Free advice avoid. - Senior Software Engineer Dgraph Labs Employee Review

2.0
6 May 2021
Recommend
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Pros

There are very little to none pros. Good colleagues.

Cons

New joiners are asked to write reviews which are going to be inaccurate. Please do not fall for them. Company is struggling because of the CTO(founder). Doesn't trust anyone with anything & constantly micromanages. Database is very amateur/unstable and it bunch of hacks with no foresight. Performance bechamrks of competing dbs reveals a lot. There are no senior engineers & there is no engineering process & planning. CTO decides what is P0 every morning for tech, marketing, sales, finances, people process, design and ruins the flow of all. There is no interaction between teams since decisons all come from one place causing a lot of confusion and bottleneck. Management has no tech skills at all & do not participate in tech discussions. There is no scope for learning. They just do what CTO asks without questioning. Community participation is very low. Because Discourse is used for issue managemen t & everything, search also does not work properly there. Community is ignored because of cloud offering. War room is a one of a kind thing where 20 people fight for time every evening to night to discuss their problems to CTO who makes hasty decisons & shouts at people. It is total nonsense and causes bad product.

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5.0
1 Dec 2023
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Pros

Great people. Excellent new business opportunities and AI product direction. New leadership are experienced and deeply connected in silicon valley. Engineers are pushed to produce but given autonomy and interesting work.

Cons

Management moves very rapid with good results but also some mistakes. Top leaders most certainly know what they are about but for employees the direction is sometimes a surprise because not adequately written and communicated. It is hard for us on the team to feel energy and enthusiasm if not better included.

5.0
5 Oct 2020
Recommend
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Pros

- Dgraph has a great product. It is the #1 open-source GraphDB on GitHub, and many fortune 500 companies use it. I speak with prospects and customers from time to time, and it's rare to work for a company that your customers thank you for building such a fantastic product. - Dgraph has a very talented team. It has a tight culture where everyone deeply believes in the mission. No matter which team you reach out, they're all in such high caliber and have tons of knowledge that you can learn from. - Dgraph gave me a lot of opportunities that I never had before in my previous role. Because I joined an early-stage startup, you have opportunities to take on projects that directly impact the growth of the business. It's a very cool experience when you see the projects/initiatives you implemented to make an impact.

Cons

Dgraph is built with a distributed team. We have team members all over the globe. It can be a challenge to coordinate and work with time from different timezones.

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