DTH Bengaluru - coding sweatshop, puppet leadership - Engineering Leader Delta Air Lines Employee Review

1.0
May 20, 2025
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Compensation is good. Free lunch/breakfast is served. Cab service is available.

Cons

1. The site head, Saif Ahmed Shareef, is unqualified for the job, and is a mere puppet with zero decision-making power. His only quality is his slyness. The real show is run by the HQ in Atlanta who treats this place as an outpost coding sweatshop. 2. Work-life balance is totally off-balance. Taking 11 PM calls with HQ is the norm. Pulse surveys are a sham and nobody cares. The leadership visits are fundamentally about naked ideological whitewashing. 3. Employees are subjected to a strict attendance policy, not complying to which they are subjected to various types of coercive disciplinary action. 4. Career growth options are limited, especially for middling roles. 5. Good for mediocre people with low self-esteem - who like to keep their brains switched-off, keep their head low and slog. 6. Zero opportunities for secondment. Short-term assignments at HQ is out of picture. 7. Diversity and inclusion, again, is a sham here. The diversity numbers are dismal, and are used mostly for lip service. 8. No avenues for learning and development. I spent 4 years at DTH without attending a single training/learning session.

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Cons

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5.0
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Pros

Awesome company to work for! Fun work environment, cares about employees, great uniforms, competitive pay, just an awesome company to work for! They are very flexible, you can live anywhere in the world you want, as long as your able to get to work when you need to be there!

Cons

At the end of the day, it is a very large corporation. So it is very easy to become just a "number" in the company. The flight attendant group is not unionized, so rules can change very often. Make sure your time management is impeccable, because you cannot be late for work AT ALL, and there aren't many acceptable excuses, even rain is not an excuse.

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Delta Air Lines Response
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Thank you for your review and recommendation of Delta. We work hard every day to make Delta a great place to work; it’s nice to hear how much you enjoy our company and our work environment. Our people and our culture are our most important competitive advantages and the direct relationship we have enjoyed with our flight attendants has served our people, our customers and our company very well. To that end, we have a strong open door policy that enables any employee to go directly to a leader with any concerns, and we have hundreds of flight attendants who are actively engaged in our business, providing feedback and working on solutions for their colleagues and our customers. At Delta, a consistent, reliable operation is one of the reasons our top customers come back to fly with us time and again. That makes employee reliability – being on time, every day, for your shift or your flight – especially important. We agree that having a fundamental understanding of the flight attendant role is important for our field leaders, and we also value diversity at all levels of the company. That’s why so many of our field leaders are flight attendant qualified and many still fly when their schedules allow. We appreciate your feedback and will be sharing it with our In-Flight team. –Wendy, Talent Acquisition Team
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