Fractal reviews

4.1

86% would recommend to a friend

(2,520 total reviews)
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Srikanth Velamakanni

96% approve of CEO

83% positive business outlook

Fractal has an employee rating of 4.1 out of 5 stars, based on 2,520 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an excellent working experience there. The Fractal employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Management & Consulting industry (3.7 stars).

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5.0
Apr 23, 2014

Sky is the limit!

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Pros

1. Veritable freedom to work on any analytics project using any statisitical tool/technique 2. Frequent on-site opportunities and freedom to work from home 3. Transparent processes: Staffing, Renumeration, etc.

Cons

1. Huge disparity in payscales of IITians vs. Non-IITians, even for top JEE rankers coming from a Non-IIT institute 2. No role models at Lead/Sr.Consultant level, especially in FSI vertical. This is probably a result of frequently promoting (read cuddling) inexperienced analysts, who joined b/w 2007-2009. 3. Over-emphasis on org. initiatives

1.0
Apr 7, 2014
Recommend
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Pros

Flexibility of schedule and enough responsibility. Strong hires from campus.

Cons

No work life balance! Rather than the optimum they would strive to get the maximum from the Analyst/Senior Analyst. No real training from the Lead/ Manager for the Analyst/Senior Analyst. Poor middle management from low rung colleges/hired laterally, who wouldn't be able to communicate clearly with the client or senior management. Some haven't done real work for so long that they seem to have forgotten how to use vlookup in Excel! No flexibility in choosing the client you wish to work for. Little to no flexibility in choosing the project you desire to participate in for a client. Poor skill mapping as MBAs in Finance are made to do Retail Analytics while MBAs rather than economists are made to create Forecasting based solutions.

5.0
Mar 10, 2014
Recommend
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Pros

It's addictive, too good to leave..Minimum salary you need to leave this company is exactly double of what you are getting here...even after that you will think twice..Trust me..it happens! People who are leaving they must be getting that much hike!!

Cons

Mid level management sucks (obv not all but 50%)!! People at Director/VP level are too good.(80%) There is no upward feed-back system at al., Because of that a lot of mid level managers are coming in limelight doing nothing. people at Analyst/SA level are good (almost 90%), because of that projects are roaring success, NPS 10 etc.. but real contribution of Mid-level managers is nil, still they get to travel n all...(literally i can name at-least 10 of them). You can imagine, if a lead/Senior consultant is on leave for a month, it hardly impacts the project, but if an analyst is on leave for even 5 days..it becomes a hue and cry situation, he will be contacted almost every day/he might be working from home at odd hours. People at A/SA level can't look up to their immediate next level, they don't get to learn anything from them, either people are learning from peer group or self or they look-up to Some senior guy, i just can't understand this system. And it has not happened to me so it’s not some personal matter which I am uttering here..Thankfully I am reporting to one of the finest VP in Fractal. But it’s a voice of crowd, which people talk but never mention to the right person. Here i saw, Srikanth replying to few of the reviews so though it might reach to senior management.

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Fractal Response
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Hi there, Thank you for your note. I agree with the thoughts presented here, especially the following: "I believe people at Lead/SC level should know to technicalities of the projects so that if an analyst/SA is on leave he could provide the backup. In fact 50% of the time he should do hands on work on the project as it happens in lot of successful organization" Also, we will have a two way review system in place for our goal setting and review process starting next week. We have started a 360 degree feedback system for senior people this year. We will extend it to the rest of the organization soon. Thanks for your feedback and constructive suggestions. Happy to discuss this one on one as well. Srikanth
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