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Apigee Engineer reviews

2.3

32% would recommend to a friend

(3 total reviews)
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Chet Kapoor

32% approve of CEO

32% positive business outlook

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3 reviews
1.0
23 Jan 2014

was good, now bad heading to worse

Recommend
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Business outlook

Pros

mac books, beer parties, free food, good brand used to attract talent from Amazon and Yahoo, now we can't attract people from Cisco used to have a good referral bonus, now its a joke games and fun events are arranged often.

Cons

spine less management. The local management has little decision making ability. decisions happen in US and pushed on us. we used to be lied about by prospects, now the lies are about employee exits and layoffs. communication is overloaded with words like passion and respect, but not in action. Indian arm was treated like step child, now we are slaves. Hikes are minimal and bonuses are getting smaller or delayed. employees who suck up to US bosses get all the benefits. functions were being removed from India, layoffs are the latest event in our office.

1.0
6 Dec 2013
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

'startup' tag, Flexible work timings Beer bashes, friendly and smart peers, decent work life balance, Zookeeper, Cassandra and other other buzz words enter your resume.

Cons

Apigee is run by CEO's boys, whose credentials are secondary to acquaintance with him. Apigee hasn't focused on building good platforms inspite of having some good engineers. This is largely because of CEO's impatience, impractical deadlines and wrong leaders. A disproportionate portion of the company are leaders, we have various groups called Leader Ship Team, Build Team, Indian LeaderShip team, Extended Leadership Team etc. This is a weird phenomenon for a small company and can be attributed to Chet's boys coming from Big companies. The transition from a small to mid sized company has failed miserably so far. The company claims to be customer oriented, but that doesn't translate stable platforms and fire fighting is the norm. Apigee claims to be a fast growing company but employees' bonuses are delayed or deferred. Engineering organization in Bangalore has been Annhilated and it is matter of time, the same happens in US. Employees are very dissatisfied and the managers don't seem to care. Huge Disparities exist in Salaries and stock options between leaders and non-leaders. Politics, favoritism and heavy handedness are norm here.

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