I was laid off, and i got a new job too, all thanks to God, but whenever i had conversations with the HR teams, they were sympathetic and they understood the situation, and it actually worked in my favour cause i brought the tag of “immediate joiner”, which is a dollar sign in their eyes.

Product Designer

You got a new job because of your skills dude, don't underestimate yourself.

Software Developer

Data engineer

I did tell them. Because our product wanted to do rapid A/B testing, they are migrating away from native app into a PWA. Hence during recent restructuring, my job got redundant. HRs are people too and they'll be sympathetic.

How the HRs react if you tell them you were laid off, please share your experience?  Also, what other reason we can give for looking out for change in less than 5 months?

How the HRs react if you tell them you were laid off, please share your experience?

Also, what other reason we can give for looking out for change in less than 5 months?

Do you folks tell about layoff to HRs

Software Engineer

Do you folks tell about layoff to HRs- Grapevine

Welcome to Software Engineers's Private Community

Hello folks, recently one of my friend got laid off. The new company is requesting for any doc/email or acknowledgement. However, he only received FnF and nothing. Wanted to understand if any company gives the doc or any acknowledgement that can be treated as a proof? And any suggestions to tackle this?

Layoff docs

Although you become the face of layoffs and you have to abide by what's instructed, how do you personally feel after a event like mass layoff?

What steps do you take to avoid or minimise the impact in such cases?

HRs how do you feel after layoffs?

Product Owner

Background,
I got laid off from an organisation and by god's grace I had a offer, which was not that good 10% decrement in salary, but me being a scared person joined the company.

Now 1 month after I realised I can do much better and market seems to open up.

What should I tell the HR in 2 scenarios.

1. I had already started Interviewing and haven't mentioned that I was layed off. What should I tell if I get selected? 

2. If a opportunity comes to start Interviewing for seperate company, should I mention about ty current company or no?

PS. The work in current organisation is not that good and it's a contractual role.

Need advice on what to say to HR of new company .

Have resigned before getting a new job and need to find another one in 2 months
How to explain HR why I had to do it.. they were going to force some of us to resign in few months, I did it before that. Can someone help pls

Need help

Operations Manager

I laid off last week and getting call for interview . They ask me notice period. 
Should I tell them that I am immediate joinee and tell the reason as laid off?
Will it make negative impact for inital screening?

My preferable answers will be from HR or person who laid off in past

What should I tell as notice period after laid off

Checking if there is anyone here who has had to layoff people... How did you do take it mentally and emotionally? Looking for answers from middle managers and HR folks who have to execute decisions taken by others.

Manager doing layoff

Welcome to Indian Startups's Private Community

HRs are famous for playing cheap tricks with company employees while pretending to act as their allies. HRs are the real snakes. Would be great to hear about any anecdotes or experiences that the  members can share.

Everybody hates HR. What is the cheapest trick that HR has played with you or in your workplace?

Recently i got laid off. Now that i start appearing for interviews should i make it explicit i was laid off and i am ready to join immediately. Or should I state something else as the reason of a break that might be there post 1st April ?

Should I admit to the recruiter, that i got laid off

Microsoft has lost all respect from me today. Guys please spread the word so that all come to know reality.

I am writing this post on behalf of my friend who is still in bad mood having mental trauma.

Yesterday my friend from Microsoft was let go from his job in India. He was being pressurised to write relieving letter saying he was quitting at his own will and that the HR apparently said if he didn't write the email in next half or 1 hour he won't be getting any severance or benefits by Microsoft India. 

Wait..who does this to an employee? He was so tensed yesterday that he is leaving for his hometown in few days, he doest want to do any job for some time, he was literally crying. 

He said the ones who didnt got laid off have lost the will to work. His friends who got fired are crying as it was least expected from Microsoft.

imo even amazon and sf handled the indian layoffs in a better way than Microsoft.

Other then that Microsoft peeps are not allowed to write anything rubbish on social media. You can yourself see 3 rounds of layoff have happened in India and you will rarelly see any post yet on LinkedIn.

Just imagine to what extent these firms are going to save their image. 😵‍💫🥺

msft used to have best people culture but now its something unimaginable😣

Microsoft India - Worst Situation Underway

Layoffs are a common theme these days among all kinds of companies. In general, Layoffs are bad for the people affected.

I want to hear stories from people who had a layoff that was done with dignity, respect and humanity.
Please describe what made your experience of the layoff great and which company were you part of.

How a company handles Layoffs reflects a lot on the culture of that company.

So let us highlight companies that do Layoffs well.

Layoffs done with Humanity

Senior Manager

After there was a layoff at your company
1- Impacted by layoff : Did your manager/team mates connect with you to keep you motivated?
2- The ones not impacted - Did your leadership/manager set up a team call to explain the reason for layoff and remove the fear/uncertainty that the rest of the people are safe.

What did it tell you about the higher management of the company?

What did your manager/leadership do?

