The biggest con is the founding team's management inability. Processes change overnight as per the judgment of founders resulting in multiple mid-level employees becoming needless. Hence attrition in mid-level is high.
Quarterly and Yearly targets are not based on team capacity and missed by a large margin for the last two years.
Ongoing projects frequently change the scope with little or no market validation. The scale of users targetted is over-ambitious from start compared to team ability and hence projects usually get delayed. On top of which the requirements would have already been changed by the time the team managed to deliver a working prototype. Majority projects are either in ongoing revamp or in the pre-market validation stage from over a year.
HR is not really concerned about the core issues of attrition, filtering candidates before hiring and onboarding employees to the company process. Communication from HR on the email itself is ambiguous and impolite.
If you are Front End Dev or QA do not join period
Some other cons:-
- 10% of your variable pay will be cut for company performance every year. No matter if the company actually performed or not.
- Team spirit is at an all-time low from the company started due to efforts not reflecting as output. Everyone is in a defensive stance to protect themselves as they might be blamed for the delay in delivery.
- Slogging extra hours late night with unrealistic targets is considered to be better than completing work in the estimated time.
- The feedback system is flawed and biased. An employee performance review is more like a decision told than a discussion.
- High performers keep getting overworked and low performers can continue to draw paychecks at minimal work.
- The office is an unorganized warehouse mess. Finding random assembly stuff on your desk each morning is no surprise.