tons of bureaucracy, non-functional and cheap......
been there over 4 years.
good things (we always start with the positive):
Pay and bonuses are ok, and paid on time
company is successful in acquiring projects, so there's always work. so good job security
It's ok for starter employees to train and learn
Bad things: (So many...)
bu·reauc·ra·cy is at a crazy level. nothing moves without a zillion approvals all the way at the GOD level.
IT support and systems are terrible. nothing works properly, helpdesk is often ineffective and useless. lots of time wasted on trivial tasks. systems are slow, full of errors. laptop so overladen with updates, that it hardly works. Everything is super restricted, access to websites, to drives, and makes work difficult sometimes, especially if you have to connect to client networks.
Try to get any commercial needed software for your work, you'll have to jump through hoops, and it will expire before you know it, and have to do it all over again and again....
HR - in the USA? non-existent. haven't been able to find them yet.. There's no one to talk to..
Hiring practices are incompetent. I think the criteria to hire new people is that they are breathing. Often no talent or any skills are required. Often they hire new recruits after other consulting/software companies rejected them....
Payroll and expenses and travel - this is a super cheap company. for travel they limit hotel lodging at $135/night which at most large cities gets you a bed under some bridge. The per-diem at $40/day is really
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Senior Solution Architect | United States | Jun 21, 2020
Beware the bench
You are safe while on a project. Once you are on the bench you are at risk of being suddenly terminated.
Low projects and High billing rates is a bad mix -
The company charges high rates from client's which the clients are not willing to pay these days. Finally, they will place offshore resources at lower billable rates and remove you from the project citing budgetary constraints. Senior principals are the biggest risk job. They will put you on the project for a couple months for the design and then chuck you out and bring lower rated consultants (offshore and lower level principals/senior consultants) who can now make headway on their own since the most complex part of design has been done by Sr. Principal's. Basically, they use and abuse people for their experience and the let them go if there is no more work available. If something comes up, they will hire immediately. Hiring immediately means they may hire incompetent persons in the rush which has been the case. I have personally been put on difficult projects where several former Sr. Principal's were removed from the project by the client. This was caused by this philosophy of use and fire and then rehire when and as needed. If they had better sense, they would strive to keep their good guys instead of citing reasons of non performance due to low utilisation or sales revenue. If I am going to go around make sales for you and then do the actual design work, why would I be a lacky for someone else? I would just go and d
ConsShort breaks, Long work hours on projects, Demanding overtime with no pay for exempt employees
• Tested the data warehouse with the help of data mapping document for various data feeds.
• Created test case scenarios, executed test cases and maintained defects in internal bug tracking systems
• Developed and executed various manual testing scenarios and exceptionally documented the process to perform functional testing of the application
• Participated in Sprint planning sessions in a Agile Environment to give QA input & estimations for user stories in each sprint
• Debugging the SQL-Statements and stored procedures for various business scenarios.
• Performed extensive data validations against Data Warehouse
• Logging and tracking defects on a release basis using HP Quality Center.
• Tested several Informatica mappings to validate the business conditions and tested the source and target databases for conformance to specifications.
• Tested and validated the Report Net reports by running similar SQL queries against the source system(s).
• Did extensive work with ETL testing including strategies like Data Completeness, Data Transformation & Data Quality for various data feeds coming from different source systems.
• Created ETL test data for all ETL mapping rules to test the functionality of the Informatica Mapping
• Tested BI reports and written test cases using HP Quality Center.
• Tested and validated the cube data, ensuring that the data is correct by comparing the data results to comparable source sys
For the first two months, I received training in a particular field. The training went well for my group, but several other groups experienced terrible training periods (egotistical teacher that mocked or laughed at you, kept there significantly longer than should be, and complete disrespect for new hires).
Towards the end, we were given 11 places in the US to work and told to pick among those locations (even if our contract said we would be working in a city not listed). Something also worth mentioning is that just because you went to one of those 11 places, doesn't mean you will have something to do. You'll more than likely be on bench and that is where things get worse.
The management doesn't actually care about you there. You are told nothing about what is expected of you and are basically paid (an industry low salary) to sit at a desk and look busy. Communication is non-existent from your managers. You could send them emails asking about important information and there's a good chance they still won't respond. I had my manager switched on me and was not notified until I emailed my previous manager about PTO. Don't be surprised if your manager isn't in the US. This further complicates communication issues. I even had a project manager say I was on a project when I later was removed from it (and the removal of said project was not communicated to me).
