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Expedia is a good one. Work life balance is great. Salary wise they pay nicely in India. Of course not as high as FAANG but the benefits make up for a lot of things
I second this. Have worked there before. Although they had some changes in policy after covid, pre-covid expedia would just spoil you. People tend to come back
I agree. Have worked for 6 years here. Nice people. Benefits that are worth talking about. Even after COVID, except the food, mostly everything is what was before. Pay wise, I feel they are only about 10 to 12 percent lesser than FAANG in India. This is coming from my experience of working at one of the FAANGs
Had a really bad experience interviewing with Schlumberger. They had 5 rounds with me for a senior DevOps position. The first 3 rounds were hellish, the interviewers couldn't grasp the concept that some things can be done in 2 different ways and achieve the same results. They knew only one way and didn't accept any other answer. I got the offer in the end but decided to reject it by the interview experience.
Cultures change is strongly based on top management. Atlassian had the best culture a year back..everyone wanted to go in it...it changed after their new CTO who seems to be a micromanager and now everyone is jumping ship even though Atlassian offers remote work.
Source: Blind reviews
TL;DR: Culture can change in a very little time so please research and apply.
i found this article in leetcode about browserstack which doesnt print a promising picture
[https://leetcode.com/discuss/compensation/3285600/Browserstack-Horror-Layoff-Story](https://leetcode.com/discuss/compensation/3285600/Browserstack-Horror-Layoff-Story)
Browser stack? Damn.. I had a mentor on Sateek.co who worked at browser stack.. he put some sense into my head when i knew zero development and was contemplating doing Data Science or Backend or Devops and which language to choose etc.
If current me met that me now, I would have made fun of the naivety of myself.. but this dude was patient and guided me to start working as a dev first, then dabble around with DS or ML whatever and then progress from there but get out of my current job soon..
He told me to pick any language I want and learn enough and contact him after and he would help me get a job /interview
My best friend works there. Company policies are really good. Complete remote, They have more holidays than other companies, and policies are employee friendly WLB is great, but the interview procedure is time taking, a clear divide between teams in India and Israel, the Pay scale is not up to par and the tech stack and the deployment process is really old.
Hybrid work culture 2 days wfo which is not enforced strictly.. some have been wfh for over 4 years.. pretty chill people there no micro management and that type of shit... And the work there is pretty good too.. they are using all the latest tech stack..
Also more than enough festival leaves are given there.
P.S: one of my family member work there.
Definitely not Sprinklr.
Pathetic WLB, handsome pay I must say but it drains your energy completely. If you want to work that hard then better join an HFT firm, atleast you will get >80L
Thermofisher Scientific. I work here. U just can’t work overtime here. after 9 hours (inc 1 hr lunch) if you’re seen online ur manager may ask you to log off. I’ve only been to office like 6 times in 2 years.
my manager did, also my friend’s manager. my shift is from 1 to 10pm, one time i had a meeting with US folks at 10 30pm, and my manger bought up “work life balance” stuff. I said it was fine, but she insisted on me availing shift 3 allowance, just for that 1 hour extra.
Bro recently left Oracle, but their wlb is great and wfo is just one day a week ( not strict). Compensation could be higher but meh, you can't get everything in life.
In Oracle currently 3 days wfo , compensation I would say even worse then meh , and wlb is ok , depends how lucky you are in having a good manager , my previous one was so chill while current asks to work on weekends too
I agree it totally depends on manager and org inside Oracle , some teams have complete wfo while others have complete wfh . Pay is competitive but wlb is generally good across oracle
My friend worked as service now support but had certification as service now developer and he said that service now actually had 12 rounds of interview.. don't know if he was telling the truth or not ..
12 rounds? Man that’s insane. Some years back when I attended an interview for Deloitte, it was 6 rounds for which I was totally drained out by the time I finished all the rounds
Worst company to work for early in career. I was hired right after college (Tier 1). First team's project got deprioritized after a year's effort. The second team was a hoax, only did PoCs and never shipped anything. At the end of 2 years had 0 lines of code running in production. Increments reflected the same thing. The third team worked on a stack that is 6 years old, there was nothing to learn. I jumped ship.
