High pressure env, but u can learn a lot - Software Engineer Personagraph Employee Review

2.0
Apr 4, 2015
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Pros

U get to work on Big Data. U work in analytics & advertising domains which are very hot these days.

Cons

People at top engg positions in India & US are not so great: they are haughty. Most of the top positions are given to those whom CEO knows personally or worked them in the past: not to an outsider and this lead to a lot of politics. Not so great employee benefits. U work on payroll of some consultancy firm instead of Personagraph as the company is not incorporated in India yet. No job security, people can get fired easily. Decisions & strategies are changed very often without explaining the need for that change to the teams. Code is not well written as people work in an extremely fast paced env. Poor work-life balance. No leave policy- it does not mean u can take as many as u want- it's tough to take leaves. Politics has already started. Some people don't want to share the knowledge of the products to keep their dependency as they are not technically strong, for their survival in the company. They want to scale the system in prod without adding enough hardware: it's a result of poor planning and being stingy about wrong things. Program Managers are there just for namesake.

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5.0
Oct 13, 2015
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Pros

I have been working at Personagraph for more than a year. 1) Best place to work at if you want to dive into machine learning, advertising and big data. 2) The new management is amazing, ready to give you freedom, opportunities and time to learn new things. 3) Work timings are pretty flexible. You can come in whenever as long as you are meeting the deadlines. 4) Regular bay area start-up culture with free food and other goodies. 5) The new top management are moving mountains, going places in advertising.

Cons

Free food could be pushed to 5 times a week( 2 times a week currently).

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2.0
Oct 20, 2016
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Pros

Good snacks, lunch 2 days each week, they give you top of the line technology, solid budget

Cons

Several times the product has not worked so the company was forced to pivot. They are now on their 3rd or 4th iteration. Doesn't help that the parent company, Intertrust, has different goals than the actual company leadership. It's a mess, stay away.

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