Headstrong
Brand value: Average
Onsite Opportunities: Not much.
Work Environment: Very cool and supportive.
Work pressure/Work-Life Balance: Not much of workload. Though depends on the project. But you’ll surely not regret at any moment that you are eating software, sleeping software 
Flexi timings helps you fulfill all your personal obligations.
Satisfaction with salary and quality of work: Salary is good. But quality of work, well again, depends on the project.
What type of work they do: There are projects on development, maintenance/ enhancement, and support. Most of them are maintenance / enhancement. Very few are Purely development.
Some positives and negatives of the company:
Positives: Very nice work culture, no dress code, Flexi timings, cool n friendly people.
Negatives: you may sometime not get good work if you are “really” interested in doing well in Software Industry.
Do you recommend your company to others: I wont recommend to freshers coming with a dream of becoming Next-Gen Bill Gates. For the people keen on learning Finance, Banking, Security Market etc, this is the place and these are the people. But in the end it is the Salary that does matter, so i do recommend!
September 19, 2007 at 6:22 am |
I have an offer from Cognizant and Headstrong. Which one I should take? which one is a better company in terms of onsite and pay?
September 20, 2007 at 3:40 pm |
Hi Rajat,
Can you please tell me the written and interview
pattern of headstrong.
Regards,
Nishant Bhardwaj
September 18, 2008 at 2:16 pm |
Hey I have an offer from headstrong… and I want to know more about headstrong… like infrastructure…games/gym/ onsite opportunities… layoff’s… fires… and current position of company as financial crisis of big financial companies… intra transfers from one location to other location….
November 28, 2008 at 4:17 am |
Hi,
I am an MBA from a top 5 Bschool in India. I have an offer from Cognizant and Headstrong. Which one I should take? which one is a better company in terms of onsite and pay?
Thanks
March 26, 2009 at 5:15 pm |
Hey,
its totally depende on you aspiration.Just to make money headstrong is a nice place.But cant say what kind of work you will get.In terms of job security there is nothing to say.A lots of layoffs are there.
Will recommend to join any ither company not headstrong.
April 29, 2009 at 2:21 pm |
Well, headstrong does some niche work in financial mkts which not many of us, with just B.Es/ B.Techs & MCAs under our belt, get a chance to do with even big IT power houses.
May 15, 2009 at 11:44 am |
Hi, I am working for Headstrong for the past 2 years.
Headstrong is a hire and fire company. They hire you when they have work and fire you when something got scrapped. Not good for techies and good for those managers who has orientation towards financial domain.
Salarywise it is good but take home amount is surprisingly low. Working environment is very cool and very less work load.
Good company for a short term stay but not as a long run partner.
Resource management is very poor and ppl here are forced to work in different technologies irrespective of their prior exp.
Most of the projects are support projects and very less are purely development projects.
A very low level of individual growth for techies. Their orthodox approach of working for financial domain clients only is really pathetic.
Lay-offs in headstrong are routine basis no matter how the whole mkt is doing. They do a lot of lay-offs every year.
June 22, 2009 at 8:56 pm |
Headstrong is bad company. Do not join this company. They just hire and fire people.
September 4, 2009 at 12:32 pm |
I was working with headstrong since last 1 year. Its a worst organization.My expertise lies in java technologies and they forced me to do BPO job there.
They have a vertical BOSS that’s a BPO. Finaly they fired me and I am very happy as I got the job that I deserve.