Trashiest place I have ever worked. I waited 11 months to write this review and I'm still pissed as hell.
1. My performance reviews were great, up for promotion, and TCS took away decision rights from practice leaders in North America and fired me with a zero day notice and gave OCM Practice leadership no say in the decisions (nor did they even notify practice leadership or my manager that I was being let go). (Company has also been in ongoing court case of discrimination in the U.S. with prioritization of HB1 Visas which is unfortunate to say b/c there is plenty of opportunity for everyone, but Leadership out of India has driven some incredibly poor workforce decisions).
2. When confronted about the firing process, the US Head of HR stated performance reviews were not used in the layoff process. When asked "then what criteria was used" HR revealed deep biases.
3. I should have read the pink flags where they were when I interviewed with TSC. When I asked what TCS was doing from a DEIB perspective, my interviewer said "oh, yeah, TCS has written a paper about it" - which emphasized a lack of commitment from TCS to DEIB altogether.
4. TCS is a massive black hole. No leader takes responsibility for anything. It is the greatest environment of cowardice I have ever seen in my career, and I've worked with great places including Deloitte and multiple Fortune 100s in industry.
5. The WORST IT support you could imagine - ironically. They blame it on culture for India but in reality many companies have very successful support teams in India - so it's a matter of failure in leadership being able to set up shared services in a way that supports billable talent.
6. Clients can tell easily where TCS lacks in skills and capabilities compared to other firms and have to lean in more heavily.
7. In 3 years I never saw any strong PMO leaders on programs. Promises without meeting them. Client delays regularly. Just a mess. Also no integration of workstreams in dependency planning.
