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Headstrong

Acquired by Genpact

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3.0

50% would recommend to a friend

(658 total reviews)
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Sandeep Sahai

68% approve of CEO

27% positive business outlook

Headstrong has an employee rating of 3.0 out of 5 stars, based on 658 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an average working experience there. The Headstrong employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Financial Services industry (3.7 stars).

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658 reviews
2.0
Dec 9, 2009
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Good package compared to other service company like infy/tcs Bunch of IIT/NIT/IIM people so that you can learn a lot. You will get Investment Banking domain easily.

Cons

Poor top level management. Poor HR policies,15 days of annual leave for 2 years then 20.No other leave(sick also.you are at mercy of your manager) Worst resource managers,they even dont see your cv before sharing it to client so that they can demoralise you after the interview when you dont clear(because some time client has some other requirement that is not mentioned in your CV). And after 3 times of these kind of interviews(if you are not from IIT/NIT) ,if you can not clear ,one day they will come to your desk and teel"pack your bag and submit your id,you are fired "before your whole team,and when you go to your PM he will say let me talk to HR because no body informed me(and this is true). Always fold there hands before clients(eg:Goldman sachs) even the client is taking life of HS employee. Few many internal projects or product to engage bench people or beat the recession. Fully dependent on financial services,so at the time of recession internal layoffs is common. They hire mostly bottom level IITians(eg civil,nuclear physics,architecture etc) who even dont know OOPS concept but get better package than people from CS/IT stream from other colleges.

3.0
Oct 24, 2009
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Pay good salary onsite Work in India is good as compared to other similar companies Good chances to grow career Managers less bureucratic

Cons

Lot of incompetent employees hired recently PD/HR keeps coming up with some funny policies

2.0
May 10, 2009
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Can be used as a launchpad to get into IT divisons of top financial companies.

Cons

Top heavy management. Senior managers hardly try to understand operating environment and then support the employees. No transparency with respect to Promotions. Hugh disparity in payscales of similar employees. Talks a lot and promises many things, but do not stick to those. In hand salary is very less (salary composition is not fairly structured). Bench management is poor. Employee connect during bench period is pathetic. Employee motivation is not taken seriously by managers.

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