CEO is a liar - Anonymous employee HackerRank Employee Review

2.0
Jul 13, 2016
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Product idea was good; one co-founder is v technically involved in the engineering; some good brand name customers

Cons

The good people have got up and left. Cream of the crop in the India office has gone. Many in the US were let go. The CEO lies and makes all sorts of false promises to investors, customers and employees - in particular the really young engineers cheated in terms of equity share.

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