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Hummingbird Web Solutions

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Hummingbird Web Solutions Reviews

4.1

81% would recommend to a friend

(175 total reviews)

Karthikraj Magapu

92% approve of CEO

72% positive business outlook

Hummingbird Web Solutions has an employee rating of 4.1 out of 5 stars, based on 175 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an excellent working experience there. The Hummingbird Web Solutions employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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175 reviews
1.0
7 Jul 2022
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Pros are very limited here. The good ones you will see on Glassdoor are either fake or given by people hardly a month old in this terrible company.

Cons

1. Even after being in business for 10 years there is no system or process in place. 2. The company runs on the whims of the cofounders one of whom has a severe ego problem. 3. They hire people to work as their slaves, no freedom to suggest or change anything. 4. The co-founders have no subject knowledge whatsoever, but would take the lead and eventually mess things up. 5. Blame game, micromanagement at its peak. It almost seemed like the co-founder derived happiness from torturing the employees. 6. Compulsory work from office, no flexibility, and unnecessary overloading of employees. 7. They have total lack of trust towards employees, increments are a joke, and every other month people keep leaving the organisation, putting pressure on the existing ones.

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Hummingbird Web Solutions Response
3y
A sincere thank you for your heartfelt feedback. We are grateful that you took the time and effort to give such detailed feedback! Thank you for your advice as well ... We will certainly introspect and see how to improve in these aspects. But one thing we do not agree with is your suggestion to not hire freshers! We firmly believe that freshers are an asset, they build the energy and culture of a company. We have hired 20+ freshers this year, and plan to hire 25 more very soon ... We will continue to invest in hiring and training freshers in the future as well. Here is our response to your critical feedback points - 1) Process improvements - Yes, as in any company there is scope for us to improve our processes and establish a method of working that makes it easy. We keep trying new things every few months and keep learning new things ... Lots of processes have been established and more are in the works ... Training processes - we now have processes for identifying required training courses and material, we now have good evaluation tests, to give feedback to candidates if they are doing well or not. We are in the process of building a training program for existing employees. But all this cannot be done overnight and will take more time. We are committed to making this happen slowly but steadily ... In project execution, we use agile methodologies, leveraging daily standups, sprints, and best-in-class tools to make all this easy to execute. In performance feedback, we collect and share objective performance feedback with each individual, and work with them to improve and grow. Our recruitment and HR processes are improving every month. Team building processes keep getting better every week. Our sales and marketing processes are getting established and we are working on improving them steadily. We have been in business for 11 years now, and we can say confidently that we are improving as a company every year. Do we have all the processes and systems in place? Not Yet Are we trying and improving every month, every year? Yes! 2) The cofounders constitute the senior management of the company. All strategic direction, guidance, mentorship, and process establishment are done by senior management as in any other company. 3) Feedback is an integral part of our company, we take feedback from everyone. All are welcome to suggest changes and positive improvements in the organization. It is unfortunate that you feel you did not have this freedom while you were working with us, We will introspect and explore and see if there is scope for us to fix something here. Thank you for raising this. 4) Co Founders are sincere hard working people trying to build a company the best as they know, learning every day, willing to learn from mistakes and willing to try new things to move forward. 5) Agian if you feel you were micromanaged and not given freedom to think, this is useful feedback for us. We will look into this and see if we can change our communication methods and improve so others do not feel like this. 6) We have found that work from the office is what works for us, yes we accept under some circumstances work from home can also be productive, but we haven't figured out the processes to make this work well this out yet. So we strongly encourage all our team to be co-located in our office for maximum productivity and efficiency. 7) Employees leaving for growth and other personal reasons are expected everywhere. We wish all our employees who leave us all the best and also thank them for the time spent with us. We never cut salaries during covid, we never downsized during covid, we hired new employees during covid, we gave 21 days of paid covid leave to everyone affected by covid, and we supported all our employees that had to take extended leave due to covid. Our policies are geared towards making sure the company survives the ups and downs of the market, and we build a great career for all our employees while delighting our customers. Once again wish you all the best in your career and future!
1.0
14 Dec 2020
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Free environment, you get a laptop with you.

Cons

Too much pressure, some managers don't know what they are doing, some force you to work on weekends also. No care for your personal life. Team has to work for a lot of future tasks and everyone gets scolded everyday. Too much politics. They pay you very less and expect 4 times the work.

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Hummingbird Web Solutions Response
4y
Thank you for taking the time to offer honest feedback and areas of improvement. We work hard to make a friendly and fun place to work. We will introspect your feedback and advice and see how to improve. We wish you all success in your career.
1.0
20 May 2021

Don't join if you are fresher

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Only pros is that they intake without any test.

Cons

They intake without any proper test and tell that that they gonna train you but there is no infrastructure for training and no job security . They expect you to get trained by following freecodecamp and then they can fire you just after a week by testing your coding speed, They dont care about the logic.

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Hummingbird Web Solutions Response
4y
Hello, We select candidates based on an online Javascript, PHP, and software principles test. The key skills we are looking for are Basic Programming Skills, Analytical Ability, and English Comprehension. Freshers are normally taken on a paid evaluation, where they are given an opportunity to learn basic Javascript and are evaluated to check on their programming skills, English comprehension, and analytical skills. If these skills are not found during the evaluation, then we end the paid evaluation so that we don't waste your time. The topics we expect you to learn are those that we expect you should have already learned in your graduation - Basic data structures & Basic algorithms. We also expect you to be able to read English requirements and follow them. We ask candidates to figure out some basic problems by themselves so that we can observe their problem-solving approach and analytical approach. Before starting you on paid evaluation, we clearly let you know, that this is not a job, this is an extended evaluation - where you will get paid for your time. We evaluate candidates using a variety of online resources, that depend on comprehension, programming skills, and discipline. We have offered paid evaluation to over 120 candidates over the last 8 months, and given confirmed offers to over 10 candidates who have demonstrated the skills that are required for the job. If you enjoy programming, have a good understanding of programming basics, algorithms, can understand English requirements and instructions, are able to dedicate 8-9 hours a day towards the training/evaluation ... there is no reason you will not be selected for a job offer. Again to clarify, when you are selected for a paid evaluation, you are not being offered a job. You are being evaluated for a job, but being paid for the same. This helps us to evaluate candidates extensively and find candidates who match our requirements. We wish you all the best!
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