Indix Reviews

3.6

63% would recommend to a friend

(31 total reviews)

Sanjay Parthasarathy

81% approve of CEO

50% positive business outlook

Indix has an employee rating of 3.6 out of 5 stars, based on 31 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Indix employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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31 reviews
1.0
13 Sept 2015

One bad apple.

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

3/4 of the founders are really smart, honest and good at heart. They are extremely accomplished and they have a great vision. They work very hard to to build a great company. They take the time and put in the effort to nurture people. I cannot think of better people to work for.

Cons

There is one co-founder, the so-called "technical" co-founder who lacks the required level of in-depth knowledge. He follows buzz words and fads, introduces unnecessary complexity, over-engineers, takes really bad decisions, and builds unstable, unmaintainable solutions. The team is put under enormous pressure due to all of this. And when things fail, this co-founder identifies a scapegoat. The scapegoat and the most vocal members who protest the situation are showed the door. This has happened over and over again. I hope this company never fails, but if it does it will be because of this person. The following quote from Game of Thrones really hits the mark, "We've had vicious kings and we've had idiot kings, but l don't know if we've ever been cursed with a vicious idiot for a king."

2.0
2 Oct 2015
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

-- After multiple incidents of work-life imbalance brought out, the company now considers weekends as holidays. -- The product space is really good and challenging. A must attempt problem definition for Machine Learning folks. -- Free beer on fridays.

Cons

-- Little heed is paid to what a product is and what it takes to get to a good one. -- Engineering is considered fantasy story-writing. -- Openness to various programming languages is constrained to Scala(the most heard 2 syllables around the place), Ruby(as code is documentation) and... not Python(isn't it just a vicious snake?). -- Rewriting entire platforms, here, is considered a favour to the society; but then, have you seen any open-sourced project from here? -- We're shaping people's thought-processes and not a product. -- The expertise of any technology is limited to the first 2 pages of the documentation. Book/paper reading is pursued by a few who are cast away by the rest. Philosophy about any technology is developed in-house. -- The interview process ends up being a selling platform for the company, which is followed by not so happy treatment when the candidates actually join. -- Apart from the last few, there wasn't an EXIT interview which didn't create a rumpus across the office. -- And did I mention favoritism?

1.0
21 May 2016

They are lost

Recommend
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Pros

Great CEO Great people to work with Nice office Culture

Cons

- Don't know what the product is. Decided to accumulate a bunch of garbage data and sell it to any idiot who will buy. - Freshers who have not learnt much about software engineering in college and did not get into thoughtworks - join here, learn as much as possible asap - then get out - Experienced coders stay away - Loud mouths will be rewarded

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Indix Response
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I'm glad you like the culture and the team. Re Figure out what to build - We've gone through a major transition over the last 6 months, from being a SaaS company to a Data-as-a-Service company. Our vision hasn't changed - we're still aiming to be everything about products - but the path we're taking to get there is different. By focusing on the data and algorithms (vs the end user apps), we're able to make faster progress towards our vision. Re Look into lean data than big data – Our most popular use case is ‘search & identify’. For that use case, it’s important to have scale. For example, if a customer wants to identify a product that has been discontinued, then it needs to be in our system. In our SaaS app, we could limit the number of products to those that were ‘fresh’ and most relevant. In the DaaS model, we do have to make use of every product in the system. This scale also has advantages because it allows us to improve our learning models. Finally, with big data and better/more algorithms we can deliver both scale and quality. Re Please solve for a problem – With the shift to DaaS we are solving for 3 major use cases – Search & Identify, Analytics and Enterprise Catalog. This is based on customer requests and sales traction. Re Experienced Coders – I believe that we are tackling some of the hardest problems in distributed systems, real time streaming, machine learning and analytics - at scale. There are very few companies in the world where you can get this breadth of experience, even as an experienced coder. And I’ll hazard a guess that Indix is one of the few places in India for this type of experience. Hopefully, we can make sure that everyone gets a chance to work on the hard problems.
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