My Dues not given - as per Policy - not company's choice - Senior Software Test Engineer Innodata Employee Review

1.0
Nov 11, 2017
Recommend
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Pros

1. very Relaxed way of working. 2. just talking about work can get you far here #planning. 3. Some really sweet people in HR.

Cons

1. very easy domain, not much logic based work only text manipulation. 2. Too much Micromanagement, people having logic won't be able to breathe in this statistics and mail inflated work environment. 3. Ownership dies a slow death because of pt2. 4. Can't handle clients very well, everybody runs helter skelter even on a clarification mail. 5. Due a misfortune in my very unstable life, my without telling me in Advance(sarcasm) got terminally ill, I couldn't serve the 2 months notice, so the management agreed for 1 month notice after providing proofs, begging and finally threatening to abscond in 15 days(I OfCourse had a backup) on the words of my management that I should get my due. My Mistake i believed it, and got back to giving KT. - None of my good referrals were selected on some stupid NASA level pretexts, they wanted a Know-It-All guy with years of experience in all tools, but who wasn't smart enough, at a salary of 2 year old, I still made a person ready enough to carry on the task's, I had 'dependancies' on. - After i leave after 1st month of Notice, when I get an FNF, I get this nice amount of 600 rs as a payment of my service on the Notice Period. - After So Many Mails thinking that these people might have made a mistake, they revert back saying it as per policy for not serving official notice period, I also get a mail saying they did not appreciate my language, nobody gave a 'language when somebody take away your dues' course. - I can't do much as all my resources is currently being used to take care of my father. - just making other's aware of this so as they can tell thier loved ones to inform them in advance for any kind of emergency, as this company's policy has been written by the almighty himself, other's are just there to log time. 6. If my lead had things his way in this world, then he would make doctor's do lawyering and vice versa so as clear their dependencies.so obsessed with that thing we would meetings for that when no other topics present. 7. constantly given the 'it will reflect on your march appraisals threat'(ofcourse not as a threat). 8. management doesn't think a second before making women stay late, no compensation of-course, reimbursement are like congress's promises. 9. my pt3 in Pros gets negated because of my point in Cons. 10. Most people staying here long are due to a) they have gotten cozy. b) are not relevant in outside world. 11. No Onsite. 12. Lack of New Projects, most of people being handed pink slips already.

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