The managers are also lazy and you'll probably have to manage them to make sure you avoid HR policy violations. I
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Vice President of Marketing | Fremont, CA | Aug 24, 2013
Worst of Indian Business Culture
I had hoped and was given the impression that Infosys was a strong "family values" company. I was completely mistaken. In over 15 years of mid-level and executive management in the technology industry, I can honestly say that Infosys is truly the most operationally inept and incompetent organizations I have ever encountered.
At every turn "junior" employee's undermine and postpone easy daily decisions that a college intern would not hesitate to make.... A spirit of competitiveness is perverted into mean spirited back stabbing of all that don't fit the traditional culture - All players at Infosys with 5-15 years experience play a game of "arbitrage" with information that could and should be shared with the larger employee base.
If someone complains your instantly marked as, "...someone who just isn't capable of figuring out the workings of the great Infosys - ", therefore you're considered "outside" and quite discrimination begins.
The simplest of business decisions are judged, doubted, delayed, and eventually the window for decision is past - and no action will be taken. This ironically is considered a GREAT outcome! After all - the majority of mainstream Infoscion's are praised and rewarded for NOT investing and NOT spending money. 'A rupee not spent is always better then two rupees spent to create 10 more..."
If you are professional and don't wish take a walk in the most insane and counterproductive work journey of all time - stay away from Infosys.
” it feels like the company is making agents run a race, but keep putting on more weight with booby-traps and wonder why its taking so long...
Working for Infosys can be good if you are in a smaller team. I had to move teams to have a life again, however I was in a processing team, some time ago. Being in a processing teams is terrible; they are working up to 14 hours a day and sometime even 6 to 7 days a week. this is causing agents to not have enough time to sleep, drive at night tired, their stress level is mega high. most agents have developed health issues due to the lack of sleep and rest. And with every June it is getting worse. The environment is a very depressing scene. The desks from upstairs have been replaced with basically picnic tables, with no space to put your water bottle on. Being so close to other agent some have the common cold and in fear of getting fired they come to work sick and get other sick and it’s just an endless cycle. I had come to work sick in that same fear. Their new way they are processing, with their “New Development” is failing, the way the new temps are taught is terrible most feel discourage to continue. To get your access to all the programs, takes so long most agents quit. The programs tools we have are getting worse with each new “Improvements” it feels like the company is making agents run a race, but keep putting on more weight with booby-traps and wonder why its taking so long to complete their demands. Due to the amount of favoritism, if you are friends with higher management then you will move up in the company, but if you are not friends with no one in higher managem
• Handling large Oracle Package Implementation Business Transformation Program with multi location distributed team.
• Unit anchor for business value articulation, helping projects/programs to Identify business value and getting client endorsement.
• Helping project to optimize project cost and improve margins using lean methodology.
• Significant contribution towards continues process improvements for SEI-CMMI compliance in Oracle Package Implementation track.
• Successfully handling multiple Industry groups reporting process compliance status to senior management.
• Initiating process improvement programmers across Business units.
• Metrics collection, analysis using statistical QC tools and using it for decision making projects.
• Scheduling, organizing and conducting the quality audits and reporting the results.
• Helping project manager to tailor projects process as per organization tailoring guidelines.
• Facilitating knowledge management and learning sessions with project teams.
• Ensure Process compliance as per the organization QMS.
• Working closely with Senior Management, reporting status, raising alert/risk whenever required.
• Ensure Project governance as per organization process.
• Conducting trainings on CMMI, QMS, Quality Planning, Defect Prevention, Configuration Management, Metrics & Analysis (GQM),
• Obtaining feedback from the practitioners, making updates to the QMS and training the staff on the process cha
Please do not believe the hype!! They are looking for Indianapolis talent, as they are building a campus on the old airport site but please do not fall for this!! Everything is still run under India rules, and no one local has any real power. There is no guarantee that you will be put on a project and after so long of not being on one,they will terminate you. This is a job you take for the check and benefits for the time being while you look for a real job. You are micromanaged from overseas, and the way that management interacts is not on a respectful level. US employees are basically looked upon as incompetent and a burden, and are talked down to. Even if getting on a project you will be doing tasks that are basically trash tasks that need to be done but everyone else on the project is too important or busy to do- primarily cut and paste and report running. I have been there almost a year and have had no value added to my skillset or knowledge base. It is very easy to become stagnant. I definitely would not recommend this place to anyone unless you are just in dire need of a job. It is a good space filler, but don't look for it to be an opportunity for career advancement.
You also have to fill out weekly timesheets- which is ANNOYING- and hopefully you are using the right codes- you will have to wait for someone to tell you that as well. The intranet is confusing and overloaded,all of their policies are overbearing. Apply at your own risk...
