Photon reviews

4.3

84% would recommend to a friend

(2,793 total reviews)
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Srinivas Balasubramanian

87% approve of CEO

85% positive business outlook

Photon has an employee rating of 4.3 out of 5 stars, based on 2,793 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an excellent working experience there. The Photon employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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3K reviews
1.0
Feb 20, 2023
Recommend
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Pros

No Pros. You will be treated as slaves.

Cons

1. Till the time you are working on a project, they will entertain you. Because you are earning money for them. :) Once the project is over you are nothing for them. 2. To date they have a paper attendance system at the Dallas office to make sure what time the developer comes and goes back home. (only applicable to developers, not to hr or momo and other people) 3. They start hiring before they get the project. So basically when they come to know that there is a 0.01 % chance of getting a project they start hiring people. They prefer to hire people on FTE because it is cheaper for them instead of contracting with a third-party company. They will lie on your face that it's an 18-month contract and we have x developer working at the location and all. Where they are not even sure whether the client manager is going to meet them or not. When I was working I met many young and senior developers who got hired on the same basis and later when they didn't get the project they had to go away because of no project no job. They will give you a scheme while hiring like we have multiple projects we will place you there and all but trust me it's a lie. 4. There Software Engineering program boss m-o-m-o doesn't even have a sense of how to speak with a woman. I don't know what he thought of himself several times he utters bad words which he is not supposed to, Not in front of female nor male, he should respect all as hr and developers are the people who make money for them. 5. They call people from India on B2B and only pay 50 $ a day and a stay. Where a person has to travel on his own and also take care of the food. 6. Most of the time, management thinks of themself as a superstar and gives random project delivery dates without even discussing the project with the team. And later developers end up working till midnight every day just to ramp up the project 7. Lot of good people have already left a company because of this kind of management. 8. Recruitment team is appreciated more than developers because they are always in need of developers because 90% of the time good developers leave the company in a month or 2 after knowing the reality and work culture. There are many more things.,.but I hope this will help you understand how bad the company is. Please stay away. Good Luck.

1.0
Oct 22, 2019

All Good Reviews Are Fake

Recommend
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Pros

The great coworkers that add true value to the organization and their clients that were tricked into thinking that Photon was unique. Photon May have been unique 8-10 years ago. If you enjoy being belittled, and quite frankly abused, by management within a group session perhaps you would be ok here.

Cons

Management is known to be abusive and seems to get enjoyment out of shaming “the chosen one” in a meeting or group setting among co-workers. If you go above & beyond, somehow leadership will twist it and make you regret your efforts. Let’s be clear, this is not constructive feedback - this is verbal abuse. Also, zero culture at this company. Zero. Zilch. None. Same with perks, non-existent.

1.0
Apr 22, 2024
Recommend
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Pros

They work with a lot of good clients.

Cons

No proper career growth pattern within the company.

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