Pathetic work, ancient tech stack, toxic culture - SWE 2 Instahyre Employee Review

2.0
24 Apr 2026
Recommend
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Pros

A product-based company, honestly nothing else, nothing.

Cons

I have been a part of instahyre for around 4 years now and will be better at telling: 1. Ancient tech stack where you will be expected to keep latency as per new frameworks. 2. You are asked to review code, do tasks even on leave. 3. Office culture so toxic, often people get sick, penny amout of leaves, no wfh even in emergency and people are burning themselves in office. 4. New engineering manager has made the culture toxic who will micro-manage you a lot, call you at 10pm for small issues, you can check on linkedin where he came from and he has that ego of his previous organization, even heard of him putting our best dev on pip stopping his bonusses. Things were good before him. 5. CEO will review your code and ask so dumb questions and will ask you to explain, and if he fails to understand tech he will burst on you being not good enough to make him understand the problem. 6. No code architecture, tightly coupled modules, no unit testing, bug prone codebase. 7. No job security, hiring and firing scene, knowing the market they dont care, just fire at the time of appraisals and get new interns people for less.

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Instahyre Response
1mo
Hello - we have to highlight that you are, unfortunately, completely ignoring the most critical point i.e. why a company exists. A company’s goal is straightforward: to build a financially successful business. Everything else—including culture—exists only to support that outcome, and anything that results in a poor business has to change, regardless of incidental effects such as existing employees not being aligned to continue with us. In the past, our engineering team in particular with a low-accountability environment, which had a very adverse impact on the company. Our conscious decision to change that has finally resulted in progress! We expect team members who continue here to contribute positively to business outcomes first and foremost. A mindset that prioritizes culture, tech stacks, or anything else over the company's success is not a fit for us. We are focused purely on building a team that is aligned with our goals and committed to delivering meaningful impact and high ROI. If a person is unwilling or unable to provide a high ROI, we will take action indeed. Also - the new engineering manager's "previous organization" that you have alluded to, is the most successful internet company in the country. Surely you're not asking us to create the opposite of a successful company, while on one hand choosing to be employed here? For what it's worth, your technical observations also show a lack of engineering knowledge.

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