Prospaycheck, decent benefits, work from home option (if your project is not local- but it's more your own decision, not going through their system)
Consmicromanagement, menial tasks, termination at no fault of your own
Travel • Responsible for the architecting, design and deployment comprising of build release management, software configuration, design, development of multi-tier and web applications scalable using AWS services
• Experience in various services via AWS management Console, AWS CLI and using Amazon Api using Java.
• Involved in the design and deployment of various applications utilizing AWS stack including EC2, EBS, VPC, Route53, S3, RDSDB, DynamoDB, Lambda, ELB, CloudFront, CloudTrail, CloudWatch, Redshift and IAM
• Technical acumen and customer-facing skills that will enable to effectively represent AWS within a customer’s environment, and drive discussions with senior leadership regarding incidents, trade-offs and risk management
• Manage users, groups and roles in IAM, and create security groups for inbound/outbound access to instances
• Created VPC’s, both public and private subnets and distributed them as groups into various availability zones
• Created S3 buckets, with various life cycle policies to archive the infrequently accessed data to Glacier, EBS volumes for storing applications for EC2 instances when iSCSI mounted and snapshots to backup volumes to S3
• Configured DNS with lookup zones using Route53, configured DNS failover and monitored health checks
• Created and configured Elastic Load Balancers and Auto Scaling Groups to distribute the traffic and to have a cost effective, fault tolerant and highly available secure hosting environment.
At the end of the day, it comes down to the client where they place you at. Either you could have an excellent or experience where you learn or grow; or they expect you do learn every thing on you own whist having a high pressure environment.
WORK/LIFE BALANCE; MANAGEMENT
I found that the work/life balance at my particular client is not good. They expect you to work odd hours and they do not have system to properly track comp-time. Management is a pushover and will do any thing to please the client, usually at your own expense.
ALLOCATION
Additionally, they have no respect for you location needs or preferences; whether it be family or personal related, they don't seem to able to work with you especially if you are located in the Tri-State area and despite that most jobs can be done remotely. Client allocations time periods are usually unknown and can last anywhere from a few months to years. Bottomline: expect to relocate.
ADVANTAGES
Biggest advantage is the salary for U.S. based entry-level applicants. They give bonuses and raises as long as you complete Infosys Certifications. Excellent health insurance. 401K.
ADVICE
Keep Infosys or any contracting company as "last ditch option." Or stay for a couple of years to gain enough experience to leave.
ProsFull salary while on bench, excellent health insurance
TLDR;
Infosys Ltd is a great service org, and is still is, working in Infosys it really depends on the luck one has during the work tenure and his/her own capacity to fight or navigate to your skillet/role area or the ability to press forward working towards ones own technology or role preference.
This is based on my experience post a decade of working with different departments/domains, experience with management staff/teams and direct work knowledge from senior leadership through the years.
Few reasons why Infosys is good at what its doing good:
- Swanky Infrastructure
At the current time with covid it really doesn't matter, but what captures most is the work area and how its maintained.
- Training content
Wealth of labs and training content especially in the last 3 years. Addition of labs help anyone to test run or POC apart from project.
- Programs to change domains/tech
Internal job postings and bridge programs exist for people who need training and move up next level or switch domains e.g., development/support to consulting.
- Salary
Not great but its not low compared to market just about the same as elsewhere.
- Onsites
Depends on the project area but most have onsites and if you are good at sociopath skills or have the correct contacts in a project, this will never be an issue.
Now for the ones that really doesnt work well,
- Stagnant senior management
Lot of staff with 15-20 year experience in the same project ever since with no technical advancement. US ba
ConsTalent procurement division not fit to skills even if available in other areas, Stagnant senior management, Leadership without technology skill update in certain depts
Productive and enhancing career at Infosys Limited
I worked for Infosys Limited, India for a period of 3 years as a Senior Systems Engineer. I have enjoyed each precious moment of my life working over there. Here are some of the best soft skills which I have learnt during my tenure at Infosys Limited.
1) Team Skills: It had always been difficult for me to work in a team environment and showcase some of the best team skills. I had a theoretical knowledge of what team skills are but never tried to implement in real world situations. Under this course curriculum, I got a very good chance to work in a team with highly diverse culture and different thinking people. I know differences always exist in a team, but with perseverance and passion to work better, I scaled new heights by having a deeper look at the ideas presented by my fellow teammates. My first task involved completing the Infosys training tenure with a good project at the end. It gave me a good starting platform to improve upon my team skills and I gained good amount of fair knowledge by receiving positive feedback and improvement suggestions.
