Low pay and no advancement - Anonymous employee HCLTech Employee Review

3.0
Sep 18, 2016
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Work/life balance (depending on client) Decent healthcare benefits Friendly managers Good entry level positions

Cons

Pay is very low Lack of career/skill growth No training prior to client placement No promotions or advancement Pretty easy to get a job here, but for a reason. Turn-over is high at a lot of client locations. The basic idea of HCL is, they recruit you and place you at a client location on day 1. From there it's sink or swim, on-boarding is done by another vendor, who usually has a full workload and no time to really train someone. To be successful, it's self learning and catching on quickly, as you'll be in production within 2 weeks. Clients can "terminate" you for any reason or whim and HCL doesn't reseat you (this has been the case from every person booted at my location). My advice, get a year of experience here then punch out for something better.

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Pros

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Cons

Where do I even begin.... HCl is a company that will overwork and underpay you and never give you a raise. I was lucky to get a very competitive wage when I started that I felt like I deserved and I fought for that. However even that process they bait and switched 3 times offering higher amounts over the phone and then going back on their word and offering less and less each time until they finally sent me an offer letter. The entire company is inept at communication at any and all levels. You will never get a raise and any time you have any kind of issue or need management/HR to do anything for you results in being ignored. Additionally they will add and add to your roles and responsibilities and ask for the impossible and unreasonable. They get contracts by underbidding other MSP's and then hiring as few people on site as possible and refer the rest of the work to overseas workers that will never do any work and always kick responsibility back to you. If you ever get lucky and they are forced to actually do their job they show that they clearly have no idea what they are doing or talking about. All around a terrible company to work for. If your job role is getting outsourced to HCL, fight for a good salary up front because they will never give you a raise and try to look for another place to work as soon as you can.

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