Pros
• Excellent early work culture (2018–2021) – collaborative, employee-centric, and supportive. • Strong Work–Life Balance with managers who respected personal time. • Great Employee Benefits & Perks – subsidized meals, internet reimbursement, annual gifts, outings, and team events. • Good Rewards & Recognition – appraisal processes were fair and motivating in the initial years. • Exposure to Multiple Domains – opportunities to work across IT, CloudOps, and DevOps, contributing to strong career growth. • Good Product Vision & Skilled Teams – especially in Product Management; some leaders are inspirational and technically sound. • Challenging and Meaningful Work with opportunities to contribute in product engineering and cloud initiatives (early years).
Cons
• Leadership Changes Post-COVID Affected Culture – micro-management and non-technical decision making increased. • Security Processes Became Restrictive – implementation felt policing-focused rather than enablement-focused; often lacked technical depth. • Innovation and Modernization Slowed Down – automation and DevOps best practices were discouraged due to rigid processes. • Outdated Engineering Practices still used widely: • manual server provisioning instead of IaC (Terraform, Kubernetes) • manual patching instead of automated tools like Ansible/AWX • Technical Understanding Gap at Certain Leadership Levels – slowed down execution and created friction in engineering decisions. • Learning Opportunities Reduced – limited scope for adopting new tools, modern cloud practices, and engineering improvements.