Hubzu Reviews

Cons

1) Parent company is slowing us down significantly by not giving us a decent equity plan and hesitating to make us stakeholders - This is leading to a loss for Hubzu as we are not being able to hire great talent at a great pace, as most of our competitors have a great equity plan in place.

2) Presence of bureaucracy in our parent organization is hurting us badly, as we still continue to share some infrastructure with them.

Cons

Now that's a serious topic. High salary and fake job description while hiring. You get hired for something and soon you'll need to hunt for yourself about what you are going to do to and act well to live up to it; else you are branded as incompetent.
Every year new leaders arrive except the CEO who is permanent. There is more leadership introductory emails than business progress reports. Fake operations projected. Less work more people with salaries not deserved. Salary band and hiring is a joke. You are stuck with high salary and low skill set and you stop learning here with satisfying salary and that's heading towards a dead end. Attrition is controlled as people are always in the above mentioned trap. Everyone wants to leave if there is an opportunity but they don't find job easily as they are kept high in salary as per industry standards and they feel lack of skills due to very less investment on employees on training and development. If you want to lose your confidence in your professional life, please join. They are known to lay off fabulous employees without logic just because they were hired for a specific role and have done their part and retain AL's. No efforts to move people within the organization. There are lay offs happening on one side and hiring on the other side. Weird! Please do not fool investors, employees, and yourself. Its a luck that this company continues to survive with one dictating CEO and his ever changing team with few exceptions.

Cons

There is lot of favoritism in term of promotions and ratings. Sometime deserving candidates are bypassed.

Cons

Nothing much to say for now

Cons

Most of cons lean towards management, a reason for very bad environment and work culture.

India Management are selfish, if team does good work they will take all credit, if team fails they will blame engineers. All this to get themselves promoted.

Most of the management have their favourites, they help them grow by taking away good work done by others. Inturn their agents give all information needed.

One of the manager tries to divide and rule in his own team, have you ever seen anyone do this, such experiences can only be had in Hubzu

Higher management is unprofessional and egoistic, they shout at employees, target them and put all blame for small issues. They never support or back their employees, with a support by the reporting managers who fall on their feet and agree to whatever they say

Most of the people working here dont think of innovative ideas, just on who is pulling there leg and how they can return the favours, out of 6 hours in agile 1-2 hours is spent on discussing petty issues

HR and management hide each others problems. Managers instructs HR not to take exit interviews, people who give feedback isnt considered

Cons

Parent company has frequent lay-offs and periods of instability.

Cons

All cannot be listed, but here are few:
1.You are expected to work on old code base and old technologies which are not even useful for a developer. Only bug fixes or enhancements using the same code. Plus they are not ready to develop new code or introduce new frameworks. Project architecture is horrible.
2.Top management acts as if they are some rulers and Hubzu is their kingdom. They will tell you what to do, when to do, where to do, how do to like you are some kinder garden student. Whatever they think is correct and whatever they decide will happen. There is no point of joining Hubzu if you are not a manager and if you dont know how to play politics.
3.Apart from management, the senior employees working here have only average coding knowledge which also they will never share as if its their private property. So basically, no learning opportunity.
4.Worst work culture I have ever seen. No formal training or KT sessions. Nobody is ready to help you in any possible way, instead they will look out for an opportunity where they can let others down. You will never get appreciation for your work, not even in your yearly appraisal.

If you can work on your own, without any friends, ignoring every wrong things happening around you, tolerating any possible bad behaviour and have no other job opportunity, go ahead and join Hubzu.

Cons

At times in the recent past, things were hectic, but then which product company does not have this ups and downs

Cons

Processes could be streamlined better.

Cons

Unethical work practices by senior leadership
Use of power and position rather than compassion and involvement
Work style is to force and blame engineers.
Very politically driven
Lack of ownership and direction by the Sr Eng Leaders. Finding scapegoats for their own mistakes.