High salary can't compensate for poor work-life balance - Engineer Onsurity Employee Review

Great work culture plus and good vibe

Typical startup cons but work is interesting

Good salary structure and salaries are generally paid on time. Earlier, the company had a flexible and supportive culture with good learning opportunities and talented people across teams. The initial engineering leadership and managers created a positive work environment, and employees had decent ownership and freedom in execution.

Over time, the organization started feeling more execution-driven and reactive rather than process-driven and stable. There has been continuous attrition across engineering leadership, with multiple managers, directors, CTOs, and experienced employees leaving within short periods. Priorities and projects change very frequently depending on the latest direction from upper management, and some projects are started with high urgency only to be dropped midway later. The AI initiatives also felt more “AI-powered” in presentation rather than involving deep technical AI/ML engineering work, with strong focus on prompting/tools instead of building long-term core systems or research-oriented solutions. There was also increased micromanagement from senior leadership, reduced flexibility/WFH culture, and growing expectations around weekend availability. Hiring and team planning at times appeared very short-term focused, where people were brought in for immediate deliverables without enough emphasis on long-term retention or team stability. Upper management also became heavily involved in day-to-day technical execution and access control instead of focusing more on strategic growth and business direction.