SBS Senior Software Engineer Reviews

Likes

Work life balance

Dislikes

Salary is not per market standards

Work Details

Work policy: 3 days/week from office

Work days: Monday to Friday (Strict Timings)

Work related travel: This is a desk job.

Likes

Sometimes you meet good people on Development team. That's it which is same for every organisation.

Dislikes

Where do I begin. You can see all online anonymous forums and see it's bad rating as reality and somehow they have found a loop hole to delete these reviews also. There absolutely zero job security here. As soon as the company faces some cash flow problem. They resort to not just straight firing but like cheap SOFT FIRING. I think this company can give a hand book at SOFT FIRING as they're soo good and sly at this. They have raised PIP for 250+ employees in the last quarter so they can fire them quickly and appease the share holders to balance the books. The worst part is that they pretend to be your well wishers and feed you lies like you are family and after firing we are giving insurance benefits but in truth these benefits are purchased on early basis. They have raised PIP for people who have give 20+ years here. It's astonishingly funny how an employee with 20+ years suddenly gets pip raised and fired as a result. They did the same soft firing procedures when Covid -19 first struck by putting 200-250 employees on pip and older employees are telling that they are used to doing this but now since this time there are multiple anonymous forums this has become public. Dirty politics and favourism is at it's peak. The products are worse than any colleges product and now the customers also realised so they are running away and therefore the firing taking place now. They even fumble up great place to work answers so that they can portray they are employee friendly but in actuality they're only owner friendly. Now let's talk about the tech stack. It is so old that and so badly optimised that no wonder all the clients are running away. For the same reason this company has gone through multiple cyber attacks in the past which they try to hide in the news and from their clients. The learning hair for new joiners is absolutely zero and some dirty politics goes on between Pune and Noida offices where your managers are from Pune but they treat you like outsiders and do not even talk to you for for months and years. Promotions are only given to managers pets and people who are good at nothing but getting involved in politics. The ceo's and the HRs refused to take any accountability as they are also the part of the system and together I think they have come up with this amazing plan of all of soft firing everyone. Each end of cyclic year they spread rumours that we will not be getting any Hike and if you get 5% Hike this will this will be considered as great. They do not follow any rules or regulations maintained by the authorities for labour laws and the atmosphere in the office in itself is very depressing. To experience people it is my advice that please do not join this company and for people who are already stuck here let me tell you that outside there are held out of and for people who are already stuck here let me tell you that outside there are held out of and for people who are already stuck here let me tell you that outside there are so many opportunities waiting for you please don't spoil your life in this company where you don't matter....Read More

Work Details

Work days: Monday to Friday (Strict Timings)

Work related travel: This is a desk job.

Likes

There is nothing good in this company. It appears good when you just join the company. Then the management shows their true colors to you

Dislikes

The company forces a bond of 3 years on freshers which is illegal in India. Then if you notice the company hires freshers from 3 Tier colleges and lures them with a 5 LPA (with 3 years bond and if you break it give them 2 Lakh rupees)package with the promise of a bi-annual increase. This so-called product company has only outdated technology and bad management. They are at a complete loss and management has gone down to firing employees and micro-managing existing employees. The HR and talent acquisition never post any opening for 2-3 years of experience. You would have already guessed why. They passively threaten the freshers that if they break the bond and do not give money then they will not give experience and relieving letter. Once you join here as a fresher you are stuck for a minimum of 3 years and experience only in an outdated tech stack. I joined here as a fresher and then within a few months they increased the notice period from 2 months to 3 months. Here there is so much politics and favoritism. You cannot work in peace. There is no bonus here no matter how much you work. I resigned from here 3 months before my bond was getting over. During my notice period, they made it difficult for me to work and passively threatened me to give money or they would not give my experience letter (FYI:- there was no training provided in the probation period only a few docs available on the internet were given to do self-learning. No investment in training). The company holds my three months' salary without any prior information and then if you request early release they will large penalty amount from you. These companies should be banned from India. They are so cheap that they even asked for laptop bags on LWD. My entire journey has been hell. I know many people are struggling to do their jobs there....Read More

Work Details

Work policy: 3 days/week from office

Work days: Monday to Friday (Strict Timings)

Work related travel: This is a desk job.

