Best Buy

1. Industry standard compensation
2. Cabs (but very poor service)
3. Food (quality is poor, also not allowed to ask for more than 2 chicken pieces)

Feels like a toxic startup environment in India despite being a global brand.

• Extremely poor work culture — managers, leaders, and HR lack empathy.
• Rigid 3-day in-office requirement, even if you are unwell — otherwise, you are forced to take leave.
• Office hours are officially 10 AM – 4 PM, but real work happens after hours: daily calls from 5:30 PM to 10–11 PM, followed by more work to resolve issues from those calls.
• US managers work only until 3–3:30 PM their time but keep pushing work and pressure on India team members late into the night.
• Cab service is unreliable and food quality is bad.
• 90% of employees are just waiting to complete a year or get another offer (even with the same pay) to leave.
• Work is mostly no-code tasks or migrations — little to no real learning or career growth. Feels more like being in school than in a professional engineering role.
• Surveys are claimed to be anonymous, but feedback leads to direct confrontation from managers the very next week.

If you truly value your employees, start respecting their time and health.

Fix the late-night call culture, make surveys genuinely anonymous, and invest in meaningful technical work for engineers rather than repetitive, non-growth tasks.

The India office will keep losing talent unless the culture changes.