SunGard Reviews

Current Employee – been working at SunGard

Pros – There are several locations if you are interested in moving (mostly in the US, but globally as well). In addition there are several 'areas of interest' within the company (Insurance, Disaster Recover, Education) and it is a large so there are lots of opportunities available.
The benefits are decent, with company contribution to group RRSP, Employee Assistance Program in addition to Health/Medical & Dental.

Cons – Sungard grows by buying smaller companies - yet they don't seem to be very proficient at it. Back office changes are chaotic and unpredicatable, and communication is contradictory from one week to the next.
Incorrect first of the year payout, lack of ability to bring integrated staff into the online pay stub processing (the manual work around for paper copies leaves MUCH to be desired), conflicting/confusing travel coverage [for those employees that are consultants to clients]. Very disappointing for a company that grows by aquistion.

Advice to Senior Management – Document aquisition processes & adhere to them. Have at least one 'specialist' (project/program manager) to oversee integration with milestones, targets etc to make sure that there is a single point of information flow.

Current Employee – been working at SunGard full-time for less than a year

Pros – Nice Environment.Good People around, Fair facilities.

Cons – Not found as of now.

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

Current Employee – 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

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

Pros – flexible work hours, good compensation, if you are lucky you can get onsite opportunity, location

Cons – no R & R, poor soft skills in few employees, have to follow clients view even if it is wrong, weak managers

Advice to Senior Management – Continue working on growing teams

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

Former Employee – worked at SunGard

Pros – Good company to work with good projects.

Cons – nothing cons as such today.

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

Pros – Time flexibility for working. It has good organisation culture. Also, As it is product company, good exposure to functional domain

Cons – May not extract the best out of you.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

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

Pros – Domain, Technology, Work culture, Learning & Self Development

Cons – Lack of Onsite opportunities is the cons for people want to have overseas experience

Advice to Senior Management – Create some Onsite opportunities to employees, (For Experience Purpose). At least for Training purpose send them

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at SunGard full-time for less than a year

Pros – good salary
good working environment
good equipment

Cons – procedures not clear
managers not oriented to service improvement
security restrictions affecting production

Advice to Senior Management – provide clear answers
provide clear procedures

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

Former Employee – worked at SunGard full-time for less than a year

Pros – Company is good, salary is competitive and they fight for their employees when they try to leave.

Cons – but is slow on making decision at production level, no sense of criticality.

Advice to Senior Management – You need to be more energic with your engineers, way to soft.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at SunGard full-time

Pros – I enjoyed working here, very friendly work environment

Cons – i dont have anything in particular