UST reviews

- To start with I call it a hub of dirty politics. It's culture is not corporate but more like a government offices - Inefficient and incompitent managers as most of the managers have been working here for ages. - Never ever join this company if you are not from Kerala..!!! English is not the business language here. People don't discuss at least the requirements in English..!! You will have a hard time if you are not from Kerala. - Poor hike and fake assurances are given to candidates who are really good at work. You will get good hike only if you are your manager's pet and provided you are from Kerala only..!! - A candidate with very excellent communication skills are given lowest score in communication assessment but a candidate from Kerala is given the highest score in the same even though he/she is bad/hopeless in communication.This is the new way of filtering the candidates here for VISA processing..!! They make sure that a non keralite will never get the prerequisite score so that their visa never gets processed..!! - They don't have any new customers,please think before you join as there are loads of opportunities to be on the bench with no work..!! - People are hired in huge numbers and will later sit on bench, if you don't get any projects you ll be out soon...!! - No processes are followed in any of the projects. One should randomly pick up any work and complete with minimal info given. - If you are a developer I am sure you will end doing only maintenance job of any project. Nothing new to learn. If you happen to develop something you will have to do it with no background on anything. You will never find any documentation on any of the projects ever...!!! - If you are Business Analyst this is the best company to stick on to, because one need not document any requirements at all just communicate over the call about requirements. Zero documentation with good talking (not communicating) skills required to do the job.

Bench Time - Accept they project they give else put papers in 45 days(Proof: It came in newspapers as well) Performance Grading - Limited grades to each account so even if you are well performing you wont get good Grades, it will go to some pet's only. Appraisals - It is supposed to happen by Feb so that hike can be given in April sal but it will happen only in April or May so hike will be in Sept or Oct Hike - Its a MNC so nothing much, usual 10-15% but wont get soon, it will take 5-6 months. Variable pay - its calculated based on a formula, your performance x account performance x companies performance. Anytime you see the internal office mails or events of UST you will notice them bragging about companies they acquired, cricket/football/awards shows they sponsored, new clients, new hiring and a whopping growth of 50-80% each year in terms of revenue but when it comes to giving hike or variable pay company is under loss. So even if your grade is good still your variable pay wont be full. Variable Payout - It is supposed to be given in March but dont make any plans depending on it. coz in the last week they will come n say, boss, we wont be giving it this month n dont know when we will give it also. You will get it eventually after 3-4 motths Promotion n Onsite - If you are Manager's pet you will get it in 6months itself else they will show policy saying you have to spend two years to become eligible for it. Basically forget about these things. Transfer - According to their statistics, if over 75% of the employees quits in less than 6 months if the employee goes to any place other than Kochi n TVM. so you are stuck in TVM or Kochi only. If you want transfer, quit company Language - Even in meetings(internal/onsite) they will use Malayalam. It doesnt matter if there are people who dont understand Malayalam. So if you dont know Malayalam you will feel its better to go for lunch n tea breaks alone coz they will never speak something that you will understand. Politics - This is Very High, as high as the Mount Everest. They will use you a scapegoat to fill their ego's. Beware of this. Policy Changes - They will just notify you that things have changed, wont ask you. Some of them were, no cellphones, no internet, no office mails/ chat messenger, Delay in Variable pays/ salary, and everything that is needed for the employee.