No IT professionalism at all, Good reviews are posted by management itself - Software Engineer HostBooks Employee Review

1.0
8 Jun 2020
Recommend
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Pros

The people are very hardworking and friendly. You will get lots of opportunities to learn and enhance your skills.

Cons

It has been more than 5-years since Hostbooks has started its own product development. No doubt the Hostbooks is working very hard on its vision and has claimed many successful deliveries However, down the line, the situation is not the same as it seems, it is very fragile. 1.. The company has no product management process, neither it follows any development methodology. Most of the things are done by either verbal communication or email that often leads to miscommunication and project delay. 2.. Due to lack of technical and architectural supervision, people are easily violating the coding standard, the code repositories are messed and unwatched, no major concern about data security and due to lack of QA, there is always a major performance concern with the final products. 3..The lack of professionalism and skills in middle managers leads to unethical acts, they are failed to have transparency and guild the team. Boss flattery, rank discrimination is very common in HostBooks, like the managers and leads get special tea in ceramic cups where other employees take in the disposal cup by themself. 4.. Women harassment: From the last two years, plenty of cases appear about women staking, ridicule, unprofessionalism etc. In most cases, the victim either has resigned or got terminated. 5.. HR is inefficient here, they don't follow any rules and ethics, They are failed to control women's harassment, They are failed in the hiring, They are always delayed in documents, no policy for WFH, lack of transparency. Even this COVID pandemic situation, they don't even update the employe about salary and takes feedback. 6.. WFH: Delayed in monthly salary and has been cut to 30%, asked employees to go for LWP.

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Pros

The leadership and the culture is good, healthy. Generally promotes work/life balance, is not exploitative, Pay is relatively competitive for a non-profit. Colleagues are great, brilliant cosmopolitan people. It has been severely negatively impacted by the destruction of USAID, and that has been sad to see. Overall, a good place to work in this sector,

Cons

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1.0
3 Nov 2022
Recommend
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Pros

No pros longer in company

Cons

The company gives alternate Saturday off, but if you take leave on long weekend, then you do all Saturday compulsory at that time. You can take 3 restricted holidays in a year... But when you apply for a restricted holiday, it gets canceled.Almost all the employees have not been paid salaries for a few months now. And for the employees who have left the company, a special bouncer has been kept for them…they can neither ask for their salary nor talk to the management.

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HostBooks Response
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We are surprised to read this review. All our employees are very much working happily in HostBooks and getting their salary on 1st. Please share your name and details with hr@hostbooks.com and we will review your records to check your performance and attendance status.
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