Business Analyst

So I was laid off a couple of months back and the organization was forcing me to resign. I countered their basis of decision and was able to get my severance instead of notice. Further, they were asking me to serve a reduced notice but I opposed saying this is a layoff/termination from organization’s side and was out in a week. As a result they have deliberately put things like “his performance was average” in the experience letter. 

Can someone help me with how to deal with this situation for prospective employers? 

P.S: I do not want to go the legal route with my prev org and want to focus on the next prospects so if any HR in the network can help with some advice, that would be great.

Any HRs here who can help out with a situation concerning previous employer & negative experience letter

Product Manager

Just wanted to give some updates now that it has been 1 month since the last post

1) Senior Leadership from Tech (3) , a senior director from Product , Finance Head have all resigned. Strategy team has been dissolved. 
2) There are more people in the pipeline and will get more clarity by month end.
3) Everyone over the CTC of 60 lakh has been asked about the revenue that they bring in and based on that, their position is being reconsidered.
4) All contract workers have been terminated. Interns have been told that they won't be receiving PPOs.
5) Senior Management Has been asked to take 20% paycuts. 
6) Even at Junior level, people have been asked to take pay cuts or resign.
7) Lots of tools used in tech are being removed and AWS subscription has also been revised.


Meanwhile HRs have been celebrating on slack channels that Yubi has been ranked in Top 25 companies for career development :/

Rampant Negativity at Yubi Part 2

Growth Manager

Welcome to Office Gossip's Private Community

Housing.com (REA India) ranked 3rd in the GPTW survey this year. They provide several awesome perks like, laying off without any notice, fucking their reviews just so that they could justify the lay offs, and threatening actions if anything came out on social media. 

10-15% of the whole tech team was laid off (mostly freshers) apparently on the basis of low performance.  It was all carried out by the higher management, not even the managers had any clue about the lay off happening. 

The performance rating was rigged by the higher management who had no interaction with the tech people. They had this awesome idea of getting reviewed by people who we had never interacted with. Managers were merely bystanders who had no say in the performance review whatsoever. 


PS: A note for the management -->
Housing.com would be an employee friendly company only if you guys would give two fucks about employees, instead of Caring so much about the GPTW ranking like conducting hands on sessions and literally forcing people to put in good rating.

Mass Lay-offs at housing.com (REA India)

The rigged performance rating and the secrecy is so true. I got to know about my colleague getting fired when I opened his slack which was deactivated. Upon calling, he said it was all done in 5 mins, Forceful resignation, No Severance and was asked to post nothing on social media.  
  
 From my team alone 2 people have been laid off both freshers.

Hey Grapevine folks,

Can we please share any info on companies that are laying off or have laid off in recent times (2-3 months)?

We can use this format:

<company name> (<location>) 
- <number of employees laid off>
- <reasons for layoffs like low runway>
- <first round or follow-up round of layoffs>

This would be helpful for folks who are currently in the market to understand the layoff scenario.

Layoffs tracker for recent months

Hey everyone, I hope you can help me out with this one query i have, is it fine to tell the interviewer that i got laid off when they ask why i am looking for a job change in this marker?
I have been WFH for 2 years, have 6L in liquidity for runway i guess, idk if it's safe or not but how is the job market currently. 
Recently gave interview in a tier 1 product based company, got rejected in 2nd round as well so what should be my plan now? 
How to tackle this feeling of being incompetent and anxiety?
I hope you can me out with these questions 😭

Got laid off today after asking for appraisal for 2 months.

Didn’t they go through a major layoff recently.

Staff Engineer

I've had the fortune of having worked in 3 countries so far. India is by far the most exciting place to be in 2024.
But there's something about our work ethic that just concerns me. In both white and blue collar.

In most other countries, I've observed people strictly sticking to the 9 to 5, working diligently in those hours - not wasting too much time on chai sutta breaks, instagram browsing, gupshup etc.

They work for 8 hours, then leave. And think about work directly the next day.

In India, most of us spend more hours - but very obviously very few of those hours are productive. In fact, I lately feel that too many people around me are doing even 2-3 hours of work on a good day.

We end up just staying around, passing time, and then go back home. When we could have achieved so much more.

Work ethic has fallen. Work hours have gone up.

We need to be more mindful of our actions, we need to work well at work, and then do well at home.

I think it's a function of being over populated. There are 1.5-2 people doing what 1 person should be doing, hence this effect.

Needs to be fixed, it's the sign of a major problem in the workforce. Thoughts?

Disguised unemployment in India - It's all around us :/

We don't end up staying long hours because we need to. But because we have to, so that the manager doesn't feel like we leave the office by "half day".  
  Also, they have a leverage that they can shut their laptops at 5 and nobody will reach out to them. But here in India, managers do reach out for escalations, or make us attend lat evening calls because it's afternoon in Europe or morning in NA. The people sitting in Europe or NA are not made to wake up early or attend night calls to accommodate us during our actual 9-5.  
  People also chit chat etc. bcz they know for sure that they have to sit for long hours..so they need to take small breaks in the day. No one has the capacity to work 10-11 hrs without any breaks.  
  Here it would never be possible to have such a strict 9-5.

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