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by meowww

Stealth

4 months ago

My CEO is Micro Managing Engineers 😡

Hi, I am working in a early stage startup and our CEO has established the culture of transparency where he shares every update regarding company funding, customer sales, revenue and answers all questions within company but one thing that has been bugging me is his micromanaging. He has integrated a bot in slack which ask for what did you do yesterday ? and what are you going to do today ? , Everyday He also managed a spreadsheet of our tasks and takes the exact estimate in days makes a calendar view there and keeps asking up to update on our tasks progress in multiple meetings or on chat. I didn't had such experience in prior companies but he mentioned, such things were being followed in NyKa, DineOut, etc as well Does the well known companies like Phonepe, Uber, Zomato, google, amazon, Microsoft, De shaw, sprinklr follow this as well ? I just wanna check, is he doing too much or it this a standard in Indian companies ? Thanks to all whoever reply to this post, please share your current & past experience.

ShinChanStan

Atlassian

4 months ago

Sounds like a daily standup update just in written format. Or am I missing something?

meowww

Stealth

4 months ago

Yeah, it's that only. does Microsoft also ask it's employees to fill this on daily basis ?

TigBitties

Paytm

4 months ago

Yeah, much better than standup in my opinion.

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Kamlesh

Stealth

4 months ago

This isn't micro management. He isn't telling you how to do your job. He's paying you a salary to work, the least he can expect is you to hit your deadlines. Not every reporting or question is micro management you idiot. Have you ever hired someone then not asked them how long it would take them to do something? 😒

meowww

Stealth

4 months ago

Yeah, estimates are fine. We also meet deadline but is it not too much where he is expecting us to fill the what have we done yesterday and what are we going to do today on daily basis ?

Kamlesh

Stealth

4 months ago

No, it is not too much. Managers usually take care of these things, he's probably doing their job on his own to make sure things stay on track. Again, try hiring someone and not asking them what they did/are doing. Most employees suck at keeping themselves accountable and on schedule.

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Peepee

velocity.in

4 months ago

Bhai kal kya kara aaj kya kara batane me kya dikkat hai agar kara hai toh. Jo kara hai likhde, Same happens in my company, Bot integrated into slack. It’s pretty simple and makes standups easier to manage for managers. ( I am a IC btw )

SecretSub33

Startup

4 months ago

Op what you mentioned is not micromanagement. He is just asking for daily work status and time estimates are needed else how will they know time required to ship the feature. Also regarding updates, ceo will need those as he has to keep track of all the tasks going on in the company. This is standard everywhere and not just India.

geekyGeek

Series A Startup

4 months ago

Read about scrum mate, I don't think anything is wrong with what he is doing. Seems like your Engg lead is not strong or you guys have no Engg leads, hence the CEO is doing it. Usually CEOs take updates from Engg leads rather than individual enggs, in a small setup, this is how you can do

meowww

Stealth

4 months ago

Yeah, we don't have eng leads.. it's pretty early stage startup.

geekyGeek

Series A Startup

4 months ago

that explains! If I was the CEO I would do the same

Bogo

New Startup

4 months ago

Seems pretty standard. Daily standup meetings are a standard practice in most companies. Atleast you just have to write your daily update instead of wasting time on a call. This isn’t micro management

Disruptor

Freelancer

4 months ago

Bot is fine but if he is asking in every meeting in a day then its not good leadership. No, many companies or startups don’t follow that. Also deadline culture is not present in modern startups.

RockLee

Stealth

4 months ago

Don’t know seems okay to me

shadowdotpng

Stealth

4 months ago

This is a very basic thing and it is not micro management, it is to track the deadlines and performances. Every company do this scrum thing.

StudentInDilemma

Student

4 months ago

Bhai kam se kam timesheet to nahin bharni padti na. Normal sa standup hain yeh to. You will also feel accountable ki tumne kya kiya kal aur aage kya karna rahe gaya.

Realitycheque

Student

4 months ago

Think of it as not the CEO but your inner conscience asking. You ll be fine.

KhattaAngoorrr

Stealth

4 months ago

This is called standup in most companies. FFS stop having problem on everything. Feels like OP is Gen Z.

ConcurrentThinker

Stealth

4 months ago

This is standard practice. I don't see any issues with this.

BareActivity

Microsoft

4 months ago

Such bots are common is all company. I have been doing thin fsingel covid

DarlesChickens

Razorpay

4 months ago

He's an early stage founder and every minute counts hence attentive about all these.

CorporateChodu

PayU

4 months ago

You need to mention the company

deadpm

Stealth

4 months ago

If your company is an early stage startup indeed, and your CEO still manages to run sprints... You probably have a great CEO.

JoffBozos

Accenture

4 months ago

No brother, this is not too much. Just the way of asking for updates is different. In some organizations (usually MNCs) they schedule a 30 minute daily call where you only give a 2 minute update but still have to stay and waste 30 minutes of your time. I'd say that if you're someone who does things as per plan, then this is very beneficial as you can track and record where you're burning time and effort. If not, irrespective of it being a Slack bot or a 30 minute daily standup, you are going to be in trouble in the long run.

GrumpyCat

Nagarro

4 months ago

I believe this is not micro management. But this is a good way of keeping track of everyone's task. Instead of wasting time in meetings you give your status in writing. Which is actually good. And since this is early stage startup, CEO is trying to make sure they don't miss deadlines. For early stage startup time is very crucial. I think CEO is doing a good job of managing and keeping track without wasting everyone's time in meetings.

kuchToGadbadHai

Stealth

4 months ago

we also have daily standup of 20-30 min. where each of the member had to told there previous day progress and what we are going to do today. Although we do not maintain a sheet but we use JIRA for this activity.