HCLTech reviews

3.5

64% would recommend to a friend

(53,182 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 53,182 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 Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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1.0
Feb 11, 2021

Worst company I have ever worked

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Pros

Nothing good about this company

Cons

1. Management doesn't care a damn about the employees. 2. They kick employees out, with no concern on how someone who has served the company wholeheartedly, will survive without a job especially during a pandemic when it is hard to land a job. 3. Not a single penny layoff compensation. They don't bother to even talk to the employee and give any sort of counselling. Not sure if all Indian companies work the same way. At least my first experience with an India company has not been a happy one. Felt like laughing on seeing the 700Cr INR one time bonus announced by the CEO. it is a marketing gimmick. Just do the math. 700cr INR if divided equally among 150K employees, which will not be the case anyways. The people who grind it out at customer locations will get peanuts. 4. No proper planning for anything at the mid to senior level management. Just go out and sell bodies. Not sure how the top management works. Its another govt style of work. 5. Office space is crap. One needs to do only hot seating. Only a few perm seats. The depts tend not to book seats for their staff to avoid internal chargeback 6. Customers have a mindset when you say you are from HCL. Oh the indian co so should be cheap and wont deliver 7. Everything is crap abou t this co. So beware.

1.0
Jan 18, 2021

Worst Decision I ever made

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Pros

Nothing Good in this company

Cons

Management is pushy and micro manage everything. They will over commit to clients and then ask their employees to deliver everything on the same deadline Management decides to lay over resources even when the project is running and then request them to stay for more days to finish up the project Layovers in Covid times with bogus planning Cannot manage clients properly - clients keep pushing for extra work and they just accept adding burdens to their employees shoulders NON Employment Friendly company Worst decision I have ever made to join this company On notice period they will mentally torture you like anything to get deliverables out of you. They make individual contribution employees to feel helpless and if you challenge their planning then they dump all the work on you

1.0
Oct 28, 2020

Worst Indian Scammed Company

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Pros

I can't think of any. Those positive reviews you read are 110% their own employed scammer of their own race. Come in at your own risk if you are local.

Cons

1) HR are just a bunch of puppets. They does not know anything and are there for show, they are probably reading off scripts during your orientation. When you need them, they will take months to give you an answer and loop their whole entire village into email and still nobody will know what is going on or what they should do. So much for being HR, 2) They keep encouraging you to speak up during meeting but when they screw something up, they went missing in action. Your so called manager will not reply your email, will not reply you on messenger chats, will not even attend the meeting scheduled by them and leave you hanging there. And no explanation will be given to you . 9 our of 10 meetings are cancelled due to personal matters on a working day. 3) Contract - Beware when you sign your contract. DO NOT BELIEVE everything written there. They will tell you that you are entitled to certain company benefits and bonus but when the time comes, they will release email on how well the company is doing, even made it to forbes #30 position BUT cant pay you bonus. They will come and tell you crap like you dont hit certain quotas and in the first place you wont know what quotas and what is the target because meeting always cancelled and manager always missing in action. 4) Most company benefits even on their mobile application are only applicable to employees in India. Even credit cards application. So if you are not an employee from india, basically there is no point reading the benefit and perks page, none of those perks are for you. 5) Exit clearance - They will hold your pay for a month and your exit clearance will still not be cleared even when you returned your laptop and pass and everything. They will not explain to you why it is not cleared and your pay, i pray you get it eventually. 6) They will not participate in any of your projects but when you finally completed the work on your own, they will send a very professional looking email to demand credits to them. Mind you, they did not even attend the most basic discussion on what a particular project is about.

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