I can see some companies like Byjus or Unacademy taking a note from this. 🤣  https://www.ndtv.com/worldnews/employeeclaimscompanyrelocatedtoremotemountainareatoforceemployeestoquit4879411/amp/1

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I can see some companies like Byjus or Unacademy taking a note from this. 🤣

https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/employee-claims-company-relocated-to-remote-mountain-area-to-force-employees-to-quit-4879411/amp/1

A Chinese company relocates to a remote mountain to force employees to quit

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A Chinese company relocates to a remote mountain to force employees to quit- Grapevine

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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.

Unacademy is synonymous to Toxicity

Many companies laying off employees while they're hiring parallely, if you know any such companies please share there name....so we don't end up joining such confusing workplace......

Hiring and firing parallely

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Share your employer toxic trait/policy.

I'll go first 👇🏻

- My employer hired me when it was Fully WFH, now they force me to join office after 8 months of joining.
- Attend 5 days/week
- No hybrid
- Biometric system to track attendance 
- Complete 180 hours in a month or pay cut
- No relocation support
- Less appraisal (~5%) citing market conditions.
- Removed unlimited leaves just a few days below announcing WFO.

FYI: I was named best employee for 2023 Q1

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I have been hearing from multiple friends across organizations in India. Lay offs are not in news but happening silently across boards. Companies are on cost cutting mode. Interesting year ahead

Silent layoffs happenings across organizations

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Standard stupid Indian HRs. Asking to share screen and resign. If you don't resign threatening to withhold the experience letter etc. 

Yaay to our labour laws!!

Persistent Systems forcing employees to resign

- Byju's, once valued at $22 billion, faces insolvency proceedings, likely forcing thousands of employees to quit and shutting down services.
- The company, backed by investors like Prosus and General Atlantic, has faced job cuts, valuation collapse, and investor disputes over corporate governance.
- An Indian tribunal triggered insolvency after a $19 million payment dispute with the cricket board, freezing Byju's assets and suspending its board.
- Vendors may default, leading to a total shutdown of Byju's online platforms, according to CEO Byju Raveendran's court appeal.
- Byju's, with 27,000 employees, became popular during the pandemic for online courses and in-person coaching; the court will hear the case on Monday. 

 Source: Reuters

Insolvency Proceedings Will Force Thousands Of Employees To Quit: BYJU’S CEO

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All those influenza bhaiya/didis will start doing this for content. 


https://www.timesnownews.com/viral/viral-video-pune-man-celebrates-last-day-at-toxic-job-with-dhols-outside-office-article-109599824

New ‘Exit’ Trend 😂

Product Manager

Since I’ve been working under a crappy management just wanted to know what others are going through as well. 

My manager takes a PL off my account everyday since I’m on notice period in the hopes this will convince me to rescind my registration and work under her 💀

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Amazon is asking voluntarily resignations from its employees.

Amazon internal layoffs

A company called loop health started allowing remote work and hiring in early 2022 soon after receiving $25 million dollars investment. 
Founders are a great pair in the initial but as soon after investment of series A , difference broke out and one of the co-founders left the company in the name of sabbatical from backdoor out. He was visionary and had great product sense which the CEO got jealous of and stopped him at all the cost of investors recognising him. Anyway now the real unhealthy thing is not this story but due to this product the scope got messed up and customers started complaining and renewals badly hit to 60-80%. The competitor got them easily , one of the sales people said on call at a loop that loop company customers are easy to catch for competitors.
Now the real story is, the CEO wanted only the Pune office to survive and all remote employees to leave so he did a little magic ✨. Instead of laying off people, strategically not compensating anyone started layoff from the beginning of the 2023 this year by asking each outsider to resign and leave. The strategy was simple, 
Find weakness and make them accept simple mistakes as well and ask them to resign. At the same time, hire contractors at Pune to join and work. If any employee is strong or doesn't want to leave then make them contract employees and expect work in the same way.
This is not at all acceptable and the CEO is not alone on this. CEO, CTO , CPO involved plan. 
The problem with this approach is unfair practices, if someone makes a mistake they won't give any PIP plan. They just fire them in easy  ways to resign. CEO proudly says he wants great tennis 🎾 team but infact ceo is just a ball boy.

Loop is unhealthy!

Data engineer

I'll go first. 

Narcissistic AF, named a whole product after his name!

Awkward things about Byju's. Let's do a thread!

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Zepto Tea

Microsoft and Meta vacate offices as they opt for WFH and layoffs 

https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/why-meta-microsoft-vacating-their-offices-in-us-3694309/amp/1

Facebook parent Meta and Microsoft are separately vacating office buildings in Seattle and Bellevue in Washington -in the latest sign of change in the tech sector and softness in the office market here - according to the Seattle Times.

Meta, Microsoft Vacate Offices In US Over WFH, Massive Layoffs: Report

Meta and Microsoft vacate offices

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"BYJU’S grew considerably since our first investment in 2018, but, over time, its reporting and governance structures did not evolve sufficiently for a company of that scale. Despite repeated efforts from our Director, executive leadership at BYJU’S regularly disregarded advice and recommendations relating to strategic, operational, legal, and corporate governance matters. The decision for our Director to step down from the BYJU’S Board was taken after it became clear that he was unable to fulfil his fiduciary duty to serve the long-term interests of the Company and its stakeholders."

https://techcrunch.com/2023/07/24/prosus-questions-byjus-governance-says-indian-edtech-regularly-disregarded-advice/?tpcc=tcplustwitter

This is major - Prosus just publically said that BYJU's had improper governance and failed to improve despite their recommendations

Investment Associate

Feedback letter from employee to Founders, CEO & CTO

Heartwarming message from ex-Byjus employee to founders.

As per internal company sources: This is big like 500+, lots of folks cut in platform teams, brand teams, marketing teams, business teams, product and tech. Wish everyone there all the best. This shall too pass!

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