Ideas2IT Reviews

* Not a recommended company to join—low salary and numerous convenience issues. * You need luck to get a good technical project to learn from; otherwise, you’ll be assigned outdated, uninteresting projects. *If you work sincerely, you’ll end up with more work, often exceeding 14 hours a day, along with additional tasks like OKRs. *Often, you need to work late nights until 12 AM, but you won’t be allowed to work from home the next day. If you request it, the managers and HR team will lecture you on their 2 days WFH policy. To avoid this, if you come in late at 11:30 AM the next day, you won’t find parking for your bike and will have to circle around Guindy to find a spot. If you raise this issue, they will tell you it’s your problem. * Parking is biggest issue on Ideas2IT, need to round and search in street to find the parking space for bike. * There are 9 floors in the building. On the 9th floor, where the HR team and CEO are located, you can find good snacks like biscuits and candy in properly cleaned boxes at any time. However, on the other floors, snacks are limited to broken biscuits in dirty boxes, and there are broken tea glasses in the basket. Most employees bring their own glasses for tea. * The management and HR team are not event capable to organize a Town Hall on the scheduled date and time. For the past three years, the Town Hall has consistently been rescheduled 3 or 4 times. Whenever an invite is sent out HR team, it’s easy to predict that the event won’t happen as planned. *The IT administrators are very rude. They are assigned to a separate room where they mostly gossip. When we need urgent installations, they are often unavailable, always come to the office very late, and respond rudely, blaming us for any issues.

1. Glassdoor Reviews: - Employees, both new and departing, are often encouraged (or pressured) to leave positive reviews, which inflates the company's Glassdoor ratings. - Negative reviews often reflect the real experiences of employees. - Genuine critical feedback is often buried under a wave of positive reviews. 2. Employee Influence: - The company is heavily influenced by a core group of around 40 employees (including co-founders and key pillars), along with select managers. - Company policies are frequently adjusted or overlooked to cater to this group’s preferences, creating an environment of favoritism. 3. Credit Theft: - A select group of employees tends to dominate recognition, often at the expense of others’ efforts. - Key employees take credit for others' hard work, hiding behind terms like “meritocracy” while controlling all outcomes. It’s always "you vs. the inner circle." 4. Randomized Appraisals & Benefits: - Performance evaluations and rewards are inconsistent, often disregarding an employee’s actual contributions. - Career progression and recognition seem tied more to the project you are assigned to (e.g., Medtronic, Roche, Netsmart) than to your performance or experience. - Share distribution appears arbitrary, with loyalty often overlooked. In some cases, surprising decisions—like promoting an employee on notice as a co-founder—raise concerns about fairness. Loyalty is literally a joke to them. 5. Unclear Resource Management: - Employees are frequently reassigned from projects where they excel to roles outside their expertise, without clear reasoning. - This practice can lead to misalignment, frustration, and even forced exits (through PIPs and eventual terminations), regardless of an employee’s tenure or skill set. 6. Managerial Practices: - Promotions and salary increases are sometimes given without clear justification, often benefiting those close to managers. Double promotion's, change in designations have became usual thing benefitted only to favourites. - Some managers prioritize results over employee well-being, creating a challenging and unsupportive work environment. 7. Five-Year Car Benefit: - The much-advertised car benefit upon completing 5 years is misleading. Employees receive ₹4 lakhs, which is insufficient to purchase a car. - Employees are required to purchase a car, often leading them to take out additional loans, placing financial strain on them.