Thales Noida is not a good place, full of politics and incompetent senior management
Pros
Number of leaves is best in industry. Policies are favorable to employees. Flexi work hours.
Cons
Very inefficient and Incompetent senior management in Gemalto/Thales Noida. Some of Directors along with Noida center head only spend time running politics. They never take ownership of any failures because they don't have time for projects but only dirty politics, and will put all blame on team members who are not part of their group. Most of Senior Managemt is unqualified, untrained in management philosophy and act like typical goons in their one to one meetings with individuals. Lots of favouritism and groupism, only those are prospering here who lick the feet of their bosses. You will be successful if your current boss knows you from some previous project or organization and if you had been seeking his well wishes since previous days, irrespective of your poor performance and incompetence. Merit has no meaning here for majority of Directors. Just bow down while greeting the Noida center head and you're good. This all has happened in past 1-2 years only after Thales acquiring Gemalto. French people always have an upper hand, most of them promoted to extremely high positions without experience in handling R&D. They treat India software engineers as just workers or labours, and fire them without reasons.
