Work-life balance doesn’t exist here. You stay wired with stress 24×7, and the anxiety becomes a permanent part of your day.
Every single year, promotion and appraisal promises turned into cheap excuses. Variable pay? Practically zero. The chosen ones still manage to somewhat grow, and everyone else just gets fed stories. Favoritism is baked into hiring, promotions, assignments—basically everything.
The teams are the least collaborative group of people I’ve seen in my entire career. You literally have to run after numerous teams to get anything done. QA stays busy running their side gigs, but somehow can’t support engineering where things are on fire.
The salary is below industry standards, overtime is unpaid, and there’s absolutely no talk of an IPO or anything remotely resembling long-term financial vision.
You’re stuck working on outdated Groovy-on-Grails relics because nobody at the top wants to invest in modernization. The senior leadership—without exaggeration—is the biggest liability here. They push down ridiculous pressure, treat people like order-takers, and parade non-existent functionality to customers and investors. Engineers and middle management barely have any autonomy; unless you’re a CXO, you’re basically furniture. Micromanagement is extreme, and leaders don’t hold back from using foul language when things don’t match their fantasies.
Job security? Zero. The whole place runs on fear. Long-term people get pushed aside the moment leadership finds a new scapegoat.
Centralized design approvals turn every project into a sluggish mess.
The product’s current state looks like it was assembled in panic mode—because it was. Engineers warned about unrealistic timelines for years, but their feedback was stamped out every single time and quality suffers due to it.
There’s no roadmap—just chaos. Priorities flip daily. New projects start in parallel and die halfway. Requirements come from five different directions, and none of those groups talk to each other. Everything is decided by CXOs.
The support teams are always in escalation mode, which destroys delivery timelines. Release schedules change more frequently than a baby's diapers.
Outside this company, nobody even knows this company exists. I was foolish to realise my mistake so late. I stayed way longer than anyone with common sense should have. These years were a massive waste.
