SunGard Reviews

Current Employee – been working at SunGard

Pros – international company which is known all over the world

Cons – training process is not good at all

Advice to Senior Management – work on training and employee packages

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

Pros – SunGard, Recovery Services, is an exciting environment that allows technicians full freedom to learn and do things that most folks only dream about. Due to our hands on approach we learn more in 6 months across more enterprise equipment than most people do in production for years. The excitement of recovering clients during a disaster is like no other workplace - you know you're doing good by helping out companies and ultimately, people.

Cons – Management talks about caring and that people are valuable. Unfortunately that's only talk, it always, always, comes down to money for them.

Advice to Senior Management – Stop pretending that your employees are important. Either do it or be truthful about it. You'll get more respect as a result.

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

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

Pros – Seem to explore new ideas and technologies which allow growth for the company. They seem like a family oriented company, when it is in there best interest. Pretty fair when it comes to time off and working from home.

Cons – You just never know when you are going to get laid off as they have been going through a rough time. Seems like a clear cut line in the sand with respect to the old product and new product. Seems like two groups within Sungard trying to achieve the same goal. No unity. Lots of miscommunication and people just don't share responsibilities.

Advice to Senior Management – Just tell the truth and don't beat around the bush. You would gain more of our respect if you just told us how it is.

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 – Great opportunities to shape your career, lack of micro management, truly international business with great travel options

Cons – Internal structures lacking, no management time to support staff, communication failures throughout the business

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

Pros – Good work life balance
good projects

Cons – not found any as of now

Advice to Senior Management – retain talent and increase onsite opportunities

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.
salary is Decent.
Flexi timing.

Cons – No Forecast for the next year.
Hire and fire policy.
No Bench concept.
not a safe place to work

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at SunGard full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – Plenty of different technology to learn. Schedule gives plenty of days off.

Cons – No leadership qualities in management. No accountability. Projects are rarely fully thought through. A lot of micromanagement, does not promote a culture of creative thinking unless in a clique.

Very few written processes or impossible to find if they have been written. Feedback on how the process is working is not asked from the people that are required to follow it.

 Lower Management promotes Favoritism.

Advice to Senior Management – Promote cross-pollination of information between different departments. Change the mindset of pushing back tickets to the original assigning group to moving the ticket forward. It's all of our jobs to help the customer.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

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

Pros – Flexi timings. Good Work-Life balance

Cons – Career opprortunities are limited for employees

Advice to Senior Management – Do not run it as a Service organisation

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend