Photon Senior Software Developer reviews

2.6

36% would recommend to a friend

(267 total reviews)
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Srinivas Balasubramanian

46% approve of CEO

37% positive business outlook

Senior Software Developer employees have rated Photon with 2.6 out of 5 stars, based on 267 company reviews on Glassdoor. This indicates that most Senior Software Developer professionals have an average working experience there. Photon is rated 32% below average by Senior Software Developer professionals compared to other employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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267 reviews
3.0
Dec 13, 2014
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

1. Latest Technologies 2. Good pay. 3. Good hike (some times).

Cons

1. Very poor work culture. 2. No proper infrastructure. Cafeteria is one of the worst one I have ever gone through. 3. Mad bad work life balance. People will stand and look at you when leave even after 8 as though you are leaving at 5 or 6.

1.0
Dec 5, 2014
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Difficult to find out any pros, better to be job less.

Cons

Don't spoil your time, pathetic company, fake review by HR, difficult to breath in side company. 1. 9 hours inside office. Your washroom or canteen breaks also will be considered as outside office. 2. Worst management. Deliver managers behave like they are next to Good. Use filthy languages. 3. All managers, delivery managers are puppets. Entire company is two mens' show. 4. You will hardly find any good employee who is working more than one year. If you stay here for more than one year, even you can become manager/DM 5. Worst office/work culture. Better to say, no culture at all. 6. They can fake anything. Even they're faking glassdoor reviews. Check rating trend. The reviews suddenly became excellent when company's policies became bad to worse. Stay far far away from this company.

1.0
Nov 10, 2014
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Latest technology, thats it. I can't remember anything else.

Cons

At first I want to mention, don't go with the rating of this company. In 2013 December, company's glassdoor rating was 2.7. Many candidates asked this question that why the rating is so bad. The HR guys replied they are working on it and it really seems they've worked on it. You can clearly see it from the rating graph. Last 10-15 reviews, all are almost same language and high rating :) 1. If you can forget about your self respect, join this company. You'll be treated as animal here. 2. Employee benefit- Wait!! What is that?? 3. I attended a meeting with senior management once. The language they use in meeting, you'll think twice before using such language with your friends. 4. Work life balance - 9 hours productivity is mandatory. If you go to washroom, that also will be deducted from your total office hours. Officially they say u've to stay 10 hours in office but unofficially its 12-15 hours and its quite normal. 5. Canteen - Your home kitchen is bigger than this. You've to pay even for a cup of coffee. 6. If you put your resignation, then the real drama will start. If you are valuable resource, they will try to retain you by any means. Yes, how much bad you can imagine, they'll apply everything. Whatever you see in internet about this company's employee harassment, all are completely true. 7. If you are joining in Bangalore, get ready to be moved to Chennai. They can send you anytime to Chennai with one day's notice. 8. Normal working period of a skilled employee is 5 months to 1 year (worst case) in this company. You can verify this with the former employees. I'm requesting you guys, don't fall into the trap of lucrative salary. How much they'll pay you, 4 times of that they'll take from you. I spent most horrible time of my life during the work period of this company.

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