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Unacademy is synonymous to Toxicity

We all have heard about the toxic culture of Edtech. Unacademy is now in the top spot when it comes to companies with toxic culture. Any company cannot be more cruel than this: 1. Abusive language by leaders - COO, CBOs, SVP, VP and other leaders treat employees as slaves. They themselves have made huge lossess and are burning investors money but when any employee voice out their opinion/asks for leaves, the leaders abuse employees badly even in front of other stakeholders. 2. Forceful long working hours - Even if you complete your work in 8-9 hours, you are forced to sit for 11-12 hours just to show the founders. People hardly work after certain hours but they just have to sit and waste their time. This is tiring and there is no work life balance. No time to spend with family. I hardly get chance to spen time with child. 3. Late night reviews - So the company has started this new way of conducting monthly reviews late in the night. People are asked to sit till 2-3 AM for reviews. And this review is nothing but a setup where COO abuses the employees. 4. Forced paycuts - We have seen a forced paycut for the leaders (VP, SVP, Directors etc). 'No appraisal' was still somehow digestable but how can a company justify the degrowth in the earnings of their employees. Company has money to sponsor TVF web series (Sandeep Bhaiya), invite Standup comedians (Biswa and Prashasti), distribute pizzas to all the employees but when someone voices out for paycuts, they don't have money. 5. No Flexibility In Working The company witnessed its highest growth and revenue when 100% of the employees were working from home but now the founders think that people do not work from home so they have called everyone to work from office for 6 days a week. If someone asks for a work from home, the leaders denies or ask to apply leave to work from home. Be it rains, election, etc - we are asked to work from office. Even during the day of election in Karnataka we were called in the office.

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Copium69

Blend

a year ago

The last point that you mentioned is wrong, 100% growth didn’t happen because of WFH, but because of what forced WFH in the first place also forced online education
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dataninja

Unnamed

a year ago

Got a call a couple of days back for an interview. The moment the recruiter mentioned 6 days working and from the office all I could see were red flags. I said a straight no. Clearly mentioned that WLB is important for me and I don't work at the cost of my mental health. The woman was speechless. That was fun to see!
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Badbunny

Stealth

a year ago

Good
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DingDong

Razorpay

a year ago

Unable to find unacademy's so called lovers who come and protect the CEO & the brand on this forum. Where are you iWriteCode. 🤣🤣🤣
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Pussydestroyer69

Stealth

a year ago

🤣
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DingDong

Razorpay

a year ago

Unacademy is the birthplace of toxicity and nepotism. Both the founders are redundant and should be kicked out ASAP
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Chiller

Stealth

a year ago

Yeah with the single digit equity stake they have, they are few successive quarters of low perf away from being kicked out or worse being bored and jumping onto something else
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WetMiracle

Cred

a year ago

How can they do monthly reviews at 2am?! Why do people even join that?
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quirkypants

Fintechlending

a year ago

Because it’s held by the COO. Business people have it the worst.
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DarkerKnight

Stealth

a year ago

If this is true, it'll have the same fate as BYJU's. These companies are deemed to fail sooner than later.
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Qwerty2398

Stealth

a year ago

Feel sorry for the employees. I can remember this feeling. Stuck in a place where you can't sit and fear that without a job might be worse so you can't quit.
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SingleHat20

Upgrad

a year ago

Relevel-Next level- No level
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Shitposter

Stealth

a year ago

Man after reading all this i feel relaxed that even though my ctc is kinda low i have a good wlb and mental health is not fucked.
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Tholaram

Stealth

a year ago

What dark sh*t is this?.. no wonder Indian companies be they big or small, are toxic
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Watsay49

Stealth

a year ago

Good you brought these up. Better leave.
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Qwertyu

Freshers and Interns

a year ago

I feel you bruh!
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