Think 1000 times before joining naukri.com especially jobseeker team... My experience below:
I joined Naukri.com (Info Edge) with genuine excitement, thinking it would be a solid place to grow. I had no idea what I was walking into.
From my experience, it felt like instead of a “great place to work” to " 'NOT A' great workplace to work". Every day brought a new level of unnecessary stress. A lot of the pressure came from constant “urgent” asks that didn’t even make sense half the time. It made me seriously question how this kind of culture becomes normal.
I was the part of the Jobseeker team, and if you’ve been there, you probably already know where this is going. On the surface, everything looks calm, polite, even supportive. But once you’re in it, you start noticing the pattern—constant pressure, endless escalations (pointless), micromanagement that makes even simple tasks feel heavy and most important if you are a capable person and not ready for always "yes sir/mam" attitude then your life will become hell .
There’s a very specific leadership style at play here. Very soft-spoken in general but very toxic in execution. Instead of supporting the team, it feels like leadership is always looking for an opportunity to corner people and they’re just waiting for the smallest slip-up to put you under pressure.
There is a pattern: urgency without clarity, pressure without direction and then pointless blame game. A lot of noise, very little meaningful input. You’d expect someone (EVP-Engineering) at that level to bring vision or solutions, but almost everytime time it just felt like the same stress being passed down the chain and be ready to get "MENTALLY HARASSED" bcz that is what this EVP could do , other than this no other skills 😅.
It’s frustrating to see a EVP person with this level of responsibility reduced to politics and top-down pressure instead of actual technical/visionary direction and have no inputs/point of views just good for nothing. Same responsibilities can be easily done by any no-tech "hotel manager" who just need to pressurize down hierarchy, create situation chaotic , play smart games and obviously a brown-noser just to stay on the boss’s good side.
Every single person has this question in mind “ How this person could become an EVP ? “ — This shows how weak leadership is in naukri.com.
As once Sanjeev Bikhchandani rightly said, “people don’t leave jobs because of money, they leave because of managers.” In my experience, that line hits very hard here. A lot of people in the Jobseeker team seem to share similar sentiments—feeling mentally drained, politically played around in day-to-day work, and lacking real support when it’s actually needed.
And on top of that, it often feels like there’s very limited real escalation path—concerns don’t really move up, whether it’s to HR or higher leadership, at least not in a way that leads to visible change.
You’d expect clarity, guidance, maybe even some real problem-solving from leadership. Instead, it often feels like pressure just gets passed down the chain, and ultimately getting harassed. After a point, you’re not even surprised anymore—just tired.
It stops feeling like a job and starts feeling like daily mental fatigue.
And yes people here are leaving because of all this...