Deutsche Telekom Digital Labs "Appraisal" Reviews

Likes

good working environment easy to switch to other capabilites

Dislikes

mandatory work from office atleast 3days and soon moving to 5 days wfo less salary and almost no promotion toxic culture in some projects

Work Details

Work policy: 3 days/week from office

Work days: Monday to Friday (Flexible Timings)

Work related travel: This is a desk job.

Likes

They have good employees benefits like Cult fit and fitternity access, extended maternity leave, reimbursement on learning and development. Good food at office. Working on cutting edge technologies.

Dislikes

No clear guideline or transparency on Promotion criteria. Reward and recognition is also not that much good. No clear visibility of professional growth in company

Work Details

Work policy: 3 days/week from office

Work days: Monday to Friday (Flexible Timings)

Work related travel: This is a desk job.

Likes

4-5 years back, the job safety factor was there, especially in the SE, SSE area because they know they have hired poor performers and yet, they never took any action on them. Most of the early hires have weird working habits - some have a habit of randomly bunking office, and some just remain online and produce no output. The HR doe s nothing about it nor the managers. If your director has a good image about you, then you will get to travel a lot, but only in Economy. Working hours are flexible, but you have to mandatorily join the agile ceremonies. And if you are a senior lead or lead with more dependency, then forget all WLBs. For SE and SSEs, the balance is definitely there. Promotions are guaranteed, if you're the top performer. If you do outstanding, then in 1 or 1.5 years (depending on when you joined), you will be promoted, no matter what. Salary is decent. But the benefits are average. Free food in canteen is a big plus....Read More

Dislikes

The culture is the four lettered word that begins with S and ends with T. The job safety factor is gone since last 2-3 years. They have started putting people in PIPs whenever their performance is not upto the mark. Most often, the performance is totally upto the perception of the TL an d it's very very subjective. And the empirical data e.g. commits, quality of code, expertise is never examined before concluding. The usual culture of Northern Indian's Dukan and Bijness culture will be very visible here. As soon as you hit the SSE (senior software engineer) tag, they slowly discourage you from doing active coding and encourage you to take ownership i.e. you will do the job of a lead - partly team manage and partly code. Some SSEs virtually give up coding completely and only focus on mentoring juniormost employees i.e. SEs. This way, despite having hundreds of engineers in a team, their average velocity per person will come out to be 1 to 2 story points because, typicallys the SEs will be found working. SSE and above are just another figment of the management body actively involved in delegation ONLY. This eventual delegation model ruins the affinity for tech and the colleagues who have been with the system since long generally make it really really hard for anyone new to onboard, survive or grow. The training is almost non-existent. If you're lucky, you will learn on the job. If your mentor isn't wise, you'll end up doing whatever you know.. forever. Pioneering is heavily discouraged. New Ideas, especially from new peoplem aren't easily accepted. Basically, they want to keep peddling the old rusty cycle instead of upgrading to a motor bike, perhaps because the senior most employees are scared of speed, they fear that they won't be able to keep up. Often times, there will be out-of-support software which they don't upgrade until there is a zero day vulnerability. And here, they are very very afraid of taking risks. If there is a slight mistake by someone, they chastise them so heavily that the pioneering spirit almost dies in an individual....Read More

Work Details

Work days: Monday to Friday (Flexible Timings)

Work related travel: This job involves International Travel.

Likes

Recognition are there. Festival celebration are very good.

Dislikes

Micro-management, need to inform same task to multiple people. Appraisals are not good Promotion are very difficult

Work Details

Work policy: 3 days/week from office

Work days: Monday to Friday (Flexible Timings)

Work related travel: This is a desk job.

Likes

Work Life Balance

Dislikes

Promotion and Appraisal

Likes

Employee welfare by hr is great

Dislikes

Team politics and management is not good. Appraisal is very low

Work Details

Work policy: 3 days/week from office

Work timings: Flexible Timings

Work related travel: This job involves Travel Within City.

Likes

- Manager/Lead role

Dislikes

- Promoting micromanagement culture - Lack of recognition specifically in DOT teams - Work from office focus regardless of work - Limited increament/appraisal

Work Details

Work days: Monday to Friday (Flexible Timings)

Work related travel: This is a desk job.

Likes

Salary and work life balance

Dislikes

Performance appraisal

Work Details

Work policy: 2 days/week from office

Work days: Monday to Friday (Flexible Timings)

Work related travel: This is a desk job.

Likes

Company still provides food Office space is nice. Good learnings if you want to you want to Excel in career growth.

Dislikes

Appraisal and internal politics. Salary offered is lesser than market standards.