2) Listening Skills: In order to work in a team environment, one needs to be very apt at the listening skills. I have tried this very notion in almost all the team work . I believe that when you are working in a team, you should not work as an individual member; rather you should work as a team member. A famous Quote by Phil Jackson ‘The strength of a team is its individual team member. The strength of the individual team
ProsLearned lots of soft skills
ConsWhen our short term project ended, I had to sit idle for a period of 2 months.
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Human Resources Business Partner | London | Jan 29, 2015
Productive and innovative
Throughout my career, I have been required to be creative when developing new ways of interacting with the workforce. Some examples of this are;
Recruitment and day to day administration
b) I developed ‘HIPOTS’, which was a program aimed at retaining high performers within the business. This used a nine box model to create a detailed engagement program and focussed on increasing direct involvement with business leaders.
c) I created a new Induction and Orientation booklet for staff what relocated from Australia to India to help them to settle, and to assist them in their understanding of the basic requirements and cultural challenges of living in India.
d) I designed a Rewards and Recognitions program for a newly created business unit for employees of all levels.
Competency Development Programs;
a)Innovating Learning approaches:
• Learn from the Stars – I introduced a scheme whereby inspirational and educational movies that delivered a key message related to the workplace were shared amongst employees who were then asked to share their learnings with colleagues.
• My Story – I encouraged employees to share knowledge, experiences and success stories through regular mailers. I devised the format and circulated throughout the organisation.
b) Career Development – I created ‘Career Fair’, which was an online space where employees could connect with business leaders and HR managers to talk about where internal job opportunities existed and to understand the dif
I worked for Infosys formally known as eishtec in Waterford for 3 years. It isn't a great place to work. It was a starter job for me and a lot of people. They take advantage of students and young people. It's not worth the minimum wage that it is. I worked on tech support for phone company EE. You'll be paid bi weekly
You'll be dealing with English customers being angry and disrespectful towards you daily and TL's that expect too much from you. The job expectations are unrealistic. Everything that is expected of you on one call is ridiculous. You can spend half an hour to an hour on some calls. My record is 3 hours.
People aren't appericated and it is a constant revolving door of people getting and quitting the job. My team was about 20 people when I started. 18 of them were gone in the first year 3 the first month. There is now only 2 people left from that team there. IMPORTANTLY if you leave within the first 6 months they charge you 300 euro! And when you begin you won't be paid for your first week of training. (these rules could be different but that was what was in my contract). A lot of former employees got caught with that one and had to fork over the money for leaving before 6 months.
They have been brought attention to by Waterford TD's for fair working conditions multiple times espicailly for pay they've left paychecks short and during covid didn't pay 100s of employees and threw them under a bus by saying they would pay their employees so we didn't have to go
ProsTeam members. Vending machines are actually alright
Company with high values but losing lust in the IT industry
Starting career at Infosys is the best thing any Indian IT aspirant can dream of, and I am glad my dream came true. Immediately after graduation, I cleared the interview and joined Infosys. After rigorous training I ended up on the production line to work as an SSIS developer in one of the master data management project of a big client.
Being new to the IT industry, my early days were carefully dealt and I improved a lot on the technical and business solution front.
Today despite being the junior most member of a 30 member project team, I have no difficulty in dealing with my targets and achieving my responsibility as an ETL developer.
A typical day at work starts off with a conference call with my Onsite manager and Business analysts, where I get to know about the Business expectations and activities needed to be done. My work involves developing SSIS packages as part of application releases. Analysis and reporting of a huge database to help Business analysts in approaching the clients with a better view of their data and enable them to provide better solutions. A few moments of team bonding happens along the way, and at the end of the day, when my work is done, I share the status of work done and make sure no lose ends are open.
In my 2 years of experience there are a lot many things that I have learned, and my favorite of the lot is ,"Doing good quality work, gets you more work.". This has enabled me to mature as a team player and has made me a person who is dep
ProsFeel good environment
ConsWorking under people who have no clue of the company values, Extremely disappointing performance evaluation system
-A typical dat at work:
- taking care of the ticketing tool reviewing and resolving the incidents or problem tickets based on the priority
- taking care of the monitoring tool, and mail
- Learned:
• Installing, configuring, administrating and securing SQL Server 2000/2005/2008 and 2008R2
• Administrating databases in SQL Server 2000/2005/2008 and 2008R2
• Migrating databases from SQL Server 2000 to SQL Server 2005/2008/2008R2
• Scheduling daily maintenance tasks using jobs and maintenance plans
• Scheduling and monitoring all maintenance activities including database consistency check, update statistics, and index maintenance through maintenance plans
• Managing Logins and Permissions
• Identifying and resolving Blocking and Deadlock issues by using Activity Monitor and Profiler
• Troubleshooting TempDB and Log file issues
• Experience in implementing different types of replication modes like Snapshot, Merge, Transactional and Transactional with immediate updatable subscribers
• Fixing the replication process related issues
• Performing Maintenance tasks like rebuilding, reorganizing indexes, update statistics and checking database integrity at regular intervals
• Identifying and monitoring Memory usage, CPU utilization, Cache hit, Physical reads counters using performance monitor
• Moving data base using Export/Import wizard, BCP and Bulk Insert operations
• Used SQL Profiler for troubleshooting, tuning of SQL Server perform
ProsSodexo coupons every start of year for more then 2, 500rupees
ConsMaintaing floor timings, no long breaks on a monthly basis
1. There is minimal balance. Half the employees are on bench. These are the ones who get to utilize all facilities. Others who are on projects are lucky if they reach home on time at day end to have a family dinner.
