Pros
1. Good salaries 2. Fast exit process, one month notice period. Even faster (one week notice) for those under probation period (often extended beyond 3 months unless you develop a new feature pretty fast or take enormous amount of work if you are a QA) 3. Unlimited sick leave policy is good to recover after being sick of company politics everyday and absent work life balance 4. No layoffs, only silent firing 5. Great culture for boot lickers
Cons
1. Lead Engineers positions are filled with people who have only beginner to intermediate level engineering experience, seem to have lied about managing people/team in their interviews. They lack in all leadership qualities and are clearly biased towards their favorites even during stand ups. They do not even know how agile and scrum ceremonies work. 2. I do not understand why they have EMs in the org when all the (micro) management has to be done by the Lead Engineer and their bootlickers (often the QA because all they do is manual-testing and political tagging over slack, they got plenty time to bootlick). A lot of times lack of coordination and intent can be seen between EM and Lead Engineer of same team. They often play good cop bad cop instead of adding true values in leading the team and projects. 3. You are on your own. You are expected to do almost everything by yourself, it’s a nightmare if you are a new joiner and you haven’t been adopted as a friend by someone in the team. Most of the teams have no documentations of how their features and services are working (except by Platform team or by some teams who have some API documentations). Lead Engineers stay busy in calls for fixing production issues almost everyday and do not find time to provide you with the knowledge they already have about the work you are asked to pick up. If you ask for their time or help, you will be given a review in the 1:1s that you should do things by yourself as this is expected out of your role, but since there is always a time crunch in the company you will be blamed later for exceeding the expected timelines even though it was them who asked you to do everything by yourself. 4. All good reviews here are by people who are either their manager's favorites or who have the power to ruin work life balance for others or by robots who don't have their own family yet. 5. They have their own definitions of sprint points and how much an employee should work everyday. These definitions are realistic on paper but seem to have been defined by someone who has never worked as a team member in their own company. 6. Your number of commits, your usage of AI agent tools is used to deny you the right to complain. 7. Teams keep changing rapidly because people leave the company real fast, voluntarily. If you complain or decide to maintain your own work life balance by completing required story points or telling no to the work you dont have time for, you'll be put on PIP. PIP is their plan to force you to finish 3x work in a month. You will be laid off even after completing all challenges given during PIP. 8. Married people with family responsibilities? Do not join.