Pros
- Team members are technically strong and experienced.
- Interns get exposure to production-level systems and real engineering workflows.
- Lunch is provided.
Cons
- Internship expectations are often comparable to experienced SDE roles despite intern-level compensation.
- Work-life balance is extremely poor, with long working hours and constant availability implicitly expected.
- Management expectations and timelines can feel unrealistic for internship roles.
- Interns are expected to deliver at the pace of full-time engineers without receiving the same level of support, resources, or tooling.
- Important productivity tools available to the broader engineering team are not always accessible to interns, despite similar delivery expectations.
- Performance evaluation processes lack transparency and can feel abrupt and high pressure.
- Short-duration PIPs for interns create an atmosphere of uncertainty instead of learning and structured improvement.
- Mentorship and structured guidance for interns are limited.
- Mandatory 5-day work from office combined with the Koramangala location results in exhausting daily commutes due to traffic and limited connectivity, significantly impacting time and energy.
- Overall culture is more focused on output and pressure than intern learning and development.