ZoomyMochi

Things to enquire before joining a startup/company

As a software engineer considering joining a startup or company, what are the essential questions you recommend asking HR or the CEO to gain insights into the company culture, growth opportunities, and overall work environment? And whether to join there or not.

Please share your experiences or any red flag you noticed, would be very helpful for our community.

Thanks in advance

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SquishyQuokka

Gojek7mo

Runway

ZoomyMochi

Stealth7mo

This is very important, but do they generally share true insights about such things with new people who are about to join?

SquishyQuokka

Gojek7mo

@TrustyMate If they lie here then you can fuck them over later

SleepyBanana

PhonePe7mo

The best people to gather information from are ex-employees of a company. They are not bound to say sugar coated answers. I do it all the time, I reach out to ex employees if I have an offer and similarly I have been reached out by some people to know about my previous company

BouncyPancake

Stealth7mo

How you find ex employees?

PeppyDonut

Stealth7mo

Linkedin…duhhh

FluffyNugget

Plivo7mo

It is better to ask currently working employees than HR & CEO.

ZestyQuokka

Stealth7mo

They won't talk, or talk over written chat

FluffyNugget

Plivo7mo

Ya have a call. I have done this before. One mistake I made was not calling someone from the team I was suppose to join. Culture/tech stack is team specific

PeppyDonut

Stealth7mo

Bhai tujhe kya lagta hai HR honest answers dega? Joining se pehle bolenge we’re the fastest growing company/startup and are soon to close $10M round/ARR. Joining ke baad bolenge bohot problems hain, salary nhi de payenge/appraisal nahi kar payenge market is tough/funding winter hai.

Teri wajah se funding nhi mil pa rahi/loss ho raha hai kyuki tu saturday sunday available nahi hota falana dhimka.

PrancingBoba

Stealth7mo

The fact is that with startups there is no way of knowing what is the truth. Particularly, the runway that they have is something they wouldn't share with a prospect.

Best is to reach out to employees who had left the organisation recently. Track the lowest rated reviews on Glassdoor and look for employees who had previously left this organisation. This helps more often than not.

Present employees lie as they feel obliged to their present employer. This is also because they feel that there is a face chance that the person who is asking for reviews will join them shortly, creating complications for them in the workplace later.

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