Pros
People who are continuing from Hughes time are technically sound and can be looked forward as mentors. If you are lucky to get into a development project(chances are very minimal), can learn telecom and networking protocols.
Cons
Company completely transformed from a technology and people oriented(Hughes days) company into a services based and revenue oriented. The projects are won by quoting dead cheap prices at fixed cost and expect the engineers to slog. There is clear communication from management to work late hours and weekends. Performance reviews are based on nepotism and not based on actual performance which is a common case with most of Indian SW services firms. There is no proper projections, tracking on hiring. Over hiring and then firing became a common practice at Aricent. Overall it is no different than a wipro, tcs and infy. May be worse in some aspects.|