TLDR: If you want to have working hours like startup, pay like MNC and code like college project. Yeah! you are welcome to Servify. ============= I am not undermining anyone, these are the unfortunate facts: ============= For MONEY related facts check point 5. ============= 1. DO NOT expect to have a life. Maybe you young ones are thinking 'meh, I don't need it' when you realise it will be too late. Because you will be coming here at 11am maybe and don't expect to leave before 9:30+pm. TESTERS BE VERY AWARE, ALL TESTING IS DONE IN THE NIGHT(11PM+). ASK ANYONE FROM LINKEDING. ============= 2. Coding standard is horrible. There are reasons: --The product was developed by 8-9 college passouts who didn't know what SCALE means(1 or 2 guys are exception). They didn't have the technical knowledge nor the domain knowledge. So when the product started to scale they just added band-aid over the cracks. And now that has become the stinky bulky & buggy. --Most of these guys are still there now team leads with just 3-3.5yrs of Exp(yeah, you heard it here first folks) and hold immense power over the codebase. So juniors under them start to become stinky coders because they themselves don't know what good code means. Because this stinky code is their 100% knowledge. --As they started as college passouts, they don't know how to write test cases. So BUGs BUGs everywhere.============= 3. Everything is manual. No automation Testing even though they would hire you for that. For devs like us, deployment is manual no CI/CD pipelines. Now there is some CI just for linting and things but on prod everything is manual.============= 4. Unrealistic deadlines without willing to spare resources. I think this point is common across all startups. But let me give you an example, I was asked to develop 4-5 apis to accommodate another client at 8-freaking-pm. And after doing it I and the Mobile dev went home at 3am. And unfortunately this is common across all the teams.============= 5. Now the most important Point: MONEY. Generally the payscale is very ill-defined. Some of the guys that are there for 2-3years (from DA college basically) they will get very high salary. If you are lateral and you are joining now or future, the gap will be very very huge. Okay Avg raise last year was 5-8% if your package is decent, otherwise 5-12% if your package is already low, obviously excluding those "special" people (refer point 1). And it will be less and less every year probably. So if you want to join a Startup for work and money. Work is sad. Money is ..well.. extra sad. So basically, If you want to have working hours like startup, pay like MNC and code like college project. Yeah! you are welcome to Servify. Btw, connect to any of past servify guys from Linkedin, you will get the picture.
