Ventajas
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Desventajas
During interview discussions there were a lot of reference to cloud and other niche technologies to choosing technologies that you can work on, challenging problems to solve, onsite opportunities and eventual settlement in a foreign land, etc., only to excite new joiners and tempt them join the company. One understands the reality during the course of everyday work life. It does not take any sane person very long to realise most of what was said during interview were true lies. Trust me; you will never go atleast a hundred miles anywhere near cloud technology during your day-to-day work. Every single piece of work is pure pain in the wrong place. You will spend half of your career here doing nothing but bug fixing. Some take weeks to get fixed. They work mostly on technologies which have no or very little relevance in the outside world. Other companies have developed similar technologies and platforms which are much more robust, stable and versatile and offer them to clients at a fraction of the cost. There are two apocryphally renowned pillars who have to be pleased at all times - if you don’t want yourself in danger. Since these two musketeers have a degree of patronage with the investors they are invulnerable to any action. A majority of the employees who have left the organisation is due to these legends. In spite of the story being known to investors, no action or initiative is ever taken. Most of the knowledgeable lot have quit the organisation already. You may still find some people who are technically reasonable and good, but they are either too acclimatized to the environment or earn too much to move out. Higher management lacks the ability and aptitude to make impartial business decisions.