Turing reviews

- Disorganized, executives aren't informed of each other's decisions, engineers receiving direct orders from these conflicting decisions get penalized -You're urged to give a positive review on Turing at Glassdoor so you can receive bonus scores on your performance review. (You’ll send your review to a high-ranking manager so he can record this.) How can you give honest reviews on Glassdoor if you're being graded on your reviews, right? (As of this writing, I have obviously left) - In their ads, they tell you they'll connect you with a Silicon Valley company but that's actually them -- they'll be hiring you directly instead to build their platform. I've stayed here for 6 months but I never got connected to another company - Not US rate (but you can earn well if you're from a 3rd-world country) - I never had a contract even when I've asked a couple of times, as I've agreed to work full-time - A high-ranking manager I've directly worked with tend to always be rude, there are ways to give feedback without being too rude but he seems unaware of that. Cultural differences, perhaps you'd do well here if you treat your "superior" like a "superior being" and you just follow orders. - No QA team -- you'll be doing QA on your own - No sprint planning, no clear separation of concerns but you take all the blame for mistakes and missed deadlines - No proper code review process. Sure you make a pull request, but the code review isn't deemed too necessary. They don't even use a linter. They're perfectly fine with poorly written, poorly formatted code as long as you meet their deadlines. - Most of the people I've worked with here don't seem to have good command over the English language, even though the company advertises that their pre-vetted engineers first undergo a "rigorous" English test -- I did ask about this test (I never had it) but I didn't get a reply on this issue. An engineering manager doesn't speak nor write well in English either, it's often difficult to communicate with him and if you don't understand what he's saying he'll assume you're stupid and not that he actually has problems communicating - Not a company you'd work for in the long-term. Remember that it's a startup, they can fire you anytime they want. There's no contract, no benefits, etc. You'll have to trust that they'll pay you (but you have no contract so you’ll really just have to "trust" that they'll pay you, and yes, they do pay you but it can get delayed for up to 2 weeks) - If you're looking for job security, this isn't the company for you - If you're looking for a company that won't treat you like an expendable resource, this isn't the company for you - It encourages a culture of being a "suck-up", you'd feel like you need to be a politician to excel here, the environment is also conducive for politics, you just have to be more visible to everyone, package and market yourself to the company, be congenial so you get reviews from different people and receive bonuses

This is a long list so I have bulleted it out. Deceitful- They are going to lie at every step starting from your first engagement with Turing. They are going to lie about what the company does, what you will be doing, about the work culture, about the work life balance etc. Even employees working for 3 years thought that Turing was a product company. This is the extent they tend to go with their lies. I was hired stating that they have a big vision for the project and want someone who can carry it out for them. They repetitively lied that they are a product firm that has an AI tool. First of all, they don't own any AI tools. They use a tool internally and that doesn’t make them a product organisation. They will hide everything under the umbrella of AI. Let's talk about their AI. They will hire strong developers for code review and train LLM models, but in the interview use the word AI and glorify the role so that the person assumes that they are gonna build/work on something related to AI. It is not a PRODUCT/AI company- They are gonna portray as if they are an AI Infrastructure company or an AI product company. Don’t trust them. They are not. They are just a recruitment consulting company trying to be an IT service company, nothing more than that. Even employees working for 3 years thought that Turing was a product company. This is the extent they tend to go with their lies. Micromanagement like hell- They will talk a lot about remote and work life balance. Forget that such a thing exists in Turing. Once you are in the system you will be micromanaged like hell, you will be working for 12+ hours a day (Mostly nights). Toxic management- The managers are toxic like hell. They will give you an assignment which they know that you have never worked on and ask you to deliver. The managers will straight up say that there will be no KT provided. They ask you to figure it out on your own and deliver in a timeline that is unrealistic even for someone working on similar assignments. No one's gonna help you because here everyone is trying to save their job and trying to outperform each other. Hire and Fire and then hire and fire again- Turing’s moto- hire, fire, hire again and then fire again. That too they make sure to fire just a couple of days before the probation ends so that they don’t have to pay the severance. No reason, just a lottery. I was told that I was part of a project that has a long term vision. Yes, the vision was long. Three months long. They created a hype about Turing by offering code review/LLM trainer roles based on RLHF sugar quoted with words like AI infrastructure development/Data Science/Business Analyst to make a fool out of people. Now you tell me, is Data Scientist or Business Analyst anywhere related to an LLM trainer? All in all Turing will mess-up with your professional and personal life by lying about each and every thing and keeping you in the stress of losing your job at any point of time even if you are performing up to the mark.