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Good company with mediocre leadership

Software Engineer
Former Employee
Worked at Rapido for 4 years
September 2, 2023
Bengaluru
2.0
Doesn't RecommendNegative Outlook
Pros

1.Other than thoughtworkers, people are friendly.

  1. Exposure and direct interaction with business.

  2. Good for freshers.

Cons
  1. Power struggle amongst leaders in tech and product, one might come under radar and get used and suffer cause of their politics.

  2. Groupism in engineering. Engineering head, Data team head, all principle engineers and more than half of the tech leads are from thoughtworks. Other leads are chosen carefully who can offer no resistance to the group. To this ridiculous facade, founders and HR team have been keeping blind eye. So many good folks were cornered by this toxic group and they finally left the org. Because of the backing they have, even well reputed and senior people have been targeted on public forums quite rudely.

  3. For a startup, atmosphere is of low ambition and for this reason company’s valuation is also lower than what it should have been.

  4. Performance evaluation is not taken seriously as the non-deserving people have made it or chosen into the leadership and needless to say they cant be fair cause if they were, they wouldn’t have been here in first place. Talent, skillset, experience is secondary and audaciously connections are favoured openly.

Advice to Management

Hire a competent CEO/CTO and restructure DaPT teams. Leadership at this moment especially tech is actually dragging performance by citing system complexity which isn’t true. Its being done only to hide and cover themselves. Consider hiring good people from proven and credible backgrounds. There are many good companies out there other than thoughtworks. For junior and mid level hiring you can offer a better role but for senior roles hiring should be based on prior experience as some of hiring has actually been mistakes which have made things even worse.

Additional Ratings

Work/Life Balance
5.0
Culture and Values
2.0
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
1.0
Career Opportunities
2.0
Compensation and Benefits
4.0
Senior Management
1.0

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