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Cons
I once read the statement, “You don't leave the company, you leave the manager.” This is entirely true if your manager is Puga Sankara. PLEASE DO NOT WORK HERE!! I strongly advise against working here. The manager lacks basic skills in interacting with employees and treating them as human beings. Working under Puga Sankara has been nothing but a nightmare, not only for me but for every past and current employee. LACK OF BASIC SENSE: A manager should guide employees forward in projects through experience and brainstorming sessions. However, when approached, Puga Sankara often says, “C'mon man, you have done your masters, you should already know this.” Despite this, he doesn't mind forcing his master's qualified employees to run errands like picking up and shipping packages from UPS stores or Amazon lockers, calling it an added responsibility because it's a startup. He has made employees pay for shipping company packages out of pocket including myself, only to delay reimbursements for 3-4 months, even after multiple submissions of expense reports. EMPLOYEES SUFFERING: The company has had employees not being paid salary for 15 days after the due date because the boss was out of country without internet access and later blaming it on the HR who does not even work in the company anymore plus no compensation or even an apology for the mistake was provided to the employee. Almost all employees have had to face the problem of picking packages and walking to UPS store to ship it and delayed reimbursement for the shipments. HIS OWN WILL: Puga Sankara forces employees to sign an employee handbook that contains incorrect information. When employees inquire about something mentioned in the handbook, he responds with, “I am making changes to these, so this won’t be applicable now.” He invents policies on the spot and does not document them anywhere but asks employees where they documented their requests for help from the company or him. He has a tendency to forget everything that is asked from him but will say “you never asked me this. Show me the proof”. And when the proof is shown he starts blaming it on other employees. NOT APPROACHABLE AT ALL: There is no fixed policy on performance reviews and no documentation on how the employee is performing or how to improve in the future. When I approached him about performance evaluation and appraisal after completing one year, he avoided the topic for two months, repeatedly rescheduling the meeting at the last minute due to personal errands like changing tires, extending car license registration, and many more. He acts as if his car is more important than his employees' career and work environment . All employees during my time at SG worked hard to grow the company, improve revenue, and take good care of the customers. However, when we approached Puga Sankara with a customer or employee facing a problem, his response was, “I am the leader of this company, and you will do as I say or else you can leave the company.” HE IS THE PROBLEM, NOT THE COMPANY: Puga Sankara should understand that feedback is a two-way street. While his employees reflect on the feedback provided by the employer, he remains stubborn as a kid and refuses to improve his ways of working, even if it negatively impacts the company. All employees ensure that responses to any request, within or outside the company, are provided within the SLA time frame. However, Puga Sankara never responds on time to his employees but expects them to work at full capacity without the necessary approvals and tools. “C'mon man, do I have to babysit you every time an employee asks for something?” All 1 star reviews in the past are true. Everytime a bad review is posted he asks his current employees to post a good review as a part of performance review. No employee in the past has had any complaints with respect to the work but only the CEO Puga Sankara himself. Puga Sankara needs to understand that this review is a testament of his character and not the company. Everything he does cannot be justified by saying its a Start Up. “If its not for you its not for you.” Working on being humane to others has nothing to do with working at Start up. Humanity is a trait you need to develop towards your employees. P.S: the GLADIATOR himself will respond to this review. LOL.