Airtel Africa Engineering Manager Reviews

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Literally nothing

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Arguably the worst organisation to work in considering there are no employee benefits other than a postpaid sim card that comes with a max limit. Coming to cons, I can mention end number of them but let's settle at a few: 1) Horrible culture that starts with micromanagement and ends with calls on Sunday morning with commands (not requests) to work on random issues and requirements. 2) No one cares about quality of development and wants features to be delivered within hours without proper testing and release plan. 3) Every team faces comparison from other teams despite the fact that actual problem lies in the senior officials who work like daily wage workers. 4) Flexibility - what is that? You get paid to come 5 days in office and spend 9 hours daily without expecting a single moment of gratitude. 5) Every small request is met with personal comments/insults by HR and managers who have teamed up to make every employee's life a living hell. 6) They can't fix a coffee machine and that's why we cannot expect a working infra either which has zero support for developers. 7) Pollution, rain, earthquake, fire or tornado should not stop you from arriving into office to earn the daily wage. They are just excuses in the eyes of HR who is busy hiring paid PR to improve the rating of this excuse of an organisation....Read More

Work Details

Work timings: Strict Timings

Work related travel: This is a desk job.

Likes

Nothing to like here in this company. Only your salary will come on time.

Dislikes

List is huge but will mention main points only. 1. No flexibility of WFH or hybrid and you have to come 5 days to office. 2. If you are living in Noida or Noida office is near to you then also you have to travel 3 hours to come to office in gurgaon to satisfy HR/Management egos. 3. Floor environment is worst than any BPO, everyone keeps on shouting or discuss everything on your heads and also people attend their calls on laptop speakers in loud voice. You can not focus on your work and then you have to work in night at home. 4. Managers and HR are not supportive here they will play with you like a ball if you raise any concern with them. 5. No cabs facility and food is worst. 6. No learning opportunities and they will never invest on you for learning as like other companies do in form of training and certification. 7. If you are joining here in the name of Airtel my request to you do not join as things are totally different and you will never feel like product based company here. 8. Managers are not that much technical here....Read More

Work Details

Work days: Monday to Friday (Strict Timings)

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Nothing to like

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Work culture is very toxic. You have to work sat and Sunday, micromanagement is at peak.You have to complete your 9 hours minimum. Manager and Director and their senior doesn't have family so they will treat you like you also doesn't have. Your personal life will be destroyed.

Work Details

Work days: Monday to Friday (Strict Timings)

Work related travel: This is a desk job.

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Not sure why people are siting that salary on 25th ? Seriously all companies do that may be the. folks coming to this org are coming from places where salary was an issue. But generally there is no benefit here So Just go there if you have no place to go. What I had see is that good people quit this early while people good with politics continue for longer.

Dislikes

Tech stack wise they have everything in experimentation but no guts to take anything to production because of incompetent leaders in key position who just try to save the day! All legacy system are working in parallel to save the business which could had been improved over time but because of favoritism and assignment of incompetentleaders its all messy! Well the Offer letter from the company is structured to loot money. Whenever you leave you have to sacrifice 6 month to one year of variable component. Also the variable component is tied to review and in case you happen to get a insecure manager or not able to please your manager well then this whole amount will be 0 so basically you can always risk your 10% variable. So Negotiate offer well. I was a good performer but in last year the manager got changed and I had lost a massive part of CTC so just be cautious. Currently the level of politics is cutthroat. Lot of incompetent people are holding key positions and you can be in messy situation before you realize it! Skip level discussion is either not happening or are just for name sake and totally ineffective....Read More

Work Details

Work days: Monday to Friday (Strict Timings)

Work related travel: This job involves Travel Within City.

Likes

Nothing about this place is good its a small company with small mindset focused to make a group of people liked by management.