2. Office is located far away from the city (Pune) and it takes at least an hour of travel (one way) from my place. So I spend minimum of two hours of travel everyday.
3. Most infamous policy - daily average working hours must amount to 9 hours 15 min. Leaves will be deducted if this number is not reached. Overall policies are not employee friendly.
4. Chaos when executing projects. Many projects are in red zone. Plans rarely work out. Mistakes are repeated over time. Why cant people learn from mistakes!! Daily escalations are nothing special. Onsite folks give promises to client without consulting with development team, and development team has no choice but to comply with these promises which leads to long working hours. I've experienced this "client is God" attitude many times from onsite employees. This includes not only team leaders but project managers as well.
5. Work from home is not encouraged for developers. Only managers and above personnel can work from home.
6. Appraisal process is complicated. If you perform better than 125% of your capacity, then you have a chance to get 100% of the salary on your offer letter. Anything less than 125% and you will never get the amount specified on your offer letter. The monthly salary (in hand) is always a new numbe
Prosinfrastructure, facilities, transport facility
I have worked in Infosys for more than 2 years ans writing on based on the experience:
It all depends on the type of project you working in.
If you are in a project with less workload and light work pressure you have a lot of time to enjoy the infy facilites.-Lucky ones
If you are in a work loaded project then it is even difficult for you to get some time for lunch in food court and most of the time the lunch is at the desk itself.-Working ones
The normal life of IT people is like:
- Wake up and come to the office.
- Check the mails and go for breakfast with the team mates
Lucky ones: You can find enough time to go thorugh the news, facebooks, chat on lync etc etc...
Working ones:Have to start working solving the pending action items on you. The tasks are generally allocated by the onsite teams.
- Then comes the lunch time:
Lucky ones: will have ample time to wait for all the team mates/friends and then have a group lunch in one of the food courts.
Working ones: Usually will have the lunch on the desk itself
-- Back to the work.
Lucky ones: will do some of the little work pending on their side and will eagerly wait for the snacks/tea break.
Working ones: Still working to complete the action items.
--Tea/Snack time:
Lucky ones: Will leave the seat at sharp 4:00 PM and again to the food courts for chai
Working ones: Still working to complete the action items. Usually have the tea from the machines in the cubicles itself
--Drafting sta
Questions And Answers about Infosys
What is the dress code at infosys?
Asked Aug 5, 2017
Be decent.
Answered Jul 30, 2021
Business casual
Answered Oct 6, 2019
How did you get your first interview at Infosys?
Asked Jul 20, 2016
A recruiting agency connected me to Infosys, and I had one technical interview in August 2018. Joined in September 2018 Indianapolis Hub, as Technology Analyst.
Answered Feb 15, 2019
I got it through a consultancy who screened my profile and then put me through an interview with Infosys.
Answered Oct 22, 2017
How are the working hours at Infosys?
Asked Jul 24, 2016
Infosys provides flexible working hours to our employees with a defined policy on work from home for family care and to handle personal exigencies. Employees need to maintain average normal working day of 9 hour 15 minutes over a quarter.
Answered Sep 23, 2020
Average working hours of Infosys is 9.15 hours otherwise you will get mails if it is less than 9.15
Answered Nov 26, 2017
What benefits does Infosys offer?
Asked Jul 21, 2016
Infosys nurtures several resource groups and initiatives that help you work and live, without compromise. For more details, visit www.infosys.com/careers.
Answered Sep 23, 2020
- Better salary
Answered Nov 4, 2017
What would you suggest Infosys management do to prevent others from leaving?
Asked Mar 21, 2017
For them to decide
Answered Oct 31, 2017
Infosys management has to be transparent to the resource. They should understand how to treat the loyal and hardworking employee of the project.
