About Egain Communications Pvt Ltd

[Namrata Gotule]

Hi ..
Any info about the company EGain Communications Pvt Ltd
I have an interview with this company ..
Basicaly java/J2EE based work
Salary seems to be alright but i am concerned about the name and reputation and future prospects...
Happens to be a Sunnyvale California Based company making CRM and call center software ..

If you have any useful info regarding this company do suggest

Thanks
Namrata

[Praveen Singh]

Hi Namrata,

I'm Praveen. I have worked with eGain in the past. They are product based company working on call center/CRM products. They have a good reputation in the market in their area of work. They have around 200 people in Pune. Workwise, they had one/2 projects apart from their product, and i was working in one of the project. But their main work is product based.

Overall i had a good experience working with eGain.

Praveen

[Kj Reddy]

Hi,

Egain is a reputed company atleast well known in Bombay and Pune. You can join without any hesitation. Same time I suggest you other big companies as there is lot of openings. If you have good expeirence its better to go more branded company

[Namrata Gotule]

Thanks people ...
You have given quite right information ...
Though i couldnt make it ...Tech Interview happened to be real tough and 1.5 hours long ...
Barrage of questions !!!
Well in between i checked the web for this company and it happens to be very reputed one..
It has recently started using IBM solutions and has gone linux way...
Marketwise also holds well withcustomers..

Thought i missed the chance ...

Anyways thanks for all your help !!
Still working in a product development company is better or in a services company ???

Do pass on your views!
thanks
Namarata

[Pradeep bhatt]

Still working in a product development company is better or in a services company ???

Service company is better. You will in different projects, different technologies and more onsite opporunities. If you are in a product development company you will only know the product and nothing but the product.

[Arjun Shastry]

So whats wrong in that?Having indepth knowledge in one is better than list of 100 technologies.Right?

[Pradeep bhatt]

Having indepth knowledge in one is better than list of 100 technologies

This in depth knowledge is not useful outside the company.

[Varun Khanna]

Originally posted by Pradeep Bhat:


Service company is better. You will in different projects, different technologies and more onsite opporunities. If you are in a product development company you will only know the product and nothing but the product.

I see it as an advantage. In services once the project is over you have to start again from scratch in the new project, whereas in Product based, your experience always accumulates ... isn't?

[Namrata Gotule]

I think in services company you have good oppurtunity to learn the Software development Life cycle for the first time but chances are higher that you end up doing projects that are very similar to each other many times
you waste lot of time doing the same thing from different clients
may be cutting and pasting the same code in the name reusability...
This is the case may be 65-70 % of the cases


With product developement you start with a new idea and may be new architechture head on ...
you have new bugs...
Whatever modifications you do to the product while its operation happen to be something to think about

You happen to grab a company which could launch or modifies products frequently they you learn more ..

Well thats what i have to say about this topic!!