Cons 1. Job Security Company has laid off more than 15% of its total workforce (250+ employees) so far this year as they overhired. Layoffs are still happening as I'm writing this review. Over hiring happened because they forecast projects over ambitiously while in reality it does not have the talent/skill to tackle all sorts of problem statements within analytics. However, 2 months of severance pay was provided to all employees who were laid off. Leadership went straight for the option of layoffs without considering the option of pay cuts so that layoffs could be avoided. 2. Leadership Leadership team especially the 3 co founders have no vision. They talk big, but there's zero action. The main co-founder and CEO's best skillset is hogging food. You'll see him travelling from one office to another having team dinner/lunch etc all at company cost/budget. While not travelling and hogging food, he'll be busy taking attendance if people are attending leadership meeting, managers meeting and breakfast meeting. He also boasts that his company is way better than other competitors like Tiger, Tredence, Fractal. In reality, math company's current situation is worse and no where near to the competitors 3. Industry Position Math Company was a strong contender in analytics based on the Forrester report last year in Jan 2022. Based on the recent Forrester report, they don't even feature in the list. Lack of vision and strategy has ensured they've fallen way behind while their competitors marched ahead. 4. Projects/Quality of Work They call themselves a data science company, but there's hardly any data science work here. Most of the work is reporting, dashboarding or visualization. Even within the few data science projects, it's just running the model and fine tuning it. 5. Hiring In their quest to overhire, they diluted their hiring standards and hired below average folks into the company. Some of them have been laid off as part of the ongoing layoffs, but many still remain within the company. Even otherwise, their hiring process is not rigorous compared to other competitors and major focus is is on hiring freshers straight out of college. 6. Managing Costs They got good funding in Jan 2022, but they've splurged it by providing 2 way tickets to all new joiners to fly down to bangalore for onboarding, providing new joiners/laterals 1 week of hotel accomodation, frequent team meet ups where the entire team is provided 2 way tickets and hotel accomodation varying from 2 to 5 days. In the US, the new joiners were taken for basketball matches where the company paid for their tickets. There's no company even big MNC's who spend like this on their employees. Company justification provided was this would ensure team bonding and provide facetime. This has honestly backfired as currently there's a major emphasis on cost cutting and many employees have been laid off. 7. Transparency All the 5 star reviews here are written by their leadership team folks or folks who've been in the company since its inception. Whenever there's a bad review, it's immediately followed by a 5 star review from an existing employee to do damage control. This was a strategy discussed in the weekly Tuesday leadership meeting. So you can imagine how the leadership here is when it comes to hiding stuff and being transparent. Even google reviews are mostly written by folks from the marketing team (You can verify by searching the names on LinkedIn). They talk about transparency, but their actions DON'T match their words.
