How does the work culture at different enterprise tech companies in India compare. As a benchmark consider VMware, Cohesity, Nutanix, IBM Software Labs, Veritas, Rubrik. What kind of team culture do we see here? What's the quality of work that these places have? How do compensation and care growth opportunities compare?
Can someone add info about Intuit, Apple, Walmart as well?
Need info about Pure Storage too.
I worked on startups and mid level company before I joined Amazon. Amazon work culture is pretty bad in India too as people around you would just sit in office for 12 hours. Though for other Indian companies it's hell. Consultancy companies would make you do mediocre old tech work. I have seen engineers working on excel sheets lol. Startups have work but are highly underscaled with incompetent leadership. You will over work for 18+ hours sometimes with little to no return.
I don't know if this isn't clear but the benchmark being considered are mid-sized companies like VMware, Nutanix, IBM Software Labs, Walmart Labs, and smaller ones like Nutanix, Cohesity, Rubrik. No one cares about Amazon mainly because everyone knows it's shitty as hell.
I would disagree with Amazon being shitty as hell. I am working here for 5 years now and except for few fun times it's mostly great. I hardly work more than 8 hours. Sometimes and specially on Friday it's like 4 hours
But you just said Amazon in India sucks with people around you sitting for twelve hours at the office.
My experience has been great so far. The quality of work is great, teammates are great and helpful, manager does not micromanage at all and actually acts on our feedback, WFH balance is great. I have worked with one WITCH company in the past and even there work and WLB was great, Although since they are consultancies and dont have a specific product, there is no company-wide engineering standards or protocols; its completely project-dependent. Of course the salaries were less in WITCH, and most of the people were not that technically bright (since service companies hire a lot of kids straight out of college from non-CS degrees). Still around 10% of my colleagues were 'rockstar developers'. Kid you not these 10% were more hard working, productive and knowledgable than some of my teammates here at Linkedin.
I guess your last statement has a point. I have worked at witch before and other product companies as well. In witch, you have few who are there to enjoy life, there are others who want to thrive. Ultimately those who want to thrive, either leave or end up working very hard. Hence, the culture of late night work, politics, weekend toll, and others. A more technical person knows or build his worth and move out to better paying/wlb companies. Hence no surprise LinkedIn teams are cool.
I didnt notice any politics or weekend toll personally. Late night work when deadline are near.. sure. It was one of the best times of my life rather. The campuses that these companies are world-class with more amenities than a 5-star hotel. The average retention period of product and service companies seem to be similar. Its true that the competent people will move out. But this is true even in product companies since its the only way to get a decent hike. In both places, people tend to switch after 2-3 years.
From personal and other friends' experiences :- In Veritas, most of the teams (primarily in NetBackUp) are really chilled out, but in some teams, there's high attrition of senior developers (both resginations and layoffs). But overall, the culture is really awesome, although the pay is a bit less there. Druva is almost becoming the 2nd Veritas, since most of the people who leave Veritas, end up joining Druva. Fidelity Investments in Bangalore is a really fun place to work for, people are really friendly there. Oracle is absolutely BS, with married couples in the same team and highly toxic work environments. Your mental balance takes a servere hit here. In CodeNation, there's actually no WLB - you can be called in for work at any time of the day, plus they sort of record 9 hours of keystroking.
Can only speak for mine, been pretty great so far. Though there are a lot of bad reviews on glassdoor, so I guess it must be team-dependent.
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No boundaries between personal and work life, bosses try to get into your personal life, sexual harassment not taken seriously and is commonplace. As a white collar worker, you'll pay taxes, whereas 98% of Indians don't pay taxes. Promotions depend on office politics, not contributions. Ideas aren't entertained as senior leadership is not inclined to ideas from juniors.
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I am from Nutanix and a lot of those are not true. For which companies are they true? Those who earn above a certain limit have to pay taxes. 98% of Indians don't earn that much.