Magnetic Resonance Imaging(MRI) software team at Philips Bangalore is an extension of software team in Netherlands. The team at Philips Innovation Campus is controlled by Pramod Chandrasekhar who carries fancy designations such as Global Architect, Centre Head, Site lead etc having no responsibility whatsoever over the years. For several years he along with his friend circle lived(and not worked)at office. About 15 people who lived here for an average of 15 to 20 years mostly have their house or other proprties next to compound wall of office. This group names itself as System Design team, Requirements team, Chief Architects etc has no credibility or responsibility in doing anything.
The way they have survived is reserving themselves with better ratings, reserving hike quota of every year, nominating themselves with local awards etc. Mostly not being in office for any delivery related work, all of them appear for any such decision making event or for fun events, to reserve benefits for themselves. Once in a while local meeting is called by Pramod to showcase strength, same age-old PPTs will be presented and all new joinees will be hoodwinked as if that is state of the art matter. Popularly nick named as Kabaddi team just because the only skill they have is to pull others down, puts forward a nice face in front of New joinees only to deceive others at the time of appraisal and rating calibrations. Drawing salaries above 40 lacs Indian rupees and incapable of getting job anywhere else, this group is just a cost overhead on system. Having local management support, Pramod himself has lived, in same team, for 20 years which is unbelievable by any IT standards of market. This is despite MRI Global business unit incurring continous losses. Desperately trying to garner public support he puts variety of faces in front - philosophical, emotional, from time to time. His friend circle distinguishes itself as MR console specialists - and self proclaimed owners of MR console. Anyone joins here would realise in few months that all of the work is done outside this friends circle- historically and even in present times. These people just come to office to get better share of ratings, money, awards etc at cost everyone else- a practice followed year on year for several years. Shamelessly hanging on job for several years this group has prospered financially being a huge burden on system at the cost of others. Anyone would see them doing absolutely no work -be it bug fixing, coding or design but all these managers, architects, system engineers are just experts in delegating work or delivery pressure to someone else. Unlike GE or Siemens, best practices of having effort tracking mechanisms are completely missing. They just escape from every effort tracking mechanism when there is delivery target. Off late, SaFe Agile is advocated, only to get fancy roles and shield themselves from delivery responsibilities. The moment any external target or issue comes, Pramod and his friend circle backs off and puts it on some enginèer or tester and just escapes from office saying their work- life balance is getting affected!
In summary, If you are joining this team, consider alternatives and don't fall for rosy words of any manager(there are so many) or director(more than handful for just 100+ people) working for MRI team.
HR person who just works as rubber stamp comes and sits here with team for eyewash. They have changed once in half year for no value addition whatsoever. He works on behest of these people with no independent authority, no amount of complaints or proofs have worked as he is part of these beneficiaries.
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