VALUES, TOXIC BEHAVIOR TOWARDS NEW JOINER, NO TRAINING, NO SOP SHARING, CUT OUT FROM CALLS

I joined Sungard AS on Dec 2017 & left in Dec 2018, 1 year short journey. First few weeks were quite normal but when I got a project in hand my team lead started showing his real color. He did not provided me any SOW or SOP regarding the process, used to behave very rudely & talk abruptly on floor. Then I heard from my team mate he did not like you. Are you serious? Well, days passed I nothing changed except I left my job in 1 year & since day I'm jobless.

The reality was he himself was not well versed with the process. He used to call ex-manager who left organization before my joining for reporting purpose. He used to take that manager on dinner with Product Manger to discuss about Sungard's existing products. And a person like him gets promotion as well.

So, this is how Sungard promote its core values? Sungard do not care how their people are getting the things done?

After I left, I came to know that my so called Team Lead offered the same position to his friend from different team.

Now, why I left the job? Such kind of things/ politics happen in the corporate world, but what pushed me to put down papers? As I said, without any SOP/ SOW, without counting me on system improvement calls, he was expecting me to do the job. And it was his master plan to throw me out of the organization & then fit his friend for the same role. So, to make his plan work, without any intimation, without any meetings with seniors, he put me on Performance Improvement Program.

I was really p-ss-d of with this & I decided to leave this job. First time my professional life I gained such experience.

Now, the question will come why now? why after 4 months you are sharing your experience on social media platform? Why you did not do it at that time?

I made my mind that I'll erased it from memory & will never discuss on it. But please give me an honest answer. Whom will you prefer, a new joiner who is ready to learn from his mistakes & do the things better & better with the time?

A senior, who has no Ethics, no Values, no Principles but still gets a promotion for getting the things right?

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SunGard is a management company. As a tech person, my experience has been highly variable to whatever manager I fell under - some better than others. But generally speaking management sees tech folks like a widget. It doesn't matter if your skills are very strong in one area, if the company re-orgs, they'll move you to some other area for which you may have little to no experience and expect, within a very short period of time, to start producing results. There is no SOP and training because there's not enough staff to allow that kind of overhead.

It's not a sustainable model and, at times, there are issues where there are literally no staff available to address because the skillset isn't there - it's common that the person who held that skillset was laid off. Then you start seeing that issue passed from dept. to dept.

Unfortunately, there's a large contingent of management that treats the tech folks like second class citizens. When you explain you have no familiarity with a platform, you're treated with contempt. This is a dynamic world and IT is expected to know many platforms and technologies but there's no ramp-up. You just get informed one day of some new issue and you're automatically expected to know everything about it without little to no documentation.

Being a 'management' company, if you're on the tech side, there's little opportunity for advancement unless you walk in the door as a architect. Common statements I've heard during my tenure at SG - 'you're lucky you still have a job' and 'if you don't like it, you can leave.' I've voiced concerns about how technologies are being deployed and I'm treated with a little pat on the head and told, 'you don't need to worry about that.' In fairness, some managers really do care, but they're being given more and more to do with less and less staff. For them, they'd like to address everything, but really, they're working on one of the many fires that needs to be put out.

Most dysfunctional, passive aggressive company I have ever seen.... I laughed out loud when I read the statement in the end of year appraisal regarding whether I strived to live to the sgas values... back stabbing and lying is not my thing...

Well said ?

Well said true on many levels...NO training at all never!!!

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