Infosys reviews

3.6

67% would recommend to a friend

(122,539 total reviews)
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Salil S. Parekh

72% approve of CEO

66% positive business outlook

Infosys has an employee rating of 3.6 out of 5 stars, based on 122,539 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Infosys employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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1.0
May 17, 2019
Recommend
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Pros

The first month of training (Python) was enjoyable and informative.

Cons

Almost all management in US hubs is imported from India. There is a giant lack of understanding of American culture. When looking around the company you will find almost no one in a management position is white, black, or even hispanic. Management expects you to be working 24/7 and be ready at a moments notice. I have received emails at 11:00pm telling me to be in the office early the next morning. I should not have to check my email after working hours to receive critical messages such as these. There have been several instances during my tenure here, of American associates being pulled off of projects in favor of Indian consultants. In one instance, an associate with an Indian sounding name was put onto a project, simply because of his name. He had no qualifications or experience working on the project. Once the team/managers learned he was not Indian, he was immediately pulled from the team and replaced with another unqualified Indian associate. If you were to ask around the Indianapolis hub, most American employees would confirm that they have been subject to incidents such as these, or witnessed them. The general consensus among associates is that Indian employees are valued much higher than American employees. Rumor at the hubs is that the company is going on an American hiring spree just to combat and squash rumors of racism within the company. The bottom line is that even in the United States, there is a disproportionate number of Indian to American employees. This disproportion is even larger in management. I have personally fallen victim to managers who have not shown up to scheduled meetings. This has happened to me personally, three times. After every missed meeting I have sent emails to both HR and the manager stating that the manager was not present for the meeting. I was once scolded by the manager for this. I have been witness to associates on bench for up to a year because management is unable to find work for them in the geographic location assigned to those associates. Management expects those associates to come into the office for eight hours a day with nothing to work on. You are suggested to use their buggy internal training system while on bench, to learn new technologies or brush up on old technologies. However their internal system is incredibly buggy, outdated, and contains poor information and bad software development practices. There is also an expectation for you to work in extremely niche fields. They use predatory recruiting tactics to recruit recent college grads to come work here. Once they are here, they are trained in incredibly niche technologies such as ABAP or SAP development. These skills and experience does not translate well to life after Infosys and is almost useless. I have spoken with several recruiters and hiring managers at other companies that will agree, these technologies are incredibly niche, and are really bad things for newer grads to be working in this early in their career.

5.0
Nov 4, 2018
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

The value system of the company is noteworthy. The company has managed to keep this alive over time and across its new hires. This is most visible in challenging times or when dealing with difficult situations. This is a company to build long-term careers or join early in your career to have an exposure to professional workplace practices.

Cons

The company can be slow to respond to market dynamics or to employee dynamics, but the response will be well thought-out.

2.0
Apr 13, 2021
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Easy and fast hiring. They'll fly you out and house you wherever they're doing training at the time. They'll be paying you while also giving you a stipend. This is great as a right-out-of college job. They offer paid learning time while not on an assignment. If you've got good individual drive, you can get paid to learn a new skill that will make you marketable.

Cons

Opaquely bureaucratic as heck. Out of our hiring group, half of us got assignments within a month, the other half waited about half a year before they got any work. At the same time, half of us on-project didn't get a promised minor pay-raise and promotion until 4 months after it was promised, while about half of the folks on bench got it. No matter what subject you interview with, they'll choose your job position for you. I interviewed with SQL knowledge and got thrown into web automation testing training based entirely on the hire date I chose. Nepotism runs rampant. Many of the managers you work for and people you work with have no clue what they're doing. It's entirely hit or miss as to whether your manager cares and knows what they're doing or if they're petty, demanding, and micromanaging. There's this clash between a stated goal of hard work and continual learning and the reality of apathy in many places. Overall, the place is soul-draining. If you've got a good work ethic, pass this company up if you can. You'll find better work and pay elsewhere

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