Story of how a good tech company can turn into worst place to work
Pros
1. Pay on time 2. Smooth learning curve wrt tech stack 3. Cross-team communication 4. Nice people in office
Cons
Note : The company was awesome to work in 2023 and before so reviews dating back then are now obsolete with the current work environment, 1. No flexibility in work timing. Rigid 10-7 mandatory office punch-in punch-out system. Also, expect you to work after reaching home and on weekends. 2. HRs keep tracking your presence in the office. They randomly call you to check you are in the office or just fake card punch-ins. For a small company like dotpe, they sure have a lot of people in HR department. 3. Incompetent tech leadership. They have no say in the timelines and feature deadlines. Just blindly follow CTOs ridiculous argument because of obviously their own job safety concerns. 4. Zero focus on employee well-being, Even if the employee wants to contribute to work by asking WFH ( when he seriously can't visit office ), HRs ask them to apply leave/loss of pay. If the duration extends to a week+, they forcefully ask to come back or resign. 5. No one holds accountability for product's failure. Everything is put on tech team. Just ship one feature after the another without asking why previous one didn't work. ' 6. Commit to weird deadlines and make employees work on weekends. No appreciation and then, no flexibility when someone asks WFH/Comp-off. 7. Neither working as a startup nor corporate. They expect to follow corporate rules and work like a startup mode. Strict HR policies like old era and no work-life balance like modern startup era. I always recommended this company to other people, but now no more. All thanks to the genius HR department and weak tech leaders ( who themselves will be switching soon ). This could have been one of the best companies to work for, but no more. Now it's just another small company with zero employee centric benefits.