Your Experience Will Vary Drastically Depending on Things You Can't Control - Director Optym Employee Review

You'll see very positive and very negative reviews for Optym on Glassdoor, and if you're wondering how the reviews could be so polar opposite, it's because your employment experience is going to depend on which office you work in, which team you work on, and how well you deal with rampant nepotism, shortsighted decision-making, and constantly changing priorities. Some basic keys to success? 1.) Be male, 2.) be Indian, 3.) be related to the CEO. It also helps if you're a software developer, because if you're in HR, IT, service, or sales, you'll sit by while the developers (or teams led by the CEO's relatives) get all the headcount and budget resources. You'll be given goals that are predicated upon having specific resources, and you're still on the hook for them when the resources don't materialize. The culture sits somewhere between nonexistent and toxic, and when morale is low, the CEO blames it on the employees. There is zero management - if a team or process is underperforming, the answer is to scrap everything and start over. Decisions are knee-jerk and poorly thought through, business plans are half-baked, people are hired/fired based on whims, and projects launch with great excitement but zero market research, and end up fizzling out in the end. Optym is probably a good place to work if this is your first job, but if you have any experience, ideas, or best practices to share, you will be super frustrated here. And if you're already employed somewhere, definitely don't leave a good job for Optym's empty promises of "doubling your salary" through profit sharing, and definitely don't recruit your friends to follow you here - you will regret it. And if you're joining in the U.S., beware. The current philosophy is that everything can be done cheaper in India, so your job may not be as secure as you think.