ikaSystems review: exploitation 58

This company is a butcher house. Complete management needs tone thrown out.

This is wonderful company. I dont know why people are complaining against me and my wife and my sister. I will fire you guys if I know who you are. Dirty fellows. I will kill you all and cut your pay by 30 percent. Dammunte munduki vacchi anandi be. How can you write stuff like this about a VP. you know, I am a VP and I can do whatever I want. I will hire whom I like and fir whom I dont like. Yes, what is wrong with working more and during weekends for a company that is paying you and offering free food on Fridays anyway. are you crzay. Dirty fellows. I will fire everybody whom I hate. That is my wish, stupid fellows. Stop Complaining. Now we dont care anymore because we can delete all the complains. Joke is on you. We dont care about the clients. We want money. Who cares what happens to you guys. you are getting salary every 2 weeks right? do your work, work late if needed. you have to have that commitment for your company. My team loves me because I give them so much raise and I invite them to my house for parties. Who else is better than me. My Wife quit the job because of you guys. Are you happy now?
All I need to know is who wrote that complaints against me and that is the end of your lives. you will die in hell you rascals.

SO you have clarity of who I am this is /name removed/. Yes, if you are daring enough, face me.

/name removed/

Hahaha...Mr Fake Sasidhar P...No matter what, your sense of humour is amazing...

yes you rock fake Sashidhar!

All the posts reflect the reality of what will happen when a company is run by people who are not honest and corrupted. Like, bribing is an accepted way of life in India, in IKA, lies to employees, lies to customers are just accepted norm and it just the way it is. It is the culture imposed by the top guy and his friends (you all know who they are, maybe we can call them Gang of Four) and you name anyone who is close to top guy or old timers in IkaSystemes, they are just the same. Some of these guys are absolutely don't deserve to be sitting in management other than coding like a developer and they all seems to be good at coding. They indulge in Petty politics and rotten management tactics which is absolutely destructive to a working environment. I don't think any of these folks needs to be fired, I wish they just realize how bad they have been so far and fix themselves rather than going and begging us to stop logging in these kinds of forums. Hey Management folks, listen, if you have an issue with an employee you have the power to fire the subordinate (I am sure you may have your own procedure to let the subordinate know what you think and may give the subordinate chances and if it does not work, you may fire the subordinate) but if a subordinate has an issue with you what can the subordinate do? The subordinate can only let you know the concerns and you need to work on it. It goes on both the ways and the subordinate cannot fire you. These kinds of forums are the only options left to the subordinate to vent the frustrations. Rather than getting angry with these victims, just try to understand and fix you’re the subordinate’s concerns. Every six months take a survey about their managers from each employee and keep the employee name secret and provide that result to the HR and let the managers know how they are doing and let them know that lower ratings without improvement will result in demotion, bonus cuts and termination, maybe it is good for you and your company and future of Ika. I am sure we all will go down if you don't fix your issues right now. Enough with your exploitation, just providing Biryani on Fridays will not make it a great employee treatment, the cost of that food is negligible in comparison with what we deserve. There are some talented youngsters in our company and they can be encouraged and motivated and groomed as future leaders and unfortunately, we are spoiled too due to toxic environment in the company induced by this gang of four or five. Don't try to guess who I am, it is a waste of your time and please, get rid of your ego and consider my suggestions constructively and fix the issues that you may probably agree with. Involve in heavy HR process, it will automatically fix the issues. Make Hiring, firing very difficult and make promotions and rewards process oriented and heavily monitored, it will fix the issues. I remember few years ago, all of a sudden some guys got BMW SUVs and for what? What about others? Why did those guys get it? Top guy, are you not ashamed of yourself for doing this? What did you give to others like us? I don't think you gave anything other than Friday lunch and the reason is simply because, you chose to give to these folks rather than process based rewards to the deserved ones. One more piece of advice, do not try to reward those bozos who sit all night and make his developers sit all night or weekends and you know that is how you did it all these years, if you continue doing this then you have a serious problem and go and see a Shrink. It will do a world of good. If you make sure you come at 9 and leave at 5 and make others do the same, trust me, you will be a very successful company and I know developers will automatically log extra time without expecting anything from you simply because of the motivation he or she will have for such a great treatment, otherwise, I guarantee you, we all will go down and it will be very sad. I wish us all a very good success.

As of January, 2012, the situation as described by other posters has not improved. I agree with another poster that being unemployed is better. Complete lack of competent mgmt, processes, communication, structure, accountability and issue ownership. Nepotism, sexism, cronyism, prima donna-ism, political and departmental divides are rampant as well. I don't want to use the word racism, but beware if you don't speak an Indian dialect, as I did not get quality cooperation from those that do. New employees with no cubes or even phones sitting in the hallways or herded into conference rooms. Yes, this is actually happening. I am floored at how this company has lasted this long, and will consider it a miracle if they are still around in any significant way 3 years from now.

I lost hope that this company will change their behavior towards their employees. Sucks big time!

In ikaSystem you will have to be a "Yes man" in order to survive. This yes man habits starts with your boss, you simply do whatever he asks you to do. This could be work that is totally not described in your job profile or position your hiring manager interviews you for. Once you get good at being a yes man, you slowly move up the ladder expecting you do the same with clients. The mission of the company is simple "say yes to your boss" and do whatever he asks you to do, so you're expected to lie to the clients when you're put in situation where "no is the answer". If you keep doing the yes man role well for years you become one of the VP's. If you don't you tell "No" or tell the truth you get fired. I wonder how some of the big clients put up with this crap knowing for a fact that ikaSystem lies to them about contracts, compliance, and application functionality . Dear providers remember if HHS audits ika you're totally screwed. God bless you!

