Heaven if you are extreme workaholic and proud of it. - Anonymous employee qplum Employee Review

2.0
13 Nov 2018
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

tbh, two things- 1. Notice Period. 2. Pay scale.

Cons

- No work life balance because you'll be in office more than 9-10 hours daily. Consider you don't have a personal life apart from work. - Their belief system is that every problem statement should be finished within a week, no matter what. If that doesn't happen, there's going to be deep escalation every time that why you could not do it. Even though it's very obvious that problem was big and required time etc. They just want you to come up with some basic solution and finish it within a week. I have seen old employees agreeing on that they don't need the best solutions. We just want to get things done and then everything breaks on live product and then there's lashing out from founders on why did it happen. It's very funny scenarios at times. Everyone knows it happened because it wasn't thought out properly and tested properly because of lack of time. - You will hear this a lot from stakeholders:"We are a startup, we should not spend so much time on ideation process." - Judgement on your every action, starting from the time you enter the office to the time you leave to everything, that too after spending more than 9-10 hours in office. - You will always see founders or stakeholders asking you questions to frame you in a situation, rather than conveying what's the issue upfront. Intelligence agency sort of scenes. You won't know what's their opinion on your work or on you. - Also at times there will be warnings upfront. No ethics about conveying basic conditions like work from home. I remember HR once advocating about that we are very strict for WFH and coming late, and one of the employee asked whether sometimes personal work like plumbing job or some emergency work which is not in our hands, is making us late, would that be fine? And her response was,"If you are being late for such mundane reasons then you should not be in this company." - Extreme workaholic environment. Setting standards from CEO to Team Leads to Managers to HR's(Idk what they have to work for so long in office). - Boxed mindsets towards running company with diversified employee mindsets. It's easy to mould freshers with this mindset but people coming from different domains would see it through and would reject this. - Unhealthy and forced competitive environment. Interview Process: You will be promised a lot about ideas you would be able to do coz we are so open about new ideas and new tech but then this all won't even get discussed once you are on board.

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Pros

I quit PhD in ML to work in applied areas. I have worked in HFT firms, co-founded hedge funds, and finally at qplum, I see that we are working on pure machine learning to solve THE hardest social science problem possible. Everything gets tough when money is involved. ML gets tough too. There are no short cuts in this work and I love it.

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1.0
4 Feb 2019
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Pros

Extremely talented colleagues, Good and understanding immediate managers. Opportunity to take full ownership of your work.

Cons

Even though your colleagues are talented and good people to work with, all of these positives are in absolute vain because of the extremely toxic top management. The top management has absolutely no idea what they doing. The company's business strategy take a u turn every six months, whats next are tons of erratic decisions : half made project ideas, erratic hiring, erratic firing, switching teams and all sorts of stupid decisions which perhaps only a person with an unsound business mind would take . Many employees have seen through this hollow vision which the people at the top have and decided to leave, thus greatly reducing the only singular positive attribute about the company. Even at the face of such a high attrition rate, the top management remains apathetic about the situation. What is worse is, rather than accepting their truth that they absolutely have no care for their employees, do not want to answer to anyone and actively wish to cultivate a toxic "finance / trading firm" work culture in order to minimise costs, they pretend to have a "state of the art startup culture" which is employee friendly, completely transparent and boast about having a "flat organisation" where everyone has a say in the key decision making process. The only people who can survive in such an environment are "yes men" who regularly update their asana tasks with irrelevant superfluous details, because apparently asana is the only way the top management can see what is happening on ground. So much for being transparent and flat.

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