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a) Salaries, bonus and increments are low as always b) Bad engineering culture, asking you to deliver 3 month's of task in 1 week. You will be fed bare minimum information to work on, PMs are there to just chill and write hallucinated documentation using Claude. As engineer you will be asked to do research, get approvals, design implementation plan, implement, review code, do testing on your local system (M2 Air) since there is no infrastructure to test things, get the code approved and merged. You will be given 1.5 days per task. c) Townhalls are full of lies, if you raise questions they will be diverted. d) You will spend time writing slop using AI which is not battle tested. e) Recent review on glassdoor are manipulated by HR

You have to work out of working hours as well weekend also occupied with deployments or ops tasks

No con. It's a great place to work.

everything else: insane level of micromanagement from leadership, politics, toxicity. nobody should work here

While the company is growing, there has been a noticeable decline in the quality of annual increments. Despite receiving positive performance ratings, the financial rewards often don't align, and the explanations provided by leadership lack transparency. Additionally, there has been a trend of scaling back employee perks—such as gym access and reductions in WFH reimbursements. Furthermore, the lack of timely hardware refreshes (e.g., not issuing new laptops) makes it difficult to maintain peak efficiency. These cumulative cuts are starting to impact overall employee sentiment and long-term commitment.

Company Cons: - ESOPs are not easy to get, even for employees who stay for too long. I wish there was an option to avail ESOPs (even if against some portion of salary). - Since company caters to global customers, depending on your role, you may require to work different shifts and on some Indian holidays. - No Windows or Linux laptop. You get and only have to use OS X machine. Support Team Cons: - After spending 2-3 years, you will hit a ceiling in debugging skills as the debugging patterns are limited and repetitive. - Work stress is often high in this role (tickets do get escalated). - Team collaboration on an issue is not good. - Internal Role Mobility is difficult as everyone wants it after spending good amount of time in Support team. - Rotating shift timings.

Bad work life balance, no compensation for On call , you need to work for 14-15 hours on avg day.

Work-life balance can be challenging, especially when collaborating with teams across multiple time zones, as there is often an expectation to respond or close the loop quickly. Salary hikes tend to be weighted more toward the variable pay component, with relatively limited increases to the fixed/base salary. Work management and planning could also be improved, as priorities and execution are not always well organized.