Sivananthan Laboratories Reviews

The management is a complete mess. Toward the end of my tenure there they started having financial troubles. A large chunk of it was panic buying a $1 million dollar piece of equipment. The problem is Dr. Siva which is the CEO of the place has a really and I mean really bad habit of not caring about how unreasonable a request is. You will hear the phrase "Dr. Siva wants" a lot and it's usually tied to some nonsense request. You realize quite quickly that the management which has been around for a while are all his personal secretary and former graduate students. Which means they have become a bit of "yes men" for him. As a result it becomes incredibly chaotic there. The other problem is management is so old that they are not good at all with technology. Which caused a huge number of issues. They refused to buy GPUs for the AI team to work with because they assumed they could just use random Dell PCs. This handicapped the AI team, but they still demanded they produce top quality research. The network was a mess and they refused to allow VPN connections for remote workers. They also had a horrible habit of not communicating well. So many times you would be told one thing by one person and another person would come in and tell you something different. I would expect that at a big corporation, but this was a company where the management would fit into one room. It was pure chaos all the time and finally I just had enough of it.

Small Company, not super organized