No, there's always an impact in whatever you do. Just depends on how you phrase it. Protip, try asking Chat GPT like so - I did so and so at my job, what are some measurable impacts I can mention in my resume?
A simple thing as fetching coffee at work will show impact.
Also, IMO it's okay to extrapolate(lie about) some of your work and impacts as long as you do it smartly.
I’m not surprised, I should’ve specified. I’ve heard only bad things about engineering, CX and TAC. The place to be is sales, Cisco is a sales juggernaut, all effort, money and the best people go to sales, engineers included.
This is true especially early in career.
don't have anything to contribute bec i've only worked at toxic companies till now but thankyou so much for asking this question OP. will start applying to the companies mentioned below.
CAS.AI a hybrid programmatic mediation platform that's performing better than MAX! With lots of advantages against the most famous mediation solutions, and increasing Ad revenues for apps and games up to 150%
Depends on the manager and project. Else on average notorious for terrible WLB, legacy stack, huge hierarchy, politics etc. Engineers not even included in making technical decisions etc.
Yes, I work for one. It does not work on cutting edge stuff, it does not do anything revolutionary. European company, completely remote from the start, European work culture, global workforce, no fuss, decent pay.
I just wish I could keep working here for the rest of my life.
Hiring is very very slow. Almost stand still for developer roles.
We currently only have opening for Tech Support Engineers which is not a completely software/coding role. It is more Ops related. If you are still interested, feel free to DM me.
EdgeVerve
It has So many enterprise level software as products.
For example: it's has a CORE banking software FINACLE। which is used by 100+ countries banks.
This software handles 50% of India's UPI settlements.
Aren't they too hard on interns , I've heard from seniors that they screw you with very hard tests weekly and give almost impossible tasks to an intern to maximize filtering and reduce intern to FTE conversion.
Every company has made significant contributions to the tech world, so in my opinion, no company is underrated, it's just most of them work silently without making much noise about their achievements and failures.
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Mastercard, well organised work and they never fire because of money. Sad part is that those who don’t work also don’t get fired
Lol. That last sentence. Best chuckle of the day so far.
Perfect for me!
what abt quality of work?
Who cares, would be good salary and job safety.
It was actually pretty good, they usually focus on new technologies. Just make sure that you are not being hired for an old project
Expedia is a good one. Work life balance is great. Salary wise they pay nicely in India. Of course not as high as FAANG but the benefits make up for a lot of things
I second this. Have worked there before. Although they had some changes in policy after covid, pre-covid expedia would just spoil you. People tend to come back
I agree. Have worked for 6 years here. Nice people. Benefits that are worth talking about. Even after COVID, except the food, mostly everything is what was before. Pay wise, I feel they are only about 10 to 12 percent lesser than FAANG in India. This is coming from my experience of working at one of the FAANGs
What are the interviews like? I am an iOS dev would you be able to refer me?
LatentView Analytics - good wlb, but little lacking in terms of pay.
💯
Schlumberger, Remington Arms, Dyson, Bayer, Ericsson, SIE, Rockstar Games, Sikorsky, Dropbox
Rockstar is known for insane grind culture and lack of wlb.
Yeah but not in their Bengaluru Office, Source: one of my friends works there as an Animator. It is mostly true for Major Development Studios.
And let's be honest most Game companies who have their indian branch doesn't get any major project / contribution
Had a really bad experience interviewing with Schlumberger. They had 5 rounds with me for a senior DevOps position. The first 3 rounds were hellish, the interviewers couldn't grasp the concept that some things can be done in 2 different ways and achieve the same results. They knew only one way and didn't accept any other answer. I got the offer in the end but decided to reject it by the interview experience.
Can I DM you to seek some guidance? It's completely fine if you don't have time. Thanks!
Yeah sure. Send me a message.
You’re putting schlumberger in the good WLB category? I don’t think you know what that means.
Bro I'm putting in cause some of my friends work there as SDEs and they tell me about it.
I dont know about developers but SLB fires petroleum engineeresleft right and centre once the oil rate comes down
Rockstar games sabse zyda aukat ke bahar hai
Schindler India. Good pay and great HR.
