Sexual harrassment, sleeping with the HR, bribes from employees, siphoning of money as drawings every month, paid family vacation on company CC, related party transaction from own company, fake GMV, bullying & abuse. Guess the startup?

I know sometimes we refrain from saying too much about our company. But exes can usually be talked about, since there's not much holding back. Maybe it helps someone else avoid a mistake you did, or gain a new learning :p Shoot.

Link to the previous post: https://grapevine.in/post/72fa61dc-e75c-4824-8259-178755b694c6 I was coerced into putting in my resignation without any severance or notice period. It didn't bode well with the founder when I refused, and he terminated my employment with immediate effect. I haven't received a salary for the last month I worked there. The founder and the team are not responding to any of my calls, emails, and text messages. Any advice on how to navigate this? Contemplating the legal route now.

Yeah bro, Stanford and MIT grads dream of working for shitty Bangalore startups 🤡🤦‍♂️

1. hiring very expensive law firms with kick back.  2. Buying the office space and then hiking the rent to the office around 5x and made money. 3. Fake invoices 4. hiring friends companies for consulting 5. setting up shell companies for hiring 6. Buying Forbes 30 under 30 slots with VC money Make this list more exhaustive. I want to say to these founders : bhai kisko chutiya bana rahe ho... And after all this, they have galls to become Gyan chodeswar on LinkedIn, podcasts etc.

Groyyo startup

I work as a Product manager at a series A well funded startup. This company is run by a solo founder/CEO. This is a wannabe tech and product startup that does not care about their product at all. The internal review meetings get 5 minutes on product and 55 minutes on business and operations on a good day! All they care about is how to run operations and tech just works on automation instead of building the product for the end user. Every OKR cycle runs for two months where OKRs are set for product but we end up building internal tools because things get "re-prioritised" and operations "can not miss targets". The worst part is that the strategy changes every 2 months and every week, the CEO keeps adding new "wants". Almost like a baby seeing shiny new toys. At this stage, the product has become a mess with no identity at all! This baby always says "But is that even do-able" acts critical and tries to seem smart in front of their employees while lying to the investors and board every other week that we are a tech and product company. I don't know if this happens at other startups in India. Would love to hear what y'all have experienced.

First round happened in March. 130-140 engg. Around 40 engg were fired. Then some silent layoffs happened in different teams like hr. Then Few good enggs left the company. This week another round happened with around 20-25 enggs

👆 47 LPA

The company did around 10-15% silent layoffs in the last cycle by putting people in PIP. My Manager told me that he has pressure on him to put at least 1 or 2 people in PIP, make them leave the company and reduce costs. Later, the company did as low an appraisal as 2%. Senior folks are leaving specifically Frontend Developers. Salaries of a lot of SDE-2 are below 30 LPA. They have started new positions called Product Developers which will do the same work as SDEs but with a lesser package. PD-1 salary is around 10-12 lakhs and of Lead PD is 20-22 lakhs. The company is putting itself in a position where it wants people to leave on their own. There are almost zero perks in the company. The team outing budget is a joke which is 2k INR per person per year. That is 500 rupees per person per quarter. Also making office mandatory from November.