Has potential, but doing everything wrong
Pros
You’ll get the chance to work on multiple financial products, each bringing its own set of interesting and complex engineering challenges , especially in the low latency space. There’s also a team rotation every year, so you’ll be exposed to different tech stacks and problem domains across the organization.
Cons
ION Group India is a completely different experience compared to its European counterpart. Despite the company’s strong potential, it’s been derailed by internal politics — with much of the blame tracing back to Sanjay Chikara’s leadership. The engineering culture is weak. Most engineering managers have little to no technical background. They lack the ability to lead products effectively or support new joiners in their growth. Instead, they default to micromanagement. There’s also a frustrating double standard: Indian employees are expected to slog 45 hours across 5 days every week, while employees in other regions face no such restriction. To make things worse, the company hires around 400 people annually with no real plan for where to place them, leading to confusion and mismanagement — and eventually layoffs.
