Pluspunten
First, let me give the brief topology of the company, so you know, how it feels when you land in one on their part This Company is has two major division, North-gate (which is the parent company to this company) projects, and Customer Project (CP). North-gate has major divisions like Northgate Information Service (cater to normal projects) and NPS (Northgate Public Service), they have products which cater mostly UK local government and few else. If you land up here, you will get is maintenance work for projects, long sprints, fairly work pressure, you would enjoy most of the company fun and frolic events, but no advance technologies, boring monotonous repeating work. Customer project are the Rave direct engagement, which mean, Rave has to compete with market. There are most tight deadlines, high pressure fix bid project where you in short, screwed up, whichever the role you are playing in the project. (Developer, Senior Developer, Lead, Project Manager, BA, Tester, Architect, etc.) - Flexible time, just complete 8.5 hrs daily (Official), 6 Hrs (Unofficial) and that's it. - Fun and Frolic, just like many other IT companies, HR organize good amount of events, where you can enjoy if not screwed by the project - Location, this is subjective, it located at Lower Parel, which is in downtown of Mumbai. If you live near downtown, great for you! Very few IT companies in Mumbai reside in downtown. If you live in elsewhere in suburbs, hard luck! - Short term onsite opportunity: Northgate has policy, where they send employee to uk (no, us or else, as they deal with only uk) for 15-45 days. Even CP projects have few opportunities, but then, you need to butter senior manager to get one. Mostly, you will get accommodation by company, and you earn 35 pounds per deem. - Leaves: Compare to most IT companies, where you get 21-24 leaves per year, here you get 30 (24 PL + 6 CL) - Freedom: One part of being small, is there aren’t too many policies. You don’t have to wear tag to office, your internet is mostly unrestrictive, you can open facebook, twitter, youtube, etc. Trust me, most big IT companies have too restrictive internet policy, and only few sites can be opened. But, this freedom has other side of coin too, read cons.
Minpunten
Hmm, where do I start? In nutshell, they have start-up culture, that means, lot of things are not organize. - Skewed System: They don’t have leave management system, there project management and service ticket management app are skewed, and don’t work the way they should - Small Office, Inadequate infrastructure: Currently, company is stuffing up the employees, and office is too small for it. Most of the new joinee don’t have permanent desk, they are given laptop and have to sit where ever, they get place. Canteen is too small to accommodate all. You never get seat in peak time, lot of waiting, you got it. Office layout is not spacious, like other IT majors, here you are line up one and other like BPO, and office building is neither great. It nowhere compare to Big CMMi 5 swanky office, where you have modern architecture, auto-lift, post interiors, etc (here, lift has complete 50 years and hardly working). - Project not organise: I work for a projects, and that total chaos. No requirement documentation, no process, lots of re-work, this cause frustration, late sitting, Saturday and Sunday working. Project manager aren’t competent and don’t know how to handle the team and time. Most of the decisions are ad-hoc, one day to this, another day do that. This just harm the work and code quality, but your careers too, as you are never focused. You are happy at work, when you achieve work satisfaction, that you achieve something with good quality. This may never happen here - Senior Management: Don’t have clued where to go, total disoriented with ground realities. Just had that position because they stick longer with company rather than they are competent for that position - HR Policies: They make you sign the bond of one year or one lac rupees, when you join the company. If you happen to get short-term 15 days onsite, you need to sign another 9 months bond, else, return ticket fare, visa cost plus onsite accommodation cost before exiting the company. 3 months notice period. Rest is standard HR policy, which most company have. - Limited Parking: If you are planning to bring motorcycle or car to office, hold on, they have limited parking in-premises, and you need to park on road with Pay and Park. Costly affair.