Nightmare for a software-developer - Software Engineer Inverse.AI Employee Review

1.0
6 Sept 2023
Recommend
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Pros

Good looking workplace. Indoor sports available. Free foods.

Cons

1. No mentorship. You won't get any senior or someone to guide you. 2. There's no possibility for your self improvement. Because the management only focused on fast output and make money. 3. You wont get knowledge about the modern development guidelines and learn new things. Most of the time you have to work on the legacy codebase. 4. The CEO is arrogant. 5. Though you get 20 days casual leaves and 5 sick leaves per year, you have to work on weekend if you take any of those. This is also applicable for Govt. holidays. Basically you have to be on a 24/7 service. 6. No proper level designation or salary structure. They just make some weird rules whenever needed.

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Inverse.AI Response
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Replying to the Cons point by point: 1. We have developers with many years of experience in their current technology stack. Also, we provide paid courses for all the employees. 2. Spending time on learning in the first 1 hour of every work day is mandatory in our company. Not to mention bi-weekly, weekly, and monthly programming & math contests. 3. Every software company has some legacy module in their code bases. But most of our code base is modularized in such a way that each module can be implemented with any required technology. So it's not accurate to judge that employees won't learn modern development guidelines. We work on low-level C/C++ to high-level Kotlin/Swift technologies. We employ algorithms, data structure, linear algebra, geometry, etc. in our project extensively. Working on our project gives an employee the confidence that he/she can perform any challenging task. 4. Every employee tries to be humble including the CEO and treats each other as brothers/Sisters. There is no place for arrogance in our company. We all work for the best of the company including the CEO. If any decision is better for the company, the CEO must agree with it whether he likes it or not. We play with each other, argue with each other , and share laughter and joy with each other. 5. The only time they have to make up is if they are on the schedule for some project and they have to take a leave then they make up on holidays. We even pay employees if they work on holidays. 6. We don't use any designations other than Team lead, Project leads, etc. We have a base salary structure. But after that, it's all about performance. We do not believe in salary structure. It de-motivates employees to be high performers when their salary is structured to be fixed. Anyone can achieve any salary, profit share, or performance bonus if they can perform. There are people who got 100% increment as well as multiple times evaluations in a year for being high performers. We take pride in our projects, office culture, and employees' abilities. This review doesn't judge us correctly.

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