SunGard Reviews

Former Employee – worked at SunGard as an intern for less than a year

Pros – You have a ton of free time, and it seems like the management doesn't really care what you do

Cons – You don't do any substantive work

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at SunGard full-time for more than a year

Pros – nice pay, onsite team mates are technically good and they understand and respect indian colleagues, good work culture, work life balance, decent annual salary hikes, flat organization, bonus payout is good,

Cons – less onsite opportunities, have to work on same product for years,

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at SunGard full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Good work culture, help develop your skills, good work life balance, good managers

Cons – sometimes too much interference with work

Advice to Senior Management – trust your employees, do not micro manage

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at SunGard full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Good work/life balance due to flexible work hours

Cons – No opportunities for new things/learning

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at SunGard full-time

Pros – Some large clients. Not many positives at SunGard.

Cons – Terrible sales compensation plan, which includes multiple low caps on commissions, low commissions, and some very low commissions.

Management is all politics, no vision or leadership.

SunGard is really a cobbled together group of companies, that is not well integrated.

A strong "yes man" culture stiffles creativity and productivity.

Advice to Senior Management – Needs to be replaced, company restructured.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at SunGard full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – Work Life balance. Better quality of work. Open work culture

Cons – Low Salary , No onsite opportunity

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at SunGard full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – interesting work, nice people, ok benefits

Cons – pay is not that great

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at SunGard full-time for more than a year

Pros – Best learning experience of my life.
Good work life balance.
I have been lucky to have good managers.
Chance to work on good technologies. That again depends on you if you choose to adopt new technologies and grow technically or want to use same old legacy stuff.
OK salary structure. Good bonus payout

Cons – Slow in decision making.
Slow in adopting new technologies. This applies to all product based companies of this size.
Faster release cycles.
Clear technology road map.

Advice to Senior Management – Slow in adopting new technologies. Need to be swift in decision making.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at SunGard full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – - Good Mentoring
- Nice work environment
- Great benefits and average salary
- Flexibility in business hours

Cons – - Doesn't have standards work procedures and state of the art methodologies
- Bad documentation and no SOPs for new employees
- Low management experience
- A lot of overtime work

Advice to Senior Management – Need more focus on employees

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at SunGard

Pros – Flexible timings
good work life balance
location wise good - center of the city
no pressure and they trust employees

Cons – career growth is not so great, same kind of projects

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend