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Losing its charm slowly and steadily. Still, hope is there for a comeback

Software Development Engineer II
Current Employee
Has worked at Flipkart for 4 years
August 7, 2016
Bengaluru, Karnataka
3.0
RecommendsNeutral OutlookNo CEO Opinion
Pros

Intelligent and interesting people (but leaving at a fast pace now).

Good work-life balance once you get a grasp.

Technologically ahead, believes in open source.

Awesome office.

Lots to learn, at least for 2-3 years when you join.

Cons

Developers and lower management are paying the price for bad upper management decisions.

Chaos ensues as the company grows in size, and it is not able to maintain the quality of people as it was a few years back.

The culture is degrading over that time. Technical knowhow might still be there, but people with passion are lacking these days.

Advice to Management

Management decisions should be discussed in forums so that people who have to execute also believe in top management's ideas. Otherwise, this gap would lead to a lack of focus.

Management should answer honestly and with humility in forums where hard questions are asked, mostly anonymously. I have seen them joking and skipping many tough questions in such forums.

They need to understand that hard questions will always be anonymous, but they hold a lot of truth.

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