Hike Reviews

3.7

61% would recommend to a friend

(327 total reviews)
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Kavin Bharti Mittal

65% approve of CEO

42% positive business outlook

Hike has an employee rating of 3.7 out of 5 stars, based on 327 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Hike employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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327 reviews
1.0
9 Oct 2015

Company is totally misdirected. Leader under wrong guidance.

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Company with brand name. What ever the inside problems it still has name in market. The money is good if you want to stay in NCR and want a decent option. If you want to get the rush of a fast moving company with a lot happening everyday join. Look at it as 1+ year stint to work up fast and get into finer league. Best place for quick climbing and self success.Don’t make long term plans.

Cons

Company is facing many problems specially over last few months when suddenly its values changed or stopped existing. Let me tell you about the culture of the company and every word of it is true. {1} When employee use is over he is made to leave without dignity. CEO is brainwashed to fire everyone old. When a person heading people and culture is not employee centric and believes in firing after their use is over there is nothing much to say. {2} All old employees are called worthless and are removed. Only 1% of older employees remain. But if the old employees are useless how could they make a company meaningful enough for these x team to join? We joined when company was nothing and worked hard to get the funding. Now they come and boast about the company which they have zero contribution towards and are finding ways to throw all older ones out. {3} Someone who has never seen a a start up before is given all power, he is equivalent to the CEO but cannot relate to our journey, he brings mightier than god attitude not knowing what it takes to work in small team at 4am. What it means to work when brand is not big and we are short of resources. We never took vacation and stayed in office every night till 2am because that is what start ups does. Start up does not have a 20 member HR team, it has 50 member in total including CEO and CTO and still at lower cost. {4} The company behaves like it has become google. The X team is the elite leaders who are far above the common workers they don’t even talk to those below them. {5}. Only language which is spoken is money, free benefits, expensive online tools, free rides, luxurious and fancy office, party, beer, goodies, how to make wealth …are we that cheap that you think this makes us happy? When we joined it was not for brand or money but for vision, we sacrificed our weekends, holidays, and time away from family not because we wanted money but because of work and colleagues. But the new x team will never understand this. {6}. Every company goes through change but management here has never handled change before and lack experience and maturity to do it, and those teaching have no idea what to do that is why everything is falling like earthquake.

1.0
6 Jun 2020
Recommend
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Pros

Free Food Average Technology Stack Office Location

Cons

All positive reviews are fake, mistakenly I go through the review & joined the company. And that’s my biggest mistake to join hike. I don’t recommend this company especially for Software Engineers Role(Backend+Mobile) both. Zero Work-life balance, High-pressure environment for all experiences(0..10 Years) of Engineers. Unrealistic deadlines for developers. No Saturday & Sunday even no working hours. U have to work till 12 AM midnight normally. Hiring & Firing is normal here, so ur job is always insecure. Initially, I thought it’s an engineering company but u hardly got time to learn new things. If u r a Tech-oriented person with a dream to work for Google/Microsoft/Facebook etc than Never come to Hike. It's far away from ur expectations. It’s a complete a startup u ll always mess up with Hike work & High Working Pressure. Example:- To develop a big module u ll get 3 - 4 days. Ideally, it would take 8-10 days. So now u can imagine of work pressure. Moreover, they will count ur Sat & Sundays in ur work estimate. Tech stack is average & free food is the only positive thing I found here. Regular survey taken for company feedback (this is good) but they hardly take any action to improve.

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Hike Response
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Hello there! Thank you for your valuable feedback, we at Hike are always building something new, something different and making anything innovative requires the ability to surrender to the unknown. We understand the need for downtime and hence the best part about our leave policy is that there is none! Everyone’s free to take leaves whenever needed. No questions asked. In case of any personal problems, everyone is approachable and one should never hesitate to reach out. That being said, we’d like to thank you for being part of Hike’s journey and we wish you all the best in your future endeavours.
2.0
12 Apr 2016

It was once good

Recommend
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Pros

As a fresher, one can learn different technologies fast. You get Mac book, phone

Cons

Mac book can be found at any other good company too like Adobe Amazon or any other good startup. Their culture sucks now. No flexibility in timings , no wfh, there are stupid meetings all the time. If the idea does work an engineer is held responsible and they are appraised 0%( I know many of my friends got 0). They only Care about top employees (leads), no employee care

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