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Updated May 17, 2013
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79% Approve of the CEO

Syntel President, CEO, and Director Prashant Ranade

Prashant Ranade

(149 ratings)

50% of employees recommend this company to a friend
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Chennai

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

Pros Early onsite opportunity
Good start for freshers
Nice campus
CEO Connect

Cons Horrible appraisal process
Salary & perks are so pathetic that they cant say they are paid by MNC
bad food courts & toooo costly
If u r manager likes, no matter what u'll survive

Advice to Senior Management Check for the Attrition in AP level, upper management have different vision & views, but middle management is pathetic, only politics & they behave like it is their dad's company... high time to rewrite the polices

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

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Former Employee – worked at Syntel

ProsGood infrastructure and work life balance .

ConsPoor and lazy management.
Seldom listen to employees.
Just believes in freshers to finish the project.

Advice to Senior ManagementDon't throw experienced people out of company just for cost cutting reasons.
Don't believe that every work can be done with freshers alone.
Remember LEGACY comes from experience and it will give success and growth to the company.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

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Former Employee – worked at Syntel

Proscan work on cross domains

Consno hierarchy, Project Managers, Project leads work as tester

Advice to Senior ManagementGrow up

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

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Current Employee – been working at Syntel

ProsLess salary plz improve it

ConsOnsite is good one can get it fast

Advice to Senior ManagementPls increase the salaries at offshore.

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Mumbai

Former Employee – worked at Syntel full-time for more than 7 years

Prossyntel being a small firm privdes lot of opportunities to take up responsibilities, you get thrown into the deep end of the pool often and made to swim to survive

ConsSyntel still is a company run with an old mindset. meritocracy is not valued as much a seniority. Also, syntel seems to be a low cost competitor and hence refrains from investing in talent which is a must for a company that has been around for as long as Infosys has.

Advice to Senior Managementvalue meritocracy, develop talent, retain employees and encourage them to go beyond their current limits

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

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Mumbai

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

ProsGood opportunity to learn and grow early in the career. Early opportunity to work on challenging projects and areas. Some flexibility in changing domains and projects

ConsCompensation below the industry standards, processes and policies not well defined and laid out properly, management focus on billing only

Advice to Senior ManagementFocus on long term growth rather than looking at the short term benefits, more focus on employee development and growth, compensate the employees as per industry standards, treat employees as a human rather than just a resource

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

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Mumbai

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

Prosits a MNC company ,its a best option to make good career

ConsGood company
best values
good place to work

Advice to Senior ManagementNo comments.

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

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Mumbai

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

ProsGood for fresher , good opportunity to learn things frm the scratch . amex is the mail client . they are safe bate

Conssome of the managers are not good.

Advice to Senior Managementneed to focus on the techincal trannings to the employees.

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

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Pune

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

ProsYou get good onsite opportunities.
Decent Salary.

ConsIts all about just Billing
Management needs to understand the a Employee is also a Person , a Human not just a "Resource"

Advice to Senior ManagementTreat the lower level with Respect.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

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Pune

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

Prosgood exposure to fresher for 2-3 years. good onsite opportunity.

ConsNot structured company. Bad process.

Advice to Senior ManagementNeed good HR policy.

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

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