Employees at the India (Hyderabad) office are at the absolute bottom of the food chain here in terms of how much the company cares about them.
The company is not at all concerned with the well being/mental health or personal/proffesional growth of the employees.
Unrealistic deadlines without any planning of any kind at any stage is the norm here. The sales team/leadership would promise features/products
to clients without any kind of strategy or plan, and then all the pressure would be on the teams to get the feature shipped.
No importance is given to design/architecture or building something properly. The leadership has no idea or interest in building good technology,
neither do they have the technical know how. The guy who heads the technology doesn't know the difference between a POC, and an MVP ready for production.
Almost all the products are full of hack jobs, that keep breaking, and then employees are pressured again to fire fight, make hot fixes,
and somehow keep things running. rince . repeat.
The result is the employees are constantly stressed out trying to meet unrealistic deadlines, and releases, and eventually burn out. And all of
this while writing crappy code (since no time is given to research and build things well), and not following any good practices, which
results in no growth in the employee's skill set.
The company and leadership actively encourages working overtime and weekends, and people are made to feel guilty if they don't work 11-12 hours days. The line 'We are a growing startup, and this is how it is everywhere. Once we stabilize, things would get better' has been continuously fed to the employees as an excuse for terrible work culture and unreasonable work pressure for almost a decade since this company was founded
All of the above is what the company expects from the employees. Now I'll come to how the company treats the employees.
They used covid as an excuse to take as much advantage of their employees as they could. Even though there was no loss in revenue or
business (Their business and clients actually grew during the pandemic. source : There is a company wide slack channel where all the new deals are posted),
salary cuts were in place for months. Forget about hikes, the variable component of everyone's salary was cancelled. And while the
current employees were being treated like this in the name of loss in revenue due to the pandemic, the company had enough money to acquire three companies during this time,
and constantly hire new people every day for months.
The leadership blatantly lies to the new joinees. Even while they were cancelling the variable pay of current employees, they were
promising new joinees that no part of the variable pay would be deducted.
Do not join this company under any circumstances if you value your sanity, or growth. DO NOT BELIEVE THE POSITIVE GLASSDOOR REVIEWS.
Even though I haven't experienced this personally, there's many people who have told me that the HR regularly approaches recent hires to write
positive reviews for the company on glassdoor.
You dont even have to believe this review. Just contact current employees on linkedIn and ask them about the day to day here.verify everything i've written here from them. you'll get the same picture I am trying to paint.
