slice Reviews

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.

Let's start with the so-called HR... OMG. You guys should talk to them. They are the best at firing people because they were asked to; they stop budgets because they were told to... They are building / making EPIC....... Wait...... EPIC of What? Anyways, take a bow, team; you all are amazing! Okay, next, BizOps... Even the Google founders are not as smart in front of this ARMY. Soon, they will comprise half of Slice's overall employee strength. Slice is in good shape due to their hard work and continuous dedication to making this company better. Finally, COO, glad to have her. HR & BizOps are working so hard, and thanks to the planning. She praises (yeah, read b/w the lines) openly in group chats/general announcements on Slack, on the floor, it doesn't matter... irrespective of the level/department. Every department heads be It legal / engineering / any has to report to her only due to her extensive knowledge in fintech and the India startup ecosystem. God forbid, if any of the above pillars do any less hard work in the coming future, maybe I can point out some CONS eventually. As long as they are committed and keep building amazing stuff, they will take Slice to greater heights. Godspeed.