Elucidata (MA) Reviews

1. CTO is a sweet kid and a lollygag. But if you take the chocolate away, he bursts like a bomb causing catastrophic damage to employees and the company. He might be a good boss but has substandard leadership qualities. 2. HR and people's management are non-professional and are nincompoops. Salaries and other forms of compulsions are often late with a feeble excuse. 3. Gears like laptops are godawful and worthless with no support to fix or replace them. A hilarious instance was when the company was trying to sell chairs to employees already facing pay cuts. 4. Upper management is a set of jerks. They are too inexperienced to handle and manage teams/projects. After all, they are just freshers causing bumfuzzle. 5. Engineering leaders are too naive and amateur. They make stupid decisions based on the infinitesimally small knowledge they possess. Planing never involves long-term thinking. The business model is taradiddle depending on the cheap engineering workforce. So engineers are neither expected nor forced to build and innovate.

- The offering changes every few months. If you start a sales or marketing campaign, by the end of it, the product is different and you don't know what your contribution has been to the team because the campaign itself has gone to waste. You'll have to target a new demographic with new value propositions for the new offering. - Bad eggs. Every team has one or two people who do nothing and take credit for other people's work. Somehow, management doesn't see through this despite several escalations. - Fake promises. You'll be oversold on what the company can offer you. This happens both to customers and with employees who join. Hence, the product cannot keep up with the promises and the employees get overworked and underpaid. The company can change the employees' KPI so drastically that they'll be doing tasks that were completely different from what they joined to do, this altering the career path of the person. - Appraisals are a joke. No matter how much you do, you'll be told you're not doing enough during your performance review. You'll be so burdened with work that due to lack of bandwidth, you'll be working on "priority tasks" instead of working to improve your KPIs. This year, most guys did not even get any appraisals. They will make you feel like you're lesser than you actually are. Make sure you check if you're getting paid the market rate at least. Don't be gaslit into accepting low offers. - Favouritism. You'll either experience this first hand or you'll watch some of your coworkers gliding through while others remain underappreciated and overworked. - Poor management. Senior Management does not seem to understand the pulse of the market. They badly lack the vision it takes to run a company. The layoffs are a clear sign. - Layoffs. They lay off employees and post openings for interns to do the same work. - Unlimited leave policy. No one really used this option because they had so many projects to finish. It was the carrot that drew the horse forward but no one really got the carrot except a handful maybe. - Upskilling bonus. Your autonomy in choosing what you want to upskill in is limited by your manager. They may even ask you to use your bonus for training sessions organised by the company. - POSH? Pish posh. - Working hours. Your possibility of having a life outside work depends on the team you are in. Be prepared to feel like a second class citizen when it comes to meeting times.