SunGard Reviews

Current Employee – been working at SunGard full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Great opportunities to shape your career, lack of micro management, truly international business with great travel options

Cons – Internal structures lacking, no management time to support staff, communication failures throughout the business

Current Employee – been working at SunGard full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – Plenty of different technology to learn. Schedule gives plenty of days off.

Cons – No leadership qualities in management. No accountability. Projects are rarely fully thought through. A lot of micromanagement, does not promote a culture of creative thinking unless in a clique.

Very few written processes or impossible to find if they have been written. Feedback on how the process is working is not asked from the people that are required to follow it.

 Lower Management promotes Favoritism.

Advice to Senior Management – Promote cross-pollination of information between different departments. Change the mindset of pushing back tickets to the original assigning group to moving the ticket forward. It's all of our jobs to help the customer.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at SunGard full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Loved my colleagues, many exceptional engineers.

Cons – Lower management is petty and plays favorites while upper managements only concern is to make sure that the Blackstone group gets it's cut.
Soul crushing on-call
Good old boy mentality with director level management and above.
Aging architecture doesn't really align with it's wanting to be state of the art.

Advice to Senior Management – Spend the money to bring in the right tools and technology or sell the business to someone who will.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at SunGard full-time for less than a year

Pros – good jumping board to move up

Cons – horrible management, no career advancement

Advice to Senior Management – be smart about people management

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at SunGard full-time for more than 8 years

Pros – Was a good copany to work for, my product is closing on end of life, and there are no propects else where in the company for me, strange for such a large company

Cons – no inter company movement, or mechanism is in place, or, it is very hard to find

Advice to Senior Management – inter company movement, needs to be improved, I have heard for years that it is iproving, but I have not seen any improvement

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at SunGard full-time for more than a year

Pros – Culture in SunGard is very good

Cons – No downsides as of now

Advice to Senior Management – NA

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at SunGard full-time for more than 10 years

Pros – The job provided a wide variety of responsibilities, and opportunities

Cons – There is a ysfunctional management team.

Advice to Senior Management – Get some women in senior management positions. Listen to employees and allow them to make mistakes when trying something new and innovative.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at SunGard full-time

Pros – Ability to network and find opportunities in other companies.

Cons – Management, management, management. Inexperienced management with no concern for the growth of their employees. Stale management that are all very comfortable in their present positions, with no desire to learn, grow, or advance professionally. This unfortunately does not allow the people that they manage to grow and results in forcing the smarter, harder working, more motivated talent right out of the company. This is rampant in the Sungard VPM segment of the business. In addition, all focus is on billable hours. The core of the company is like a bad car dealership, caring only about sales and nothing else.

Advice to Senior Management – Change. A comprehensive change in management is desparately needed if there is any hope of being successful and competitive in the future.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at SunGard full-time for more than 10 years

Pros – SunGard, Recovery Services, is an exciting environment that allows technicians full freedom to learn and do things that most folks only dream about. Due to our hands on approach we learn more in 6 months across more enterprise equipment than most people do in production for years. The excitement of recovering clients during a disaster is like no other workplace - you know you're doing good by helping out companies and ultimately, people.

Cons – Management talks about caring and that people are valuable. Unfortunately that's only talk, it always, always, comes down to money for them.

Advice to Senior Management – Stop pretending that your employees are important. Either do it or be truthful about it. You'll get more respect as a result.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at SunGard full-time for less than a year

Pros – good salary
good working environment
good equipment

Cons – procedures not clear
managers not oriented to service improvement
security restrictions affecting production

Advice to Senior Management – provide clear answers
provide clear procedures

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company