Good company with serious "cancer" problem - Anonymous employee HCLTech Employee Review

3.0
Jun 5, 2015
Anonymous employee
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Pros

People seem to really try to keep you working when projects end. Got over 4 months of "bench". Pay was a career best...so far. SOME super competent H1B talent that knew how to get things done.

Cons

1/3 super competent, 1/3 utterly incompetent (100% of HR), and 1/3 semi-competent but highly political back stabbers, who are troublemakers for the competent employees. Strong tendency for the Indians to make raging mistakes, then blame the Americans, circle the wagons to do so. Inflexible demands to relocate, rather than embrace telecommuting (one of their VPs wrote about telecommuting, these lower directors didn't get the memo). Utterly useless and incompetent HR, back office, Help Desk. Their reputation of being "only" a cheap Indian outsourcing company is growing. Company still has a scattered startup mentality that is not scalable to their Billion-dollar earnings. To get anything done you have to cc the persons manager, and then THEIR manager typically. High degree of "is not my job" among the indians, zero clear policy of how to get another account while on bench - was told "sit and wait" a LOT.

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5.0
Mar 16, 2026
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Pros

Supportive team environment Great opportunity to learn and grow Collaborative culture Interesting and challenging projects Flexible work environment

Cons

Some processes could be more organized as the company continues to grow. Communication between teams can sometimes be improved.

2.0
Jul 8, 2026
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Pros

It is a job that pays you money

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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