HCLTech reviews

3.5

64% would recommend to a friend

(53,214 total reviews)
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C. Vijayakumar

75% approve of CEO

67% positive business outlook

HCLTech has an employee rating of 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 53,214 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The HCLTech employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the IT (Information Technology) industry (3.9 stars).

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1.0
Jul 20, 2023

N/A

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Pros

There was nothing outstanding to report.

Cons

You deal with an Indian company that has come to the UK to try and penetrate the market. The people you communicate with are based in India. Their command of the English language is such that there are constant communication difficulties with most PLUS a different culture and work mentality which are off-putting in an annoying sense. When you have an issue or question, you can only email some Indian manager with an unfamiliar name - a person you have never met in your life. In fact you deal with such people most of the time. And you do not get a response to your emails. A complicated web based system to enter your timesheet or any other necessities like holiday. Talking about holidays, you get only 20 days annual leave plus UK bank holidays. But you have to reserve five of these days for the Christmas shutdown. Luckily I was dealing directly with some UK managers with an Englsiih workplace mindset. But they promised me it was a permanent position. But after some weeks I was suddenly approached by other managers about some positions. I checked with my second reporting line manager (UK one) who said that my position had become redundant as they had to transfer the salary to someone else in a different client office. Suddenly my first line manager and colleagues stopped speaking to me!

1.0
Jun 13, 2023

Obvious Favoritism

Recommend
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Pros

Salary is not bad for the jobscope Work is easy Almost no OT

Cons

Obvious Favoritism to own people No career advancement No salary increment

1.0
Apr 27, 2023
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Prevailing Wages, remote work, floating holidays (8)

Cons

Company is too siloed, you can not get timely responses from anyone outside of your immediate practice. Management does not provide a mentoring atmosphere, more of a combative and berating environment. A lot of carrots are dangled in front of people and then they go on ignored, like it never happened. Annual Bonuses are too subjective and often pay raises do not occur or less than COLA. If you have a higher education and can work with a lot of autonomy, you’ll either sink or swim. If you’re not in a Tech position, you can forget about having a meaningful work environment. Time off benefits are limited to 10 days a year regardless to tenure and the company observes an annual power down which eats 5 of your days off. If you’re out sick you are expected to burn your PTO. For a company worth over $12B a year, they are not very rewarding for peoples hard work.

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