Good work Bad Culture - Lead Software Engineer Tekion Employee Review

1.0
Sep 11, 2020
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

1. Free food and drinks. Unlimited Tea/coffee (freshly brewed, no machine). 2. Exceptional Backend Engineers. 3. Nice Work and learning opportunities. 4. Backend people are nice in all the teams, so if you are joining as Backend engineer, you are pretty much in better shape but try to join Platform team. Integration team is also fine but I don't see any learning opportunities there.

Cons

1. Mean and stupid managers who will not refrain from making stupid and threatening remarks if you don't work on weekends or join late night meetings. I was personally asked to stretch a few hours at 2:00 AM. BTW I was the first one to start work in Tekion (before 9 AM everyday). 2. 6 days working. Some managers force meetings on Sunday also. 3. Minimum 12 hours per day. Some managers( except Platform Team) do late night (after 10 PM IST or later) sync-ups aka stand-ups to ensure you stretch late. 4. Make sure your prospective team interviews you, especially your reporting manager. Ask about these questions directly and look them in the eye. Come back to this review and mark it helpful. 5. Compensation is great for 40hr/week but not seriously bad for 100hr/week. 6. No training or mentoring what-so-ever. 7. You'll have paid leaves but you will get call almost every-time you take a leave and will be asked to work.

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Tekion Response
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Thanks for your review. You have listed several positives, such as employee benefits, compensation, learning opportunities and the talent at Tekion. We are sorry for your experience with managers, work schedule and productivity concerns. You appreciate the fact that we’re a young company in hyper-growth mode led by a highly accomplished team of founders and executives. The sheer scale of what we’ve been able to achieve with our product is a testament to our speed and agility and the talent, commitment and hard work of our amazing team. We’re constantly pushing ourselves to do better, and that sometimes means that we have challenging deadlines to meet. Our employees are our biggest asset and we invest heavily in empowering them and keeping them engaged and happy. We have several employee-engagement initiatives, including frequent one-to-one meetings between each employee and a member of our HR team. We would have appreciated the opportunity to hear from you while you were with us and take the appropriate steps to make your experience better. We wish you luck in your future endeavors.

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