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What's happening in Razorpay ?

Saw multiple people are leaving organisation, looking for change.

9mo ago
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GoofyTaco
GoofyTaco
Highradius9mo

Amazon dude joined as CTO and is f**king everyone up.

SwirlyHamster
SwirlyHamster
Razorpay9mo

On a scale of 1-10 how bad is the condition ? Wasn’t there a CTO previously ? Who was he hired in place for ?

GigglyKoala
GigglyKoala
Razorpay9mo

@LowTcHelpMe Sounds like a porno title

SqueakyQuokka
SqueakyQuokka
Microsoft9mo

Lots of PIPs, it seems.

SqueakyBiscuit
SqueakyBiscuit
Swiggy9mo

Classic case when Amazon employee joins you

TwirlyMuffin
TwirlyMuffin
Stealth9mo

lol bro, they were hiring for SDE 2 at 13.5LPA . calling it Product Development Engineer 2

SwirlyHamster
SwirlyHamster
Razorpay9mo

But how bad would these people’s skills be if they are joining at 13.5 LPA

SwirlyTaco
SwirlyTaco
PayTM9mo

People who've been impacted with layoff and are desperate for job due to financial commitments might join at such pay. Though they'll be first to get a better offer and leave the moment market opens up

SwirlyHamster
SwirlyHamster
Razorpay9mo

Can you provide the number and source for validating this ?

GoofyTaco
GoofyTaco
Highradius9mo

My friend was pipped and laid off recently, so Doron is right.

JumpyWalrus
JumpyWalrus
Razorpay8mo

Been at org for 5+years, left it recently. Honestly culture has gone from great to ok to down right rotten over the last 2 years.

  • measuring PR merges or no of commits for devs, quarterly stack ranking based on god knows what, for PIP. (Mind u have personally know cases those who cleared pip still got fired, cause skip level manager/ director didn't like the person).
  • no discussion while planning, everything top driven.
  • every team seems to be working in silos, instead of actually working together to imrove something , have seen multiple instances where same problem is being solved by two different teams.
  • every little thing needs alignment from leaders, can't blame the devs, as managers actually ask not to do without my approval, got myself in arguments with my manager multiple times.
  • scamming devs from acquired company, just giving arbitrary title , reducing salary band and almost doing the same work as other SDE.

Don't think all can be blamed on the CTO, if he was hired to do the exact same thing,

The way I see it, we over hired a lot during COVID growth, when online business was booming, but in terms of growth core business got disrupted by RBI embargo and other verticals (lending, x, international expansion, etc) didn't pan out as per expectations. Now they can't do official lay-off after repeatedly saying publicly and privately we won't do layoff as we have enough capital.

JumpyWalrus
JumpyWalrus
Razorpay8mo

So some fat cut has to come on "extra" resources Directly Via PIP or by changing culture , policies, etc many good engineers who could get offers currently at other org are leaving on their own.

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