Inexperienced set of Jerks - Engineering Elucidata (MA) Employee Review

2.0
13 June 2021
Recommend
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Pros

1. It's a fun place for a start, with a good team to work along. 2. Biology, data science, and technology is a niche domain and is bound to boom. 3. They work on the latest technology stacks and use open source.

Cons

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.

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5.0
5 Jan 2022
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Pros

- Open minded founding team - Flexible schedule - Many opportunities for growth - Growing revenue and customer base, all pre series-A - Good compensation Overall a great place to work, especially for self-motivated individuals. The work is fully remote and not micro-managed. There are many opportunities to learn both within sales and BD, and outside of it. I have grown in my craft and expect to continue to do so as the company continues its grown trajectory.

Cons

- Working around time changes can be a challenge - Experiencing growing pains - Challenging for those who thrive in structured environments Geographical separation can be a challenge and can mean early morning meetings, especially for people in the PST time zone. The rate of growth has at times exceeded process improvement and hiring, however this is being recognized and actively worked on. Not really a con, though Elucidata can be hard to acclimate to for people coming from corporate environments due to its startup culture.

2.0
25 Mar 2024
Recommend
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Pros

-Remote Work and flexibility in timings. - Niche domain

Cons

- The organization lacks a clear long-term vision, consistently resorting to short-term solutions. - They come up with new customer offerings every two quarters, and abandon them soon enough. - Never ending cycle of micromanagement and complaints about how no one takes ownership of tasks. - No work-life balance. We were expected to work even during weekends, with no recognition. - Absolute peanuts for pay. Appraisals here have been a joke. When it's time to pay performance bonuses, they were "never happy with performances" and refuse to pay the amount. - Although the upskilling policy should come under a pro, the fact that there's never enough time to actually upskill oneself should be a con. - Only the people close to the upper management and their teams apparently "work". Everyone else in the company does not "work".

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