Ask me anything about Razorpay

I'm in the technology team. Been there several years.

Culture - Fundamentals are good. People are respected, founders are great, people are heard, policies are people friendly, you won't find assholes here.

Work wise - I'd say, depends on the team. Some teams are over loaded, some are not. Some are always on fire because of the nature of the problem statement (sudden regulatory changes, audits and compliance), some are more steady paced.

Org tries to live by transparency, so decisions are communicated with reasoning etc.

Pandemic has made people a little less connected, but I guess that's true everywhere. So it wasn't the same like before, but with a hybrid setup now, things are recovering

Overall, good place.

It is what it is. Does one have to talk badly to prove that the answers are legit? I'm not here to spread masala. Not everything needs to be gossip. The answers are not always black and white and in the grey and that's what I've mentioned in my answers. Everyone has their own experience that colours their opinions and this is merely my own.

Answering questions about compensation isn't fair to anybody including the candidate. It sets up unrealistic expectations and those expectations blind the candidate from making choices that could honestly be great for them. Worse, even if they've joined, they keep comparing themselves to "the bracket". Work hard, rise fast, pay will follow is the right attitude.

And as far as getting compensated in Razorpay - one thing I might add is that we're NOT top of market when it comes to cash and stock, but we're one of the few (if not the only) who has successfully done a stock buyback every year from the last 5 years with the same terms to both current and former employees. That's the real value. If Low risk, good returns is your thing, then you'd be happy in Razorpay else you'll keep comparing yourselves to friends and getting disheartened.

But isn't that the whole point of this app? So if you want to avoid generalization or set wrong expectations.. why don't you state the facts with finer filters.. that you know of.

Example: for PM, 10 YOE, from IIT/or, in Privacy or whatever domain this is the range.

If the question is too general may be share an example of a specific case you know. That will help

Yes if you're in frontend or senior roles. DSA only for freshers and SDE1s.

That's quite assuring, thanks a lot! Some more questions, if you may:

• Where can I know whether razorpay is hiring or not ? Should I just keep checking the careers page ?

• Please let me know if you can refer me for a frontend position. I've previously worked as a fullstack web developer at a startup as an intern, and I'll share any more info that you might require, preferably over another platform if possible.

This is false. Work is challenging everywhere. Lot to learn. Challenges are sometime scary. Fuck ups can really screw things up bad and impact a lot of other orgs business.

During our college last year they gave 31lpa. I chose Amazon over it.

Purely dependent on your past work and your talent. You should not think that you have 18+ years of experience else you'll always end up comparing with others. There are 8 year experienced people who are principal engineer or directors in the company. Pure talent.

Thanks.

Salary depends on your negotiation skills. Would be in the range of 20-30L. Company is financially very very strong. Could have been decently profitable if they wanted to. Last year posted a 7cr profit as well. Right now focused on growth.

Not hiring at the moment but we don't care about your previous tech stack.

Thanks for responding. Until hiring is resumed do you suggest some technologies I should get familiar with in order to improve my chances of getting hired?

No. All high collaboration roles like EMs, PMs, Design, Senior engineers are expected to be in office twice a week. Only in unusual circumstances (children mid term in school, parents sick etc) a limited time extension has been granted. This is a 6 month experiment and based on some criteria, the policy may be extended or revised.

Answered above.

Yes in many ways but breadth of the offering isn't comparable and that's where Razorpay has an advantage at the moment. Stripe is a payments infra company, Razorpay is a full stack payments provider. If you're a company that only wants the fundamentals- Cards, NetBanking, UPI - Stripe can probably beat Razorpay.

However, given the India specific focus, Razorpay can out innovate them with speed of execution on newer opportunities. Payments market in India is expanding because of Regulatory support. Every year new experiments being run by the regulator - NEU, PA/PG, Account aggregator framework, UPI lite, CC in UPI, CBDCs, Card tokenisation etc are all innovations from the last 1-2 years alone!

That's where Razorpay can beat a player like Stripe.