🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️ 
 It’s a slap on our entire startup fraternity! 
 The worse part is that these people are not been trying to be innovative. 
 Still stuck in 2013-14 era, build any crap , show some growth and get some extended runway.

For a long time I suspect these are done to get an EB5 visa.  Don't kknow for sure, wish somebody would confirm my suspicions.

Consultant

I would say otherwise. If that was badly needed, all GM had to do was hire 10 employees in the US to run their USMLE division. Easier way out.

Product Designer

Product Manager

Don't tell that to Hardik Pandya else there will be one more Twitter thread

Growth Manager

Senior Data Engineer

Private Equity

Associate Product Manager

Yes.. bringing tuition culture to the US. They exported all shit culture to other countries. It's time we export some of our shit.

Software Developer

Software Engineer

Please I use Duolingo and it's damn good not this scam. Bro I'm telling in general majority normie salary crowd copies stuff because they don't think out of the box for things..they always adjust so that knack for creativity isn't there...they don't challenge a constraint. We are hardworking 200% and meticulous and make the best of what we have, but we are not innovative since our education system wants workers and not innovators.

Analyst 

Reminds me of tech YouTube videos . “Here’s how I built a Netflix/twitter/Insta clone “

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Another copycat product from the house of Unacademy 😂

Program Manager

Another copycat product from the house of Unacademy 😂- Grapevine

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Wonder how at this stage investors are okay with them building new clone products from scratch

Unacademy’s Duolingo is now live

Analyst

I'm tired of people calling everything in edtech a scam, of course the companies don't help themselves by their bs marketing and unattainable placement claims and other bullshit

But I'm genuinely curious as to what grapers/ grapies / viners find to be not a scam in edtech ?

If everything in edtech is a scam, what is not ?

Computer Operator

Very thoughtful

Unacademy has just laid off the entire team of NextLevel and will be shutting the business. 

It is interesting to note that Relevel underwent a major pivot after failure and was rebranded to NextLevel. Gaurav apparently blindly wrote how this product will take on LinkedIn and make CV's redundant. 

Guess another unacademy experiment has failed but several employees are facing the brunt of the CEO's immature experimental nature.

Unacademy layoffs have begun 🤡

Link: https://inc42.com/buzz/unacademy-fires-another-250-employees-to-turn-profitable/

Unacademy fires 250 employees to 'turn profitable'

Pathetic. How many times these so called another layoff?  
 This is pure scam. Such kind of CEOs and CTOs have no right to be at such higher places. These id*ots come to media and give lectures also. There should be some laws in place for layoffs. These People wake up and do layoff. Some get funding and then do layoff and some vice versa. Some fire and then again post about hiring next month shamelessly. It's like a fashion for the. Layoff is no more a last resort these days.  
 These kind of companies will surely go down the drain.  
 CEOs and higher management should be made to disclose their salary and perks so that junior employees should also know how much salary difference is there and is there really a need for cost cutting.  
 Of not, we should atleast stop respecting/ideologise such people. If possible stop using/promoting their products as well. Treat them the way they treat employees.

Operations Manager

or is this ZIRP era salary about to vanish soon. 💀

Do people really use Unacademy?

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Was interviewing at one of the acquisitions of a major edtech player for a design role in Bangalore roughly 2 years ago.

🚩 Didn't share agreement on email unless I came to office for a day's worth of work (after completing interview assignment).

🚩 Exit clause in agreement mentioned company can terminate contract any time with a few days notice, no provision for me ending contract (never in my life did I see such a one-sided contract).

🚩 Was asked to reuse free resources available online to repurpose content for them (why fucking raise funds if that's all you want to do).

🚩 Overheard - "Who cares about quality, just bring in teachers who are influencers that can bring more students behind them". Boiled my blood.

🚩 Was tweeting all of this in a discussion about edtech on some thread without naming the company. Got asked to chat with founder's office guy while I was leaving at the end of day. They either stalked my socials or somehow came across my tweets and wanted me to bring my concerns to seniors instead of sharing them publicly. Excuses that were given - "We are a growing company, not everyone here is on our payroll, there's a mismatch in our teams internally, will take time to fix" etc etc.

"You seem very passionate about education, you know how bad it is in India and we're trying our best to make a dent". Balls making a dent. I was even more furious by the time he was done talking.

Politely asked me to delete the tweets (which I later did because I believe in second chances and not burning bridges).

Did not sign agreement or return to work. Came to know later of more toxic stories coming out of edtech companies.

Avoid edtech in India like the plague if you're still considering applying anywhere, this shit is not worth any amount of money. They are literally destroying our future and care more about their investors and VCs rather than their students or even the larger startup ecosystem.

I hope these shitshows shut down soon.

Indian Edtech is a dumpster fire

Generalist

https://entrackr.com/2024/06/exclusive-unacademy-in-talks-to-merge-with-orchid-schools-owner-k12-techno/

Big: Unacademy merging with Orchid Schools in a 50-50 merger

After fooling countless customers, investors, loan partners, byjus employees are now all set to destroy what little is left to Unacademy.
Unacademy is now frantically hiring people from BYJUs across all levels and verticals. With BYJUs employees employment stood on the base of false promises and unethical sales, it is just a matter of time, Unacademy will become the new BYJUs.

With the company’s product first approach and the apprehension towards aggressive selling, it is disheartening to see the new fondness towards BYJUs.

Uncademy the new Victim to BYJU’s

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Rumours are floating that Unacademy is getting sold by one of its main investors to another Edtech company in their portfolio for just 400 Million dollars, their last round valuation was 3.5 Billion dollars 

But founder Gaurav Munjal said they have 200 Million in bank. Getting confused - Is this a repeat of Byju 2.0?

They have fired the CTO and co-founder Hemesh Singh and Roman Saini ( other co-founder) is also not seen anywhere 

I am worried if more people are to be laid off?

More information in comments sourced via a friend

Unacademy getting acquired?

Journalist

Recently got promoted- putting together a list of what makes a team great or not. Kick-off based on my last team:

Love- super chill team, real MVPs, no credit stealing 🏆
Hate- the manager never appreciated anyone, ugh 😮‍💨

Love/hate about your team or manager?

Most edtechs have been infamous for mis-selling, poor teaching , etc but are there any good startups who are doing great work?

Any good Edtechs worth joining?

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How to easily make employees exit the company

There has been internal new circulation going on that the IAS Co-founder at Unacademy is finally leaving the organisation.

He already sold his stakes in the company worth 700Cr last year and was sticking around because of the face value

However with a failure to raise capital and grow revenue, Investors have asked roman to exit.

Unacademy is truly going deep shit.

Another copycat product from the house of Unacademy 😂

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