Poor bonus payout system - Anonymous employee Fractal Employee Review

1.0
Apr 12, 2015
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Encouraging Work environment and few good mentors, projects

Cons

Most of the companies pay bonus in prorate basis. Fractal is one place you have to wait till March 31st or loose money. Terrific experience while handling finance dues. Finance team is very slow and not responsive. I had to follow more than 6-8 times to get things resolved. I could not leverage my ESOPs due to the communication gap.

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Fractal Response
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Hi there, Most companies have a cut off date when a person becomes eligible for variable pay. For Fractal, the day is March 31st. If someone hasn't resigned by that date, she/he is eligible for their variable pay. This policy is well known and is part of the employee handbook. Please let me know about your problem about exercising your ESOPs. If our lack of responsiveness was genuinely the issue, I will do what's possible so that you are able to exercise your vested options. Regards, Srikanth

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