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Senior Software Engineer
Former Employee
Worked at Qualys for 1 year
November 27, 2017
Pune, India
1.0
Doesn't RecommendNeutral OutlookDoesn't Approve of CEO
Pros

Flexible hours at work until your manager gets jealous about your freedom.

Office location is centrally located for commute.

Don't expect respect from anyone except the HR team. HR team is your only comfort, but they are too tied by US people.

Cons
  1. Never before, I saw such worse category of managers - Untrained, insecure and self-proclaimed experts that come pissed from home and show anger in office. They act like they are product experts, UX experts, cloud experts, director material rolled into one but know nothing but blunt talk and show off. They can't handle themselves leave others, can't own responsibilities but continuously target team members by petty tactics and malicious barbs. They continue to get hefty hikes each year but team toil hard each year to get 'peanuts'.
  2. If you have no friends in upper management there is a 100% guarantee of your morale, health getting screwed.
  3. Egoistic people - VP will never even look at you as a colleague, forget a hi. QA managers will keep cracking jokes on your caste and culture openly! (they forget they are living on government privileges)
  4. CPO talks only to his loyal boot lickers without valuing the soft spoken hard workers.
Advice to Management
  1. Don't promote anyone to manager post without team handling experience and SCRUM or Agile certification - Engineers are the worst affected by immature managers who commit horrors in decision making and work but get away by scoring points of developer's mistakes instead of managing their workloads properly.
  2. Nurture groom leaders who collaborate,inspire and take everyone together. Not those who are a huge cost to team work and high maintainance.
  3. Appraisal process should be point based and not subjective. keep a check on manager's loose talk as these - "You should be ashamed on missing this", "Co is firing many. Please work hard.", "CPO was asking about you. Should I escalate your performance issues to him ?"

People need to understand the rule of universe - Everything that you send out comes back to the "source".

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