Workplace with decaying work culture - Staff Software Engineer Diligent Employee Review

2.0
Mar 13, 2025
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

The organisation has a ton of employees who are from RSAM & Galvanize. 1. Good learning for Engineers(if you are lucky to be in actively developed apps) 2. Free lunch & dinner based on your shift 3. Free coffee & beverages 4. Free transport

Cons

A lot of horrible management is happening in India aka Banglore office as of now. It was not the case earlier. 1. Very bad management 2. People who say “yes boss” are encouraged highly in recent times 3. What was once a quality driven product development culture has become a speed driven culture(RIP Quality) 4. None of employees feedback is considered 5. Horrible leader ship in India. Any questions which challenge the ethics of management are shushed. If they are placed in an anonymous forum, then they will be removed while presenting to the CXOs. They will be happy just looking at the simple questions which they can hit out of park with non-committing answers 6. Turning into IT service from a product development company 7. people have been food poisoned with the food served here 8. Micro management in the name of performance driven culture 9. Horrible payscale differences. No normalisation happens ever. They hire people for lower positions at higher pay than people who contribute more from a higher position & never raise your salary as per industry standards 10. No clear goals for any of the teams. Every manager is trying to please their manager 11. Working over weekends has become a (forced& not so)proud part of many engineering teams

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Diligent Response
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Thank you for taking the time to share such thoughtful feedback about your experience. We truly appreciate you recognizing the strengths of our product and the talent across our team, and we’re glad to hear the space feels interesting and compelling. We also recognize that as a company focused on governance, risk and compliance, that it’s critical to hold ourselves to the same high standards internally. Through our monthly pulse surveys, we listen to our team, learn and actively work to strengthen any areas of feedback from alignment to transparency, or accountability across our leadership teams. In fact, one of our OKRs is focused solely on ensuring we have an empowered and accountable team, which we rally around as an organization. We appreciate other sources of feedback like yours, as it is an important part of that effort. Our People team is committed to supporting an elevated employee experience and continuously improving how we listen, respond, and evolve. While we won’t always get everything right on the first try, we are highly focused on continuing to iterate and making meaningful progress to ensure our actions reflect our values. We encourage continued feedback and appreciate you sharing your perspective. If you’d like to provide any additional context, please feel free to reach out at: HRConfidential@diligent.com
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