1. Believes in delivering quantity instead of quality.
TCS states that it is a CMMI level 5 company but in practice it has hardly any quality control checks before the delivery is made to the client.
2. The appraisal process is not transparent. In actual practice, it is just ranking the team members on an excel sheet. (curve fitting). It clearly implies that employees are compared against each other instead of their own performance.
3. Margin Driven Company
a) TCS every year plans for client entertainment at every client location. After the event, in many cases, it asks for employees to contribute for half of the costs incurred.
b) Employees are often overloaded with work so that the margins are higher. No option for applying extra hours.
c) 99 percent of the fixed price development projects go through crisis. Because the management does not provide enough resources on time for the reasons of margins.
4. Tata code of conduct is just for showcase. In practice, it is not implemented.
5. HR is invisible on the floor.
6. Persistent Regional Bias:
Groups are formed within the company on basis of which state you are from in India or which language you speak. For example, if the delivery head of a big account is from Maharashtra, more opportunities/ managerial or leadership position are filled by the people from the same state. I guess this happens in every company.
7. Little or no investment on training of employees.
