Operates on borderline-illegal policies - Anonymous employee Photon Employee Review

2.0
7 Mar 2016
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Pros

It could be a flat organization if you perform; you can easily reach out to upper management and get favours when you perform; they would give you any position and any salary when you perform

Cons

Too many to list. tl;dr - most of their policies are illegal, the way they handle issues are illegal. They ask you to sign insane contracts - 2 years contract, 2 years non-compete clauses etc. At one point of time, 75% of the desktops were using pirated software

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Pros

Really good company to work for. Health benefits were great and was able to negotiate a good rate for my contract

Cons

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2.0
27 Apr 2025
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Pros

Can be on interesting projects Some really good people If on correct team can be very good conditions such as remote work

Cons

Zero opportunities for growth Limited to no work/life balance No Severance Do not pay when on the bench Wrong team or manager the hr insanity can make it rough (One year they decided july 4th was not a holiday another they decided to lower the salary and increase the percentage that was bonus effectually giving everyone a pay cut).. Honestly a 2 might being generous but i have worked with some nice people there and the vast majority of the people were nice and good just wanting to get the job done . Any 5s are probably fake or the lucky few that do not have to deal with Photon Hr.

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