Blenheim Chalcot Senior Product Manager salaries in Bangalore / Bengaluru

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there is free coffee and the salary comes on time.

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...subject-related questions - you will see what they bring to the table (nothing). Your salary will be below the market rate. Bosses - managers & senior management have no idea what they are doing - so many wrong decisions by seniors, and juniors have to pay the price. The seniors, at least for the product team, never take responsibility and the team suffers. Some favourite employees misbehave with females, and the management does not take any action. Some people are allowed to work from home indefinitely while others must come to the office even during emergencies and illnesses. If you are not a bootlicker, you will suffer here. UK counterparts can enjoy long holidays without disturbance. But Indians must be available during leave, holidays, and weekends - East India Company left and Blenheim Chalcot took its place. Beware - well-qualified people from elite institutes (tier 1 B schools) were lured by this company - 90% of them declined the offer. I wonder why. There is a basic infrastructure shortage - no chairs, no pantry to sit and eat in peace. You ask for a chair and they lash out at you as if it's your fault there is no chair. It's fun though, a game of musical chairs every day. HR is useless and will definitely throw you under the bus. If you are thinking of joining - check the LinkedIn profiles of all senior management folks. See the quality of your peers.

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Salary has tax benefit components.

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Management believes in hire and fire policy. Whenever they get a new project they start the hiring process and hire the candidates. Once the project gets completed in 5-6 months they fire the entire team.

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The good things about this place - Salary comes on time. Work life balance is great but due to a negative reason - there isn't much work to do in the first place, people are on bench for months at stretch. Some of your peers are smart and help you learn, but politics may stop this as people try to one up eachother.

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1. Complete lack of structure - they are hiring at large scale without having any structure or processes in place. No onboarding, no process introduction, no expectation setting in a timely manner - many crucial things just don't exist. When the system (or lack of it) fails, the blame falls on people and they become scapegoats. 2. Lack of managers- what happens when 90+ fresh graduates are reporting to a single person, who is a first time manager? You guessed it - chaos. There are not enough managers and it cases tonnes of unresolved issues. 3. Since there are no processes, people can twist the situations as they want. Eg. No response from manager means you have to assume leave has been denied. 4. There is zero onboarding for new joiners and absolutely no support provided in early days. It's acceptable if the managers don't respond to your queries, but not if your work gets affected due to this. The impact of this on people's performance is obviously largely negative. 5. Some times, people don't get projects for months at stretch and being on the bench for a long time might not be a happy place for everyone. 6. A complete lack of culture as 99% of the workforce has been recently hired. People with unacceptable behaviours are tolerated because they keep pleasing the bosses and clients, but treat others like shit. 7. Remote work policies are extremely biased. Some folks are allowed to work remotely, but their reporting team has to strictly work from office, irrespective of circumstances or emergencies. 8. If you decide work here, keep applying to other jobs - because you will never know when you will lose your job. Worst thing about this place - terrible, terrible in terms of job security. Most important advice: If you are letting go of other job offer for this company - we urge you to reconsider - a stable, organized workplace is much better. There is no job security in this place, so take time and decide wisely.

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One thing I appreciate about this place is the realization that I deserve better.

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...rom such involvement. The daily commute was marred by anxiety over job security. Despite a decent salary, the toxic work culture left me feeling mentally drained.

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Salary package is good Salary on time

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They don't have bench policy... So if you're project is over, you will be thrown out. They fire 10 employees every week. Noone can say anything that's on thier mind else their name will be put in the weekly firing list. Policies are written but not followed, they can fire you without notice period even if it is in your contract. Any reason is fine to mark you down if the management or thier chelas don't like you. Appraisal policies are not written down, every week some new implementation comes from leadership and management/employees are told to follow irrespective of the reason being logical or not.