Here’s the thing: since it happens to be a product-based company, just like Amazon, or Google, people are willing to swallow their pride and take a few beatings. Honestly, I’d do the same.

Well, if people are willing to work at a toxic place like Amazon India (I’m not making this up, just check Leetcode discussions), which is infested with a very aggressive PIP (performance improvement program), tribalism, casteism, and micro-managing managers, they would prefer a small, young team at Zoho any day.

This is why young people in India are going the startup route, because people aren’t filled with prejudiced crap in their head. Zoho is probably a unicorn, but my points still hold validity for the same.

Now, how they’ll choose between the both of them depends on compromise of either work culture, salary or good WLB. Amazon has good salary, but everything else sucks. Zoho has a slightly lower salary, but everything else is amazing. But from what I’ve heard, the only cons that is stressed a lot is the bad location choice at Hyderabad.

I think that by now, you’re probably confused about why Zoho is called a product-based company while they offer services, and why CHWTIA as service-based, right? Because Zoho, just like Google or Amazon, makes in-house software products. The other one accepts outsourced contracts, steals most of the wage for themselves and pays their devs garbage salary.