Pros
If you want to experience a typical Indian startup ecosystem, go for this:- - Mentality of think today, develop tomorrow, deliver a day after that. - The leave policy is mostly based on understanding b/w management and developer, there is no employee portal as such. - Focus on the output, not really on optimum way to deliver that output. - Keeps you on your toes all the time. - Some mental pressure. - Mostly no company politics.
Cons
- Doesn't really honour employment agreement - no appraisals, esop, etc - More focus on saving money than earning money: As developers we tend to work with number of tools that help us build the product better. They would always prefer to have a free service instead of a paid one, even at the cost of bad developer experience. With times things like these take toll on you. - Due to the mentality of "think today, develop tomorrow, deliver a day after that", not much time is actually given to "think" part. Due to this, during development phase itself, the "think" part intervenes again and again with new set of requirements that sometime result in a complete re-write of the code again, basically frustrating the developer. - The job is more or less 24x7. They just want their employee's to be busy, doesn't matter what they are doing. - You won't know, what's happening with the product you worked on. If the response is great, good or bad. You will have no idea. They won't even tell you when a colleague leaves the company. You can just guess. What business works, if there is no transparency on even such basic things within a company.