Wadhwani AI Associate Director Engineering salaries in Bangalore / Bengaluru (Updated 2025)

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- ML teamwork culture is really good - You get to work with India's best ML scientists (like Alpan, Soma, Makarand, etc.) - You get a chance to pick what to work on - You can publish your work at some of the best international ML conferences - Permanent work from home for some of the projects

Dislikes

- You need to work with the Government which has some drawbacks

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You might get a work life balance if you are a software engineer

Dislikes

They keep changing policies every two hours so one day you shift cities and then next day you go back, you might think you’d be getting an appraisal, the next moment they change the policy to next year

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Founding donors are great unfortunately they have chosen very toxic management

Dislikes

- the culture have set the benchmark of toxicity - nepotism, favouritism, confusion, unfairness, gossip and bad blood is rampant across the organization - CEO is a real life psychopath and evil, which means he will seem super helpful and great untill you find yourself in a very painful situation and this is a regular phenomena. That's the the attrition for critical roles is very high here - management fakes everything from reporting to donors to making progress update to their own team members - overall, an extremely dangerous place if you had bad mental health in the past - very damaging to the career of people who have left too late

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The projects concepts are good, AI team is excellent.

Dislikes

Lots of politics, favouritism, gender inequality. The rules are different for different people. There is no process for promotion and appraisal. Hardworking people are not valued, the only skills valued are PR and sycophancy People in engineering, ML, programs and Solutions mostly come with good intentions but they are not allowed to work, the decisions are forced top down or by the favorites of the leadership team without any logical reason. There is no impact of any solution so far. This is not the place you want to work, it has terrible management.

Likes

Good team of youngsters working for a social cause!

Dislikes

* too much politics and random decision making at leadership * No respect for domain experts * People who are close to leadership team are unduely promoted to very senior positions in short time