Belzabar Software Design reviews

b. Like previously quoted by HR "Timings are quite flexible. You can chose to come as early as you wish, but not later than 10am. Most companies start work before 10am, and employees have to come at that time, come what may. At Belzabar, employees enjoy the benefit of coming late on 2 days to address personal work (which is 10% of a working month!). There are additional exceptions when people work late or have emergencies like doctors visit etc. " TRUTH :- The IT professionals here are treated like labours and not professionals. Compared to big companies, most of them have flexible timings except for ones in which either there is a client requirement or some trainings conducted. As said "employees enjoy the benefit of coming late on 2 days to address personal work", AFTER WHICH there is a salary deduction of 1% of monthly pay per day (even if you are late by a minute). Well I had heard of it in schools, that you will be punished on coming late, I did not know the management here has still not grown up. c. As the HR professional says "Leaves: Most companies forbid employees from taking leaves during the probation period. However, at Belzabar we understand emergencies can come up anytime, and employees can take leaves from the time they join the organization. Also, 26 days of leaves in a year is definitely at par (if not better) than the industry norm". TRUTH :- Well, the management here has never been to good big brand companies (that is the reason why they have never crossed more than 100 employees in good 11 years. For which they give a reason that we hire people who work on multiple projects, but the truth is they torture their employees so much that hardly any good employee stays there for more than 2 years), almost every company gives leaves in probation and besides the so called 26 leaves (out of which in the first year, you are given no earned leaves, so left with only 14, that too if you join in january), there are only 8 COMPANY leaves (you have to attend office during many festivals), 1 of which is always reserved and given as per management's discretion. No unpaid leaves are allowed for long duration unless you exhaust all your leaves first. Its even worse when they have work from clients, they can ask you to work even if you are in the middle of a holiday/leave or lunch/dinner & if by any chance you are not available, an employee is sent to your residence to make sure you get available at any hour they want you to and if you get frustrated and say no, then even better is waiting for you, your appraisal will get affected FOR SURE. d. Interest free loans for medical purposes, buying laptops, and certain other situations. TRUTH :- The interest free loans are given to buy laptops or other stuff along with which the policies are amended accordingly. So, if you say you want laptop for an official purpose, then you will be said yes for the loan but before that a new policy of not using laptop for official purposes will be made. (Policies are made on the fly and in accordance to management's convenience, not even once are employees taken into consideration while doing the same). The list is long and I could go on and on about the employee unfriendly policies. 4. Your CTC may seem to be a good figure but beware, there is a performance bonus, which is not paid full and they give totally illogical reasons for doing the same (as it is variable). The appraisals here are even worse. They increment like 5k to max 10k per month no matter how good you have performed. 5. The language used to talk to you is only professional till the time of interviews, but after joining, the management may use threatening tone as and when it pleases them or may even insult you at times by using abusive language and insulting phrases. They do not trust their employees at all and probably instead of running an IT company they can join some spy agency, as they have put cameras in each and every room and probably plan to put it on everybody's desk in near future. 6. Their BEST TARGETS are INTERNS. They hire interns from good colleges, give them a misleading view of the company by taking them to good places for parties and by giving them complex project work.Also, they spend more on them and almost all interns are given PPO's because being from good college their technical level and aptitude level is far above what is required for company's projects. 7. The company had good culture some years ago but now its a complete mess. Join it only if you want to ruin your career and increase the level of frustration in your life.