Bhai, opportunity is king. One good thing about my company? We don't just climb ladders, we build them. Sky is the limit!

Analyst

We have a sports event every month, best thinggggg 😂

Software Developer

Founder’s Office

Bhai Aisa q bol rahe ho bahot bada brand hai Gojek aur itni zyada salary deta hai

Application Engineer

Software Engineer

Come on,all companies have at least one good thing among SEVERAL bad things.

Welcome to Software Engineers's Private Community

On honest note, what's one good thing about your company?

On honest note, what's one good thing about your company?- Grapevine

I am trying to switch, wanted to know first hand opinion of software engineers of their companies. This will help me have a wholistic view of the pasteur out there.

Here is my take on gojek (uptill early 2023, most of these are no longer true hence my reason to leave)

1. Good (better than market standard) compensation
2. Great career growth
3. Really good employee centric culture
4. Good managers who want you to win

Waiting to hear some good stuff! :)

Say something good about your company

Welcome to Indian Startups's Private Community

Hi All, 
I think with funding winter, the work culture in Bangalore Startups is becoming toxic day by day. In my company, it started with filling the daily time sheet of what work we did, then why do we need work from home( Company gives 4wfh/month), then a circular came today that every data filled in timesheet will be minutely checked with card punches, can't be late even for 5 minutes more than 3 times a month. The hypocrisy part is employees are underpaid(5-6 LPA for software developer) and overworked(9+ hrs/day).
I got to know one more startup where they have normalised 12hrs/day 6 days a week working and if you work less, it will affect negatively. They force their employees to reside nearby to the office so they can work till 12-2am from 10.30am.

Is it common everywhere?

Bangalore Startup work culture is becoming toxic

Founder

Welcome to IT Company Discussion's Private Community

I have seen so many posts, on Grapevine alone, of how people are being harrassed and traumatized in their companies. And honestly, reading all those posts and comments scare the hell out of me because I haven't been subjected to or witnessed anything like this.

Let me share the experience I have had till now:

I have ~2 YOE, and Capgemini is my first company. I know the pay isn't great, but that's the only thing I don't like about the company. 

The people I have met or worked with in the entirety of my time here, they are supportive, kind, and considerate. Every single one of them, including the managers/directors. They don't expect you to work late hours or on weekends, unless there are critical escalations/important deadlines.

My manager gives out words of thanks and appreciation, even on the smallest of things (yes he talks strictly too, and usually I am at the wrong when this happens, nothing major though). I get all the support that I need. I don't have to worry about the work life balance.

I have never had a single issue with a teammate, and most of them are seniors whom I work with. No big egos, no attitude, nothing. They help out whenever I reach out to them.

And it is the same story on my client side as well. 

I have worked/interacted with both male and female leaders, and all I have ever seen among everyone is empathy, respect for everyone's work, and always ready to help nature.

I understand that this is all just my experience, but my reason for writing this post is to share a positive experience and that there are still good people around here.

Maybe I am the odd one out (on the happier side)

Here is something I can tell you about bias. It is human nature to be very emotional and complain when things are bad and not talk about it too much when things are good.  
  
 Forums like Grapevine and Blind are filled with unhappy posts because of this reason. Most people complain when things are bad. Hardly anyone praises when things are good. For every bad post you see here, I am sure people are out there having a good time at work.  
  
 Treat this with a pinch of salt and live out your career, you only have one. Don’t be bogged down and settle because you are scared of the unknown.

Product Manager

Welcome to Office Gossip's Private Community

Just wanted to move away from the usual negative feedback’s and reviews that people post here to try and see if there’s any good as well.

Since it’s usually the negative reviews of your management or your company  , Why not share some good reviews as well

Assistant Manager

I'll go first.

1. even healthcare
2. Hike/Rush
3. Spartan Poker
4. Ultrahuman
5. Invideo

Mention the reason too if possible.
Let's discover some hidden ones. Brownie points if you mention startups that only a few have heard of.

If you know a less-known Indian startup that is doing some crazy shit (not so obvious ones), do mention.

Your turn.

What are some cool startups (Indian) you would love to work with?

As an ex-Ultrahuman employee, I can confirm that you don’t want to work there. 
  
 The culture is cut throat. I was there for an year and I got a total of 3 weekends where I didn’t touch my laptop. 
  
 Credit where its due, founders and people are amazing, it’s just that the expectations are so high that you are constantly overworked.

Marketing Associate

List of companies with (mostly) honest ethical well-meaning management ? Go...

