Diwali is Firing Event at Applift Bangalore - Senior Software Engineer Applift Employee Review

1.0
29 Mar 2018
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

1. Good tech stack exposure (atleast till 1 year back, it was) 2. Once very good learning curve and culture when Guna as CTO was there 3. Exposure to Ad tech world 4. Trips to Berlin (good if u can save in 20 euro per day which is given for commute and food) 5. Free breakfast and lunch 6. Good team mates

Cons

There is nothing to be offered if you really want to learn, because you learn more from your seniors in your career. You are lucky if you get to see this review at top, as soon after posting this, there will be many Awesome fake reviews posted and liked to hide this. Highly believe , India office going to shut down where once Applift entire tech work used to happen (they are growing teams in Berlin and cutting strength in India) Every Diwali, they organise dinner party for "APPLIFT FAMILY” inviting you with family members, next day they will fire many. Do not bring ur family to Diwali party in case u join Applift, You might regret the very next day. 1. Not a single successful product in market, all loss making. No person in senior position in Engineering has good tech knowledge, good ones already left. 2. Junior engineers (good breed from good alma mater) get frustrated because of lack of learning and constant changing decisions. Repeating again, you wont get any technical learnings from seniors if that matters to you. 3. Managers will keep changing their words and promises after every meeting from Berlin management. They are spineless, do not trust a single word. They are just saving their jobs till the time they can, something bad happens, you will be the one feeling heat. 4. No vision in tech, the management is from marketing, they do not understand how tech works .

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Applift Response
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Thank you for your feedback. I would like to share a few thoughts with you about how we think about our company, how we structure and run our processes and systems in pursuit of our objectives as a company that values its employees, that is ethical, and where people genuinely care about their colleagues. At AppLift, building a transparent culture is very important to us. There are very few companies where business results are shared on a weekly basis with all employees. Market trends, what is working and what is not, what we are trying, are all discussed proactively. Teams organize their offsites and come together across continents to discuss issues of mutual interest. A big part of executive visits is towards sharing information and hearing from people. We continue to actively invest in growing and nurturing our people. Whether it be through our talent identification programs, courses that our team members can take, or fireside chats from executives that discuss the state of the industry and what it means for us, we have a personal interest in growing people. None of the above means that we are perfect. We can do more. We are self-critical ourselves, hear sincerely from our people, and take active steps to incorporate feedback. Towards it, your feedback will also help. Thank you. About the India office specifically, it is well regarded in the company, and healthy. It is growing proportionally with business scale and will continue to do so. I am very happy to meet with you over coffee to discuss, in an honest and open manner, more about the issues you write about, and to share the steps we have implemented. Thanks again and all the best, Rajiv

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