Working at Satyam

Satyam is one of the big IT companies in India roughly at no. 3 or 4 position. First the good things:<strong>1. If you are an andhriite and work in Satyam, you are semi god. you need not join any company in your life.2. Satyam has a huge social impact in Andhra and if you are satyamiite, you get a lot of respect in Andhra and lot of dowry too. So ppl will not leave satyam until they get married.3. Offers onsite and that too long term, so if you are ok with a low or moderate salary hike, just wait there and have patience and trust me you will be in America. No other company will send you but one day, one day in satyam you will surely be on site and come back only if you want to.4. Most of the people are average so if you are bright you have good growth prospects in the company.The bad ones :1. never open a big mouth for salary.2. never ask for too many perks.3. if you go on site your appraisal is screwed no matter what you do.4. lot of family ppl join satyam, making it more of a family company.5. Managers are not answerable for everything, even if he doesnt know know how to speak english, he can become a consultant.6. On site calls will be mainly in Telugu and you should know telugu if you want to excel if you have gone on site too, because US is full of Telugus and they dont speak english sometimes not even in front of clients.7. Ppl stick to their positions and take no risk at all which is the worst part.8. Some ppl really dress up horribly, i would say 10% of satyam is shabbily dressed up in slippers.10. PM level ppl are ok in commuting to office by sitting on staircase of the company bus.</strong>I feel, Sooner or later Satyam will be sold off to someone.Raju deserves all the appreciation for creating such a huge enterprise out of nothing. Satyam is big reason for the large number of Andhra guys in US.