Do you look up Glassdoor, Blind, YouTube and other mediums for reviews of a company before joining? Do you do a Google search of the company to see what comes up Do you ask ex employees of that company how that company is and why they left? TC : 9.3 LPA Pune India
No. I look at Blind! Post ur TC, get beat up by blinders, then I decide
TC or gtfo
Of course. I had multiple offers, looked at many sources, joined the one that had a 4.9 rating on Glassdoor.
I looked before I chose not to join Amazon!
I didn't look before I joined my first company or Amazon. Amazon taught me to never make that mistake again. I figured since it's a FAANG, it's a FAANG, right? No. I didn't know of its reputation beyond thinking it more prestigious than it was and them treating their warehouse employees like shit. I figured the corporate office would be if not Microsoft-like at least good. You can see my last company next to my name: they're rated poorly on Glassdoor because 95% of employees work in stores, but corporate (Marathon) was awesome. I switched to AMZN from JPMC which was super slow and bureaucratic, but had far better managers, culture, and needless to mention understood the concept of WLB. Extreme culture shock. After my Amazon experience, I now look at ratings on multiple sites, attempt to sort by team (which usually ends up job title: some companies have 4-star ratings but engineering reviews average below 2.5), read them in reverse chronological order, look for trends, and talk to employees.
That's awesome
Do see Glassdoor reviews for a company before joining or interviewing. Many big companies like Deloitte, TCS have their own reputation in the job market (Deloitte - 12-14 hours workday common, no work life balance. TCS - government company, very little work, chill life)