Had a great work experience - Anonymous employee LegalCraft Solutions Employee Review

LegalCraft is a higly unprofessional company. I'm not exaggerating. Notice that most of the positive reviews are from current employees only. Sounds like a pattern, right?

Bad leadership. No appreciation for hard work. Bad work culture. Bad engineering practices. I just picked a random positive review and decided to point of some of the incorrect information. 1. Process oriented organization. -> Right. By this, they mean that they use BOTH spreadsheets and emails to track development work. Good luck trying to find the person accountable for a feature/fix or run any sort of development reports. 2. Employee ideas and opinions are always welcomed and encouraged. -> They mean as long as the ideas have nothing to do with employee welfare or work culture. 3. An ideal place for freshers to start their careers as ample opportunities are provided to learn and to be coached by the seniors. -> More like a trap for talented freshers to waste their time and learn some trivial coding skills. The "learning" being referred can be picked up over the internet in a matter of days. "Coached" is an incorrect term here. 4. Has a good and professional work environment. -> Right. As long as "work,work,work" is your motto. Also, the company lacks basic infrastructure like leave management and time sheet entry system. None of the engineers in my team were given any medical insurance of any kind. This is their level of professionalism. 5. Recognition for talent, hard work and desire to learn new technologies. -> Same as above. The technologies used are trivial. Work culture is absolutely horrid in this company. 6. From day one, employees are provided with exciting projects to work on. -> There are only a few viable products that the company has. Of course, working on a project is more "exciting" than being on the bench. 7. Yearly bonuses are really appreciable and on time. -> Must not be serious. Very little incentives and appreciation is shown for the people who really work hard. Only people who pretend to work or simply talk big will be rewarded very well without a doubt. 8. Focuses more on working and achieving targets as a team. -> Their idea of team-work is staying until every one else in your team has work to do. This is why most developers work almost a whole 12 hours on average in this team-oriented company. Of course, you can forget of getting paid for the extra hours. 9. Has a good work life balance. -> Can't be right. There had been a single company outing in same city when I worked there, over a span of 3 years. It's outrageous at best. 10. The management is always approachable and is always ready to encourage and motivate each and every employee to work together as team 'LegalCraft'. -> This sounds very cliche, even for a fake review. I bet no former employee of the company would say this.

Very little to be honest.

This is one of the most unprofessional companies I have ever worked for. The product is good, but the management gets in your way so much that you can't really learn anything that has any value. The product doesn't use basic software engineering methods like automated tests or continuous integration. They actually track bugs using spreadsheets! Don't plan on joining unless you're okay with working extrememly late (and even on saturdays and sundays occasionally) without being paid extra compensation or even getting a decent ride home (even if you're a female). The attitude of the company is that the upper management (who have cars) are able to manage, so the people with lesser experience should be able to manage as well, even though they don't have cars or a high-end salary. Also, the company treats people who want to leave very badly. They enforce a 2-month notice period, don't provide you a written exit policy (I honestly doubt they even have a written company policy), and block your salary for 2 whole months. And did I mention unprofessional? They don't provide bathrooms with 24/7 running water. They don't spell their own company's name correctly on their EPF slips. They don't pay the employer half of the EPF, and force their employees to pay it. They don't provide any form of medical or life insurance. They don't even have a functional time-entry system. This company is one of the best examples of management done wrong. Don't encourage them; you're more than capable of finding a better job even if you're a fresher.