Don't say serving biryani on fridays is the best idea you guys can come up with for motivation employees. You can do better than that.

When an employee leaves either he/ she got fired or walked out
Ika pays them to shut up and not sue. Ika bribes the soon ex employee to
Not reveal the things that Ika asks them to do wrongfully. Employees are bullied and harassed by one female director HJ. People leave because they cannot take her yelling and demeaning attitude. Instead of correcting the problem, ika pays these employees not to sue for harrassment and they keep HJ in payroll. HJ manipulates people and she thinks she is invincible. We can"t blame her, ika tolerates her attitude and actions.
One more thing, Every time an employee leaves, someone gets promoted. For keeping their mouth shut!

This company is the worst out there! in 17 years working with the major players in the game. I had never seen something so disorganized in my life. I was told during my nightmare week long-on site by a employee "Don't order or even bring meat into the office during my first day" I asked "why" and I knew I already made a mistake because the lunch order was already place early in the day...I ordered a sub sandwich with meat on it. During lunch I was told "your sandwich stinks" and I did notice that everyone was vegan. Is that problem? NO but a Turkey sub with little condiments but mustard was offensive to well over 15 people! If you are not of a certain culture you will understand quickly. My team was quick to notice the nepotism in this company and the lack of general respect and the failure to repay our company AFTER they had paid for us to fly out was amazing. The women on our team were refused handshakes...I THINK you know what we are saying...the Junior members of our team who were men were looked to for answers when some of the senior members are female and could realistically answer the questions. I'm a male and I was blown away by the general disrespect shown by senior mgmt of IKAsystems. We ended spending money with a more expensive company because we are all different people and some companies understand this and some do not. I would NEVER recommend IKA to anyone ever.

I agree. The whole company is "run" by a bunch of Indian clowns. They will never ever get more clients. They are fools to the end. My advise to all you idiots at the top. Sell that sinking ship. Hahahaha! But who will buy it?

the problem with this company is it is broken. Ravi have a good idea for start up and did OK when he could just tell everyone what to do and say. He could lie to customers and prospects and get away with it because everyone kiss his butt and would back him up. WHen that happen for a long time, it becomes the culture for company. Don't think that can be fixed . They try to kick Ravi out and make him board to bring in Joe. Joe seemsto try, but nothing he can do. Company stiill stinks like Ravi with cronies and yes-men. Too broken to fix. They get rid of people in November, but wrong people. Need for replace bad managers at the top who allow it go get this way. Too much lies to customers and prospects - can't grow that way. They say we sell to big health plans, but what big health plan buys from company with lies and bad reputation like ika? I think in 6 month to 1 year max, ikaSystems will be like a unicorn or dinosaur - extinct! Good idea for company good timing OK technology wrong people. Also Joe must grow some balls, make decisions and stop the asking so much questions. Too much lies for inside the company and to clients to stay in busness.

This company can still be saved if they fire or demote afe Indiand who were made VP and SVP in error. These smelly idiots can only be good at programming so the best position suitable for them is lead programmer but not SVP.

Catherine Keddy from HR department of IKA Systems scheduled me an interview few weeks back. My telephonic interview went pretty well. Immediately after the interview I tried to call Catherine to let her know that my interview was done and wanted to request her any updates or feedback. She never took my call and never replied my mails. After few days, I received a mail from Catherine that I was asked to come for face to face interview. As I couldn't locate the job description and other details (salary, if company will assist me in relocation, assistance in my work status and Green Card etc), I mailed back Catherine requesting for these details. She just replied me the job description and nothing else. I then sent few mails requesting for updates on the face to face interview and the queries I posted in my previous mails. I have also tried to call her desk number and also requested Catherine to call me when free if she was busy. I never received a phone call from her since my telephonic interview or any mails even after sending her 3-4 mails requesting for any updates on the face to face interview.

After reading all the articles on this company, I was not surprised by the way Catherine Keddy was working. I felt she was very unprofessional and not the right choice for her position. After reading all the reviews, I'm skeptical about the work environment in Ikasystems.

This is funny, People work for this company since they were with this company at the start of the company, they are just sitting there and working for other companies, Consider the batch from west borough, they are the managers and they got everything, BMW and etc, their wifes get job and they work for other companies in the south, how funny is this. I hope with ravi gone, his commrades will also leave.

The firewall went down at work exposing clients PHI data nost sure what was leaked. Also missing computers and laptops with data on theme. Yes the encryption software they use is a joke and does not work about 80% of the time. How would I know that? Give me a laptop that has data encryption. After all they put an idiot in charge of it. The safest way to secure company data does not get stolen is to limit access to it give only view and read access. No copy and paste. They thought they would be smart to disable usb ports but many other websites you can transfer the files to other computers. Also they let you use your personal laptop for vpn cool. How secure is that? Also, continue to not supervisor the staff correctly in many departments. Also keep people who break software licenses issues. Snagit might want to fine the company in less software companies do not care to get paid for companies like IkaSystems using software and not paying for theme. IkaSystems is club and not a real company. The people good people but need good leadership that follow the rules if they want other clients to approach theme. Also if you were to bring a laptop from outside you can plug it in the network on detected and grab data. Also you can ping into your bring the network down.

Ikasystems is a chop shop and not a company. Employees should feel ashamed to work for such shady companies.