Worst place to work - Technical Lead Photon Employee Review

1.0
Mar 17, 2025
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

On-time salary and working with new technologies

Cons

If you are in a project you are safe but once you are out of the project, you can count your days for forceful resignation. Once you are out of the project, you have to migrate to either bangalore or chennai. If you are not interested in that, they will give you two opportunities to get selected into other projects. No matter how hard you perform you will not be selected. Even a person who does not have any technical skills will interview you and will reject. The PMO team is too worse and HR policies are worst. No job security for employees from day 1 itself. Variable pays and annual appraisals are delayed all the time and after a while you will forget about them until they got credited and you will get less than 90% of your variable pay. If you are on bench before the review, forget your variable pay. Senior management will give you lectures about work life balance but when it comes to practical they will forget about it.

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5.0
May 8, 2026
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Pros

Really good company to work for. Health benefits were great and was able to negotiate a good rate for my contract

Cons

Communication could improve in terms of staying in contact with the contractor. Working with the individual for their next role as the contract is nearing an end would be an area of opportunity as well.

2.0
Apr 27, 2025
Recommend
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Pros

Can be on interesting projects Some really good people If on correct team can be very good conditions such as remote work

Cons

Zero opportunities for growth Limited to no work/life balance No Severance Do not pay when on the bench Wrong team or manager the hr insanity can make it rough (One year they decided july 4th was not a holiday another they decided to lower the salary and increase the percentage that was bonus effectually giving everyone a pay cut).. Honestly a 2 might being generous but i have worked with some nice people there and the vast majority of the people were nice and good just wanting to get the job done . Any 5s are probably fake or the lucky few that do not have to deal with Photon Hr.

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