TRDDC Process Engineering Group, TCS Research Division
Pros
My current location allows for flexi-timings, we can come in casuals and just need to finish the given work in given time, which is not impossible. One may have a very good stay/time if they are good at impressing boss with faulty/incomplete results or if one could get to work on what they want to and keep impressing boss. Of course, most(~95%) of the workers in my group are all IITians and IIScians. Decent pay cheque, sufficient to live decently. Top-most management expects a NOBEL PRIZE from this group.
Cons
No good research in most of the scientific areas being pursued, no mission/vision by senior management; impress the boss with "jugaads" or "covered up" incomplete works or mindless-proactive behaviour; no rewards for real workers; no appreciation if you are not trying to impress the boss with fast and impressive results; no thorough evaluation of employees, some remain very good in the eyes of boss throughout their stay while some remain bad, so no promotions/perks and bad ratings. No encouragement for real research, research is driven by the shrunk-mind knowledge of bosses rather than a vision, no boss is willing to try a new idea given by researchers; ideas by seniors (even if the idea is not worthy) or bosses alone are considered. No time accounted for ideation. Ignorance is bliss to some bosses, they applaud every minute thing in a scientific area which they like, they thwart every thing in an area which they don't like. High degree of biasing based on visual aesthetics alone like polished looks of unprofessional work, colourful presentations, good manners only in front of boss, great news in personal life; no value to details or correctness of research, improper mentoring. Very shrunk mindset, and no spirit of research. Poorly knowledgeable bosses, who give wrong directions in research and force the researchers to follow, finally blame researchers for the failures and give bad ratings, although the researchers were sure about the success in paths under consideration, yet no corrective actions on such bosses. Very pathetic work ethics and research attitude, only namesake or brand reminding research but not real research of any consequence to the needs of world. Most of the times, even if projects are useless, researchers are either forced to pursue the project or threatened to quit the research/company, just because boss spawned the idea for the project, however irrelevant/implausible/unworthy the idea is. Some projects are never-ending. Unfortunately, the research in this fashion is pursued without questioning the relevance, by the researchers in my division who are all IITians and IIScians. Very less experimental facilities, without which no credible research output can be made, as most computational research are trusted in scientific community only upon validations. Poor collaborations with outside world for experiments. Very low basic pay in the salary. This is very deceiving, because over 5years of service in TCS, one cannot make a decent corpus in ProvidentFund and pension schemes, while a mere technician or substaff in government labs make more than double the corpus as ours, in same ProvidentFund and pension schemes for same time. So, unadvisable for the ones who strongly consider piling up a corpus for post-retirement use. Relocation is impossible for researchers in core scientific domains. A very bad place for the capable people, because your hands are either tied or your attempts are thwarted due to wrong mentoring of shrunk-minded unprofessional bosses. So, basically, the research spirit itself is destroyed. Top-most management expects a NOBEL PRIZE from this group, which has the attributes as listed above.
