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Not a good place to start your career - Assistant Systems Engineer Tata Consultancy Services Employee Review

1.0
19 Mar 2010
Recommend
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Pros

If you work at TCS, you have one of the best job securities. You will never get fired unless you are really really very bad at work. Because of this you will find many incompetent people in TCS and some in high positions too.

Cons

If you join them right after college, you have no say in which project you will work on. It could be just anything. A manual testing job, data entry, development (very rare) etc. It will be very difficult to change the project you are working on even if you want to. They have a crazy appraisal system. Employees never seem to be happy.

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Pros

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Cons

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Pros

Large client base. Talented people, have "cracked the code" on offshoring development and support.

Cons

For anyone used to working in US-based firms, the culture and politics will be difficult to understand and navigate. Internal policies and systems focus on the offshore delivery center model. Roles in the US do not fit into that mold, and obtaining approvals for simple expenses can require weeks and insanely high approval chains given the size of TCS. I needed approval from a global division head (a CEO direct-report) just to pay for a short training course. Missions of different departments are not clearly defined, so overlap and conflict are common.

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