Great office and coworkers, but lack of team involvement - AI Intern ELYADATA Employee Review

-gain experience quickly by being exposed to multiple projects and roles at once. -You’ll witness nearly every form of manipulation, pressure, and control tactic imaginable — a unique (and unfortunate) crash course in workplace psychology and survival. It’s eye-opening, and in a twisted way… educational.

-No recognition or reward: Raises are minimal, bonuses are symbolic (if any), and working evenings, weekends, or holidays gets you nothing in return. -Extreme micromanagement -Estimation trap: You’re pressured into giving unrealistic time estimates to “look good.” If you give a realistic one, you’re seen as incompetent. If you give a low one, you’re held fully accountable and expected to work nights and weekends to hit impossible deadlines. Either way, you lose. -No dialogue in conflict: Management listens to one side only. There’s no real conflict resolution process—just arbitrary decisions. -Toxic workplace culture: • No team-building, no effort to create genuine cohesion. • Office divided into cliques, childish behavior encouraged. • Gossip and snitching are not only common—they’re actively rewarded. • Taking advantage of others is seen as smart, not unethical. • The atmosphere feels more like a schoolyard than a professional environment. -Lack of leadership maturity: Management governs with pressure, fear, and favoritism rather than clarity, fairness, or vision. Instead of fostering professionalism, the company cultivates distrust, pressure, and emotional instability.

I only gave 1 star because 0 wasn’t an option

They could lie about tech environments and clients size, but not even the boldest liar has the audacity to lie about the toxicity, hourly micromanagement, constant burnout or the politics that kill motivation. Tech environment reality: Day to day is plain Python + FastAPI, and PostgreSQL shows up in almost every project. The flashy “tech radar” is marketing, not the real work. Yes, the client list is on the website, but only one of the listed clients is still an active client. The rest are old projects. In practice the company survives on two clients, and one of those projects is ending soon. That’s a real risk to job stability. Many positive posts come from current employees who were told a.k.a "forced" to post. For honest answers, ask former employees, they can speak freely. And no, they weren't "a bit surprised" by the other reviews, not even slightly. Everyone inside the company knows it, and even outsiders are fully aware of the level of it's toxicity. No amount of lies will cover the dark reality.