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Flexible timings.

Decent free snacks and beverages in breakout areas.

The new technology stack is awesome.

Migration from the old stack to the new is proceeding at a good speed.

Managers are understanding.

Compensation is very good, both salary as well as equity.

Very minimal politics.

Work-life balance is decent.

Leadership vision is good, and employees are made aware of changes and future plans on a regular basis.

Free and good cabs.

There are still a lot of teams sustaining legacy applications which are yet to be migrated to a new stack.

There is a huge dependency on in-house developed applications and middleware, which poses extreme difficulty in maintaining and getting help.

The Pritech and Ecospace tech park is a real hell in terms of evening traffic. It takes a minimum of 30 minutes just to get out of the tech park on an average day.

In worst-case scenarios, like during rains, it has taken me over 3 hours just to get to the outer ring road.

Replace in-house components with open-source alternatives. Resources spent in maintaining these components can be engaged to contribute to open source.