It turned out to be pathetic - Internship JUSPAY Employee Review

I was very open-minded and expected a lot from Juspay before joining and was very excited to learn and work on some slick solutions. Post one month into my internship things started looking extremely different from what I had imagined. Anyone would expect a startup like Juspay to be extremely agile, efficient, etc. as they are part some of the top applications in India. But they are nowhere close to it, the only thing I have learnt during my internship is HACK JOB. In short, it was my bad decision to think big about Juspay. They do not have a very healthy environment ATM and it's a terrible place if you looking forward to work on some great Tech or Engineering side. You will mostly work on the internal frameworks and they do not have any value outside. I will only rant about Engg/Tech and Management, other things are equally bad. "Listen to what your boss says " No one really wants to understand the problem. Most of the full-time guys just speak idiomatic stuff, have illogical arguments and finally write some crappy code. Your views do not really matter, all that matters are talks of full-times close to the top management. "Company did not choose a programming language, programming language chose them" Might be surprising but they RE-WROTE most of their stack into a purescript. I mainly worked on rewriting DIRTY code into purescript, where it is was like adding types and rewriting the same old dogmatic code. Top management made interns, product managers, administrators, helpers (I'm SERIOUS) etc. learn purescript. But did they really learn? NOPE. Most of my teammates had no idea about function programming, so they just memorised cheat sheets of the language, they didn't bother about what's really happening, they just got the work done and bootlick PMs to show they had really learnt the language. The ground reality is none of the employees here have any idea about the functional programming languages including the top devs, they have just abstracted out a couple of things with the help of freelancers. They think really too much of themselves as they call most of the top companies foolish. The trend in the world is towards diversification (microservices) while we are trying to be monolithic by unifying random things together. "Never say NO" CEO/Top-Management is always looking for people who are excited to solve problems but there is a catch, you have to agree with whatever he says. If you say no, he will quickly drop you off his list. But guys here are boot licking prone, they will always say YES even if they have no idea about it. "Want the job or increment ?" Well, you can get it easily. You do not have to work on all the weekdays. Just stay back late during few weekdays and come to office on weekends even if you don't have any work. The top management will recognise you as their hard-working employee and do the needful. JUST DO THE BOOT LICKING JOB! "World class developers" Only a few good developers are left in the company (who are mostly planning to leave) and the rest have already left. Most of these guys have really bad attitude and a very little knowledge of anything. Unfortunately, interns are getting influenced by this. The worst practices carried out by the top devs are being followed by interns as the best practices. Be it Architecture, GIT, Code, etc. "World-class HR" Probably one of the worst thing about the company. They hired at least 20-30 interns randomly after I joined. There were no running projects back then, so the new interns were idling the whole day. The sad part was they could not find any project even after 4 months into their internship. In the end, interns had to suffer, most of them never got any reply about conversion. They just feel interns are like a cheap replacement for full times, with no skill. "Unhealthy Top Management" There is a very unhealthy feud between CEO and CTO. All of the technical decisions are taken up by the CEO, CTO is just a namesake placeholder in the company. There were several occasions of a noticeable feud between them. Whenever he tries talking something sensible during Juspay talks, he was cut off by CEO in a very rude manner. They really need to start level playing field. "Do not argue with top devs" There are a set of devs whom the top management carries in their pockets. Do not argue with them, as they will probably read all the hot stuff happening in the hacker news and vomit back at you during the discussions even if it is irrelevant. These are the guys responsible for the bad tech/engineering here. If you ask them about anything, they will have an idiomatic answer. "Skewed Culture/Diversity" It really was work only culture and very boring office. There is very high bias towards language and region of Tamil Nadu as 80% of the employees are from Tamil Nadu.