BrowserStack reviews

The only and the biggest - Co-Founders They are insecure to the core. CEO has all the time to do only politics and scrutiny of people's activities, timings, how much snacks people eat and how much of 'their' money they spend. They are a fault finding machine (with no suggestion on what is right or correct) and it seems they think that is the job of a CEO and co-founder. They have put up so called "Values" for people to follow but they themselves do not follow ANY values. They are some of the biggest hypocrite people you would come across. Does not respect anyone at all - including senior folks. Keeps watch on them and does things behind their back. Tries to be good in public and then privately works to drive their agenda through key people. Senseless frequent changes in the team (with no prior discussions or indication) and firing at will once they are done with a person's use. Recent example - CFO who has been doing good job of putting sense into HR and has been able to build some credibility and win employee trust over last 1 year gave a presentation on the Policies and Process overhaul one day (where co-founders actively participate) and in less than 24 hours, he is removed from HR. CEO has time for managing office administration but not on how to grow the company. For last one year, there were signs of improvement and the Co-founders were 'looking like' genuinely interested in improving and listening to people but as they say - you cannot hid your true self for long. They are back to their 'normal' ways. People are now openly told that they (Co-founders) are now 'evolved' and does not need anyone's advise.

There is no visibility regarding where the company is heading. You are just doing tasks assigned to you and fixing bugs. The upper management/HR knows about this and try to portray that they care, but the reality is people down below (at our level) still have very very limited visibility around things. It feels like the engineering team is just present to make sure that the product is up and running 24x7. We'll I guess that's the whole point of the engineering team, but I feel we should contribute to the company in ways other than producing code. It feels very weird when you see the management take decisions without even being familiar with their own product or for that matter the competitors'. I clearly remember incidents where managers have said something that makes no sense at all. Senior people are way too cool to go through "onboarding". I am not generalising, there are only a few people like this. No contribution back to the community. Open source contribution is not encouraged. Company feels like everything is their intellectual property. Discussing anything internal about the company to the outside world is discouraged, even if it is common knowledge in the tech industry. It feels very saddening because most of the product is based on open source projects. “It’s your job” attitude. You solved a difficult problem ? Well, that’s your job. You were able to fix something at 4 in the morning ? Well, that’s your job. It does not really matter. Because of this people now are slowly loosing the dedication and the responsibility they once had for their product. I am not talking about “appreciation”. I am talking about “acknowledgement”. The task of acknowledging something might seem trivial and unnecessary, but it helps a lot. And then the company worries about high attrition rate. I am not sure do they even worry about it or have come to terms with it. Every employee is now considered to be replaceable. You think you are important to the company ? You solved 100 different problems ? You stayed in office, came on weekends, fixed issues, shrug off a 10th of a second so that you can get a big deal for the company ? Well bye bye I guess, they will just let you go, you are nothing but a code munching machine. And honestly if someone reaches this state, they should leave. The deadlines are tight. Producing low quality code on time is encouraged. If it is on time, then it is good enough. The company is not yet big in the terms of employees but they want to act like one. “values”, “targets”, “culture” all seem too superficial to me. Or the way these things are implemented/imbibed, seem too unconvincing and unnecessary, rather a lot artificial and text-book like. It should be something that comes out naturally and every employee can empathise with it. It should not be force fed. This has become more of an open letter to the company, so I should stop. I like working here and will recommend it, it’s not bad, but not great either. I think I have grown into it. If you care about what you are actually doing and not expect anything back from it, you’ll be happy. If you think what you do for the company, the company will do back for you, then you are in for a disappointment.