FusionCharts Javascript Developer reviews

Interesting projects with very little micro-management and ownership given to developers. Open work culture. Great office.

FusionCharts has very good publicity and a decent amount of fluff written on their career adverts - so it was really important for me to decide what are the real things I am looking for at FusionCharts before coming here. And I am quite happy on those grounds as the nature and quality of work matched my expectation. Those are something like: 1. Good quality of work - Depending on your team, you will get to work on core Javascript as well as other languages like Java, Python, Ruby - some teams are more dynamic whereas some teams are very focused on enriching the core offering, but there is always a respect towards knowing the core technology and language rather than talking in terms of frameworks. Work is also more execution-oriented, which I believe is a neutral thing - there is a decent amount of discussion before implementing things, but the focus is more on implementing fast, figuring out the problems and re-iterating on it. There are also some parts of development, which is as good as a separate project in its scope, but often gets done in weeks - which means sometimes it is incomplete in its broader scope, but also you have something decently functional before you know. 2. Visibility of your contributions - Most of you contributions are very much visible in the product functionalities and a good amount of non-core repositories gets open-sourced. All this increases your career value in the long-time. And you know that a lot of people are going to use your product and might even give you their positive/negative feedbacks, so there is always an added responsibility. 3. Above average pay for experienced employees - Not much to talk about this, salary estimates will already give you some idea that it is decently good for the market, but believe me they often bargain very hard on the salary discussion and you'll probably never the get the whole figure you asked for. This is getting worse, if anything. One small good thing is they dont deduct much from the quoted salary as there is no PF contribution - but there are still gratuity, IT and professional tax deductions. 4. Open-minded direct managers - Managers are always open for technical discussions and mostly tech decisions are taken as a team with input from developers. They are very approachable and mostly don't have an atmosphere around them. The executive or upper management are much less approachable though and I have noticed a decent amount of fear(more like mental restriction maybe?) for taking up discussions with them. 5. Only your work matters - so you can have casual dressing and mostly flexible timings. No corporate proxy, internet filtering, anti personal-device policy - allowing you to work as freely as at home. Yes, there is an official 9-hour workday policy but it is not forced upon much and it often feels like you work for that many hours which is necessary to pull things off - unfortunately that leaves off very less time for your personal things in the weekdays.