Never intern at PhonePe

Nowadays companies tend to take 5-6 rounds of interview and One of my friends had gone through a similar procedure for 3 companies now- all into Fintech(one is a big MNC doing good and the other ones are startup) initially they moved forward with the CTC although they didn't have the budget and after 6 rounds of interview(5 general rounds and 1 to be more sure). I don't know how you cannot be sure of someone after 6 rounds of interview and why companies are not transparent about the CTC they can afford. It has happened to a lot of my known SDEs including myself. Just wanted to vent out, just because of the ongoing market conditions, companies are troubling the candidates a lot. Did you guys also have similar experiences?

Which startup has good product design team culture in India?

I have applied to a lot of companies directly and through referrals. I have a top tier college and a FANG in my resume. I am currently working in a decent sized startup. I am not getting any callbacks from recruiters. Is it happening only with me?

I was interning with a logistics visibility company called FourKites. (SDE Intern) Joined in June 2023 and left in March 2024. They made us work like mules. As interns, we used to do same work as that of SDE-1 and SDE-2 . Bug fixes, working on features, automation , QA, everything we did for 25k stipend hoping that we would get PPO in the end. In March, they told us that only 6 out of 40 interns will be given PPO, rest all can fuck off by 31 may. I resigned the same day but still haven't gotten a single OA except for IBM and IBM didn't reply after the OA. I feel frustrated and lost.

Asking for urgent guidance/help.. I have an offer from above 3 companies for their Analytics team and need to make decision in next 3 days The offer numbers are more or less same with 10% deviation so not a decision factor for me right now.. Need inputs on following factors to simplify my decision to join - 1) Team culture, My current Org. has very stressful and bad culture. So, looking for some good place to join where the team and Manager are Atleast supportive and will help in career progression 2) Build business and Product understanding, My seniors have suggested to get as much knowledge and exposure to business and product as possible and this one is very imp. in long term 3) Best tech stack, Good to have but not necessary : Want to work on some new and relevant tech stack to be relevant in constantly changing market. (Unsure if exposure to GenAI and LLMs are good to have in analytics career path And finally if any Org./leadership/manager related comments one can suggest that would be helpful too… this is a very important decision for me and my career growth and would like to stay with this for next few years for sure..

Biz role Is it worth taking a pay cut and join PhonePe ? I have heard culture and people are good at PhonePe but at what price ?

How is the engineering culture, quality of work and work life balance at PhonePe?