Award for the Most Toxic Startup in Bengaluru Goes to.... - Anonymous employee Bikayi Employee Review

All the negative news articles about BIK exist for a reason. The minute you join this toxic workplace, you are expected to perform multiple roles without a single day of training. All for minimal pay. Job security is zero. You will be asked to leave within a week of raising concerns against unfair pay. Asking for a justified pay raise after months of good performance is a foolproof way of getting yourself under a Performance Improvement Plan (PIP), following which you will be terminated quoting performance issues. It doesn't matter if you have been already handling double roles and added responsibilities. You are still not eligible for a pay raise. The CEO is an immature, small-minded and toxic person, with zero sense of ethics. She loves to micro-manage every employee and is regularly abusive towards even managerial-level employees. Favouritism plays a big role here. The other co-founder berates tech managers as "below average" for not meeting performance targets in record time, despite a heavily down-sized workforce. Working hours are pathetic. Ask either of the co-founders for a day's leave and you will receive an email from HR asking to leave the company. True story. Freelance writers are hired to write on a contract basis and are let go without being paid for their services. Work for the marketing team and you will encounter a Marketing Manager- one of the rudest persons in the company without any management skills, and with the IQ and EQ of a peanut. The work culture is intolerable. Tip of the iceberg.