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Great place to learn, but priorities not right now

Software Development Engineer II
Current Employee
Has worked at Flipkart for 6 years
August 6, 2020
Bengaluru, Karnataka
4.0
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Pros

Ownership. You are going to own products big time. Developers have a lot of say in product design itself.

Learning Opportunities. Still rolling out solutions like multi-dc setup, which would help you learn and become a more complete engineer.

Cons

Work-life balance. You would be expected to work even on weekends quite frequently.

No enforcement of processes. This would vary team to team, but a high development rate leads to tech debt, which is rarely repaid. Also, no standard CI/CD means much more time goes into deployment and monitoring it afterwards.

Competency framework not followed during promotions/appraisals.

Advice to Management

In view of COVID, many people are getting overworked.

We should ensure that developers are not expected to put in weekends regularly. We should float surveys around regularly and have a session for managers who score poorly in those.

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