Dgraph Labs Reviews

3.7

65% would recommend to a friend

(55 total reviews)

Akon Dey

100% approve of CEO

63% positive business outlook

Dgraph Labs has an employee rating of 3.7 out of 5 stars, based on 55 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Dgraph Labs employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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55 reviews
1.0
Jun 28, 2021

Dgraph? More like D-barf. Beware!

Anonymous employee
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Pros

- Great wellness benefits - Open-minded and curious colleagues

Cons

- CTO (former CEO) Manish is blinded by his ego and insecurities. Micromanages tasks and makes them less user-friendly and doesn't trust you to make any decisions. His responses to conflict show his immaturity - he's stubborn, wants to make himself look bigger or smarter, blames others, but at the same time is too timid to face confrontation head-on. Incompetent, toxic leader who is only concerned about his image on social media. - Career progress often feels out of reach. Select employees are promoted but are expected to keep quiet and execute Manish's vision. Don't be fooled by the "rocketship" culture. - Fresh grads and juniors are taken advantage of. The company is bent on cutting expenses and reducing to the cheapest labor possible. Exploits income disparities by hiring a majority Indian junior team, and even failed to support colleagues dealing with COVID stresses in India. - Employees throughout the company feel burnt out and are told to believe that it's their fault. This is extraordinarily difficult to work around if you actually enjoy what you do.

2.0
May 6, 2021

Free advice avoid.

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Pros

There are very little to none pros. Good colleagues.

Cons

New joiners are asked to write reviews which are going to be inaccurate. Please do not fall for them. Company is struggling because of the CTO(founder). Doesn't trust anyone with anything & constantly micromanages. Database is very amateur/unstable and it bunch of hacks with no foresight. Performance bechamrks of competing dbs reveals a lot. There are no senior engineers & there is no engineering process & planning. CTO decides what is P0 every morning for tech, marketing, sales, finances, people process, design and ruins the flow of all. There is no interaction between teams since decisons all come from one place causing a lot of confusion and bottleneck. Management has no tech skills at all & do not participate in tech discussions. There is no scope for learning. They just do what CTO asks without questioning. Community participation is very low. Because Discourse is used for issue managemen t & everything, search also does not work properly there. Community is ignored because of cloud offering. War room is a one of a kind thing where 20 people fight for time every evening to night to discuss their problems to CTO who makes hasty decisons & shouts at people. It is total nonsense and causes bad product.

1.0
Jun 21, 2021
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Pros

You learn a lot about which companies to avoid and which people to never work for.

Cons

Company has been run to the ground and digging deep hole for itself because of the senior leadership, among whom the Founder and Chief-of-Everything should be blamed. 1. Bad engineering workflow - No focus on writing RFCs, roadmap, prioritizing tasks. Everything is driven by the CTO who takes decisions on his whim, or what he saw on Twitter. 2. Runs war-room, late night calls, humiliations and ad-hoc firing 3. No work life balance, no focus on career development of new-joiners or fresh undergrads. 4. Product directions change weekly, no clarity on what are they aiming to build. One day they want to take on GraphQL ecosystem, another day they want to build GraphDB and yet another day they want to manage cloud clusters on colo. 5. No follow-through, only blog driven development. The whole point of company seems to be satisfying CEOs resume so that he can blog about what new data structure he copied and re-implemented in go. Stay away and do not join. Company recently laid off almost everyone and only handful people are left with 4 months of runway.

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