Pros
There are amazing talented and friendly people. (Unfortunately, I did not get to work with them on the projects I ran)
Torrent is great at business transparency.
Great fit if you want to run projects your way and have total control. Plus are good with people management,
Cons
No management support when your analyst just doesn't do their work. You are supposed to figure out how to make them work, through a series of zoom feedback sessions where you kindly tell them they aren't doing their job or hitting deadlines. Or, pivot the project so that you can simply do it yourself.
They put a CM and a Consultant (me) who had just onboarded together with an analyst that was also new to the role as my first project team. I feel like there should have been at least 1 out of the 3 roles filled by someone experienced in the "Torrent Way" for reference,
During my time at the company, I never had an actual direct manager. I believe that all of delivery reports to the Delivery Director as their "people manager" but that position was empty the entire time I was there.
There are no minimum performance or role expectations when it comes to projects, each project you get a totally new team and are expected to layout who is doing each and every responsibility. And hope they do it. Even though they have a good methodology, it's a total miss on the actual process/people management side of the business.
Laying the project team off the day after a client Go Live is a weird business decision and put me in an awkward place of clients calling me because they needed support and me not able to help them. (You have to give out your own number to clients)