Human Resources

Joined this organization as an SDE. Initially, had a great experience for the first few months, got to learn a lot. However, eventually, the management (co-founder) started showing his true colors where they would favor a few people who would say yes to everything the co-founder had to say, while others who asked for justification would suffer.

One such issue is the lack of concrete documentation for policies, and surprise, surprise, the policies change based on the mood of the founders. HR, oh, where can I begin? I honestly haven't seen them work, other than salary processing, where they have outsourced their work like LinkedIn management and basic tasks such as wishing employees on their birthdays. This is perfectly fine with the co-founder, as he considers this innovative.
Unnecessarily, we are forced to follow processes that hamper productivity, and we have to attend meetings for half the day. Still, they expect us to work for more than 10 hours when the salary is peanuts—hell, even peanuts are better; at least we can have them with alcohol.

My learning is saturated, and there’s no zeal to learn as the manager and others demotivate you. The most frustrating part is the quarterly rewards, which make no sense, as the rewards are given to people who can appease their managers (confirmed).

And now that we have increments incoming, they have all of a sudden started highlighting mistakes, finding mistakes even if they don’t exist. Like one such example was the co-founder asking us to write a script when the script was already shown, and asking for an update on a JIRA ticket when it was already given in the comments.

They lost my respect when they started canceling people’s PTOs and disturbing people on their much-needed PTOs where they spend time with their families and unwind. The co-founder asks the PO to call and disturb the developer on their much-needed vacations after working for long hours and weekends as he wants to satisfy his ego.

Rant post

The last 1-2 years have been filled with turmoil and uncertainty with layoffs and unfriendly employee policies
But for now, let's share some of the best companies you have had the experience to work in

Best companies to work for in 2024

Consultant

Welcome to Product Managers's Private Community

I work as a Product manager at a series A well funded startup.
This company is run by a solo founder/CEO.

This is a wannabe tech and product startup that does not care about their product at all. The internal review meetings get 5 minutes on product and 55 minutes on business and operations on a good day!

All they care about is how to run operations and tech just works on automation instead of building the product for the end user. Every OKR cycle runs for two months where OKRs are set for product but we end up building internal tools because things get "re-prioritised" and operations "can not miss targets".

The worst part is that the strategy changes every 2 months and every week, the CEO keeps adding new "wants". Almost like a baby seeing shiny new toys.
At this stage, the product has become a mess with no identity at all!

This baby always says "But is that even do-able" acts critical and tries to seem smart in front of their employees while lying to the investors and board every other week that we are a tech and product company.

I don't know if this happens at other startups in India. 

Would love to hear what y'all have experienced.

Identifying a Baby founder

You sound like a tech bro, who thinks that only tech runs the world. Huge companies like Tata, reliance etc are built on solid operations and business insights.  
  
 Tech is enabler, if the founder is smart with business and operations, most likely he will make a good business, and unless you start valuing things beyond tech also, you will keep hopping jobs and cribbing why people don’t value you.

Senior Product Manager

Creating this thread to help the laid off folks look for their next company.

Which tech companies in India have a strong product and a long runway?

Majority of Indian startups has toxic work culture and the same is not true for any US or Europe based startup. Indian startups just copy paste ideas from the west and apply it to Indian context. We don't have original product barring few such as Postman and all. Why is it so and how we can improve the situation?

Majority of Indian startups are shit.

What made it best? The pay, the culture, or your manager?

What's the best company you have worked for?

Startup ecosystem seems to be going through a tough time recently.

with less money infused in the market, and all the big player laying off employees, companies stooping so low in the name of cutting down the cost and news about some companies treating their employees like shit.


Still my optimistic ass believes that it can’t all be that bad, right? and things might get better.


Here’s my question to the community, what are some companies you would like to work for and why(apart from money 😉)?

What are some startups that you’d  like to work for?

Staff Engineer

And are there signs somebody could pick up even before joining?

People who work in a toxic work culture, what are some stories that you can share?

Corporate Strategist

Having read quite a bit of bashing on a lot of companies and most of it is justified as well, as lot of the employees of those companies vetted for the information.

Let’s maybe for the festive spirit, try listing companies which we are part of, or aware of, that still have atleast 2 of the following:
Good pay
Good work
Good WLB
Good career progression scope

Should help people who’re in the job market right now.

Good MNC/Indian startups worth celebrating?

This will help the people to get the list of good companies with compensations, WLB.

Based on your response I will Inmail the recruiters.

I will start
- Microsoft (I am already working)
- Atlassian
- Google

PS: @BiriyaniEnthu Please don't comment with a question.

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