I think it feels like a huge gamble, especially if one is just 1-2yrs  in the org. From the history I've read, whistleblowers have very little to win and a lot at stake, even if the whistleblowing is for the benefit of others more than self.

Risk Analytics

Has it ever been rewarding to report anything that's not going right or the correct way in your individual role, dept., process, manager, team related, etc.?? What has been your experience for esca...

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Has it ever been rewarding to report anything that's not going right or the correct way in your individual role, dept., process, manager, team related, etc.?? What has been your experience for escalating at skip level.

' Doing the right thing '

' Doing the right thing '- Grapevine

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Hey Viners, would like to know your prespective on the situation that if you face a bunch of incompetent colleagues who dont take their work seriously and the manager constantly asks you to maintain quality because of your seniority and you end up cleaning their work, how do you handle it ?

Few Incompetent colleagues

Software Engineer

There has been scenarios in which a hard working smart  employee doesn't get promotion or hike. Whereas few who are ready to share beds, go to pubs and do quid quo pro are getting every benefit out of it.

This highly demotivates the hard working female emps. So have u faced any such? Or do you know the full story of someone doing it ?

Bcoz at startups there is no time restrictions. Sometimes late night work happens and so many things are linked with it. I hope I don't need to elaborate.

Does Harrasment happen for female emps to get better posting?

Software Developer

I’ll go first: being honest with my manager that my workload has been very low for 3 months straight. It ended up showing in my performance cyan

One mistake at work that you’ll never make again?

Business Development Manager

Timely completion is better than delayed perfection!

read that again.

Corporate lesson learnt in 20s #1

Consultant

What’s the best way to approach a performance review?

Hey guys, i am going to be a manager for the first time in a company that i have been working at for 3 years and I have people joining me from monday.. any tips for being a good manager?

Going to be a manager for the first time

Product Manager

All the People Managers here, comment below, 

What do you really want out of your team and for yourself at work?

Do you really enjoy micromanaging people and showing off your authority by hyper monitoring them and messing up their work life balance? Do you want to be respected and loved by your team or you just want to be feared by them to feel better about yourself? 

Using fear as a motivator does not really increase your team’s productivity you know?

Please enlighten me 🙏

What do managers really want? Fed up of toxic bosses

Project manager

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I work in a small startup, we have 10 people in Frontend Team. 2 SDE-2, rest all SDE-1. 
I joined as Sde-1, when I joined them, we were 4(2 SDE-2 and 2 SDE-1).

At the time of joining, they had a messy codebase, nobody cared about writing good, optimized code etc. 

Whenever I got chance to work on old feature, I used to re-write entire code from scratch, made reusable functions, components and moved common functionalities there, all these made the UI better, platform stable. 
Worked on optimization and performance. These folks never cared about all these things. 

Also started peer reviewing everyone's PRs, explained them various design patterns and made them write re-usable components, optimized, bug-free code and other things.

Now I came to know, all these efforts of my mine never reached my manager to due manipulation by one of the SDE-2. 

My manager likes this guy and allowed him to handle the FE team. 
This guy has shown that he's the one who took all these initiative and he got all these things done by the team. 
He involved the other SDE-2 in this game. 

Fast forward 1 year, I see most of my code has been slightly modified by him, moved to new file and my actual file is deleted. 
He has done this in order to remove my GitHub history. 
I'm now getting frustrated and don't know how to handle this. 

Resigning is not an option and raising with manager won't help as he's slightly biased and won't believe me. 

Any help would be appreciated. 
TIA

Getting overshadowed in tech team

Thought I will make this revelation. Smart Managers deliberately continue to keep ordinary people in their team and these people are given a decent hike too so that they can stay in the company until there is a layoff scenario. This generally happens with product based companies that undergo periodic layoffs regardless of economic slowdown.

So if you are an ordinary employee & continue to get encouraging feedback from your manager plus a decent hike every year, beware! This might be a smart-trap laid by your manager.

Managers deliberately keep non performing employees to use them in a layoff scenario.

