Small team. Inside Chennai's busiest mall. Snooker table in the middle. Tea runs twice a day. Founders at the next desk. This is the actual vibe.
Skcript still feels like a small company, because it is. At our Chennai HQ everyone eats at the same food court, sits at the same kind of desk, and argues over the same snooker table. Topics range from the trivial to the technical — and it's not surprising to hear someone say, "I shipped that feature last Thursday, let me walk you through it."
Our commitment to staying lean means every person is a hands-on contributor. There's little in the way of corporate hierarchy and everyone wears several hats. The designer who runs our brand spent a week writing onboarding tooltips. The engineer who built our billing system also argues about type with the marketing team. Because everyone realises they are equally important to Skcript's success, no one hesitates to challenge a founder over a game of carrom.
Our hiring favours taste over credentials. The result is a team that's smaller than you'd expect and sharper than you'd hope. When not at work, Skcripters pursue interests from cycling to film photography, from cricket to cooking. As Skcript grows, it keeps looking for people who share an obsessive commitment to clarity — and having a good time building it.
About the
Skcript HQ.
Our headquarters is inside Chennai's most popular mall. It sounds unusual on paper. In practice it means coffee, food, transit, and every distraction you could want are all one lift ride away. Here are the essential elements that define a Skcript workspace.
- The Address
Our office sits inside the most popular mall in Chennai. Which means lunch is a lift ride, coffee is a hallway, and the nearest metro station is close enough to run to when it's raining.
- The Snooker Table
A full-sized snooker table lives in the middle of it all. Half the architectural decisions at Skcript get argued over a break shot. The other half get settled after the 8-ball drops.
- Food, 24×7
One of the few offices in the country where 3 AM cravings have options. Dosa, biryani, ramen, ice cream, shawarma — somebody downstairs is always open. No one has ever starved writing a deployment fix.
- Daily Tea Runs
Twice a day. Non-negotiable. The entire team walks down for chai. Problems get unstuck between the escalator and the tea stall more often than they do in a meeting room.
- Direct Access to Founders
There's no executive floor. No assistant to route through. The CEO sits at the same type of desk as the intern who joined last Monday. If you have a question, you walk over and ask it.
- Game Time
Console plugged in. Board games in the cabinet. Carrom on the side. If someone's thinking, let them think — sometimes the thinking happens over a round of Mario Kart.
- All Modes of Transport
Metro, MRTS, city bus, share auto, regular auto, cab. The mall is a transit hub by accident. Nobody has ever had a "how do I get to work" problem.
- The Bookshelf
Borges, Tufte, Kahneman, Rand, Iyer, Murakami. Take one home. Bring it back when you're done. Or don't — we keep buying replacements.
- Nearest 24-hour filter coffee
Ground floor. Turn left out of the lift. Follow the smell. It has never closed in the history of our lease.
How we think.
Embraces challenges.
Nobody at Skcript got hired to do easy things. If the problem is already solved, it's not ours to solve. We want the hard one — the one where the answer isn't in a tutorial.
Everyone wears several hats.
The designer ships code. The engineer writes copy. The founders are on support tickets. Titles describe what you spend the most time on — not what you're allowed to do.
Challenge-driven thinking.
We don't start with the stack. We start with the problem. Sometimes the answer is React. Sometimes it's a shell script. Sometimes it's a conversation. The tool follows the thinking.
Long-game players only.
Over a decade bootstrapped. We hire people who can imagine being here in five years — and build accordingly.
Photos,
coming soon.
We're shooting the office this month. Snooker breaks, the tea run, the 3 AM food courts, the view from the window. Come back in a few weeks and this page will be a lot more fun to scroll.
Come by
Or better
— come work.
If any of this sounds like your kind of place, there's a desk near the snooker table with your name on it.