SunGard Reviews

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

Pros – - The people I worked with on a daily basis were great.
- Process and Procedures were well documented and clear. Human Resources "stuff" was always easy to take care of.
- Benefits and PTO are very good.

Cons – - Management (middle and senior level) cannot see past themselves. I am not sure if this "closed minded" philosophy is dictated from the Executive Team, but it exist across multiple segments.
-Failure to reward employees with a pay raise. In my 5 years, never received more then a cost of living raise

Advice to Senior Management – Reconsider the philosophy for performance reviews. The current reviews were a joke and provide zero road map for development.

No, I would not 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

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

Pros – smart and intelligent people, excellent experience obtainied in field

Cons – Lack of strategic direction, not concerned about clients, no backing from senior management

Advice to Senior Management – Allow people to do their jobs, pay market salaries for management, stop laying off the best talent

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

Current Employee – been working at SunGard full-time for more than 10 years

Pros – Through the downturn in the economy had my best years in earnings. Ability to work in a flexible wfh and office environment. Opportunity to work with people with significantly different experiences to help me grow my skills. Ability to contribute across business lines like a small company while still working for a big company

Cons – takes a long time to remove bad managers, Finance/accounting has too much say/internal systems are challenging to work with and need to be improved to facilitate sales

Advice to Senior Management – Value customer and contact relationships more then geographic lines, show your top performers in revenue you value them as much as the performers who out perform quota by the percentage over quota, improve marketing efforts to return our brand value

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

Former Employee – worked at SunGard as an intern for less than a year

Pros – You have a ton of free time, and it seems like the management doesn't really care what you do

Cons – You don't do any substantive work

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

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

Pros – nice pay, onsite team mates are technically good and they understand and respect indian colleagues, good work culture, work life balance, decent annual salary hikes, flat organization, bonus payout is good,

Cons – less onsite opportunities, have to work on same product for years,

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

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

Pros – Good work culture, help develop your skills, good work life balance, good managers

Cons – sometimes too much interference with work

Advice to Senior Management – trust your employees, do not micro manage

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at SunGard full-time for more than 10 years

Pros – Great facilities and mostly very astute people. Good vision and energy to achieve. Truly market leading as a non manufacturer specific supplier. Multiple value streams and routes to market.
UK wide coverage and work placement options.

Cons – US employment legislation is very different to the EU. Unfortunately, the senior US management do not understand the implications.
Putting revenue before customer requirements is a dangerous practice.

Advice to Senior Management – Give more genuine autonomy to non US locations.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

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

Pros – Good work/life balance due to flexible work hours

Cons – No opportunities for new things/learning

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

Former Employee – worked at SunGard full-time

Pros – Some large clients. Not many positives at SunGard.

Cons – Terrible sales compensation plan, which includes multiple low caps on commissions, low commissions, and some very low commissions.

Management is all politics, no vision or leadership.

SunGard is really a cobbled together group of companies, that is not well integrated.

A strong "yes man" culture stiffles creativity and productivity.

Advice to Senior Management – Needs to be replaced, company restructured.

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