Pros
1. Good learning in the first few months (if you are in the good books of management) 2. Good peer group - This is honestly the only good thing about this firm, but given the recent turn of events, the majority of the employees from my batch (I can name at least 10) are planning to quit as soon as Covid-19 ends. Most of these are apparently in "good books", but they also hate the toxic culture and do not wish to fight that battle with the management.
Cons
TLDR version - Please please think 10 times before joining this firm - you don’t want to start your career (or make a career switch) in such a firm. It is better to be jobless for a few extra months than putting yourself through this agony and mental stress. This is a toxic company! All the other reviews are 100% true except a few 5 star comments, which were either written by management itself (read the language of those and you’ll understand) or employees were forced to write positive reviews in a 1 on 1 setting (multiple emails, hangout messages, etc. from the CEO and HR). 1. *Most important" - The company doesn't care about their employees. They have forcefully asked people to stay back in Gurgaon and *not* go back to their hometown during the pandemic. We are expected to work full time and deliver the same quality of work with no help whatsoever from the management. If anything, they will add to the mental stress and ask you to put yourself in danger. My question for them - “What is more important to you - safety of employees or client deliverables?” After a lot of pressure from employees, they let people go back homes with 100 conditions (show clear lack of trust and empathy) 2. This is "not" a consulting company. This is just a family business run by 2 self-centered founders. The lady co-founder will make most of the decisions and will force them upon everyone (everyone else in the management team is just a puppet). That lady will not even listen to any other thought that is different from her 3. No other perks whatsoever. No cabs, no meals, no health insurance, nothing. Plenty of IT issues that stop employees from doing their work effectively. Most of the IT requests for a laptop replacement, or a monitor are rejected. If you are traveling for work or recruitments, you are expected to take cheapest flight (doesn’t matter even if the layover is 10+ hours) and stay in the cheapest airbnb (no budget for hotel stays). E.g. for people traveling to the US, hotel budget is $60 per day. So basically, forget about any perks that people associate with consulting 4. Firing - company has realized that they can't fire people anymore and hence have started ignoring all employee requests and are hoping that employees get fed up and resign on their own 5. Dearth of managers - There are hardly any managers in the firm and they are unable to hire any (it has been a really really long time now!). None of the managers have any say and work as per the orders from lady co-founder 6. Culture - Most of the current employees just talk about resigning and there are no positive vibes on the floor. In fact, more than 15-20 people have already resigned in the last 2-3 months. This is the main reason this company hasn’t been able to grow in years - still at <50 employees 7. Work life balance - Forget about having a life if you are working at this firm. Although during interviews and recruitments they’ll say that you are expected to work ~10 hours a day, in reality it is more like 13 hours (and a lot of stress!). The main reason - Founders don’t care about your life and expect you to work all day. Most managers don’t push back to the client because they want to be int he good books of the lady co-founder 8. Company has a habit of making big claims but not act upon it - “We will grow the team to 100+”, “We will hire more managers in next few weeks/months”, “We will organize expert lectures and training sessions”, “We will look into all the issues” but none of that ever happens. Everything operates as per the schedule of the co-founders, who seem to care only about their vacations