Indigo reviews

Indigo is a beautiful place to work the offices are great and you better love them because you'll be there every day, and working weekends. Work life balance doesn't exist, literally expected to work 90 hour weeks and still feel behind and get called out by Leadership. There is still no 401K match despite raising 400 Million, I don't think that is fair to employees but investors are more important . Exploitation of employees for the benefit of going public and pocketing more money for investors and C level folks. Sure we have equity as early joiners but what does it matter if people get burned out and leave or are walked out when they raise even the smallest issue. The little people of the company are not heard. If you try to voice your opinion management will get rid of you my colleagues have mostly been replaced since I started 2 years ago. Any review with a rating 3 or above is most likely a fake review from someone on the People team or someone who just started as they encourage you to leave a review on your first day onboarding about being the Best Places to work. I have worked many years as an Sales professional before I worked here and this company was hands down the most chaotic, unprofessional, disorganized, dog-eat-dog insane experience. My hats off to a few truly decent people that have figured out how to survive in such a toxic environment. Indigo moves to fast and has completely unrealistic expectations for what employees are supposed to accomplish in work day. I have never before seen a place with such high turnover of employees. Employees are not valued and are taken advantage of in my opinion and it starts on day 1, The company is more about image than training properly, two weeks of training and little to no side by side to learn the process, expectations and many computer programs we have to use. Process changes every week anyway so there is no point in learning it but you have to make time for doing your day job and all the admin work at night. I need more time than 24 hours to go anywhere near meeting the huge unrealistic sales quotas my team has. Senior Management is untrustworthy and do not care about employees. In the office, inexperience managers that are training employees seem to just make it up as they go. Departments silo-ed. Communication is poor. Teams competing for projects, very territorial. Communications from VP to Directors is vague and the deliverables change while in process, or the prescribed deliverable is changed upon delivery. Unbelievable micromanagement from the top down, be prepared to get yelled at on a weekly basis on calls and in person. I am ready to leave after being treated like a child.

Indigo hires a lot of people and then regularly lays off large amounts of staff to trick investors into believing that Indigo is a good company to invest in. This allows them to show that their expenses are low. In reality, the remaining Engineering staff is not equipped to maintain the existing products, so innovation has completely stopped. Expenses are low, but there is no one left to build, and maintain, the products that make the company money. The C-Suite has no empathy for anyone. People are laid off based on their salary for the most part without any regard to the value they provide. Believe me, I understand how businesses can be cutt-throat, but Indigo has made laying people an art form at this point. HR is cold and callous during most interactions, not even when you get laid off. Basically, more and more of the company is laid off every quarter as if it is a recurring event on the CEO's calendar, and an appointment that he loves to keep. Everyone, especially in Engineering, has been laid to waste throughout multiple rounds of layoffs over the last couple of years. The CEO is 100% fake. Diversity and inclusion is talked about, but is never put into practice. The one person in human resources that was hired to lead this effort was laid off less than three months into her tenure. After their constant, massive layoffs, the agreed upon severance pay does not show up on time, and seems to be a common struggle with most employees that are laid off. HR is incredibly slow to get back to people, and that is the worst time to treat people like this. There is a never a good time, but when someone's life has been drastically altered, and people are still in shock, they then need to contact HR multiple times just to receive a response. This has happens to quite a few people - not just once. The business outlook is bleak at best. The company bleeds investment dollars while trying to paint a different picture to investors. Sadly, they still have had multiple rounds of investments, all while the company never hits profitability. This has been a goal for years, and are still unable to get there. Stop calling yourself a start-up because it sounds cool to engineers when the company is too old to still be this dysfunctional, and the culture is just to work harder with less resources with no light at the end of the tunnel. If the company treated engineers like valuable resources, the attrition rate would not be absolutely horrendous.