L&T Sargent & Lundy Kolkata

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Skill development Company culture

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Work life balance Long working hours Increment

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In the particular office I worked in, there was diversity of talent and energy in people as it was a new setup. It was a bit mad due to so many different backgrounds, but it was easy to get more done from same number of people due to this vibrancy and have new ideas. We had an office leadership who made sincere attempts to bridge the old LnT 'compliance to seniors' culture with a new 'argumentative and vibrant juniors' world....Read More

Dislikes

L&T S&L had a lopsided compensation package - over 35% of my CTC was paid through post-paid shares (stocks), with a further 2 years service demanded after these shares were released. I joined Kolkata office with a long term perspective. But when their office was discontinued at Kolkata in little over 2 years and I chose not to takea transfer and instead left the job (i.e not a normal resignation), I was denied by employer of 1 year of shares and then further refund part of money for the year I had taken shares...because the Company enforced the "2 years of service after due date of shares" clause. This, after investing 11-12 hours every day (no OT) to set up the office as team lead and then HOD. L&T S&L did offer me a position with same pay at new location (which is a LOSS) but that was it. They qualify as bad employers to me for making employees face such severe financial loss for THEIR OWN inability to sustain an office at a location! Also, they had archaic 6 day weeks, no OT....Read More

Work Details

I was a a project Lead engineer for C&S discipline. I also worked as department head for latter part of my association while functioning as full time project lead engineer.

Work days: Monday to Saturday (Strict Timings)