I wanted to understand how the engineering culture at CRED is. How is the work-life balance? Do you approve of the CEO?
Heard that they are putting people on pip and letting go most of them
It's quite good as my peers at cred tell...but yeah CTO and cXos have final say most of the times.
Wait for validation from cred guyss
Engineering culture has shifted to politics culture which is inevitable when the company grows to the employee count it has. Flat hierarchy has not worked out as expected and after talking about radical candour as a value so much, it still is not appreciated in teams. Teams are in a transitional phase of startup culture to a Big company culture which would have processes in check. And a lot of code is archaic, written without documentation in a poor hacky way which must have made sense when the company was small, but is now hard to maintain.
Talent: people are exceptionally talented, I feel like an imposter. And you can have brilliant conversations with different people and teams. But they are underutilised by some undemocratic procedures, lots of boring work and number crunching to satisfy leaders.
Lack of leaders: as average employees are young, and first time leaders.
CEO is visionary, and brilliant in his knowledge of how the world works. Has a knack of figuring out/ predicting what will work, and is a curious person which loves learning. He is aware of the shortfalls in the company as well. If working with him, your learning would be exponential. True capitalist, and he would love if you go to him with an idea which reduces employee count in the company, which might sound ruthless, but it is how capitalist organisations actually work.
Thanks for the detailed answers!
I guess designers there don’t approve
