Photon reviews

4.3

83% would recommend to a friend

(2,795 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 2,795 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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4.0
Mar 14, 2012

Good place to learn

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Good work exposure, especially chance to interact with clients early on High responsibility good growth prospects if performance is good

Cons

Work culture is indeed aggressive and becomes difficult but only if someone is not performing. Processes need more maturity. They have been improving though

1.0
Mar 13, 2012
Recommend
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Pros

This firm does work for major clients, and getting exposed to these clients is the only positive I can think of.

Cons

The top down management style where the work force is not respected is both deliberate and antithetical to the manner in which I believe software should be delivered. The disrespect that management has for their clients and servicing their clients’ needs is an embarrassment to the team that face the client, and who must constantly manage the lack of quality deliveries and slipped schedules. The attempt to hide the repressive way that the team is treated fails, and the clients have a strong sense of an overworked, underpaid stressed out workforce. This makes for an awkward relationship between client and middle manager. Because senior management’s style is abusive, and nasty, this style permeates the work force, who feels that normal risk management techniques will be ignored, and in turn become at the middle management level nasty and abusive to their workers. The technology used while sounding 'sexy' and forward, is not well understood by the senior technical team, which leads to embarrassing deliveries with memory leaks, system crashes, and just plain bad user experience. If you are unfortunate enough to work for these guys stay with safe web technology solutions and stay away from innovative approaches, as this firm can only fail here. This company is micro managed by a pair of brothers who do not empower their senior staff to take risks or make decisions.

1.0
Mar 25, 2011

Not a place for all

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Salary. If you are in a good project you will learn, otherwise they suck.

Cons

Deliverables are poor. They are not open for feedback or suggestions. They harass employees. I believe customers are winding up with them.

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