Photon reviews

4.3

83% would recommend to a friend

(2,824 total reviews)
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Srinivas Balasubramanian

86% approve of CEO

85% positive business outlook

Photon has an employee rating of 4.3 out of 5 stars, based on 2,824 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an excellent working experience there. The Photon 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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3K reviews
3.0
Nov 27, 2018

2 Years at Photon

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Good place to learn for beginners

Cons

You need to practice working under pressure

1.0
Nov 26, 2018

Slave Drivers

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

If you are lucky, you may get to work on some really strategic and transformative programs - very fulfilling if you are looking for that. Pay can be off the charts if you were hired at a time when the position was urgent and there was no one else in the pipeline. But beware - this also means you will be the first one on the chopping block.

Cons

Everything about this organization is an issue. Starting with service agreements that are border-line illegal, an ignorant finance team that does incorrect tax deductions on a regular basis putting individual employees in jeopardy with IRS, a culture of public humiliation and an employee workforce that’s majority sub-par skills. People here work hard - not because they love to, but because estimates are always aggressive and everyone is hired into roles way beyond their capability. To survive, you learn to lie. And then the lies become a way of life - resulting in missed commitments both internally and to clients. All of this stems from just one place - the egotistical and whimsical values of the company’s owner (the CTO). He is deranged and believes he is “god” and owns his employees. He believes he has the highest ethics and sense of fairness. He believes he is the most empathetic human in the world - all of this is far from true. But unfortunately he genuinely believes he is the best - he toys around with people’s lives not out of malice, but because that’s all he knows to be right.

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