Awesome stuff - Learning Consultant Impartus Innovations Employee Review

1. Working in a domain with a lot of potential ( Ed-Tech) 2. Two of the founders were technically sound - Good at prototyping, not when it comes to scaling the product though. 3. Very informal setup. 4. Had a good team, although most of them are gone now.

Short Story about the company - Raised 4.5 million dollars in 2015, didn't use it judiciously, spend a huge chunk on hiring an entire UX team in U.S as well as a CEO, didn't work out ( for many reasons), closed it and all this happened within a span of 5-6 months. Later on, tried the China/ South-east Asia move, which also didn't work out. To compensate for their business incompetency laid off most of the employees in the company reason given no cash to operate and pressure from the investor ( Kaizen). Founders seem to be the only coders running the product now. 1. Can't trust the founders at all, huge trust deficit between them and the employees. Didn't pay the variable pay to the employees even though they worked for the entire year, neither any hike, CEO can't be trusted. 2. Took almost 6 months to pay the final settlement to the fired employees. Still haven't paid the TDS to the government which has been deducted for the year 2017 from employees salary. 3. Their site reflects a lot of incorrect information, people such as CFO and product manager are no longer part of this organization.

1) Flexible Work Hours 2) Remunerations on time

1) Poor Leadership- The leadership has failed start-ups before, and for some reason, they have still not learnt their lesson. This is going to be a short lived venture. 2) No Forecasting, no predictions, no planning, no strategy. The company is working on strategies they decide upon while having tea.....changes weekly. 3) ZERO Ground Intel- They don't have any ground intel, and they won't believe on the ground intel you give them. Strange people. 4) Inexperienced management, people who don't even have relevant Ed-Tech experience are sitting in the management roles, who make absurd strategies and work ethics for the employees. 5) They want to "grow" bigger than their Parent Company(upGrad), but they are findig it extremely difficult to sell their products PAN India. 6) Pricing way too high for a start-up, and way too high as compared to any competition. Funny thing is, they're not selling properly, and they yet too stubborn to work on anything to improve their Sales. 7) Their Solution to Poor Sales in a particular Region- Remove the employee Yes, they will not be working on their product, to try and change certain things and try and sell, rather they will Remove the employee 😂