ThirdEye Data is an extremely execrable organization to start with. It's a company where I wouldn't even want my foes to work in. During my tenure at ThirdEye, I have come across several illegal practices that happens under the hood, and for which the management is not held accountable by anyone. Who would right? It's a company which has not been able to cross 25 employees in last 10 years! (Does it ring a bell why?). All those articles, all those blogs, all those names that you see in their website, will make you believe that ThirdEye data is the company to work for! The so-called 'myriad' of tech startups in Kolkata. Having worked in ThirdEye for a significantly long enough time, I can tell you, the website is a complete propaganda. It will make you believe Third Eye is the greatest place to work in. But all that is a lie. Let's dig and quickly iterate over key points.
Before moving on to the below points, you should be aware that the company is run by a husband and a wife. The husband is the CEO, the wife is the CTO.
1. Your typical day will start at 9AM and might end up at as late as at 1:00 AM in the night. You will have multiple calls with the so called chief and other team members. Calls will nearly occupy you for most of the time. From 9AM 3-4 hours of internal calls. 5-6 hours of unproductive work. Daily, 24*5, sometimes 24*7. Once the office timing ends (around 7:30PM), you will have client calls scheduled in the evening. Typically it starts at 7:45, and then back to back client calls till late midnight. As late as 1:00 AM. This happens daily. So in short, daily you will have to have approximately 4-5 hours of calls (Skype, Zoom etc). Almost everyday. If you give any excuse, you are humiliated publicly and sometimes you might get fired as well.
2. The person is an extremely unprofessional, unethical and disreputable personality who does not deserve to be in the position of CTO. She has made racist comments against Bengali community in the past. I have a recording of that, if you want. True racist comments for which there are strict rules in the US to be put into jail. She is the one who 'leads' and 'delivers' all the projects (of course miserably). So if you join ThirdEye, you will have to work with her. Daily. 24*7. She treats her employees as slaves and cheap labors. She will ask you to join a sudden (calls are always unplanned and sudden) at 9AM. You will join the call and keep waiting in Zoom for another 30 minutes, because she is having a different discussion with someone else. Not even a basic courtesy. No respect for others' time, right? Extremely narrow minded and she always scrutinizes people in front of other people. She has a habit of talking behind the back of her employees.
3. She will always find ways to humiliate and ridicule people. She will discuss her private family affairs over office calls, which according to me is extremely unprofessional at an organizational level. They call themselves Silicon Valley type work culture driven? I can't believe how delusional they are. She has no understanding of technology and start-ups work in general. A college kid would know more. Her only focus is on creating the best looking power-point presentations to provide the best impression to the clients. So at ThirdEye if you are a software engineer or data engineer or data scientist, more often than not you will spend more time fixing the power-point styles and fonts and tables rather than fine tuning or improving your code.
4. ThirdEye HR, they will call you during the interview process, but they will never tell you that ThirdEye doesn't pay any provident fund to employees. This is a criminal offense in the court of law. I did not know about it earlier. I wouldn't have joined if I was made aware of it.
5. I have seen people getting fired from ThirdEye left and right. Imagine you are not able to join a call on a certain day because of personal work, or you point a finger to the CTOs style of working, you are fired. Imagine you have an online certification exam to pass for which you may ask not to join the call on a particular day, you are fired.
6 The Management will burden you with meaningless work irrelevant to your profile. And you have to do it! I have seen people having a huge mental strain which impacts the body and the mind. Even if you are sick, you will be forced to work. If not, you are fired. Covid? You have to work.
7. Leaves are paltry. Only 14 leaves a year. That too they don't appreciate people taking any leaves. For a 2 day leave, you will have to sanction it 2 months before. Imagine ???!!!
8. If you are serving notice period in ThirdEye, and you post on LinkedIn about the same, the CEO will call you, thrash you left and right, and immediately fire you, without any compensation.
9. In office calls, there are a lot of times when the CTO just starts discussing her personal stuffs (non-work related), and we just have to listen. This is absolutely crazy. She will never schedule a meeting from before. She always calls people unplanned and uninformed. You have to take the one hour call even if you have to skip your lunch for it.
10. Things which should take ideally 1 day to complete takes a week. Why? Because there are no proper tech leads and tech architects to drive the business.
11. There is absolutely no job security in ThirdEye. For personal differences, the management will fire you without even a days notice. There are many cases like this, that I have personally witnessed.
12. The CEO also forces his certain employees to post good reviews in Glassdoor. If you look at the pattern of the positive reviews, they are mostly one liners. Simple copy paste. Whereas if you have looked at the negative reviews for ThirdEye, most of them are in depth and in detail.
In short, if you work at ThirdEye, you will be nothing more than just a slave. It doesn't matter how much experience you have. If a true investigation committee is set-up and their finances are cross-checked with a proper team from the Income Tax department, this company will immediately cease to exist. ThirdEye is not only a major insult to the tech world, but it's also an insult to humanity. The most unethical company, the most unprofessional company, the most fraud company.
