Syntel Reviews

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

Pros – Good Onsite Oppurtunities and work environment

Cons – Every company as some, salary a main concern

Advice to Senior Management – focus more on employee as a human not only resource

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

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

Pros – Early onsite opportunity
Good start for freshers
Nice campus
CEO Connect

Cons – Horrible appraisal process
Salary & perks are so pathetic that they cant say they are paid by MNC
bad food courts & toooo costly
If u r manager likes, no matter what u'll survive

Advice to Senior Management – Check for the Attrition in AP level, upper management have different vision & views, but middle management is pathetic, only politics & they behave like it is their dad's company... high time to rewrite the polices

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

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

Pros – Some of Syntel`s client are large Multinationals so employees get good exposure to the market.

Cons – Syntel is just another body shopping company so there is not much to learn and grow technically. Management is poor and treat developers as construction workers.

Advice to Senior Management – Give respect to techies. Don`t expect developers to do sales job. Hire business students sales.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

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

Pros – Nothing, None, Zero, Nil, Null

Cons – 1. Horrible offshore team, 4 fresher’s & 1 experienced guy.
2. They don’t keep up the promise on GC processing, Syntel never ever going to do GC processing for their employees
3. Director’s & Account managers are dumb, they don’t have any clue on client’s business.
4. If you work hard and deliver the project then management doesn’t have time to appreciate your work, but when if there are any little delay’s on project then they will escalate it to higher level & keep lot of pressure on employees
5. No professionalism while dealing with clients, still got struck in Indian vegetable bargaining business.
6. Less pay with minimal benefits, a janitor can earn more than a project lead. Less than 2% hike, even if you work your ass off nights & weekends around the year

Advice to Senior Management – Give some respect to employees & their families

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Syntel

Pros – Good infrastructure and work life balance .

Cons – Poor and lazy management.
Seldom listen to employees.
Just believes in freshers to finish the project.

Advice to Senior Management – Don't throw experienced people out of company just for cost cutting reasons.
Don't believe that every work can be done with freshers alone.
Remember LEGACY comes from experience and it will give success and growth to the company.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Syntel

Pros – can work on cross domains

Cons – no hierarchy, Project Managers, Project leads work as tester

Advice to Senior Management – Grow up

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Syntel

Pros – Less salary plz improve it

Cons – Onsite is good one can get it fast

Advice to Senior Management – Pls increase the salaries at offshore.

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

Pros – syntel being a small firm privdes lot of opportunities to take up responsibilities, you get thrown into the deep end of the pool often and made to swim to survive

Cons – Syntel still is a company run with an old mindset. meritocracy is not valued as much a seniority. Also, syntel seems to be a low cost competitor and hence refrains from investing in talent which is a must for a company that has been around for as long as Infosys has.

Advice to Senior Management – value meritocracy, develop talent, retain employees and encourage them to go beyond their current limits

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

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

Pros – Good opportunity to learn and grow early in the career. Early opportunity to work on challenging projects and areas. Some flexibility in changing domains and projects

Cons – Compensation below the industry standards, processes and policies not well defined and laid out properly, management focus on billing only

Advice to Senior Management – Focus on long term growth rather than looking at the short term benefits, more focus on employee development and growth, compensate the employees as per industry standards, treat employees as a human rather than just a resource

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Syntel full-time

Pros – Provides plenty opportunity to improve employees' skills especially in the technology field.
Very professional in dealings with clients.
Recognizes good work on employees who excel.
Good communication vehicles across the company.

Cons – Seems like you can only move up the corporate ladder if you are Indian, the company being an Indian company.

Advice to Senior Management – For the American company, provide equal opportunity for growth within the company.

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