Deutsche Telekom Digital Labs "Food Facility" Reviews

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Free food Onsite visit Annual trips and fun Good opportunity to learn new skill

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Nightmare HR …..worst kind of people,when you are in the company they would not take care of any of your concern ,but once you want release/early release they would offer you sabbatical ,lwp etc ….they would call u multiple times if they have a feedback to be filled but would not pick any calls when you require them Lack of leadership They only pretend to be “young” company yet force redundant policies that make no sense...Read More

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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 does 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.

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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 and 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.

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Company provide free food.

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Mostly team members and manager.

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.

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salary , food , culture

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no parking

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Employee friendly Good policies - free insurance, free gym on cult, wifi and other allowances, free food, home office setup, mobile phone reimbursement MacBook Pros Work life balance Really supported employees during COVID waves Give 2-3 extra surprise leave every year Good tax savingpolicies Great office in Cyber City...Read More

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1. Monitoring employee engagement and things get lil bad if you start looking outside. They monitor that part. Monitoring is really bad. 2. Work is not exciting. It is average. 3. At start, culture was awesome but now they are hiring more people so culture is moving downward. Still it's good but may be in future it will become average from good if no attention paid. We miss gifts now and events on festivals have reduced too. 4. Leave policy is not that good. You have unlimited leaves as long as manager approve. As long as manager approve is the catch. Do introduce mandatory leaves that would be great. Some misuse unlimited leaves and some don't take much leave they carry forward only 21 and upper limit of leave is 40 only above that lapse. 5. Products are average but they are not end to end. It's a layer wise architecture so you work on few layers with no DB mostly. 6. Peers were good earlier but now top talents are leaving. 7. Appraisal cycle takes 2-3 month extra after year end. 8. Pay disparity between new hires and old top talent 9. No promotion till 5 year exp...Read More

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Work life balance is there in most pf the teams but some teams have bad Work life balance

Work days: Monday to Friday (Flexible Timings)

Work related travel: This is a desk job.