Demographic dividend: there is always someone willing to do the job.

Consultant

In every parking area of a mall in india, there is a guy whose job it is to receive/input the parking stub into the machine. 
  
 Ppl have to do any job to survive. It's another problem if they stick around without pursuing better jobs.

Product Manager

“There used to be an educator delight team of fivesix people whose only work was to send gifts to the teachers: Tshirts, water bottles, big boxes of chocolates. It all used to be sent directly to t...

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“There used to be an educator delight team of five-six people whose only work was to send gifts to the teachers: T-shirts, water bottles, big boxes of chocolates. It all used to be sent directly to the teacher’s house. The founder himself used to be involved in this. But now that team has been sacked,” said a former employee of Unacademy, on the condition of anonymity"..

The above clipping is an article on edtech. People who joined these role- did they  honestly  believe this job has a long term prospect? 

If this is the job our youth are working,  we should be ashamed of this whole sector.

Edtech shit hole

Edtech shit hole- Grapevine

A lot of people at Unacademy have already resigned, and they are unable to hire replacements from the market( for who knows what reasons). Now as we all know people who are left in the organisation are going to have a tough time. 

Leaves not being approved, longer hours at work, mental harassment in the name of being available 24*7  is becoming a day to day thing. Now they are forcing people to take up sections of business one has never dealt with and are threatening to fire them if they are denying those roles. 

People who left the organisation in 2022 are the luckiest and well a bunch of well informed individuals who saw the end of this company before anyone else could have. 

What a time to be in edtech, indeed

Major Shakeup at Unacademy

Founder

Can someone share what's going on inside unacademy. What new products are they launching. How good is the traction and runway

Unacademy

Business Development Manager

Graphy has forced a 30% salary cut on each employee to achieve profitability this year. This cut will be applicable from February onwards until 7-8 months. 

Truly a sad time for the Edtech ecosystem.

30% Salary Cuts at Unacademy

I repeat: 
  
 If you have options, avoid joining EdTech companies. 
  
 If you're already working for one, exit at first opportunity. 
  
 Indian EdTech companies are largely sweat shops in fancy office buildings.

Growth And Strategy

Program Manager

Edtech layoffs still continuing?

Teams were asked to strictly work from home for today because of plumbing work going on in the office. Roughly 300 people were laid off in a townhall hosted by the founders.

Scaler lays off 20-25% of their workforce

How will they tell people that their courses will help get a job in a product company now?

Recruiter

Software Developer

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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

Edtech is dead, agreed. But we haven't reached the quality of output which is expected from education in India. We don't have quality outputs, most youngsters are unemployed and this change has to start from education. 

Byju, UA or Vedantu are the highest valued edtechs but they are not the face of what an education company should be like in a country like India. Let's leave them to the karma of their shortcomings and cheating. 

On a serious note trying to understand how we can use amalgamation of tech and education to get the desired result.

Things you would change about edtech!

Product Owner

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

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Just read in the news that they had another round of layoffs today of 10% of the workforce, 

What’s going on there?!

The layoffs would happen across verticals, some of which would also be shut or scaled down, Munjal told employees in an internal email, a copy of which was seen by Moneycontrol. 

Unacademy lays off 10% of workforce as funding winter for edtech worsens

What’s happening at Unacademy?

Product Designer

This could probably be a rant. But I came across this post, and I am stunned that they expect folks to pull through night shifts on Sundays and alternate Saturdays! A Friday off seemingly posed as a favor to the ones applying!

In my experience, start-ups like these turn toxic pretty quickly either because the founder has unreasonable expectations or has an impulsive approach towards chasing goals!

It's kind of surprising that ed-tech founders still haven't grasped the concept of how this hurts them in the long run.

As for my disdain, it's also because I've seen the negative health impact roles like these carry both mentally and physically, and kind of pains me that someone somewhere would probably be picking this.

What's more, noticing the tonality and time expectations, the founder thinks he is building an actual 🚀 not simply a metaphorical one😂

Ed-Tech is so back, milking the most out of early talent!

One of the director in Business team was fired by COO Vivek Sinha just because she took planned leaves and approved planned leaves of  her team members. COO fired her over phone call . 

Unacademy used to such a great place up until February 2022 now it has become place filled with toxicity and CEO Gaurav seems to unaware of what's happening around him and is busy boasting how much money Unacademy has in bank.

Don't join Unacademy if you want to life outside work .

Director fired at Unacademy for taking planned Leave

Software Engineer

After a confirmed research, following resignations are happening at Unacademy, resulting in a massive instability in the organisation

1. CHRO
2. COO
3. CTO
4. VP IT & ADMIN
5. CBO ( JM)
6. HEAD OF OFFLINE CENTERS
7. GENERAL COUNSEL
8. IAS COFOUNDER


Adding to this, following BU's have been shut

1. Content Growth
2. Coheshve 
3. Next Level

TRULY SAD TO SEE THE HOUSE OF CARDS FALLING DOWN.

Series of resignations at Unacademy 👾

As of today, 31 folks at role of Senior Manager and above are on notice. Combined number across Business, Sales and content Marketing. 

Leaders across Offline, and new online Categories have also resigned. 

No one knows what's next at UA.

Unacademy in disarray?

Project Manager

So again Unacademy has asked people to leave, and asked them to resign.

Leadership is so clueless about what they are doing, they fired 3-4 people whom they had hired a month ago. Imagine the situation 😂

And I don't see this stopping at Unacademy anytime soon

They are aching left, right and centre. Still some people are making advt videos with Sachin.

And the nalla has time to tweet and enjoy vacation, I pity the investors who funded them.

100th Layoff round at Unacademy

Growth Manager

* 6 days work
* Not sure if the UnacademyX app will work or die. Is it getting any traction??
* I heard that company wants people to work 24*7.


I have another offer from Lighthouse Learning, but nobody knows this company, they run EuroKids schools(Old school firm), will my career die upon joining Lighthouse?

How is UnacademyX doing?? Got an offer

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

Category Lead

This gets the figure to like 10k in that many months 🫣

BYJU'S set to fire another 4,000 employees

Paying exorbitant salaries was going to bite them sooner or later, feel sad for those who will loose their jobs. But again have come across ppl who were paid insanely and were laid off not wanting to take a pay cut and join somewhere, infact they will ask more than what was their inflated last drawn salary. Not willing to realise the harsh reality of the current situation.

Computer Operator

Data Scientist

Unacademy HR Head steps down after a 5 year stint. Today was her last day. There are too many stories around her abrupt exit from the organisation﻿.

Next in line : COO, VP Engineering, CBO

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