TATA Consultancy Services

[anonymous]

I am working for TCS from 4 years. I have gone through all reviews at this site and here are my opinions:

1.For freshers, It is a good company as they will go through a good training process for 6 months which is their base. However, after the training, nobody knows where they will be placed.

2. I have joined TCS with 3 years of exp and My relevant experience was reduced to 2 years, reason being one of prior company is very small.

3. HR - I feel HRs here are not professionals. Some of them are good ofcourse. They are experts (???) in dealing with people. How to stop them from leaving the company, how to make late decisions on promotions, etc etc. No proper behavior..

4. MATC - the most irritating people. However, we may have to consider their stress also. They has to satisfy requests (send 2 yr, 3 yr associates etc) from different accounts. However, their behavior needs to be changed.

5. Supervisors - 50% of supervisors in TCS promoted to that position by soaping their seniors or stealing work from their team and informing higher mgmt that they have done work. One of my supervisor asked me to postpone my engagement and marriage for project needs. He is very much eager to talk with Girls. All Girls in our account went onsite and created chaos with their inexperienced way of coding and deployment. Most of the males has to soap him everyday to get good opportunity. Me being straightforward not able to get an opportunity and got released from that account and came to US through another account.

Another supervisor don't like if somebody writes a mail without Hi at the beginning of the mail. He don't know normal email etiqutte (he puts smile symbols :-), ;-), spelling mistakes etc in his mails) and he used to tell us to write mails neatly.

Overall, Supervisors are worst worst..

6. State feelings, Language feelings are common and if supervisor is also from same state you will get promotions etc etc. If you are attending a meeting, few people starts speaking in Hindi or their own language leaving others in irritation.

7. Transfers are not easy. You have to go through lot of nasty people to get that.

8. Promotions - HR will say they don't have updates on promotions for this year. I do not know why they stop promotions one year and start it in another year. It solely depends on supervisors again.

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[anonymous]

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9. Onsite - chances are good, if you are lucky. However, I had to wait 3 yrs to get one chance, that too for 1+ year. If they want to you to send onsite, Here lot of people from GLs, AMs, PMs, MATC, HRs play lot of gimmicks. I know one account where nobody want to join becos of politics, no onsite chances, high level of stress. If you go to MATC for onsite, they will ask you to go to that account and from here drama starts: MATC says they have onsite chance, GL says at present no onsite, but will surely send in a month, AM says it may take 3 months, PM says already lot of exisitng employees want onsite, so you have to wait atlease 6-8 months, and your collegues will say you will not be able to atlease for 2 years, Howz that?

10. Resigning - You have to give 3 months notice, if came from onsite 6 months, that too not so easy..



Finally, I feel almost all companies are running with so-called experts soaping their managers, politics etc etc. TCS is best among all other.. Always define your goals and tell them strictly to managers, if they don't give an opprotunity they should release from the account like that you have to get commitments. then only things will work..

[anonymous]

To say the best. TCS is a company that totally ** Information Technology from all perspectives. TCS sucks in all of its projects. All of them are support/maintenance (No exagguration :-O). There are no development projects in this company. Technical freaks, stay away from TCS.The hard workers who do a lot of work get 2 to 2.5 max. If you are extremely talented, all of the girls work wil be dumped onto you while the girls go and sleep. Especially in the JNR, Chennai office, there is a ** called as Ravinder who rejects candidates in interviews if they ask a reasonable salary for their talent. To top it all, TCS takes your tax returns without question and also reduces employees salary when the industry slumps. Totally unprofessional organization. To the clients, TCS claims to be a PCMMi Level 5 company, but you need to go inside to know what shitty process they follow. Clients and employees stay away from this shithole!

[anonymous]

hi i joined TCS in feb'2006.previously tata infotech mergd with TCS on feb'06.i stayed for 2.2yrs.U can imagine from my joing date to my reliving date i have seen my Gurgaon office only once(from inside) and 4-5 times from highway-on road.And above this i was deputed at client side (india only)from last 2yrs and was coordinating on phone only with my PL.As to m y astonishment i have never seen my PL also.all my communication was on phone only.And when i asked to change my project ,,,threatning was given to me...reklated to my rating.And all above i like to say TCS is just a fraud company.It does not hav any values ,,,and one can only dream for onsite projects. So friends its better join infosys,ibm or other IT-companies.Atleast for freshers take 1 yr experince ,and look for change in next year.

[anonymous]

Stopped the promotions because they had no money and in 2 days they bought a company for 510 Million.There is no company ethics .How can a company take the Tax return cheques from the employee and put it in the company.this company did his in US and lost the case after a employeed filed the case.I hope this is not happening in other countries.This is just a joke company.how does this company become India's top company just being a pimp without any product development.

[anonymous]

Well TCS lives upto its slogan "Experience Certainty", I will explain why..
1. U can certainly expect to get screwed in appraisal.
2. U can certainly expect tiffs with HR and MATC
3. U can certainly expect ur manager having hell amount of ego and zero knowledge
4. U can certainly expect salary problems
5. U can certainly expect high level of dis-transparency in all processes
6. U can certainly expect this company make fool out of its client.
7. U can certainly expect urself be victim of politics and communal lobbying
8. U can certainly expect urself working more for ur manager and less for the client
9. U can certainly expect to lick ur managers shitty ass
10. U can certainly expect to get the most pathetic environs to work in
11. U can certainly see TCS defying all the norms of CCMi level 5 company
12. U can certainly expect TCS to put all the burden of losses on its employees
Do I need to say more..

[anonymous]

TCS is one of its kind of a company. There only Morons can survive. I have seen that girl are given preferential treatment. Most of the people who survive in TCS are those who can go to any extent to satisfy their bosses. You guess what, your promotion, Salary hike everything depends on whims and fancies of your manager. If you are good with your mouth(guess how) you can easily go up the ladder.

One good thing about this company is politics. even Indian politicians will be ashamed by kind of politics that Manager play to ensure to get credit for other work. If you are dreaming of becoming any notorious politico, you should learn the basics in TCS.

To be a manager in TCS following qualities are required. You should be able to cheat your customer consistencly. I have even heard that in the appraisal process of Manager, they have are special columns 1) How may juniors they have molested/harassed 2) How good they are in back talk 3> How dishonet and mean they are and so on and so forth.I have seen manager who truly deserve to be in TCS. Reason being they will not be recruited by any other company.

My experience with this company is really bad. Here HR are the most unprofessional ones(they are recruited form some c grade colleagues so that they can be paid less).

[anonymous]

Agreed with all your points. It really sucks. Lot of politics, tamil dominated company preferring tTamils, biased and just sucking company.

[anonymous]

Not really that bad for sincere people

[anonymous]

TCS is "THE WORST" company in the world.