Palo Alto Networks

Decent salary and RSU. The company stock price is increasing at a good pace.

There is nothing right about Palo Alto Networks India site.

There is absolutely no work-life balance. Engineers are treated like machines. There is no process, no capacity planning; just keep dumping the work on us. No one knows what process is being followed here.

Engineers are working on multiple things at once: new features, bug fixes/verification for 3-4 releases at once. Our managers are busy showcasing how much work they are getting done without caring for their employees. They just need appreciation from higher management at the cost of the employees' mental and physical health.

You will literally lose your life expectancy by many years if you stay here. Engineers are getting sick very frequently because of lack of sleep, no time to exercise, a lot of stress, and all other negative stuff.

There is a lot of politics in the company. There is absolutely no collaboration between India and US teams. US teams treat the India team as crap, and our India leaders are happy to accept that we are crap and nod their heads to whatever they say. India leaders don't have the courage to talk in front of them.

There is a lot of unhealthy competition between India and US teams. US teams are not ready to share any information with the India team, and our managers don't have the courage to bring this up, even after complaining many times. Though the India site is set up as an R&D center, literally, there is no R&D that's happening here. All projects related to cybersecurity still operate in the US, and other crap jobs are just dumped on the India team.

They say we have a hybrid model, a flexible working model, but force only Indian employees to come to the office 4 days a week. Why this third-world treatment for the India site?

And our HR team is busy getting good reviews on social media platforms. All the good reviews you see on Glassdoor are the result of HRs forcing engineers to give good reviews. They are least bothered about what's actually happening. Not even a survey is sent internally to understand how engineers are feeling about the India site.

Basically, the India site is set up just to dump all the crap works and suck our blood. I have worked in many companies before, and no company was this bad. If this continues, it's just a matter of some months. Once the market improves, all the engineers will definitely leave this toxic work environment.

India leaders should stop being slaves of US leaders and focus on India employees' mental and physical health. Give us good work-life balance, follow some process, and stop dumping work on engineers.