Vantaggi
Team members will bond over they distaste for cooperate management. Your India based managers will never be present since they are always "busy" with other things.
Svantaggi
Continuously, missed dates when billing was required by customers, causing loss of contract. Payed employees bellow market value. Skipped over employees for bonus and promotion opportunities. Continuously, attempted to hide NDA agreement and none compete clauses in other non-related documentation without specifying that it was there (this is not legal). Attempted to encourage team leads to force employees to work through there vacation. Expected hourly employees to work extra (overtime) hours and not receive over time pay (ie. work 50hrs receive 40hrs pay), even though there contracts had overtime pay listed as a "benefit". Had multiple occurrences were benefits that were agreed upon at hire and were signed into the employees contract, were then taken away because "the employees in other countries don't have these benefits so why should you". These "benefits" that were either removed or were drastically reduced included Vacation Time, Sick time, Company bonuses, yearly performance raises, etc. The team I was one was highly regarded by our customers and was consistently profitable. However, due to the way HCL specifically runs its company both the members of my team and everyone of the customers we were supporting no longer associate or work with HCL.