Pros
I am a former employee at Tredence's Bangalore office and I can say with confidence that the recent reviews of the company are not false but they are also not completely true. 1. Tredence is most definitely a great place to learn in a short time period about analytics and how companies are leveraging the power of data. 2. People working in the company are very nice and friendly and the onsites (the ones that I have worked with) are largely helpful 3. Company's upper management do take inputs from employees where they can 4. There obviously is partiality amongst the leadership team for certain people like the very initial employees or people from IITs but I think it is a common practice in India 5. While being able to talk to clients within 1 year of graduating from college is not anything to be proud of, getting a chance to present your results and findings to Directors or Senior Director level clients at large US companies is not something that you get in Indian IT companies since there is always the ever present problem of seniority etc. Tredence is largely a merit based company
Cons
1. I see a lot of difference in the kind of work and exposure between working for a company like Tredence and my current employer. Back in Tredence I had received compliments and even awards based on client appreciation for creating fancy Tableau reports which were useful for executives but were very easy to create or were projects with no great takeaways or learnings but in my current company I have visibility on decision making upto a reasonable level in the org. So there is a real sense of ownership and pride in the fact that I am helping my company which was missing in Tredence. 2. In my current company I collaborate with the data science team which builds ML models and algorithms and I can honestly say that what is being passed as AI or ML work in Tredence is not even close to the real deal. They attained these capabilities by investing in the right infrastructure and people. There is probably 1 or 2 people in Tredence who are strong technically, all the company cares about is the ability to talk your way through or plainly put talk crap with some fancy jargons here and there 3. They are not a sweatshop but they are also not a place where you can make career.