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Free snacks, transport.

Company with great potential.

Average quality of work. Very few teams have decent work.

Work-life balance is very bad throughout the organization. You have to work with USA teams every midnight, sometimes it goes until early morning. This is the expectation from Bangalore management.

Most of the Directors are only by designation and do not have any leadership or technical skills.

Most of them lack basic management skills and are not competent enough to lead talented hires from IITs, NIITs, and good product companies.

Directors will go to any extent to appease the USA teams while ignoring their own team in Bangalore. They only care about the Annual Survey Manager Index results and create a divide and rule within the team.

They do not like to be challenged or asked questions and are happy to run regular business like service companies. They lay off those who question them as they fear these people can give bad reviews in the annual survey.

Higher management also provides wrong support to these leaders and does not find the actual problem. You have to be fortunate enough to find a good leader for you and your team to learn something.

No open culture; you have to always say yes to your manager to get promoted. Otherwise, do not join this environment.

Too much politics and bureaucracy everywhere, and it starts with most of the leaders.

So much reorganization in the leadership just to protect the incompetents.

HR system is very weak, and mid-level management takes advantage of this and threatens employees. HRs do not check if deserving candidates are getting promoted and mostly directors promote those who do not challenge the status quo and feel they can give good manager ratings in the annual survey.

1. Take your annual survey seriously and find the incompetent leaders and let them go. Build a high-performing engineering as well as a high-performing leadership team.

2. Like you have a PIP process for the engineers, similarly, start a PIP for the leaders as well.

3. Empower the HRs to take part in the promotions and not just follow orders from the individual TLT.

4. Definitely create a high-performing environment that has work-life balance, good work quality, respect for team members, equality, create opportunities for talent groups, and retain your best talent. Otherwise, there are enough good companies in Bangalore to offer quality jobs to engineers.