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      3.7

      67% would recommend to a friend

      (246 total reviews)

      Sachin Gupta and Vivek Prakash

      82% approve of CEO

      59% positive business outlook

      Ratings by demographic groups

      HackerEarth has an employee rating of 3.7 out of 5 stars, based on 246 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The HackerEarth employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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      246 reviews
      1.0
      Sep 23, 2018

      The "CTO"

      Software engineer
      Recommend
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      Pros

      If you are a fresher/intern, this might be a good place to start your career. Office is in a nice location.

      Cons

      If you are a fresher/intern or out of job, this might be a good place to start and destroy your career. - CTO has lost touch with technology but still believes he knows everything and is being projected as a true programmer and hacker out there. - CTO is a immature and impulsive. His decisions do not have any basis and then he will try to enforce those decisions on the team/company. - Almost all the old employees in the engineering team have left due to the rude, childish, arrogant and bad leadership of the CTO. - CTO will preach about being attentive in the meetings but all the time you will find him lost and indulged in his phone. If you ask anything in the meeting, he will give some stupid suggestion which he would refute days later and blame you instead. - No senior engineers in the team. - Engineers are not paid at par with the market but the expectation is to work days and nights in office. - Unrealistic engineering deadlines which keep getting extended. - CTO micro manages every single member in the engineering team. - No work from home because it is against the culture of the company. If you don't come to office for some reason, you will receive a mail or ping from the CTO. - Don't believe in appraisals. Major component of your increment would be variable which you will never get completely on the grounds that the company didn't perform well. - Bad engineering managers. They are basically proxies of the CTO. No original thoughts as such. - If you suggest an idea to the CTO, he will disagree, but then if someone from another renowned company suggests the same or he finds an article online on it, he would say "hey, its an awesome idea and why are we not doing it."

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      HackerEarth Response
      7y
      Hi, it seems that due to some reasons I [CTO] have really offended you and you didn't have a good experience working at HackerEarth because of which you had to leave. I regret that things panned out that way. However, I would like to address some of the things that you have highlighted : 1. We are building the middle management layer right now and hiring strong EMs and VP of Eng. There is no manager in the team for engineers right now and all of them directly report to me. Being a manager myself, I am indeed responsible for setting the goals, running scrum meetings, reviewing progress every two weeks, and checking up on people how they are doing. I like to get out of engineer's way to let them work freely and everyone who works with me today can vet that. 2. I don't write code every day now, but that is something I love to do. Not writing code doesn't mean I have lost touch with technology if that has created the perception in your mind. Today, I actively run training sessions for new engineers, review code almost every day, advise engineers on architectural decisions, and still directly run the infrastructure team. Even as of today, I am 24/7 on-call for any engineering issue. 3. All the engineers know that they can work from home when they want to, even if there is no official policy for it. All the engineers know they can also take leaves freely and they are not interrogated on that. Of course, we expect that due process should be followed for taking leaves. 4. The new engineers in the team have taken a lot of responsibilities, they take up new initiatives every day, and they suggest new ideas which go to production quickly. 5. Some old engineers in the team have left because they were asked to leave as they couldn't grow as the company grew, doesn't mean that they are not competent but just that as companies grow some times the path of a company and the individuals can diverge.. Some old engineers are still leading the different teams today and some more have stepped up to lead the team going ahead. We have to have a high performing culture, but not at the cost of anything else. 6. Engineers are not supposed to work day & night. Most of the people have a very healthy work-life balance. Everyone sets their deadlines themselves and try to meet them. People go to the gym, play sports, go for hiking on weekends, plan regular team outings, and everything else required to have a good life. I am proud to say that all engineers in the team today are so honest and mature about their work and there has never been a better time to work at HackerEarth :)
      1.0
      Feb 26, 2019

      Game for Thrones !!! Literally games for personal recognition and selfish interests.

      Sales manager
      Recommend
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      Pros

      There’s a lot of passion and energy in the new talent ..But what a waste ... Lots to show off on social media ... if Glassdoor reaches out to employees they will realise the pitfall

      Cons

      The management is very selfish and immature they want to exploit the new talent but instead Of inspiring a career roadmap they just by play nasty games ... love back stabbing and favouritism!!!

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      HackerEarth Response
      7y
      Thanks for the response but I would appreciate if you can shed some more light on the feedback. We do encourage employees to share genuine feedback about HE/posts on social media as an organization and also let us know on areas we need to work on priority. On back stabbing, favoritism, management issues, I would love to discuss with you and work on fixing things, if you can elaborate your feedback then it will really help us to improve ourselves. I assure that your feedback will be acted upon and we will put our best efforts to fix anything that is going wrong.
      1.0
      Feb 22, 2019

      Good place for time PASS!

      Anonymous employee
      Recommend
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      Pros

      - Flexible timing (Which used to be earlier) - Wifi is free - If you come early you can get some fruits in the canteen

      Cons

      - Employee recognition is missing - No proper road mapping and planning - Only leadership teams who are close to the management are taken care off - They only talk about revenue nothing else! - Not much employee benefits - They set unrealistic targets and say you have not met the targets and don't give you incentives/variables - Lot of politics - No work from home policy - Never expect that they will retain you!

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      HackerEarth Response
      7y
      Thank you for your feedback. On lack of employee recognition, we have worked on a revised R&R program and we have introduced multiple layers of calibration; we surely have made good progress on that front ; the structure of work and responsibilities being unclear, we do suggest you bring this to the notice of your manager/HR and we will ensure that clarity is provided so as for you to have a goal-directed structured approach. Employee benefits, yes it is one of our priority areas and we are working towards making HE a great place to work for all ; office politics - it would really help if you could elaborate on it ; With our big ambitious goals laid out for the next few years, we admit that sometimes we can become too focused on execution of those goals. Having said that, we are making conscious efforts to give you all the support you need to achieve your targets ; also we have been transparent with the team on attrition and the reasons for the same ; we genuinely care about this company and hope this response has helped sort some of your concerns. For any further concerns, please feel free to reach out to us anytime and we would be more than happy to help:)
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