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Headstrong

Acquired by Genpact

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Incompetent Middle Management -Horrible Politics - Senior Consultant Headstrong Employee Review

1.0
Nov 19, 2010
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Pros

Join to work with investments banks as clients,If you have interest in finance. Good clientele across the finance domain. Salary little better than typical indian services companies. Training on various financial topics.

Cons

Horrible politics by middle management. Highly incompetent people at middle management,whose job is nothing but to do office politics and get up in the hierarchy not by doing good work but by doing flattery and being nice to their seniors.They are technically weak who just love to have credit with them and blame is given to juniors in case of failures. Favoritisim and sycophancy plays major role in promotion. There are no doubt very few smart people are still here left out. Lacks fairness,Good work is not rewarded unless you have good chemistry with managers.The irony is that each time our centre head talks high about the the fairness in the company in common gathering,which is just not existing anywhere. Processes[DAG] sucks,40% of team man hours goes in just filling datas in irrelevant excel sheets ,and in the end employee has to stretch his hours to make it up for development. Interview process is no longer stringent and thus its quite easy to clear the rounds now.People with very minimal knowledge and analytical ability are getting through and bringing down the quality of code and thus brand name of company.All good and intelligent guys are slowly leaving company and anyone thus go and takes interview ,that brings in less competent candidate in the company. Earlier it used to recruit freshers from IIT/NIT now they go for any b-grade colleges for recruitment.The idea is to cut cost as much as possible by any means.This company is loosing its past sheen with each passing day as all the smart and intelligent people are leaving company. Even with profits and economic boom,cost cutting is going on.No dustbin,sharing phones,open space,no privacy,no mineral water ,no snacks and eatables in pantry..just everything is gone. Canteen food sucks.One may get frequent stomach problem working here.

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