Likes

Work Life balance is good

Dislikes

Hikes are less

Work Details

Work policy: 3 days/week from office

Work days: Monday to Friday (Flexible Timings)

Work related travel: This is a desk job.

Likes

The salary is above average

Dislikes

Ways of working and policies within organisation.

Work Details

Work policy: 3 days/week from office

Work days: Monday to Friday (Strict Timings)

Work related travel: This is a desk job.

Likes

Work life balance

Dislikes

Lot of politics and favouritism

Work Details

Work policy: 3 days/week from office

Work days: Monday to Friday (Flexible Timings)

Work related travel: This is a desk job.

Likes

Great work life balance and company culture is nice. Hard work is appreciated with rewards and recognition. Fair salary hikes based on your performance. Management is very good. Meaningful work on very big project in banking and finance domain. Job security

Dislikes

Not much opportunities to learn technologies and tech stack is fairly older. Due to lack of technical documentation learning curve is steep for new joiners. Less number of leaves.

Work Details

Job is challenging and you need to learn most of things yourself. Work satisfaction is there and not much pressure on employees. Easy to manage work life balance. You will get exposure to very big and complex project in banking and finance domain.

Work days: Monday to Friday (Flexible Timings)

Work related travel: This is a desk job.

Likes

The salary which you get monthly which has no delay ever, even in covid duration and also when there was the ransomwar cyber attack in Oct 2020.

Dislikes

In 2021 Feb, I worked in the Pune office located at SB Road. The infrastructure is not at all upto expectations. The pantry is gross and the good provider is just a local guy with terrible hygiene habits. The building has a a hazardous elevator which you have to use at your own risk. I worked on a desktop with 8GB RAM for almost 1.5-2yrs wherein others had their toys of choice. Never got a VM to work upon which is a necessity in SBSI without which you can't breathe. They use SVN, JSPX, JSP, XML, Spring Web Flow, Maven, Intellij, Tomcat, React, Redux, Java, Jira. There's a huge partial play between Pune and Noida wherein Noida is always favoured since it's the old acquisition and Pune is a new one. I'd say if ur ready to gamble your lattest cutting edge tools, technologies and all ur sharpened skillset for money then u can surely join this org. As a Backend developer, if you work on a new task/enhancement there should always be a new feature branch where a dev. can work with all the freedom he requires but that's not the case here which is surprisingly insane as per the industry standards. There's a single product named Cassiopae which is being built using above mentioned technologies and which is super legacy wherein they have their own custom framework which you cannot modify. The processes followed are not employee/developer friendly. I didn't understand one thing, if you have purchased a licensed of JIRA and if it's highly customisable, inspite of that we have to attach additional Excell Sheets like Time consumed for a Bug(JiRA), code review excell sheet, the required time estimate excell sheet. Almost like a data entry job here which is naive. I won't take names, but the people with huge experiences and dependency are certainly rude, unhelpful and unsupportive at critical & crucial times of work. No provisions for gym, sports or any extra activities for employees welfare. Only few activities wherein you are forced like a kid to participate as if it's a school....Read More

Work Details

Terrible. Working 12-16 hours to reach deadlines isn't pleasant always. Communication & collaboration with senior experienced employees who have spent a huge time in this org. is difficult due to the dependency one has created.

Work timings: Strict Timings

Work related travel: This is a desk job.

Employee Benefits

You get your monthly salary without delay. No gym or sports, no free transport, no free food, no education assistance. Fortunately got work from home due to COVID after the legal authorities marched in and forced people to leave the office in the initial dangerous days of covid-19 in (march-2020). Yes and no headphones for official work either. You need to buy them urself for office use.