Pros
- Free food - If you want to get paid without working, you might like it here. If you're cunning enough, you can get away with lazing around.
Cons
- Management causes one train wreck after another - Engineering is like constant firefighting - People gave feedback saying there are transparency issues, so CEO held a meeting to address these concerns. However, the way I see it, the problem is not transparency, but a lack of trust. Nobody believes anything the management says. People only gossip among small groups. Nobody talks to management about this, because of lack of trust. Behold, a vicious circle! - There were rumours that Hike acquired the company, as per The Ken. CEO dismissed it as "some drunk dude must've written the article". Few months later, a major collaboration starts with Hike, Hike gives sensitive intellectual property to our team, the team moves into an old Hike office and now there are rumours about people's employments soon going to be transferred to Hike. Can you see why people have trust issues? - They hide the fact that some colleagues are in notice period. Heavy censorship is another reason why trust issues exist among employees. - Product decisions are made without proper research. When CEO was confronted with why this happens, his reply was "no dude, we do our research." Convincing enough? You tell me. - Most projects we work on get scrapped. CEO claims most big companies do that. I don't buy that, as I have worked in multiple companies before, and nowhere else do they scrap 7 out of 10 active projects. - Remaining 3 projects also crash and burn due to poor engineering, poor product decisions and subpar QA.
