Decent company - General Manager Driptech Employee Review

I joined Driptech with three reasons; 1) practice my engineering skill, 2) apply Design Thinking/ Lean Startup process to solve real-world problems, and 3) learn more about social entrepreneurship. I got them all while I was at the company. On top of that, being in startup environment, I got to do many different things, which to me, it's a really valuable experience. Seeing Driptech growing from a single-digit number of employees to renting out a huge facility in India, it's unbelievable. Driptech has gone through several phases. But I'm sure its mission/vision hasn't changed.

At a high level, Driptech's business model is really challenging. Economy of scale is key, for profitability and social impact. In order to scale to that level, it needs tremendous resources. At the same time, if the Mother Nature isn't on its side, that's going to be rough. (Driptech mainly sells drip tapes which are generally used in dry season only.) To add more complexity, at a startup, there's no existing process/system. Employees need to learn and build it, which could be frustrating/confusing sometimes. That said, it's not a generic company that someone can just clock-in, clock-out and wait to climb up a corporate ladder.

Dear All Job seekers, My decision to join Driptech has been one of the best and honest move in my career path to be working in Agriculture sector. The exposure and experience I gained with Driptech has further deepened my love and passion to work in the Agri sector and start-ups. I learn many things like persistence in work, proactively involve in problem solving and became an good source of all information top any team members, taking an complete ownership of given task and be responsible for it. In Driptech, you will find completely encouraging, forward thinking and friendly environment with amazing co-workers to support and encourage you. I have seen Driptech grow and evolve in the last two years and I should say I am lucky to have witness and been part of this growth phase and I wish I would have really like to be a part of Driptech's journey forward and contribute more.

In an efforts to prevent extra costs being passed onto the consumer, company hangs onto unreliable and costly source of raw material suppliers and not encouraging company to launch any new variants. Need to avoid excessive spending on unnecessary overheads, which increases the company burden unnecessarily.