Which tech companies in India have a strong product and a long runway?
Creating this thread to help the laid off folks look for their next company.
ThisIsSparta
Stealth
a year ago
Only Razorpay would meet those specifications IMO. Product culture does not exist at Indian startups.
Watcher9
Stealth
a year ago
What do you mean by last sentence?
ThisIsSparta
Stealth
a year ago
Here is the long version of why I am super disoriented about the Indian ecosystem:
Go to any meetup with “folks” who work in product teams in Bangalore and you will meet Product Owners disguised as Product Managers. They will talk tactics, Agile, SCRUM and drop other disappointing jargon like “Now, Next. Later” and “Dual Track Development” frameworks.
Go to a startup mixer in any decent startup market either East or West of India and people are jamming on one thing and one thing only - insights.
Any ecosystem that has more focus on virtue signaling and less focus on metrics (PAID GROWTH DOES NOT COUNT) that matter is where this happens. Take 99% of startups off the treadmill of VC money and they fall to the ground, which means they do not have a product culture. Raxorpay is one of the 1% (I am sure there are more, none come to mind).
Summersand07
Stealth
a year ago
Whatfix
Iceguy09
Stealth
a year ago
How is the team culture at Whatfix, good sir ?
Summersand07
Stealth
a year ago
Yes. It's very good.
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Heard they have a great culture flowing from the folks at the top + a decent mix of IC PM’s.
WLB is bad, attrition rate is very high. Go only if you don't have any other choice
AnonUser
Stealth
a year ago
Agree. I left quickly too .
Very large to make any impact , not a startup any more
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stealthydhokla
Stealth
a year ago
Appsmith
Achiever999
Stealth
a year ago
Apptio
Vagabond
Stealth
a year ago
Safe but definitely not fun/great work. Also highly depends on the manager and vertical
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StartupBaba
Stealth
a year ago
Not a strong product in MMT
I swear when I searched for a hotel in Jaipur and it showed the nearest hotel in udaipur
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ConcurrentThinker
Stealth
a year ago
Harness
ConcurrentThinker
Stealth
a year ago
People are good in general. Lot of work to do which is a good thing these times I suppose. It might also depend on team for culture as it's made up of multiple acquired companies
MrWane
Stealth
a year ago
CEO is a good guy, management is mediocre.
When I was looking out, they majorly hired ones interested in JS stack even for core backend
SteepHost15
Stealth
a year ago
But postman's product is getting weird though. I liked them better initially.
PettyTrash85
Stealth
a year ago
Impact Analytics
Watcher9
Stealth
a year ago
Hearing it a lot. What do they do?
PettyTrash85
Stealth
a year ago
They provide products & services to retail companies mainly. Focused on demand planning, inventory management etc.
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DamnItAI
Stealth
a year ago
Rapido
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