Valuable learning opportunities hindered by office politics - Recensione dipendente - SDE-2 presso GoKwik

well the only pro is Person who leads Ops is level headed and down to earth.. understands certain things.. There are no other pros from organisations standpoint ohh yes except for timely salary.. which has also got delayed at times by couple of days.. but will discount that

Tons of things where do we even start - Founder group is busy siphoning off the money, Because every year appraisal comes they do nasty things..so that they’ll give poor appraisals in lieu of that.. - HR team, well let’s not even talk about them.. they are bunch of jokers .. specially people who lead the functions like HRBP and Talent Acquisition.. they are sitting and getting salaries for not doing a single paisa work… all they would do is shout on top of their voice in offices or act as spy and do information exchange from here to there.. founder has turned blind and deaf towards HR Functions.. inspite of such pathetic culture … HR team is never impacted or questioned.. across my experience haven’t seen such a bad HR team.. they should just remove Human from their names.. because they clearly aren’t human.. - AI is their new scapegoat.. blame everything on AI.. - Engineering culture used to be good.. but now that’s decline.. - they used to have good engineer culture till 2024..but it has just declined post that..

You can learn a lot and gain hands-on experience.

No work-life balance. Constant pressure and unrealistic expectations. Culture driven by fear rather than support. Frequent layoffs create a sense of insecurity. Too much politics and favoritism. Deployments happen almost every day, often without proper planning. Frequent production breakages and firefighting. Little to no documentation. Poor code quality practices with minimal or no code comments. Focus is on "git commit, git push, and move on" rather than maintainability. Technical debt keeps piling up, creating more chaos with every release. Lack of long-term engineering thinking and ownership.