Pros
- Founder and CFO team are good in raising money - Lots of developers who built it in the early days to bring the company this far and we see a lot of growth in this year with all the work - Risk and collection teams are keeping the company profitable - Good for junior developers who want to build basics - If you’re ready to sacrifice sleep and weekends, you can learn a lot in the growth phase now. Be ready for random pressure to deliver on unrealistic deadlines.
Cons
1. Engineers are treated almost like labourers. Not given any ownership on product or the pod tasks priority within a sprint. When we give realistic estimates, EMs and PMs ask for faster ETA to impress CEO. Then they go ahead and file bugs on the hacky release and blame us. 2. Product, design and business teams are always blaming each other or engineers to avoid any public insults by CEO and COO on Slack channels. No real ownership, only fear of loosing job pushes everyones decisions. Design team is v. incompetent, blames developers and forces rework when CEO points issues. 3. CEO is like a micromanager getting involved in every small decision with design and product team. He gives chaotic feedback and changes priorities after things are developed and PMs also keep quiet in front of him. 4. COO also leads HR but lacks any empathy towards employees outside her team. She is always saying things like “its slow” and “Indian companies are bad” without understanding that other big companies have lots of developers and it takes time to build good software. 5. Old employees were given less stocks and longer vesting time compared to the fresh engineering hires. Asked developers also to come to office in 2nd wave beginning until govt put lockdown. Unfriendly policies. 6. Have seen people in tech teams quit or get fired randomly. There is no value for what you have accomplished in past if you have a different opinion from the CEO or COO. You have to suck up to them if you want to stay in the job. 7. Some reviews of the company on glassdoor sound too fake that it feels like the marketing team is writing them. The review about culture better than FAANG company feels like written by someone trying to impress senior management. I don’t believe this because I recieved calls after midnight and on weekends to fix things multiple times from PMs afraid of loosing jobs.
