SunGard Employee Job Reviews in the United States

What do you like about working at SunGard?

"I liked the people I worked with. I liked being able to help customers and implement solutions"

What don't you like about working at SunGard?

"I do not like the middle management. I think that they are generally inept and not willing to listen to fellow employees' ideas."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Spend time listening to other people's ideas. Encourage innovation. Do away with much of the dead wood in management."

"They are a reasonable company to work for."

What do you like about working at SunGard?

"The work was interesting and challenging. I periodically had the need to learn new concepts in order to perform my job; I quite enjoyed it."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"It is overall a great company for which to work. I would be forthright and honest about my skills and amicable in an interview."

What don't you like about working at SunGard?

"Due to the economy, the company was forced to keep downsizing. (I survived many layoffs before my position was finally offshored.)"

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Balance the offshoring of jobs with local talent in order to better keep the bottom line (client deadlines and therefore client satisfaction) in mind. Sometimes upper management thinks of only short-term savings and doesn't grasp the big picture."

What do you like about working at SunGard?

"New technologies, fast pace, expected self motivation, group dynamics, focus on information security"

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Yes, keep an open mind and constantly express desire for upward mobility and training."

What don't you like about working at SunGard?

"Executives were more focused on spin-off without clear path which caused high employee turnover."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Better communications from engineers that are responsible to customers. More focus on fixing customers problems."

What do you like about working at SunGard?

"Excellent engineers, great customers, a challenging environment. Everyone is interested in doing the right thing to keep the customer satisfied."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"You need deep experience working with a wide variety of technology vendors in a Service Provider environment to flourish here."

What don't you like about working at SunGard?

"Management turn-over and constant reorganizations. In 3.5 years we had 3 CEOs and seven reorganizations."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Frequent reorganizations give the preception of instability and saps the confidence of the empoloyees."

What do you like about working at SunGard?

"Enterpreneurial spirit, wide range of solutions and good reputation at client base."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Make sure the compensation plan and details are known upfront and agreement is reached on when the compensation plans will be released."

What don't you like about working at SunGard?

"Too many management layers and remote employers are not supported as they could be."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"SunGard had excellent mannager talent in house, so there is little I can add to the current management styles that are applied."

What do you like about working at SunGard?

"Good International presence and Intercultural teams. Appreciation for good ideas."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Make sure you have in writing the details of your performance based bonus schedule and a commit date for receiving the bonus plan."

What don't you like about working at SunGard?

"Enterpreneurial spirit was evangilized, but not applied. Too many layers for decision making. Little to no support for remote workers."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Ask for a 5 year roll out plan for innovative new product solutions which address client needs, based on direct client input."

What do you like about working at SunGard?

"Working with clients and the travel - area covered was from Eastern Canada to Virginia"

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Be aware of the time necessary (also I do not know if they still do plan development)."

What don't you like about working at SunGard?

"Some clients (I felt) were getting 'short-changed' in the development process due to time constraints"

What suggestions do you have for management?

"allow more time to better develop plans that fit the customer need"

"Working for here was a pleasant experience until later corporate integration"

What do you like about working at SunGard?

"The team members here were very friendly and experienced in executing their duties."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Take a look around the company and look how many other are stressed out."

What don't you like about working at SunGard?

"Toward the end of my employment, the amount of work expected from each employee was unrealistic, resulting in too much stress."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"The people that restructured the company did not consider the amount of support work required for the product I was supporting."

What do you like about working at SunGard?

"working alone on special project lead and the staff being supportive lead roles..."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"be ready and available at all times and give 125% at all times."

What don't you like about working at SunGard?

"not enough hours poor parking spaces, gap from management to desk support and networking"

What suggestions do you have for management?

"provide a healthy office enviorment and support your staff equally and reep the rewards"

What do you like about working at SunGard?

"Its Flexible working hours, Freedom to pour in my thoughts, trying new things."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Keep exploring different things and Give a try before giving up."

What don't you like about working at SunGard?

"nothing as such. But yes promotions are very rare in sungard."