Syntel Reviews

Former Employee – worked at Syntel full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Good company for beginners or team leaders

Cons – Salary not as per industry standard

Advice to Senior Management – No best practices exist for BI

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Syntel full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – Great working environment. Encourages and supports employee engagement.
Provides lots of onsite opportunities.
Resonably Good People to work with (Although depends on the account/vertical you work at)

Cons – expects employees to work hard and not smart.
Lack of transparency
Does not recognize talent
No good benefits
Medical insurance provided by company is worst

Advice to Senior Management – none

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

Former Employee – worked at Syntel full-time for more than a year

Pros – Nice work life balance,Good onsite opportunities,good transport facilities, For an entry level person, if you show dedication and work hard,you will grow.

Cons – Compensation is not as per the market standards for freshers and yearly appraisals are also not good for freshers which makes financial growth difficult.

Advice to Senior Management – Internal Training which is conducted every month should focus on newer technologies.Current training focuses on old technologies and the calender keeps on repeating.

Former Employee – worked at Syntel full-time for more than a year

Pros – Good Learning experience and good team

Cons – Relatively small company, can extend to new places and cities

Current Employee – been working at Syntel full-time

Pros – Good for beginners to get hands on and learn

Cons – Management of project not good as per industry standard as the rules are not followed

Advice to Senior Management – Follow proper project life cycle and resource assignement

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Syntel

Pros – Best company for lateral US hires - high visibility and lot of opportunities to grow

Cons – None - good company to grow

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

Current Employee – been working at Syntel full-time for more than a year

Pros – Stay for long time , if u want to.

Cons – Transport system need to improve.

Advice to Senior Management – Improve admin dept.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Syntel full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Cross training opportunities are good.

Cons – Somewhere performance will not count.

Advice to Senior Management – To take a close on employe performance and efforts.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Syntel

Pros – Good Work and Life Balance
Long Term Onsites.
Good Transport Facilities.

Cons – Hard and Smart Work is not Valued Much.
Managers are like dictators.
More Focus on Cost Cutting instead of developing good processes
Very less Salary.

Advice to Senior Management – None

Current Employee – been working at Syntel full-time for more than a year

Pros – Offer is much better for lateral hire...Quicker to grow with

Cons – Poor pay for Employees deputed from India....
More pressure because of the competition...

Advice to Senior Management – Do not take employees deputed from India as granted..do pay them in par with the market...

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