Pros
Netcracker offers an industry-leading product in its niche. I worked both in product development and implementation development teams and like to say that being an industry leader is quite an interesting challenge. We have a high bar for product delivery and matching business needs. This challenge give a very good raise in skills for every individual in teams here and is the best what an employee may take from this company. In general, overtimes are paid. An opportunity to see the world: almost every team member spend 2-4 months a year in business trips.
Cons
Underestimation in every project. Let's say you make an estimation for 100 man-days of your team work, and no doubt thy will be truncated to 60 by sales and PM, along with closer deadlines. Say hello to overtimes and sacrifice of quality. Project and line management is careless to teams: - there are strict and unified rules for any project process. If your project is somewhat specific, you cannot make changes to the rules and project team will suffer and spend their personal time (not paid) to fulfill all discrepancies between rules and reality. - if your team's work result is decided to go to bin, you will be alone with your feelings about it. - line managers has extreme bias to employees, because of what the company lost a plenty of talented developers and testers. In Russia, salary is slightly below market average.