Pros
Flexi timings. no formals required. Can't remember any other good experience to which aricent has contributed. overall it's a bad experience
Cons
managers do not hesitate to play with people's carrier. in some business units, people are moved around testing and development teams. Some times they are even asked to do work of an operational engineer. People responsible for initiating the new projects (STL and above) are highly incompetent. they are old timers who worked once on C and never explore other technologies when a project comes (C++ is untouchable in large part of the organization, most of them have not heard of design patterns) no respect for employees. transport department of admin is more corrupt than a government organization. bus service is run at employee cost and employees are constantly threatened that bus service will be stopped. employees feels that aricent is serving to its vendors rather than to its customers.