Pros
5 Great reasons to join infosys: 1. You are a FRESHER: If you have no work experience, this is a great place to get some skills, and work experience. If you are unsure about higher studies, this will definitely help you make up your mind. You will have a lot of fun during your initial training and will cherish those days forever. The fun end here. At the end of your training, you have a 50% chance of being placed in a stream that is totally differnet from what you were trainined in, and you will have to learn everything new on the job. Miscommunication at the higher levels is to blame. 2. You are a LATERAL: Congratulations if you are joining as a Team Lead or a Manager. Life is good. Team Leader: This is where you learn how to force people into submission - through threats and escalations. Its easy to become a manager within a year or two if you have no conscience. Manager: You attend meetings, conference calls, open spreadsheets and order people around. Subordinates make documents, which you review and sign with your name and pass on to the clients and hope that they like them. Anything goes wrong anywhere - blame a subordinate. He/she doesnt listen to you and has an attitude problem. 3 ONSITE Opportunities: These are limited... and you usually have to very servile to your managers to get one of these. Gifts, remembering birthdays, sweet talk.... thats the mantra. Performance is secondary, but just acceptable is enough. 4 Huge Campus: Yeah, a change from a concrete jungle. The walking and the distance can get on your nerves though. 5. Facilities: Gym, swimming pool and a choice of many food courts. Be a little cautious of what you eat though. I've seen flies, roaches in rice and veggies and even heard of coins and keys being found in soups and curries.
Cons
1. Poor quality of work: You never get to do what you like. You may be trained for 3 months on one stream (J2EE for instance), but will be expected to perform on another ( for instance .NET). This happens half the time. Around 20% of the time, you will be asked to do nonsense, like generate a report, make a document or something like that which has very little to do with your work. The client is always billed for the effort, and the value added is NIL. In projects such as AT&T, half the people are known to sit idle most of the time. Business Analysts are paid 5 times as much as engineers, but often sit and work with them and do the SAME thing that they do, even coding. The client is royally billed. 2 Bureaucracy: You are expected to kiss a##. No, really. The vibe you get when you go to talk to a senior manager is the same as what you would get if you went to get your drivers licence renewed (If you are from india you will understand). First, you must beg for permission to talk to them. When you DO get your chance, speak to them like you used to speak to your junior school principal or be damned! 3. Appraisals are meaningless: The feedback is literally fed from the back. Most of the time, it makes no sense, and asking for a clarification only makes things worse. People have been branded with having attidude problems because they asked for clarifications. 4. Promotions / Role Change: The appraisals dont matter much for your role change. There is an annual comparitive ranking survey seperate from your appraisal that decides everything. This happens behind closed doors so you have no clue what was spoken about you and you have no say in it. You are not allowed to ask for clarifications, let alone challenge the ratings. 5. False Promises and Frequent change of policies: Policies pertaining to promotions, career advancement, compensation etc change as frequently as the weather without any warning. Often unannounced! Rumor has it that a batch of junior engineers were denied the promotions they had been promised at the time of hiring. After a hunderd engineers submitted their resignations within a week, the management woke up to the fact that they could not train so many people in such a short a span of time and hurriedly approved their promotions.