‘Five months, no full payment’: Engineer claims startup owes him ₹90,000 salary

A startup employee’s Reddit post about unpaid salary has raised questions around early-stage companies and employee rights. A self-described founding engineer claimed he built the company’s entire product as the only developer but was still waiting for months of unpaid dues.Startup employee shares struggle over months of unpaid salary. (Representative Image)The user said he developed the system as a fresher, helped the startup get paying clients, and is now struggling to recover around ₹90,000 in pending salary.The post was shared on Reddit with the title, “Solo founding engineer, built the whole product, still owed ~ ₹90k in salary.”The user wrote that he joined an early-stage startup as its only founding engineer and built the entire system, including a telephony AI agent with an event-driven architecture.”That architecture is a big reason the company has clients at all. 20+ paying ₹10k+/month each, so this isn’t a ‘no money coming in’ situation,” the user claimed.Sharing a timeline of his employment, the engineer said he was paid ₹10,000 during his first month as an intern. However, he claimed the next three months of his internship were unpaid.(Also Read: