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Found 642 of over 685 reviews
3.9
72% Recommend to a Friend
Phenom CEO and Co-Founder Mahe Bayireddi
84% Approve of CEO

Found 640 of over 685 reviews

3.9
72%
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84%
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Phenom CEO and Co-Founder Mahe Bayireddi
Mahe Bayireddi
494 Ratings
Pros
  • "Good working environment,Always supports you to learn new technologies, salary on time on the last day of month(in 18 reviews)

  • "Super friendly team, good work-life balance(in 16 reviews)

  • Cons
  • "Less work life balance is the con(in 31 reviews)

  • "No work life balance in culture(in 10 reviews)

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    Senior Software Engineer

    Sorry, this post is off-topic. My colleague informed me that her family is looking for a groom for her, and she will accept her parents' choice of action. She is also ecstatic. I respect her decision, but I also feel about her. As we are both working on the same project, I don't say anything to her before because I don't want to make her feel uncomfortable. I'm fairly sure she doesn't feel anything for me. I'm now perplexed. Should I tell her or ignore it? For me, her happiness is important.

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    1. 5.0
      Current Employee, more than 3 years

      Flexible and employee centric... but yes still a startup

      5 Jan 2023 - Product Development Engineer 
      Recommend
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      Pros

      Good compensation Team outings and dinner friendly team members and managers good product and fast growing have exposure to business

      Cons

      As a startup, a little off balance to work life tasks are organising now, but management needs to work more on technical foundations

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    2. 3.0
      Former Employee, more than 1 year

      Descent work place but not suitable for freshers

      8 Mar 2023 - Product Development Engineer I in Hyderābād
      Recommend
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      Pros

      Friendly environment, descent salary, good work culture

      Cons

      No proper onboarding orientations at all, very poor management for onboarding, leaves new freshers clueless and expect them to fit in without any explanations. People working for 3+ years in the company also have no proper idea of workflows hence the employees are very fragile in their core basics

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    4. 2.0
      Current Employee

      The best HR tech company, with the worst HR management.

      6 Feb 2023 - Software Engineer 
      Recommend
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      Pros

      Disclaimer: Pun intended. 1. Hybrid model was implemented not because of COVID, but because there was not enough space to accommodate all the employees. 2. Diversity is luxury here. 3. Equal payroll throughout the team irrespective of the work you do. 4. Transparency at its peak. All HR SPOCS, have different information about the same matter. 5. 10% of genuine hardworking workforce handles 50% workload.

      Cons

      The management sucks: 1. After covid, work from the base location was made mandatory just because company leased few floors prematurely without taking anyone’s consent. 2. During hiring, transport was agreed “verbally” just to be denied at a later time. 3. HR meetings are more like news broadcast rather than being actually informative. 4. Your work is recognised only if you can communicate in the regional language. 5. You are hired based on your contacts not on skills. 6. HR and employee interactions is just for the sake of a good Instagram story.

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      4 people found this review helpful
    5. 3.0
      Former Employee, more than 1 year

      People leave managers not company

      27 Feb 2023 - Anonymous Employee 
      Recommend
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      Pros

      Company policies are good. Food Facility. Flexible hours

      Cons

      Lower management sucks. Cab facility might help. Improved WFH policy helps employees.

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    6. 3.0
      Current Employee

      Product manager at Phenom

      17 Mar 2023 - Product Manager 
      Recommend
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      Pros

      Provided Opportunity at work Decision making

      Cons

      No employee benefits Office politics No motivation to work No feedback for improvements

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    7. 1.0
      Former Employee

      Its danger don’t Join here stay away for mental peace

      29 Dec 2022 - PDE II 
      Recommend
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      Pros

      Free food n good salary

      Cons

      Please don’t go behind the money and fake promises by HR. You will lose your peace in life and you will lose work life balance. Request all to think 100 times before you join. They will take work from you and once that is done they will put unnecessary pressure on you so that you will leave the organisation or if you are not resigning they will fire you. They have some of the PDE III employees and managers who doesn’t know how to behave with the other employees. These people put pressure to finish task which is not planned and blaming employees they have not done . Directors think that employees are like robots they can do anything if they send commands. Be aware aware aware aware dont be greedy choose mental peace over the money, position and other things which is not important to lead the peaceful life.

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      8 people found this review helpful
    8. 4.0
      Current Employee

      Great

      12 Mar 2023 - Associate Engineering Manager 
      Recommend
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      Pros

      Great place to work with nice opportunities to create an impact

      Cons

      No cons as such identified so far.

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    9. 4.0
      Current Employee, more than 1 year

      Great place to work

      8 Mar 2023 - Software Engineer in Hyderābād
      Recommend
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      Pros

      Great working culture Good Management

      Cons

      Fully work from the office

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    10. 1.0
      Former Employee, less than 1 year

      worst to worst work life balance at this horrible place

      21 Oct 2022 - Senior Software Engineer 
      Recommend
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      Pros

      don't get trapped with good reviews that are written by HR of the company or by some local Telugu guy who loves such kind of environment. 1) you can tell someone that you have a job. 2) you can be a proud if you are local Telugu, it's a core Telugu speaking group of people 3) it's the place for you if you want to sit here from morning 7 am to night 11:45 pm at least.

      Cons

      1) to get considered a good employee you should come to office at 7 am in the morning and leave it around 1 am in the night. 2) I used to see there are many senior guys who keep staying there to give a competition to each other that who stay longer inside office in the night. 3) if you have any life other than work than never ever join this organization.

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      7 people found this review helpful
    11. 1.0
      Former Employee, more than 3 years

      Cheater company, worst company to work

      1 Sep 2022 - Product Development Engineer II in Hyderābād
      Recommend
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      Pros

      (1) Good tech stack and they work on the latest technologies (2) Large client base (3) A few (very few) highly brilliant leaders lead the engineering groups

      Cons

      (1) Bonus component of the salary is a trap, don't think it to be the part of the total CTC. You won't get it most of the time. They didn't even give bonus for the last year for the leaving employees without any reason. (2)They force freshers to give 5 star reviews to improve the overall rating otherwise its overall would be less than 2. You can check abrupt increase in the rating in last 1-2 years. This should tell you a lot about how the company is building its image. (3) Many highly knowledgeable people left the organization due to politics which has become the real pain point. (4) The writing of effective, maintainable code is not emphasised. Engineering choices are made on the whims of a select few. Design and architecture are not prioritised, and some audacious mid-level bosses make terrible design decisions and force them on the rest of the workforce. The majority of those have worked there for at least 4-5 years. (5) No learning and growth opportunities for new people. (6) The company is highly biased against the married people so don't join if you are married or about to get married.

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      8 people found this review helpful
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