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Once upon a time, in the bustling kingdom of Corporateville, there was a manager who ruled with an iron fist. Let’s call this guy Sir Micromanage or “Maestro” Sir Micromanage believed that in order to achieve success, every single task, no matter how small, needed his personal touch. He watched over his team like a hawk, swooping down at the first sign of deviation from his grand plan. In Sir Micromanage’s court, creativity and initiative were rare gems, buried deep beneath layers of rigid control and constant oversight. The knights( or employees, as they were called) quickly learned that it was safer to stick to the script than to venture into unknown territory. After all , Sir Micromanage was known to unleash his wrath upon anyone who dared to think independently. The atmosphere in the office castle was tense, with whispers of dissatisfaction echoing through the corridors. Team meetings felt more like inquisitions, where ideas were dissected and often dismissed without a second thought. Instead of collaboration, competition and fear reigned supreme. But the tale doesn’t end here. Over time, the knights grew weary.They began to question whether this was the way a kingdom should be run. Productively began to falter, creativity dried up and morale reached an all - time low . It became clear that the kingdom could not thrive under Sir Micromanage’s heavy- handed rule . The story of Micromanage serve as a cautionary tale. It teaches us that while control might bring short- term results, it’s trust, collaboration and respect that build lasting success. A kingdom where ideas are nurtured and knights are empowered will always outshine one where fear and control stifle growth. May this tale remind future leaders that true power lies not in tightening the reins, but in knowing, when to let go and trust the people who serve alongside them....Read More

Work Details

Work days: Monday to Friday (Strict Timings)

Work related travel: This job involves Travel Within City.

Likes

1. Salary on time (25th or before) 2. Let me think......

Dislikes

1. Sometimes you have to work after office hours 2. No increment/appraisal (even after good performance, because no one cares) 3. Focus on micromanagement! 4. Lack of professionalism 5. Old tech stacks and no growth 6. TPM's are of old mindset, they focus on blaming and under playing the team (not knowing the technical details is big challenge for them, I think) 7. One socking thing is if your laptop damaged accidentally you have to pay for it. 8. Infra related problems are the major issues and at the end you will be blamed. 9. Join when you have no better option...Read More

Work Details

Work days: Monday to Friday (Flexible Timings)

Work related travel: This is a desk job.

Likes

Good payscale

Dislikes

Bad company culture

Likes

Nothing to like

Dislikes

1. Work on weekends. 2. Manager and VP treating people like forced labourers 3. No concern for safety. 4. You'll be asked to stay till 8/9 PM with no food or cab concerns.

Work Details

Work timings: Strict Timings

Work related travel: This is a desk job.

Likes

1. The teams are helpful and EMs help the Pods to grow 2. Fair expectation from work and get chance to work with Africa as Continent 3. Products get deployed in 14 countries

Dislikes

1. Low flexibility as we have to come 5 days / week 2. Team engagement needs to be improved 3. Micromanagement - Leadership is involved in all the tasks but its good in one way

Work Details

Work days: Monday to Friday (Strict Timings)

Work related travel: This job involves International Travel.

Likes

Salary on time nothing else

Dislikes

1. Unreasonable pressure on leads and devs as print scope and requirement changes on daily basis due to rushed task execution demand of manager. 2. Micro management on peak here,. 3. As an outsider from other team, I have observed that the CS team culture is quite troubling. There is an excessive amount of politics among the both team member and manager, which seems to be creating an unproductive environment. 4. I have observed that on 11/10/2024 only 15-20% of members were present in CS team. There is a partiality going on regarding work from home and office timings for team members. Manager is not able to manage that how team members are coming late to office and going early. 5. I have seen that in many of teams there are 1-2 members are doing permanent WFH. I don't know how HR and managers are doing this kind of partiality....Read More

Work Details

Work days: Monday to Friday (Strict Timings)

Work related travel: This job involves Travel Within City.

Likes

Salary get credited on 25th of the Month.

