Very bad choice of a company for a java developer - Recensione dipendente - Software Developer presso Netcracker Technology

1,0
28 mag 2017
Consiglia
Gradimento del CEO
Pronostico commerciale

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Salary is credited duly every month end. Free coffee, tea and milk in a small paper cup. Glassdoor is not blocked .

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This company suits neither for a fresher nor an experienced java developer. I'll tell the reasons. 1. If you are hired into the firm from non-software backgrounds in engineering, such as electronics, electrical, etc, you will have a tough time getting adjusted to. They initially hire you for your c/c++ skills, but expect to work in java. For that, they give something called 'training', which is nothing but waste of time. What happens here is : the trainer writes a program on his laptop, you see it from the projector, copy it into your system, execute it , if it runs successfully, Lo! you have completed the day's training ! The rest all associated frameworks like spring, gwt, etc have to be learnt by ourselves by browsing the net. So here training serves no purpose. 2. After your training is over, you will be inducted into a project, months later. But again with an interview. The manager will ask non-answerable questions like 'why you were sitting simply months after the training was over ?', 'you had training, but you seem to be less knowledgeable on java xyz ?', etc. Man, too many interviews here to pass over every stage in the company, even if your job is confirmed. 3. They expect you to start working on the project, using their 'NC Framework'. But never an introduction is given on what the project is, it details, the current status, work done till now, where are we to start from , what is this framework, how it is works, etc. Immediately they start assigning tasks, with due dates too. You are hellbound on what to do, Absolutely no guidance, no mentorship, no tutorial, no training, no documentation on the kind of work you generally do here. You have to literally beg other senior developers who know a little to explain what is going on. They will be busy and you have to jump from one guy to the other. At last helpless, you approach the manager and explain him the situation, he'll respond 'You have to EXPLORE and learn by yourself'. This 'explore' thing doesn't work as simple. It is like telling someone to explain the relation between the characters of a movie, who has started watching it from the second half. 4. Very less java work. All job is done by the NC Framework. Rather than using it to accomplish your task, 95 % of your time will be devoted to 'exploring', analysing and inferring how the framework works, through trial and error, and fixing bugs in the framework itself ! Now, this framework is of nil value once you exit the company, because it is not generic. Even if you have some java work, that will be just editing huge classes written by someone else, before you figure out what the class is supposed to do, where you should introduce your small fix, understand the dependent sea of classes, your due date will be over. We are not supposed to write javadoc too ! 4. Next thing is they will throw assignment tickets on your head like garbage. Never an estimation of the employee's capability and experience is gauged before giving the work. A fresher who is just into the project will be given (thrown) a complicated piece of work and blamed for not accomplishing it properly. You can join this company if you are able to tolerate all above mentioned in the name of 'learning and experience'.

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5,0
31 ott 2024
Consiglia
Gradimento del CEO
Pronostico commerciale

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The environment around and with you will help you grow

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4,0
8 dic 2025
Consiglia
Gradimento del CEO
Pronostico commerciale

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Some historical context to start with. NetCracker was built by some of the brightest graduates of its time. It used to be an extremely successful scale-up because of a combination of two factors: 1. The right moment and place: a wealthy and fast-growing telco industry needed a fresh start in their systems to roll out the infrastructure the world is using today. 2. A business model based on consultancy-style principles: hire talented graduates and unsettled perfectionists, pay them pennies, work them to death, and make a reasonable margin because of that. It worked really well. And then they lost it all due to classic leadership failures and star syndrome. Key reasons to choose NetCracker: You will meet some of the most brilliant people here and make friends for life. You will learn how to make impossible things possible, and you will learn rigorous delivery frameworks executed at a level very few companies and people in the world can match. You will also learn team-based brainstorming of subtle and bold political maneuvering. And many other advanced skills you will probably never need anywhere else. This company truly values outcomes and those who can deliver. Their survival depends on execution, so high achievers have always been valued and quickly promoted. However...

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Number one bad thing you need to know (beyond working unreasonable hours for decades and learning non-transferable skills): There is a caste system. If you are 'delivery', you will never be admitted into the higher caste of western office decision makers, nor will you ever be equally paid. They will work you to death, promote you into even more impossible missions, but will never consider you at the same level, despite you owning the entire delivery process (revenue generation!) and managing teams of hundreds of people. NC operate in a highly chaotic and politically heavy environments of impossible transformation programs. They frequently commit to delivering programs that cannot be delivered, so they burn their high achievers to exhaustion and then praise a caste of politically savvy, non-tech 'managers' whose main role is not delivery but navigating the heavy corporate games of dinosaur-like or inertias telcos without any measurable outcomes. NC charge clients for software implementation, they pay you like you are doing some leisure product development, but in reality, company and tech teams at the forefront are driving painful full-scale transformations for which western-world consultants would charge $ thousands per hour. Ever heard of leadership skills? Forget about it. The entire leadership vertical has none, and no intention to develop any. (On the senior management level think of micromanagement, lack of EQ, team dysfunctions, lack of transparency, favoritism and all other toxic traits of poor leadership). Heard of things like QBRs, strategy planning, OKRs, etc.? Non-existent. Real program management or portfolio management? Non-existent. The entire workforce outside of Boston is treated like a body shop. No transparency of the company strategy. It’s both: there is no comprehensive strategy planning in place and a 'none of your business' attitude. The so-called department managers also have zero general management skills. No understanding of how to direct, plan, or execute strategy. And 90% of them don’t possess even basic people-management skills.

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