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Good company with a huge number of employees. Self-learning, less competition

Software Engineer Analyst
Former Employee
Worked at Accenture for 2 years
October 10, 2016
Bengaluru, Karnataka
3.0
Doesn't RecommendPositive OutlookApproves of CEO
Pros
  1. The foundation course for freshers is too good. You will learn one skill nicely, but it won't have that much use in your future projects.

  2. You will get relaxation because sometimes or many times you won't get much work. This is because in a team, there are more people working than is required.

  3. Food facility, transport facility, and free gym facility are good.

  4. Project parties at least twice a year used to happen.

  5. A long period on the bench is a good option.

Cons
  1. Due to overpopulation of employees in a team/project, you won't get much work to learn the technology. You will be doing the same work on Excel and some DB queries.

  2. No leads/seniors want to teach you the technology. Otherwise, according to them, it may affect their job (simply to reduce competition).

  3. Partiality is what I see in my team/project (may not be in small teams/projects) and it is too high. Employee capability is not decided by how much he knows or he can learn; it is all decided by your manager, who sometimes doesn't even know what work you did and how much you know, because you will be working under your leads directly and not under your manager.

  4. The word "Budget" is a well-defined word when your performance cycle comes into the picture. How good or best you did doesn't matter because the project doesn't have a budget, so you won't get a hike or promotion.

  5. Some employees work with their knowledge/learning, and some are habitual sycophants. Beware of such people.

  6. Demotivation from your senior management. They want you to stop learning other skills/technologies because they hire you for their copy-paste work, and they fear if you learn something new, then you may affect their planning for the project.

Advice to Management

Please try to manage the number of employees in a team according to work requirements, as it affects individual learning.

Try to keep leads isolated from managers or other seniors to leads during performance discussions. This is because leads are the ones under whom we work, and they know our status better than a manager who never asks what you did or how much you are doing.

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