Dgraph Labs Reviews

Company has been run to the ground and digging deep hole for itself because of the senior leadership, among whom the Founder and Chief-of-Everything should be blamed. 1. Bad engineering workflow - No focus on writing RFCs, roadmap, prioritizing tasks. Everything is driven by the CTO who takes decisions on his whim, or what he saw on Twitter. 2. Runs war-room, late night calls, humiliations and ad-hoc firing 3. No work life balance, no focus on career development of new-joiners or fresh undergrads. 4. Product directions change weekly, no clarity on what are they aiming to build. One day they want to take on GraphQL ecosystem, another day they want to build GraphDB and yet another day they want to manage cloud clusters on colo. 5. No follow-through, only blog driven development. The whole point of company seems to be satisfying CEOs resume so that he can blog about what new data structure he copied and re-implemented in go. Stay away and do not join. Company recently laid off almost everyone and only handful people are left with 4 months of runway.

This is an unstable company. The company laid off almost 75 % of its employees in early June due to lack of funding. It has barely 10-12 employees now. Employees staying back have also started looking for jobs. Even though the company had funding problems, it kept on hiring. Kept on painting a picture that everything is good up till a week before layoff. Hire and Fire culture: Close to 15 engineers left/were fired within a year before mass layoff. Most engineers leave this company after working for around an year. The more experienced engineers have also left now. CTO: CTO/founder is inexperienced in management. He tries to micromanage all the time. Always goes with the hacky approach which eventually breaks. He is the reason for failure of the company. I feel the newly hired CEO, Head of Engineering, India and the Engineering manager were mere puppets. All were laid off. Nepotism: The son of India engineering head was hired as an intern. The wife of the CTO also worked for some time with the company. Never heard or seen such kind of nepotism in tech companies.