Pros
- Free food
- Free cab
- WFH (terms and conditions apply)
Cons
Rubrik renewals team is a great place to work if you love to work or have worked in a totalitarian government or workplace before.
It is led by a leader who makes decisions without rationale or logic behind them, but can easily manipulate you into thinking that it's the most strategic decision ever made in the history of this organisation. The managers are a part of a hive-mind and lose their individuality after joining this team. Their involvement and support in your work is equal to 0 divided by ∞
This team runs like a family office business, the children (the older employees, irrespective of their actual business prowess or intellectual capacity) are often given the lion's share of the rewards i.e. promotions. The "younger" tenured employees (even with 6 to 9 years of prior experience) need to fight and crawl their way to "prove" themselves worthy of an hike/promotion.
You can expect the older employees to get promoted mid-term, out of the blue, without significant individual performance, jumping pay grades and suddenly bossing over a person with a much tenured working capacity and oh- with actual individual performance.
There's a clear gender bias/preferential treatment which no one talks about but is very evident. Talented individuals backed with solid performance quarter over quarter have left this team for better opportunities sighting different personal reasons and have tried to guard their new organisation as a secret with their very lives to avoid getting entangled, yet again, with these folks.
Managers and peers identify as pro-gossip only. Chinese whispers should be called "Rubrik-whispers". Your personal life will be talked about, debated and debased to a level you wouldn't have thought is possible.
You'll be working for a management that so incredibly nearsighted that they try to work on process improvements and changes when the problem shows up IN THE MIDDLE OF THE QUARTER, without any prior notice.
There's absolutely no space for discussions on your professional growth, no 1:1s or as they funnily call it, Individual "Development" Plan. They'll basically gaslight you with the thought of "growth" throughout the year until you hit your performance reviews, where they justify why they cannot promote you but you are "on track" for the next year. And then the next comes, which then goes to the next year- if you get what I mean.
Oh I forgot to mention, that in all these years all of the management's favourites have grown to levels which you can literally only dream of, that is if you can still dream after working in the odd-est shift timings. If you're a male employee you'll be "strategically" placed in dead of the night work shifts whereas the other gender experiences work-life balance.
You're also going to be joining a team which is slowly cutting your legs and leaving you blind in your actual work. The account executives have now taken full control of the renewals and are compensated for it along with hunting for new logos and expanding into the existing customer base. Which means, you're going to be a glorified personification of a human email exchange of renewal quotes.
And if this grunt work burns you out and you want to take your earned leave, you'll be forced to "explain" and "justify" (3-4 weeks before your leaves) on why you need these leaves because the business would absolutely come to a halt if you take a break. Or hey! if you need to take a breather for a bit, and take a quieter room to sit and work, you'll be called 10 times to answer why you're not at the bay- but 10 smoke breaks every 2 hours is completely acceptable.
IF you're a fan of money, and can sacrifice your personal life during both US, EMEA and Indian holidays, you can show up to office to get paid. You can also be asked to work on weekends on tasks that a business analyst or your manager should have worked on when the problem showed up. But then again, you get to ask your managers how their frequent US trips were and get chocolates from their desks (perks! yay!!!)
If you've read it this far and you're serious about a career and consider yourself a talented individual, then run, don't walk when you get a call from HR about this role!