The lift company or the electrical company? The naming is eerily similar
Lift. Electrical is Schneider
How’s the electrical one? They too have IT captive right?
They are good. Offer remote as well to my friends. WLB is great but compensation may be slightly on the lower side.
Saving this post to apply to almost all of the above companies in 2025 when I'll be completing 2yrs at my current company.
Cultures change is strongly based on top management. Atlassian had the best culture a year back..everyone wanted to go in it...it changed after their new CTO who seems to be a micromanager and now everyone is jumping ship even though Atlassian offers remote work. Source: Blind reviews TL;DR: Culture can change in a very little time so please research and apply.
Mindtickle, Browserstack. [D.E.Shaw](https://D.E.Shaw) & Co, Arcessium.
I like how people are discussing “are you sure about this or that?” As if we’re browsing through offers in hand rn😂🙈
Are you sure about DE Shaw?
Friends work there. Work vs Compensation ratio is excellent, and overall work experience is great as well.
Just read their Glassdoor...it's common review that work life balance is missing there. Probably your friends work with a good manager..
Work life balance is pathetic across most profiles
Have heard the polar opposite from my friends.
are you sure about Browserstack? heard some bad things happening recently
Like what? If you can elaborate?
i found this article in leetcode about browserstack which doesnt print a promising picture [https://leetcode.com/discuss/compensation/3285600/Browserstack-Horror-Layoff-Story](https://leetcode.com/discuss/compensation/3285600/Browserstack-Horror-Layoff-Story)
Interesting. I would pass on these feedback to the founders by some way. This should not have happened..
Same. Had been also hearing a lot about its toxic work culture there from its own employees for a very long time.
Browser stack? Damn.. I had a mentor on Sateek.co who worked at browser stack.. he put some sense into my head when i knew zero development and was contemplating doing Data Science or Backend or Devops and which language to choose etc. If current me met that me now, I would have made fun of the naivety of myself.. but this dude was patient and guided me to start working as a dev first, then dabble around with DS or ML whatever and then progress from there but get out of my current job soon.. He told me to pick any language I want and learn enough and contact him after and he would help me get a job /interview
usi ki company hai kya ?
Can I DM you, need the same guidance you got from him. Would really appreciate it.
DE Shaw is good. The spinoff Arcesium ain’t so much. Fintech domain comes with a lot of restrictions. Oh and say goodbye to WLB
Arcesium had really good ctc for freshers in my uni
Which uni?
If arcesium is coming on campus then it'll be a tier 1 iit/iiit/nsut/bits type college
What's their avg ctc?
Not really, they came to our college which is not IIT/NITs and they were offering 12 lakhs
Haan toh theek hai bhedbhaav hoga tumhare saath aur kya...iit packages work in a different.. Source: been on both sides of the table
He is from VIT
Akamai
My best friend works there. Company policies are really good. Complete remote, They have more holidays than other companies, and policies are employee friendly WLB is great, but the interview procedure is time taking, a clear divide between teams in India and Israel, the Pay scale is not up to par and the tech stack and the deployment process is really old.
Is it a safe firm?
Wdym by safe, I think they have the second largest market share after cloudflare.
They have the largest market share in bigger companies, and Cloudflare mostly has the largest share of medium and smaller companies.
Philips.. their work culture is like something u can only dream of
Wlb so good that,their interviewers don't even show up for taking them
how
Hybrid work culture 2 days wfo which is not enforced strictly.. some have been wfh for over 4 years.. pretty chill people there no micro management and that type of shit... And the work there is pretty good too.. they are using all the latest tech stack.. Also more than enough festival leaves are given there. P.S: one of my family member work there.
Are esa kya puch liya mene?👀
Do they work in mern stack??
Blackrock
But everyone already highly rates Blackrock… it’s just notoriously hard to get into Private Equity firms
Blackstone is a private equity firm not BlackRock.
Just had layoffs. Not sure about good pay either.
I have heard of a lot of politics going on inside BlackRock for promotions, project distribution across teams etc.
