It just gets worse - Anonymous employee HCLTech Employee Review

1.0
Nov 8, 2015
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Job security as they usually won't even fire morons that are being overpaid that know little to nothing ,and cause outages due to their incompetence.

Cons

Having one HR rep for thousands of employees. Only way to get anything taken care of is to complain to the HR bosses boss. In America will pay L1 Indians more than they willing to pay their L3+ Admins. No work life balance what so ever as you will get called all hours of any day for something that could wait till the next business day. They will want you to drop everything you are doing for some report they suddenly want, and then complain when other work you had to drop for it was not done. Have gone through so much turn over in management. Lied to by management on pay issues. Have managers that force you to work OT, and then tell you that you cannot enter the OT on timesheet. Instead they tell you to take "comp time". If you have any issues good luck as most the people who can fix issues are in India, and it will take months to get simple things resolved. Vacation time is pitiful. 10 days a year no matter how long you been with company. Good luck taking vacation days without being called and expected to work during it too. If you are lucky enough to get a raise it won't be much. Even top performing employees get screwed over since all reviews are done on a bell curve.

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Cons

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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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