Need to develop trust across offices - QA Engineer Instart Employee Review

Pay: Pay has not kept up with trends in Bangalore due to which hiring suffers and leads to discontent among older employees. Sometimes this reflects as lopsided pay depending on when an employee joins. Perhaps happens at other companies as well. Micro management with employee communications: For internal communications, the Bengaluru team needs an alias without any one from other geos but this is always blocked and all communications are monitored. Work Pressure: There is not enough time taken to take a step back at the existing architecture and fix it in a ground up manner. This leads to patch work of fixes and not the best code. This is common to many startups. Disparity: The HQ team has many more events and fun outings (as seen in the company blog) but the India team almost never has any of them. There are almost no photos of the India team in the company blog. This needs to be fixed. Lack of QA: Barely any QA hires and devs have to do QA and the few QA have lot of work