Stay away from this company if you value etiqutte and work life balance - Senior Consultant Photon Employee Review

1.0
Mar 9, 2017
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

1. Learn a lot and quickly

Cons

1. They negotiate your pay several times until you finally give up (called at street bargaining) 2. No work life balance - They expect you to work 24/7. I am serious, including weekends and after going home after regular hours 3. regular working hours in 10 and not 8 4. Consultants dont get paid for the extra hrs. if you demand, they will just let you go and give the reason as "performance not upto the mark" 5. Management is sick. Micro manage a lot. dont care about lower level employees and treat them as dogs/slaves. They talk mostly in local language (Tamil i suppose) 6. Those who fight back or take courage to speak up against the process are let go. 7. If you quit, they threaten to ruin your career, not give recommendation/experience letters 8. Upper management (CIO, CTO etc) only talk foul language to others.

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5.0
May 8, 2026
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Pros

Really good company to work for. Health benefits were great and was able to negotiate a good rate for my contract

Cons

Communication could improve in terms of staying in contact with the contractor. Working with the individual for their next role as the contract is nearing an end would be an area of opportunity as well.

2.0
Apr 27, 2025
Recommend
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Pros

Can be on interesting projects Some really good people If on correct team can be very good conditions such as remote work

Cons

Zero opportunities for growth Limited to no work/life balance No Severance Do not pay when on the bench Wrong team or manager the hr insanity can make it rough (One year they decided july 4th was not a holiday another they decided to lower the salary and increase the percentage that was bonus effectually giving everyone a pay cut).. Honestly a 2 might being generous but i have worked with some nice people there and the vast majority of the people were nice and good just wanting to get the job done . Any 5s are probably fake or the lucky few that do not have to deal with Photon Hr.

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