SmartCow Reviews

Majority of upper management is under qualified, some incompetent and amateurish. No hiring standards for managers and above, does not promote from within but most, if not all managers are lacklustre anyway with no applicable skills. No soft skills either. HR is extremely rude with no empathy. Hire and fire policy, high turnover recently but company refuses to change anything. Everyone is greedy to them. Organized town hall is useless from operations stand point, no credible information released to employees. Company does not care about retention rates. Be careful of HR. Flat structure but a complete mess, as with most start-ups. But Smartcow disguises itself as better than a start-up but it is not. Everything works like there is only 5 people. Official social media posts and press releases go out with zero vetting from copywriting experts. For a global company, it is very embarrassing. Ask PR team how the company name and logo came about and they literally have no answer for you. What does this company even mean and stand for? Nobody knows. No SDLC in place, there are engineering managers but how is it possible that there is no process or flow? Inadequacy is the reason. Documentation? None. The only good and reliable people are the actual engineers themselves. FYI: Every time there is a genuine negative review, a flood of positive reviews come in almost immediately. Please judge this how you will before joining this company. It is the same - everyone tries to hide everything and does not work on the root of the problem.

Please rank the reviews by date, and you will see that for every negative review a few “good” reviews will pop up. Read them and make your own judgement whether these reviews are genuine or not. This company is the most toxic company I have ever been in. ———— The PR “team” is so unqualified, petty and unprofessional. Press releases and some marketing material are full of errors. Many of us who tried to help are blocked, and suddenly became adversaries. And not to mention that this PR “team” wants to be in control of everything. In front of the CEO, everything will be good, but behind his back, there are tons of manipulation by PR to bully her victims. PR is definitely not a good candidate to be partner facing representative for Smartcow, because the english is horrible & incomprehensible. HR is not localised but is based in India and they imposed policies which are standard within India, but unheard of in other countries. For instance, the employee referral bonus is a joke compare to other real technology companies. All feedback to the HR is basically falling on deaf ears, their aim isn’t to improve things, but to report about other employees to the CEO. HR is always coming up with shortsighted initiatives that nobody asked for, forcing everyone to be part of these useless endeavours. The HR favours some employees while has a personal dislike for others. The favouritism extends to poor hires that were kept in the company, but some good developers where forced to resign. HR puts up a facade that everything is well and flourishing in the company and is always sprouting grandiose ideal values like "what teamwork is" and "appreciation for each other" but outright ignoring the underlying toxicity in the company. In finding potential hires, HR did NOTHING to help. HR & the management never finds out why people quit or care about the high employee turn over. General feeling is that the managers in the company are afraid that any individual will outshine(when you genuinely want to improve things), so you would be blocked by some managers or deliberately not contacted for projects and decisions, or they would try to put you into “your place” by showing that they are the CEO’s favourites. Extreme polarising and biased treatment irregardless of your professional capabilities. It’s all about how good you are with a few key people in the company, and not about how good you are with your skill and how you can help the company. If you are good with office politics this might be a good company for you.