EPAM Systems reviews

4.0

82% would recommend to a friend

(13,374 total reviews)
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87% approve of CEO

70% positive business outlook

EPAM Systems has an employee rating of 4.0 out of 5 stars, based on 13,374 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The EPAM Systems employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Tecnologia da informação industry (3.9 stars).

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1.0
Sep 14, 2018

Body shop as it is

Recommend
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Pros

Most popular one that people are keep noticing is presence of smart people, but to be fair most likely you will be working with very few EPAM colleagues onsite with client FTEs. And usually clients are hiring EPAM for projects that are deadly behind timelines or team is weak to deliver in time, so you will be working within such incompetent team or under pressure.

Cons

I've being employed with EPAM for few years and for whole this period I don't have a feeling that EPAM is my employer, but rather client which I worked for, because: - my EPAM manager is not interested in my career growth; career development plan? No, it's not about us :) Even casual 1-1 with manager practice is missing; - company is not investing in employees education (training, conferences), but client does; people usually sent to conferences on client cost (even though we are vendor to them), EPAM is not participating at all; Key point: if you are on L-visa get ready to be undercompensated w/o ability to change a thing (except returning back to country you originally came form). You will hear from your manager every other day phrases like - I'm making everything possible to get you appropriate compensation. But then it's end up being just words. And this perfectly explains why attrition rate of people who got their Green cards is ~100%. Also worth to mention that EPAM with Fragomen (lawyers company) will do everything possible to process your Green card application as long as possible. As an example, EPAM can spend month(s) for preping employment verification letter or getting signature from manager that sits next to you. Or Fragomen can make 20+ mistakes in your application forms and then spent enormous amount of time to fix those (lucky you if you found those, some of them non-trivial at all). Another interesting point that most of employees are on L-visa, just very few got their Green cards. These are mostly managers who either built good career in EPAM and don’t want to change a thing or simply can't get better job offer. Those who are on H1B don't stay long - great opportunity to fool EPAM and utilize relocation package in full and leave after couple of months.

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EPAM Systems Response
7y
Thank you for sharing your EPAM experience. I'm sorry to hear the concerns you have raised. We appreciate the feedback and continuously look for ways to enhance the work environment. If you want to share more specifics, please contact me at epam.com/request-information.
1.0
Jun 19, 2019
Recommend
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Pros

0 to none experience required.

Cons

Most of my Colleagues , are eastern-Europeans with actual computer science degree. The only reason they work here - is green card sponsorship, pretty much all of em leave as soon as they get an employment authorization or green card. Simply cause the company does not pay them even half of what they are worth on the market. good example of company management style - is investing into creating positive outlook , by forcing HRs into writing fake positive reviews, instead of paying its employees some sort of competitive pay or creating opportunities Fun part is that - literally everybody knows what’s going on)

1.0
Sep 3, 2018
Recommend
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Pros

Good people around. Good Compensation when you join. Interview process is good to scrutinize the talent No 8 hours restriction.

Cons

No infrastructure/ 1 hall and room is all that they have. Parking issue - 3 car parking total, One of which is occupied by Director and long queue of list to be cleared. No hike after joining, Standard hike is 2-3%. Frequent firing. Higher management is very irresponsible and follow favoritism. They have only one client which is Mastercard, Client is very rude and treat you like slave. If you ever oppose the client they will ask for replacement (Which epam management easily agree on) and give you No-Hire feedback. Once you get the No-Hire feedback you will not be able to work for mastercard in the whole world. Now as EPAM have only one client, You will be asked to either relocate to Hyderabad or Chennai or to resign. Test Directors are surviving in the company by old connections and really have no knowledge about process/technology. They give estimates to client without collaborating with the team working on ground and never show up again, Actual working team drag their schedule day and night to cover up the unrealistic commitment. HR persons are not skilled and will play politics behind you. Whole time they will try to find out if you are looking out. High attrition rate : People leave the organization within 2-3 months when they come to know about actual truth. Most of the people abscond. Talk to ex colleagues of EPAM over linkedin or facebook before joining if you really care about your career and monthly EMI's. False onsite opportunity promise: All the clients are based in Pune and transfers to other countries is pure lie. There is no onsite opportunity at all, No one had ever been to foreign by transfer. Work: Most of the projects have monotonous work and no learning after a certain period of time. EPAM US is totally different than here. Sooner or later they ma ask to shut down this center as It is creating problem for image of global business.

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EPAM Systems Response
7y
Thank you for taking the time to write this review. We take these issues very seriously and we are always looking to improve. Glassdoor reviews are anonymous, but if you would like to talk more about it, please email at Shashikanth_bondugula@epam.com and we can discuss further. Pune centre has added more than 130 capacity in a years’ time and is buoyant to maintain the rapid growth into next year. EPAM in Pune operates from Smartworks business centre and a separate enclosure is created for EPAM with an ODC set up. We will be moving into new premises by middle of next year. Based on the seating capacity, Smartworks has allocated 14 car parks and a separate scooter parking. Car parking is a concern in major cities and we are encouraging associates to car pool. We have added a new Insurance client in Pune and very soon the project is going to kick-start. There is a potential for this account to grow exponentially. EPAM operates only from Hyd and Pune at present and planning to expand in Bangalore. Like any company, EPAM requests associates to be flexible to operate from any of its locations. And location transfer will be initiated as a last resort. So far, we have not asked any associate to relocate to Hyd. EPAM believes in providing opportunity to its associates to relocate to any of its 25 countries of operation based on the demand. To make this effective, EPAM has a global mobility policy where associates can apply to openings across 25 countries provided all guidelines are met. EPAM India is a key geography for EPAM to expand and to make this happen, we have opened a State of the art centre in Hyderabad with 1700 capacity and will be opening a new office in Pune sometime next year. We are adding marquee clients from Telecom, Insurance, Banking, Media this year that has large potential for growth. We have set incubation labs to enable associates to hone their skill before they are allocated to work on the projects.
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