Exotel Reviews

Cons

You sometime feel that pay is a bit less but that covers up for the experience you will get here.

Cons

Bad compensation with very less stocks. Founders have most of the stocks and rest of the stocks with core team members. Some of the core members are also leaving. To hire and retain good talent they need to give more stocks to employees.

Cons

Need to build more loyalty. Fresher employees are not stable with what they want. Causes lots of attrition and break in momentum. Internal Brand building is bad.

Cons

- Can be future ready
- Can be more disruptive with tech
- Can build complementary products to serve existing customers that don't directly depend on operators or infra

Cons

rude managers and colleagues
top management doesnt care about this, so managers r seen yelling at their subordintes all the time. all they care about is delivering. doesn't matter how.
no work life balance, despite what the COO tells

Cons

Only CTO cum founder is approachable other 2 rarely involve with employ day to day activities

Cons

In startups everyone will get things done.Here it is the opposite. People will work on not to get things done and provide reasons for it. More people are brought in and new teams created to ensure nothing gets done.There are people in the company who nobody knows why they are there and what they do except stop work and write docs. To get something done it is like a government office. I have to first find who all i need to get approval and then try to get approval. Then one of them will say I'm not responsible for this you need to talk to to another person. It is a joke because it does not even have 100 people. I have to start again from the beginning It is better to not start anything new or useful at all

Cons

1) Uninspiring leadership
 Recently had a all hands which was three and half hours long which did not inspire
2) Disconnected teams
Every team thinks they are doing great and only have advise for other teams
3) Slow moving
They have so much processes for even small things. Instead of simplifying they keep adding more and more process. This come from top. The number of meetings to decide a simple thing is unbelievable. Even large companies don't have so many meetings
4) People are frustrated with processes and people only there for the sake of process
5) No coordination among management and big rumours of churn

Cons

1. Discrimination - biased people; they prefer to work with folks from their community. You will feel left out most of the time.

2. Too much attitude and arrogance. They think they know a lot of stuff but actually are empty vessels.

3. Exploitation - the seniors (some of them) make you do their work while they just work-from-home (which is no work at all).

4. ZERO knowledge transition on joining. The theory of "figure it out" doesn't apply to all.

5. Tries to behave like an enterprise but is still JUST a startup.

6. The product SUCKS! It has a terrible UI, too many downtimes and the techies work on maintaining this sinking ship rather than developing new products.

7. Too much planning, very less execution.

8. Time waste on work that's not going to benefit the team or the company.

9. IMPOSSIBLE expectations. They want you to be "ON" 24*7.

10. Below-the-par salary.

11. Some managers' sole work is "mailing" and doing nothing themselves. Again, being a boss rather than a leader (wonder if they even know the difference)

12. SURPRISINGLY bad release. They'll harass you like hell.

13. Being frugal is good but Exotel has taken it to the next level. This is level "CHINDI". Too much pressure on the teams as there's not enough bandwidth. They realise that and yet they don't hire enough. One of the C-level executives once proudly told that we should be a small team generating huge revenue. Irony is they don't pay for that.

Cons

1. Pay is below market average - seriously, need to pay more.
2. Maybe more relaxed than it should be.
3. CEO not actively involved with each team anymore - depends how you look at it, not necessarily a con for some people.
4. Still, don't have seasoned guys running senior management - it shows.
5.. Feeling of startup not really there - no urgency to innovate, problem-solve, take feedback.