Algoscale Reviews

3.9

78% would recommend to a friend

(112 total reviews)

Neeraj Agarwal

83% approve of CEO

61% positive business outlook

Algoscale has an employee rating of 3.9 out of 5 stars, based on 112 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Algoscale 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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112 reviews
1.0
20 June 2017
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Pros

Not Anything positive for me everything went bad for me. Even I was feeling as daily labour which work for data cleaning and crawling. The owner of company runs his factory besides his IT firm so he treat every employe as labour. And there is no timing of work even I and my colleague had to say full night in company for useless work. 90% of employees left the company with in 8 month just because of no future. And when anyone leave company then no body gets his last remaining salary. And company threatening company if you do anything then I will not give you relieving and experience letter. 1). In name of development and big data they only have project of data crawling. 2). They mean big data means data cleaning and data mining. 3). Developer only build crawlers. 4). Algoscale has lack of knowledge in technology. 5). They don't listed any one. 6). Immature CEO.

Cons

1). No on time salary. 2). Very bad work culture with full of negativity. 3). Zero employee benefits plans. 4). Zero company facility ( even no coffee and tea ). 5). Very rude company owner with weird nature. 6). When I left the company I didn't got my last 1 and half month salary. 7). Very hard to get relieving letter and experience letter from company. 8). Had to say on full night and even had to come on weekends. 9). Company said they have 5 days working which is totally fake you have to work for seven days. 10). No bonus. 11). On increment people hardly get 5% or 7% if he worked for seven day a week (this is good reward according to algoscale) and if employee work for 6 days and deny to stay at night then they got 2 %to 4%. 12). Appraisal cycle 2 year or minimum 1 year for start employees. 13). No office timing. But employe have to come before 11 AM if they stayed in company last full night. I worked for this company for more than one year and I almost destroyed my one year of being here.

2.0
10 Feb 2016

Bad Location, No Work Life Balance, Immature CEO

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Only three things were good that I could think of: 1. It's a startup so you get to be independent. Small teams assigned for each project so you get to have ownership of your work. 2. Since there is no set technologies, chances are that you may work on different tools and languages, thereby learning new things every now and then. 3. Good peers, most of whom, mostly end up resigning every now and then.

Cons

This is will go long way: 1. Bad Location(Ghaziabad Industrial area: lots of dust and bad crowd in the midst of steel factories is not a good location for an IT company) is the primary concern for all the employees. The company is practically inside a factory where you get to see day to day labor issues. The CEO keeps procrastinating this topic. He would even lie during the interview saying that we will shift pretty soon. But he does not relocate. And people resign. 2. No side perks in the office. I know this may not be a valid point, but we need refreshments as well if we are coming to work for you. 3. They are short of projects and clientele. Most of the time people are working on projects that are going to be part of proposal to the client, and not actual projects. Most of the times proposals get rejected and the work goes in trash. The other times the project lack strong architecture based on lack of SOWs. The clients are unprofessional and CEO lacks the ability to reason with them. 4. This is not a data science company. This is not even a data analytics company. Apart from one or two projects, most of the projects are simple web development based. When you join as a data scientist or for machine learning profile, they will hand over to you some thing totally out of your forte. And no matter what they say on their website they do not have any IoT based in-house product. This is not a product based startup, but a solely services based. 5. Coming to forte: They don't understand the meaning of 'forte'. You will be working on things you know, and even on the things you don’t know. You can take your time, even stay up till 3 AM or even 4 AM. 6. There is zero work life balance. Even after office hours and on weekends. 7. The startup is hardly surviving, with a high attrition rate and low employee satisfaction. 8. There is no strict knowledge/experience based salary standard followed. The CEO offers any big amount to a novice developer just if he is out from a reputed college, while the senior guy training him, no matter how experienced and knowledgeable the senior be, will be getting 30-40% of that guy’s salary. No rewards for the deserving employees already handling the projects there. Just another reason for demotivation. 9. No sense of management. There is one CEO and after that there is no other member in the management team. The CEO himself is not a CEO material, but just an introvert tech guy with some money in his bank. When it comes to team handling and project management, he ends up being all confused and taking wrong decisions.

1.0
2 Mar 2017

90% employees quit within 1 year. Check LinkedIn

Anonymous employee
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Pros

There are only a few pros that I can think of. Work is diversified with lot of technologies in use.

Cons

1) My parents call this company a 'Pan shop' due to its current head count and office. They are not far from reality. However, a pan shop is usually well managed and its best employees will be well-treated, well-paid and appreciated, whereas Algoscale lacks all 3 of these. 2) One of the best employees quit recently. Rumors spread that the founder refused to promote and provide pay hike to that person. 3) (Closely related to #2) It's said that most of the pillars left in bad terms. Founder shamelessly calls them even now and takes their help for FREE. This clearly suggests that they were not willing to leave and that something is messed up with the founder. 4) Great work is not rewarded. It's not even recognized. However, mistakes are taken very seriously. This creates tremendous negative pressure. 5) This is a client-based company. You can call it "client-run company". Employee feedback is swiftly discarded. Client feedback is expressly acted upon. 6) There is no life, only work. People are expected to work during weekends, clocking equal time as on weekdays - just because the founder does so. Arguing against this leads to negative sentiments. 7) Discussions with founder can go haywire - arguments can turn into abusive quarrels any time. Importantly, the founder reacts adversely to people who argue (constructively) with him and spreads bad impression about them within the company.

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