Can he be removed? Will team equilibrium be affected?

Need help with the office situation. Our team recently(10 months back) onboarded a new Engineering Manager. Initially he showed some red flags but the team decided to give him some time to settle in the role. Now he is making life hard for junior employees. He doesn’t have enough insights around the product and keeps on fighting with the employees and keeps updating the leaders around the resistance being faced from the team. I am pretty sure he is working on this philosophy that just make old employees helpless enough so that they leave and he gets to be the new king of the team. Currently he struggles to get respect from the current team. Any help around how this situation can be remedied? He has built good repo with the VP and director. The leadership doesn’t seem to care for what’s happening at the ground level. Tried providing feedback via anonymous channels, now the VP is setting up one on ones with each member and just bullying around what’s the problem. If you mention anything then it will be established as your problem otherwise if you don’t share anything, it would be asked why such negative feedback

Was reading a thread where people were saying don't be in shock if Ambani/Reliance starts making move after RBI's action on Paytm. I initially thought it to be a meme. Now I am just curious. Is the system really fair to allow such moves by the rivals after penalising them? Or is the system that rigged to make sure their friends can get all the business to technically get the favors, funds, etc? Any thoughts on this? Whether is it too cruel and unfair that system just can't come into action to stop such moves otherwise how the startups anyway could rival the innovation that happens in the West if our own system anyway is there to cripple in such scenarios or do you think it's all fair in the name of business (you donot follow regulations, you will have to suffer eventually)? PS:- This is just to have a healthy discussion without any biases intended, with no political agenda in mind. I hope you'll keep the discussion healthy and interesting. Picture source:- stocktwits(ig)

I recently started a new job. I would like to share some of the experiences I have had with my manager. I am wondering if these are red flags or if I am maybe being paranoid or thinking too much. It was quite difficult for me to get into this company and this job. The company is quite great and I was quite excited but some of the experiences I have had with my immediate manager have made me a bit apprehensive. I would like to share them and hear opinions about it. Here are some things which have happened which I have not liked so far - 1. I speak to a Senior Engineer one day and next day my manager asks me if anyone asked me to speak to him. 2. I shared an insight about a new tool which we can use on a deployment pipeline on the overall pod (under my skip manager). My manager immediately called me and started asking my status update and replied 'Discussing 1-1' in the group to prevent anyone getting visibility of the idea. 3. My manager pings me whenever I go offline and recently he asked me in a passive aggressive way, 'Please monitor your Teams status. It was away for most of today.' I now feel kind of paranoid to never get up as I feel my Teams status is being monitored.

I have been talking to a few companies, across different size bands. Only Indian startups seem to obsessed with full week WFO/Micromanagement. A few years back, startups were known for being more flexible, now it just seems to be the reverse.

Insight #1: "Build as much pedigree as you can." This means going to the right schools, the right clubs, the right academics and the right extra-curriculars. This also means that you need to get good brands on your resume early and fast. Working in NA, EMEA, Singapore and Australia is typically a plus point. You typically need to go to M7 schools or IIM-BLACKI or ISB to even have a remote shot at getting in. This means great GRE/GMAT scores are a necessity. This also means that you need to really nail your LORs. Finally, you need to have exceptional spikes that changes the way people perceive you and your potential translating into a resume. Insight #2: "They care about optics a lot." The way you look, speak and conduct yourself is probably the biggest thing you can do to improve your odds of getting in. Being at the right places is important. This means if you are already in social circles with Management Consulting folks then some of their habits will rub off on you. This also means that playing Tennis, going to the Gym, going Golfing/Squash/ whatever rich guy sport, the right parties, restaurants and clubs is an underrated advantage. Insight #3: "Prepare for Case Interviews" Case interviews are a crucial part of the consulting recruitment process. Practice solving case studies and seek guidance from mentors or resources to improve your case interview skills. 'Case in Point' is your fucking bible and you need to make sure that you can work your way around guesstimates and reach a conclusive solution in an insight driven manner. Insight #4: "Be prepared to walk away." MBB is not the end of the world and you can out do your peers in terms of Money earned per unit effort spent easily in other fields. So, don't care about what happens. Double down on your Plan B instead. But if you want to travel the world, walk shoulder to shoulder with some of the smartest people in the business then it is not a bad option. Picture: From one of my trips to Bangalore(2023)

A lot of noise inside unacademy around this news. Apparently Gaurav will move aside and let Mrinal Step in and take over as CEO role to help Unacademy grow. This has been confirmed by senior folks from the Unacademy CEO's office team. Edtech space is truly getting hot with each passing day. Official announcement later this week.

Obviously i wouldnt sign the deal anymore Just asking here ,if i should convince him to stay or just wind up everything? Reason for his leaving: We have been struggling for an year & despite now raising a preseed ,he is afraid that the next two years might be with struggle & constant disappointments Should i try to convince him by painting an optimistic picture or should i just accept that he is a redflag & just move on in life Please don't troll, I dont have enough energy to fight trolls today

Two months ago I posted this rant on Grapevine (https://share.gvine.app/CLkpBuEqcCvrzKvx6) which I think is one of the most viral posts on the platform. Since then I took a break, learned Vipassana, went to the mountains, read, and reflected. Here are some truth bombs that have been exploding in my head 1) There is a leadership crisis Is it me or do today's self-proclaimed leaders just suck? Look around Grapevine: insecure toxic managers forcing people back to the office, overhiring CEOs who don't know WTF to do, and founders just abandoning ship. "Leaders" and founders today are about as disconnected from reality as the political class, because like politicians most of them are privileged, sheltered, and already wealthy. 2) Technological innovation doesn't mean progress. I couldn't laugh harder when I saw the Indus Valley report basically saying that maybe all of us VCs overestimated how much money we could make funding lending and consumer apps. Maybe funding lending apps that "open up credit for the poor" isn't sustainable when the rate of interest is >18%? Technological innovation doesn't always mean real-world progress. A lot of times, it just ends up perpetuating and amplifying pre-existing inequality. 3) Endless growth toward nothing Most of India's startup money comes from the West. Most of that money was just printed to repeatedly get out of an economic crisis. That's it. There was no great vision to fund the future of humanity behind all this new capital. Just Central Bankers and Presidents pressing the "Create Money" button to delay the inevitable. Most of us here owe our wealth to Easy Money. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EpMLAQbSYAw PS: A book, that completely flipped my worldview during this time is this: https://www.amazon.in/Debt-First-Years-David-Graeber/dp/0143422715. I urge all fellow foot soldiers of capitalism to read this. Until the next rant, stay sane, safe, and debt-free!

From someone in their tech team, got to know very curious insights. CrickPe is built on Solidity smart contracts that automatically enforce performance bonuses for cricketers. However, the underlying logic is enforced on an ELO based system with log-normal rewards. Essentially, if a cricketer rewards are: Reward = Expected(reward) +- log(performance). Their ELO is similarly adjusted on a match by match basis. Also, Insider reveal is that, VC community is keen on investing and Ashneer is considering raising funds but has made clear that he is willing to liquidate only till he has majority stake in the venture, although aiming at closer to ~75%. Also, they are experimenting with NFTs linked to rewards that give you insider access to pre-game locker room access with your favourite teams, flying you out to international matches abroad, etc. This will also be tradeable in-app. They are apparently looking for Blockchain Devs/interns for that. Finally, the biggest news. They’ve apparently launched a bid to get a fan-experience zone specific to CrickPe in the stadiums during IPL. The plan is to sell these tickets at a higher cost. Fans who watch games from this zone get to play a special variant where the highest scorer is given their reward from the MOTM.