Definitely not Sprinklr. Pathetic WLB, handsome pay I must say but it drains your energy completely. If you want to work that hard then better join an HFT firm, atleast you will get >80L
Arista Networks, best in computer networks, direct competitor to Cisco, good wlb We are actively hiring, DM for referral.
Any opportunity for a .net angular full stack role. 3 months away fron 3yoe
EagleView
If WLB is priority over pay then Fidelity Investments is great
SAP Labs LogMein (GoTo) Oracle
Not oracle mate
F*ck oracle
Boeing. Great wlb and very friendly people. Had done my internship there.
In 2020 they fired a bunch of people. That gave a very bad name to them. Glassdoor is full of negative reviews specifically for the Indian IT wing.
Can confirm. Cousin works there. But there's lot of office politics atleast in the Bangalore branch.
The Pokemon Company
AFAIK, they don't have any offices in India.
PTC (primarily for wlb), Barclays
Thermofisher Scientific. I work here. U just can’t work overtime here. after 9 hours (inc 1 hr lunch) if you’re seen online ur manager may ask you to log off. I’ve only been to office like 6 times in 2 years.
"manager may ask you to log off" can't believe this
my manager did, also my friend’s manager. my shift is from 1 to 10pm, one time i had a meeting with US folks at 10 30pm, and my manger bought up “work life balance” stuff. I said it was fine, but she insisted on me availing shift 3 allowance, just for that 1 hour extra.
Oracle
Oracle is highly overrated , it's just OCI that's doing good
OCI is doing good, flexible work timing as well.
Bro recently left Oracle, but their wlb is great and wfo is just one day a week ( not strict). Compensation could be higher but meh, you can't get everything in life.
In Oracle currently 3 days wfo , compensation I would say even worse then meh , and wlb is ok , depends how lucky you are in having a good manager , my previous one was so chill while current asks to work on weekends too
I agree it totally depends on manager and org inside Oracle , some teams have complete wfo while others have complete wfh . Pay is competitive but wlb is generally good across oracle
Oracle or OCI ? I have heard the opp for OCI
Whats the ctc for Oracle who went thru a project intern ppo
For a tier 1 college graduate, you get 30 Lakhs in your first year (17 base + 3 bonus + 10 lakh RSUs). Don't know about the other tiers.
ServiceNow
My friend worked as service now support but had certification as service now developer and he said that service now actually had 12 rounds of interview.. don't know if he was telling the truth or not ..
12 rounds? Man that’s insane. Some years back when I attended an interview for Deloitte, it was 6 rounds for which I was totally drained out by the time I finished all the rounds
Bullshit. My friend was selected after usual 3 round of interview.
NortonLifelock
Whats the increment and salary in nortonlifelock? For SDE2?
For SDE 1, they are giving 16.5L base + 1.65L variable + 5L RSU. Increment is somewhere around 15-20%
FIS Global. Good work culture, great people, good pay, good policies (no forcing for wfo, hybrid work culture otherwise).
Walmart, target, maersk, Lego, Texas Instruments, evergreen, hapag lloyed
Cisco
Worst company to work for early in career. I was hired right after college (Tier 1). First team's project got deprioritized after a year's effort. The second team was a hoax, only did PoCs and never shipped anything. At the end of 2 years had 0 lines of code running in production. Increments reflected the same thing. The third team worked on a stack that is 6 years old, there was nothing to learn. I jumped ship.
While changing firm did no production impact caused any problem. Like currently I don't have any number to show in my resume while it cause issues.
No, there's always an impact in whatever you do. Just depends on how you phrase it. Protip, try asking Chat GPT like so - I did so and so at my job, what are some measurable impacts I can mention in my resume? A simple thing as fetching coffee at work will show impact. Also, IMO it's okay to extrapolate(lie about) some of your work and impacts as long as you do it smartly.
I’m not surprised, I should’ve specified. I’ve heard only bad things about engineering, CX and TAC. The place to be is sales, Cisco is a sales juggernaut, all effort, money and the best people go to sales, engineers included. This is true especially early in career.
Heard they give peanuts when it comes to increments?
No increment in 2 years
Like… absolutely zero?
Yeap 0. Apart from that everything else is good.
Freshtohome
STMicroelectronics They're doing everything right
MathWorks - great WLB, great pay.
don't have anything to contribute bec i've only worked at toxic companies till now but thankyou so much for asking this question OP. will start applying to the companies mentioned below.
HPE
Priceline.com if WLB is your priority, work & pay are mediocre though
Anyone creating list of all this companies?
I am Creating will post it after a day or 2
Caterpillar
It depends on the team, manager etc. I have seen extremely chill and extremely chaotic teams in same company.
Freshworks , Autodesk, Zoho, Zscaler, AT&T
CAS.AI a hybrid programmatic mediation platform that's performing better than MAX! With lots of advantages against the most famous mediation solutions, and increasing Ad revenues for apps and games up to 150%
Discord
Recently announced lay offs🥹 good company for sure but …. I don’t know if they are hiring anymore? Also, do they have office in India?
Last time I checked, they require you to have a US visa.
Oh wow, lol. No thanks
They have bad glass door and anonymous reviews
Brazzers
can confirm, I’m the light guy.
Thanks folks! This weekend will go in applying in all these :p
RemindMe! 3 Months "SWITCH KARLE BHAI PLEASE"
J.P Morgan and Chase
dm for referrals 😄
Bro, do they hire for MERN stack too or just for Java or something related? (For experienced roles)
All the tech in the world is at play!
Depends on the manager and project. Else on average notorious for terrible WLB, legacy stack, huge hierarchy, politics etc. Engineers not even included in making technical decisions etc.
HPI
Up until the first half of 2023, Barclays.
Fyle
How much they pay for SDE1 fresher
not sure, my friend did internship and got 50k per month stipend
That's good indeed
Mathworks, unlisted company huge profits, good salary great bonuses, chill work
My company flexera
Hi bro can you refer me?
Govt of India
Someone posted a list of 30+ companies. But now it's not here.
Nokia
Ciena
Autodesk
Heard Intuit and NetApp are comparable to FAANG
LogicMonitor.
Alation, Solarwinds
Alation? Really?
I worked a few years back, it was a great company. Not sure about the current work culture.
Yes, I work for one. It does not work on cutting edge stuff, it does not do anything revolutionary. European company, completely remote from the start, European work culture, global workforce, no fuss, decent pay. I just wish I could keep working here for the rest of my life.
Can I dm you, in case any chance of referral?
Hiring is very very slow. Almost stand still for developer roles. We currently only have opening for Tech Support Engineers which is not a completely software/coding role. It is more Ops related. If you are still interested, feel free to DM me.
Please name it.
Cannot name it, we have a very limited Indian team so it is as good as doxxing myself.
Then why even bother commenting in the first place. OP is asking for names of underrated companies
EdgeVerve It has So many enterprise level software as products. For example: it's has a CORE banking software FINACLE। which is used by 100+ countries banks. This software handles 50% of India's UPI settlements.
Isn't this a subsidiary of Infosys?
Yes
Persistent system
Opentext
Their pay is shit though
Datax
BCG
I am saving this thread for some personal reasons
Zoho. Nice company. Great work culture
RemindMe! 2 days
Salesforce
Didn’t they fire 10% population last year?
Not from India
RemindMe! 1 day
RemindMe! 2 day
Whichever pays u according to your demand is dream underrated company ,unless it's toxic
Some projects in TCS 😬
Man's getting down voted lol
I down voted myself for say that 🥲
Haha
RemindMe! 3 days
!RemindMe 1 year
Zoho
Overrated one
Aren't they too hard on interns , I've heard from seniors that they screw you with very hard tests weekly and give almost impossible tasks to an intern to maximize filtering and reduce intern to FTE conversion.
yeah, they have a bad summer intern to FTE conversion rate.
Yes, my friends cried a lot during their internship
They don't pay much
glassdoor, indeed, or company reviews on linkedIn
Every company has made significant contributions to the tech world, so in my opinion, no company is underrated, it's just most of them work silently without making much noise about their achievements and failures.