Dislikes

This has been my worst experience in my 10+ years experience. Favoritism is prevalent in this organization. Managers flirting with female employees and promising good appraisals and promotions in return. I've never encountered a place where less experienced employee manages those with more experience. Additionally, there is a lack of positive work culture and the office hours are strictly limited to 5 days a week with an eight hours work day....Read More

Work Details

Work days: Monday to Friday (Strict Timings)

Likes

There is nothing to like

Dislikes

They compare you other employees There is no extra activities to refresh your mind. Every day you have to go with same flow. Not user friendly environment to work. You don't have oppertunity to express your queries or raise any voice. If you do so they will create some synario with HR that you have put resignation. HR will always listen to the manager , your voice doesn't matter for them

Likes

team is building all technology for the entire of african operations. is a big team in india, you will find the strength around 700 in engineering team.

Dislikes

its a large company. also we are building products for africa here in india. visibility for the built products may be less and you dont get to know the problems first hand.

Work Details

Work policy: 3 days/week from office

Work days: Monday to Friday (Flexible Timings)

Work related travel: This job involves Travel Within City, International Travel.

Likes

I have worked with some really great people who have excellent technical expertise. There are teams where good work culture is maintained. Office is in a mall, lot of fancy shops and restaurants.

Dislikes

Imagine the worst parts of every manager you’ve ever had, rolled into one glorious trainwreck of a human being, who has an ego of a Death Star. This dude couldn’t debug a prod issue but struts around like he’s Silicon Valley’s gift to humanity. A cowardly backstabber who thinks he’s Steve Jobs. He gives out raises and remote work like candy to his loyal minions, expecting them to grovel at his feet. A charming mix of insecurity and favoritism. Picture a guy who’s as two-faced as a coin, but less useful. Hikes and work-from-home perks are reserved exclusively for his personal fan club—the ones who’ve mastered the art of brown-nosing and boot-kissing. It’s less about performance and more about servitude. If you’re not bending over backwards to inflate his already oversized ego, forget about any perks. He’s the micromanagement maestro, obsessing over every minor detail like a boomer on steroids. Not only is he tracking every single leave you take, but he’s also got a whole spreadsheet dedicated to it. And come month-end, he’s right there, spamming your inbox with reminders. Ignore him, and he’ll go ahead and apply the leaves himself. It’s like he’s got this pathological need to control even the smallest aspects of your work life. He’s got a calendar with everyone’s lunch and coffee breaks marked on it, too. In his mind, this is what makes him a ‘good manager.’ It’s like he’s got this desperate need to control every tiny detail, probably because it’s the only thing he can actually handle. Not content with just being an incompetent micromanaging backstabber, he’s also a master of psychological warfare. This genius has a brilliant strategy to ‘motivate’ his team: he loves to crank up the pressure to 11 and then threaten to put people on a Performance Improvement Plan (PIP) if they don’t dance to his tune. He never throws a party, but boy, does he show up to yours and eat all the expensive stuff. It’s like inviting a black hole to your buffet. He’s that guy who brings a salad to a potluck and leaves with a full plate of prime meat. I have not seen a sadder, frustrated, gossip-queen, mean, spineless, tech-illiterate control freak with the social skills of a wet sock, who thinks fear is a great motivator. Can’t forget the way he smiles....Read More

Work Details

Work policy: 4 days/week from office

Work days: Monday to Friday (Flexible Timings)

Work related travel: This is a desk job.

Likes

Organisation offers competitive salary as per market standards; there are few projects where decent standards are maintained

Dislikes

- chaotic approach to development due to short-sightedness and micromanagement of engineering manager - poor and outdated infrastructure - good appraisals are reserved for employees who are willing to work in servitude of manager - manager is running entire project as per his personal whims and wishes without any care for proper planning, execution or quality standards - HR and organisations on a whole are unable to set up any company wise policies and standards, allowing management to create a toxic, chaotic environment - manager is willing to hog all credit for good work but will distance himself from any responsibility as soon as something goes wrong - Unreasonable pressure on leads and devs as sprint scope as well as requirement changes on daily basis due to rushed task execution demands of manager...Read More

Work Details

Work days: Monday to Friday (Strict Timings)

Work related travel: This is a desk job.

Likes

Everything is good

Dislikes

not any issue with that