Pros
- Some of the perks are very effective. Having all meals available in the office is very convenient for employees and saves a lot of time.
Cons
- Terrible Attrition - 2 directors leaving in the span of one month. 5+ employees leaving in just the first quarter of the current year. If that does not scream incompetence I don't know what does. - The company has a bad leader. Accountability is heavily discounted as you move up the ladder. While one mistake on your part results in you being reprimanded and looked with suspicion forever, the directors can make blatant mistakes that change the course of the entire company to a windfall and there is not so much as an apology let alone repercussions. - Supremely terrible people managers. Infact I don't think there is any people manager at all. Browserstack the business takes far more precedence over Browserstack the organization (if it takes any precedence at all). - Atrocious work environment. Imagine writing code while you are sitting in a fish market. Browserstack is worse. Cramming 8 people in a table that would more suit 4 is their idea of an "open culture" or a place where people are "accessible". - The working hours do not at all take into consideration having any sort of life beyond BS. Stay late, work when you reach home, work on the weekends. If there is work to be done, you better be doing it every living second of your life because that is all that is rewarded. - Bootlickers go far. Time after time people have been promoted and put into positions they don't deserve over better and much deserving employees because the one trait that holds a massive priority is flattery. To judge someones competence based on how closely he/she works with the Directors is the best way to show a finger to your most hardworking employees. And guess what happens when those employees realise it? (Hint- Attrition rate is very high) The amount of talent and skill that is wasted every single day because of vanity and pride is mind boggling. - Massive emotional drain. Every single employee who has spent a considerable time here is emotionally and mentally exhausted. And no one cares! If you cannot continue function at your peak all day every day you will be shown the door in a split second. It won't matter how much you have given to this company. It won't matter that you are going through a rough patch in your personal life. It won't matter that their unreasonable expectations from you cannot be humanly met. - You don't matter. The bottomline of every decision ever taken. The employee comes last. The employee holds no value. They are just a means to an end. And if they have to wear down and run over a few of them, they will. You will be put into a function you are not familiar with and not interested in and expected to work at your best because your master is telling you to.
