Shankar Chorika worked at Kissht -- a fintech company operating two consumer lending products, Kissht and Ring -- for over a year. The experience left them with one clear message for freshers and job seekers: stay away.
The official work hours are 9:30 AM to 6:30 PM. In practice, employees are routinely expected to stay until 8 PM or later. No overtime pay. No acknowledgement. Just the expectation that you will comply.
The workload does not stay within a single product either. Once an employee finishes their assigned work for one brand, they are pushed to handle the other brand's responsibilities. Two products. One salary. No additional compensation.
Then there are the salary discrepancies. Every single month, ₹1500 to ₹2000 missing from the paycheck. HR and management offer the same assurance each time: it will be adjusted. It never is. The promise repeats. The shortfall repeats.
When employees raise concerns, they are ignored. Not redirected. Not managed carefully. Ignored. HR, team leads, and managers all fall silent. There is no functioning grievance process. The issues compound quietly, month after month, until the employee burns out or gives up.
Chorika shared this publicly to give other people the information they needed before walking through those doors. The advice was straightforward: even if you have to struggle longer for the right opportunity, do not join workplaces that do not value or respect the people inside them.
Unpaid overtime, recurring salary errors, and management indifference are not minor HR issues. They are patterns. When they persist for over a year without resolution, they are a policy.
Kissht and Ring are consumer-facing brands that market themselves as modern fintech. The people building those products deserve to be paid correctly, to leave on time, and to have their complaints taken seriously. That is not a high bar. It is the minimum.