One of the worst experiences, work environment and culture - Engineer Pluto7 Employee Review

1.0
Sep 8, 2020
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

They did not lay off anyone due to covid.

Cons

I'm writing this lengthy review because before I joined, I looked at glassdoor and everyone was praising this company to the gods. Hence I made a decision to join this company. But later I realised the reviews were written under pressure by the management hence hold no credibility. To begin with my joining day, I was given a specific time to come to office and the person responsible for my induction(and I use the word 'induction' very loosely) did not show up until an hour later. The rest of the process wasnt planned at all. I had to go and ask what next after every small little thing. It was very chaotic and frustrating. The said person isnt qualified enough for the job given as proven by many incidents later. Poorly handled hirings, no people skills(which are basic for the job), poor performance in advocating for the better of the employees. If you are expecting you'd get any work regarding data science or data engineering(which would be promised during the interview process), youll be let down quite a bit. The projects lack maturity in terms of usecases and proposed solutions, inturn the work quality goes below subpar level. You'll be asked to work as full stack developer/UI developer/anything your JD does not specify and if you refused since clearly thats not the focus of your career, you'll be deemed as 'not an engineer'/'not willing/capable to keep up' altogether! The management here is very insecure. And they make sure that you are watched like a hawk. The WFH situation made it even worse so much so that even when it wasnt necessary people were made to work on weekends without any comp offs. In terms of effective project management, there arent any capable project managers or technical leads left in this organization, so there isnt any! Lastly what I have observed is that flattery and yesmanship will get you in goodbooks of the higher management, which translates to better money and better position in the organization. Others who dont participate in these things would be deemed as people not loyal to the organization.

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Cons

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Pluto7 Response
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Thank you for taking the time and your effort to put in the review for Pluto7. While we understand that we cannot appease all of our employees, we are sad to hear that your time at Pluto7 was not a pleasant one, at least towards the end. As a growing organisation, we are constantly in the process of reading and learning from the market. We strongly believe, as you may already know, it is our ability to tweak and adapt that helps us become stronger, which is also a learning that we apply in all facets of our business, right from servicing customers, partners to employees including our hiring strategy. Remuneration and bonuses are calculated on multiple factors. Our goal is to ensure our employees make bonuses by hitting their KPIs and targets. However, in many instances, as our alumni would be aware, we recalibrate so as to ensure bonus criterion is met and our team is motivated to achieve more. Today, we are proud of our alumni working in some of the leading organisations in the world continuing that winning spirit which we had a small part to play in. We urge our teams to look at the big picture and sometimes paint it as well. However, some of us get caught into the smaller fragments and miss out, which may lead to dissatisfaction and disillusionment. We truly are thankful for your review and time spent with us and we wish you all the best in future.
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