will be on standby and the associate is monitored until he/she takes a break, the team kicks in and sweeps the associate's belongings at desk taking away the laptop, emptying office bag and blocking email and access card. All happens within minutes. Then the associate is escorted to the visitor cabin where the ID card and desk keys are grabbed and package of personal belongings are handed over and again escorted to the cab which is already booked just for you. It's not just one off case, it happened with many many people here. At least a criminal will know the reason for his jail term, here you don't get a reason why you are fired off. Now I left this company after many bad & bitter experiences and uncertainty of company's future after Dec-2016. I will never ever recommend to anyone

Cons

CTO controlled Steelwedge like the way congress is controlled by Pappu. Good he was kicked out. Management still considers this as a startup company, just because they changed the database. (Grow up) SQL managers think writing java code is like playing with SQL queries (Run once and fix the issue in 2 seconds)