MathWorks

They take you for an all-expenses-paid new hire orientation to the US. You get to witness MathWorks at its full glory there.

Amazing peer engineers, very experienced and have been at MathWorks for a very long time.

The cafeteria is really good too.

Great infrastructure, and almost everyone having their own rooms (yes, small rooms).

Great lakeside view and what not.

This goes for the Hyderabad office:

1. The management sucks. Not sure on what qualities the managers demonstrated to get hired. They just climbed their way up through Urmi (company acquired by MathWorks).

2. The only thing that matters to the managers is the number of hours spent in the office. Every one-on-one, the only thing they will ask is if you are spending 9 hours in the office and are coming before 10. Every day, you might have to message the manager if you are 5 minutes late to the office, i.e., coming at 10:05, with a reason. This adds up to so much stress.

3. The managers suck up to their managers too, with emails like, "Dear Sir, Please grant me half-day sick leave, yours sincerely." They keep you in CC so that you follow the lead.

4. The ideas you project to the managers are straightaway rejected, and if the same idea comes across through US folks, they are given due importance. This dilutes your credibility and makes you feel so less important.

5. All that matters in the Hyderabad office is the number of fruits you are taking each day, what time you came, and if you completed 9 hours.

6. There is no cafeteria, and the food outside is very expensive. They don't have the basic courtesy to at least put out some biscuits or a vending machine.

Please, please have a feedback system for managers also in place. The current peer review just makes sure that managers choose their favorite subordinates to write reviews for them.

If things go like this, people would start leaving the company in no time, and only people from Urmi would be left, because they haven't tasted any MNC experience and are comfortable in this atrocious system from long back. But mind you, no talent pool from good colleges or people coming from other good MNCs would stay back if everything goes like this.