Software architect

Why does HR ghosts? Is this being taught to them in HR courses? 
In a decent work setup a simple No or Yes either on mail or text would be ideal.

Ghosting by HR

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How to handle a situation if manager humiliates someone in every meeting in front of other team members?

Data scientist

I am working as SDE 1 in a good Indian startup. It's getting toxic day by day. Late night workings like 3AM and working on weekends is normalised like anything. Since I am new to IT ( no sort of politics never) and have almost 2.5 Years of experience, I am facing issues in getting credits. Last appraisal cycle in January, I was nominated for promotion but wasn't given to me, reason: you have not worked with architect and he was making decisions. In that case, architect should have been distributed tasks to us. 

one SDE3 is leading one of the projects ( not a big one ) and manager/architect is not much interested and never join any standup or retro, I have contributed immensely to that. Now since it is completely driven by sde 3 , he takes updates from us and show his work infront of seniors and director + announces like his work and seldom we get thank you in threads. Like if you did one function or wrote complete flow, for both thank you. Because of all these reasons, my work is not getting recognised. There is no one in team to help in this. 

Whenever a manager or Architect show cases some features or release, it's pretty evident that his team has done it but when a sde 3 does it, it is not the same. It conveys the message all or 90% work is done by him. 

I would like to take some suggestions from my seniors and fellow mates here. 

Hierarchy - sde 1-2-3-4-EM
I can't leave or switch right now due to some critical persona reasons.

Need help !! Toxicity at workplace

I have an onshore counterpart, one level above me. We two are setting up the project and conducting workshops. The problems I have are:

1. I work in the B shift from 2 PM to 11 PM since the client is in PST. But i login usually at 10-11
2. My onshore counterpart works in EST but logs in very late.
3. Although I work in the B shift, I often extend until 1 AM because I am preparing all the PPTs and doing research. I have to explain everything I do daily for 2-3 hours. She schedules meetings during the PST afternoon to present that work.
4. It has been 2 months of the same routine. In every weekly stand-up, she gets appreciation as if she did the work and research, without giving me any credit.
5. I can escalate the issue, but no one will listen because she has been here for 12 years, whereas I joined a year ago. She has strong networking with the leadership, which I lack.
6. I can ask for release, but I like this project and have provided solutions for some challenging gaps. I feel very bad because I work for 16-18 hours per day. She could schedule the meeting in the PST morning, but she purposely schedules it in the PST afternoon and gets the credit for my work.

PS: i saw her creating a transcript to read during the meeting

Do people like this really exist? If you have personal commitments, why come to work? Don’t you have a conscience and feel guilty about stealing credit for others’ work? Nowadays, there are many posts related to stopping gender-based reservations. Is it because of situations like this?

Struggling with Credit Thief Daily😒

Associate manager

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Have you escalated someone and later found it wasn't their mistake?

I had several instances when I escalated my manager to skip level or directly to MD. 

If you also want to do, make sure to follow below steps:

1. Make early connections with skip level managers and MD (at least when you join a company or after a month)

2. Keep posting them your work updates whenever you meet

3. Share your concerns (not about manager) regarding work in a glimpse

4. Reach to a level of comfort and then make a pitch

How to escalate a manager?

Strategy & operations

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In my corporate experience, I have observed two kinds of leaders - 1) A hard task master, very high on IQ but more often than not low on EQ and 2) High on EQ, above avg on IQ. I as a manager/ leader fall under 2) and usually get work done without authority but I do experience at times, some peers and reportees taking advantage of my behaviour

 In my view, anecdotally I see type 1) leaders succeed more in corporates even if it comes at the cost of facing flak/hate from directs/indirects. One of my previous managers was unpopular for his toxicity but somehow I kind of built a decent bond with him. Once over drinks and dinner, he candidly told me, I'm not here in this organization for making friends and I'm here only to get results and he did deliver on results every year.

My question is, can type 2 leaders even climb up the ladder specially where cut throat competition exists. Sometimes I do feel I need to be more like type 1 leaders obviously not at the cost of toxicity - disrespect, shouting etc. 

What are your thoughts?

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