NIIT Limited reviews

3.8

70% would recommend to a friend

(1,800 total reviews)

Pankaj Jathar

85% approve of CEO

65% positive business outlook

NIIT Limited has an employee rating of 3.8 out of 5 stars, based on 1,800 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The NIIT Limited employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Education industry (3.7 stars).

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3.0
Mar 30, 2022
Recommend
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Pros

They're pretty flexible about working remotely, especially since Covid. Many of the project managers and content development managers have come up through the ranks and therefore, understand the needs of the 'workers on the ground.' The company provides some nice perks, like WFH allowances, Health and Wellness benefits, Internet reimbursement and $100 Uber Eats allowances for pretty much any holiday.

Cons

The other half of the project managers are outside hires who simply have a degree in 'project management,' and therefore, have NO idea what is required of content managers 'on the ground.' In these cases, PMs fail to push back against unrealistic client demands, especially timelines, and routinely overpromise to clients without checking feasibility with their CDs.

1.0
Sep 27, 2017
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

It’s a good way to make money for a few months.

Cons

It’s a scam for most people they hire. They hire you as a full-time salaried employee but you really are a contractor who will be let go when your assignment is up.

1.0
Apr 6, 2017
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

NIIT is willing to hire new college graduates, so it's a good place to get a foot into the professional world. Business portfolio includes Fortune 100 companies. Relatively casual work environment with some great people. Benefits package is fairly extensive and includes quite a bit of paid time off. Work-life balance can exist if you're assertive.

Cons

Massive rift between content development teams and upper management - upper management imposes an entirely different set of opinions and solutions, many of them ineffective, on content developers without seeking buy-in. NIIT is staffed in multiple offices around the globe. Communication between those offices is extremely difficult - often, you may email a team member in India several times, for several days, with no response. Standards of quality in other offices aren't necessarily very high, and there seems to be no methods of accountability in place to encourage better work. Often, you'll depend on other teams to complete work for you, and have to answer for that work when it's subpar. Very little opportunity for career development, and career development paths are obscure and confusing. Another reviewer mentioned an "old boys club" mentality and that's accurate. The company is much more willing to bring in managers from other offices (especially men) who are unfamiliar with the work we do, rather than developing talent (especially women) in-house. Even if your supervisor recognizes you're ready for a new position, the company's tendency to "be behind the eight-ball" pushes them to continue staffing you in your current role. Pay is low for the industry, so many of the organization's most talented people leave quickly. As a result, there's a high rate of turnover, and very little training for new staff members. Surprising that a training company, of all places, has no plan in place to manage turnover. In most cases, the sales team will sell projects without consulting the development team. They pad their own numbers rather than focusing on how feasible the project plan is, so many projects are run in crisis mode from start to finish. When a project starts to fail, upper management's solution tends to be "make them work more." This makes work-life balance difficult to maintain at times, unless you're vocal about not working more. The pay is already low, so being expected to work overtime to make up for mistakes made elsewhere seems unreasonable. If a project is on a successful course, management will often pull team members from that project to more troubled projects, which puts the successful project in jeopardy. Many more cons I can't remember now, but overall it seems there's little to no willingness among upper management to learn from past mistakes.

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