SunGard Reviews

I worked at SunGard full-time for more than 10 years

Pros – Coworkers were great. Clients were terrific to work with and provided interesting business challenges.

Cons – Management is the worst I've ever seen, from mid level to the business unit VPs. They have no experience in solving problems, very poor negotiation skills and deplorable people skills. Managers are petty and childish. There is too much micromanagement which squashes creativity and innovation. Promotions are based on 'old boy' cliques and friendships. Actual skill, experience and results are not part of the equation. Turnover of skilled employees is high, while employees with lesser skill and experience remain and are expected to solve complex problems with no direction from management or documented processes to reference.

Advice to Senior Management – Real change and progress won't occur until significant management changes are made. Middle managers need to be evaluated on their ability to retain employees as well as providing direction, processes and procedures for their teams. If a manager cannot meet these kind of minimal standards,, they should not be in the position. Stop promoting your friends.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

I have been working at SunGard full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – Plenty of different technology to learn. Schedule gives plenty of days off.

Cons – No leadership qualities in management. No accountability. Projects are rarely fully thought through. A lot of micromanagement, does not promote a culture of creative thinking unless in a clique.

Very few written processes or impossible to find if they have been written. Feedback on how the process is working is not asked from the people that are required to follow it.

 Lower Management promotes Favoritism.

Advice to Senior Management – Promote cross-pollination of information between different departments. Change the mindset of pushing back tickets to the original assigning group to moving the ticket forward. It's all of our jobs to help the customer.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

I have been working at SunGard full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Flexi timings. Good Work-Life balance

Cons – Career opprortunities are limited for employees

Advice to Senior Management – Do not run it as a Service organisation

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

I worked at SunGard full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Loved my colleagues, many exceptional engineers.

Cons – Lower management is petty and plays favorites while upper managements only concern is to make sure that the Blackstone group gets it's cut.
Soul crushing on-call
Good old boy mentality with director level management and above.
Aging architecture doesn't really align with it's wanting to be state of the art.

Advice to Senior Management – Spend the money to bring in the right tools and technology or sell the business to someone who will.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

I have been working at SunGard full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Work culture a great plus
work life balance

Cons – not an aggressive middle management

Advice to Senior Management – Need lot of implementation skills

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

I have been working at SunGard full-time for more than a year

Pros – Culture in SunGard is very good

Cons – No downsides as of now

Advice to Senior Management – NA

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

I have been working at SunGard full-time for less than a year

Pros – good jumping board to move up

Cons – horrible management, no career advancement

Advice to Senior Management – be smart about people management

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

I have been working at SunGard full-time for more than 8 years

Pros – Was a good copany to work for, my product is closing on end of life, and there are no propects else where in the company for me, strange for such a large company

Cons – no inter company movement, or mechanism is in place, or, it is very hard to find

Advice to Senior Management – inter company movement, needs to be improved, I have heard for years that it is iproving, but I have not seen any improvement

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

I worked at SunGard full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – Flexible working hours is good point about SunGard,

Cons – Worst appraisal's for existing employees

Advice to Senior Management – Provide good opportunities to existing employee's

I have been working at SunGard full-time for more than a year

Pros – Open culture... Management open to feedback

Cons – Products are of Old Technology, not living up current trends

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend