Email, emails, emails..  
 I don't like them.  
 But emails like me.  
 I cannot avoid!

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Software Engineer

Why are there so many emails sent? How many actually open and read companywide emails?

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Why are there so many emails sent? How many actually open and read company-wide emails?

Emails! Emails! Emails

Emails! Emails! Emails- Grapevine

we were playing truth or dare and my friend challenged me that she could get any job interview with a cold email/dm. 

I usually receive hearback from 1/50 job postings I apply to, so didn't believe her at all.

now she made a GPT to write cold emails and get job interviews.

I really wanna use it, but she is flexing so hard now, my ego tells me not to use it.

help me out, do cold emails and all really work?

friend made GPTs to get jobs😤

Product Manager

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I have seen some companies post about them looking to hire a lot of people and ask people to reach out to them over DM (if their DM is even open in the first place lol), but when I do, I never hear anything back. I have 4 yoe and have applied to so many of these companies, reached out to people working there, but no one has ever replied back. Why do they even say that their DMs are open in the first place? I don't know how to even get my resume in front of an actual person working there, and my resume is not even that bad. Like how do people get interviews in these companies in the first place? I have applied so many times but never actually got contacted by any HR. Any tips will be much appreciated.

[Rant] How do you get interviews in big companies like FAANG, PhonePe, Rippling, Atlassian, etc?

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Do employees fight over text chat or mails ? 

How’s your company culture? Is it positive or don’t care or there’s Lafda going on between employee / management and there’s a show running always between these folks ? ( might be funny ) . 


What are some crazy dialogues used in mail/chat by folks at your company ?

Internal e-lafdas at your company ?

Founder

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Drop every guesstimate you got asked in an interview. PS- have an interview tomorrow, I know they will ask for guesstimates in the interview.

Do founders even reply to cold emails . Have emailed about 30 of them but hardly one o two reverts. Are they too busy or cold emails are out of trend? Reaching out to create openings but of no avail yet. On LinkedIn these founders add lines like  my DMs are open or reach at this email address, and even after emails no response.

I wonder why !!!

Pretentious

Customer success

When I say a big company, I mean $50B+ market cap. I think PMing at a smaller scale is much more intense in terms of work load. You are constantly doing a lot of 0-1/1-10/10-100.

But what about 100++ companies/products? What does a PM at Gmail do? How do they fill up their day? I mean how many experiments can one perform? 

Is PMing at that scale majorly just project management? 

For PMs who moved from high growth startups to companies like PayPal, Google, Microsoft -- do you get bored?

What exactly do PMs at big legacy companies/products like Gmail,  do?

Often on LinkedIn we have encountered such posts which say x company has y opening, drop your email and I will DM you referral link/mail you z stuff, etc. A question always arises in my mind, DO THESE PEOPLE LEGIT MAIL/DM STUFF??? OR IS IT JUST ATTENTION SEEKING STRATEGIES OR SIMPLY FRAUDULENT WAY FOR GETTING EMAILS???

Truth behind such posts

Software Developer

We start the day with meetings, we end the day with a meeting, and in between there are thousands if not hundreds of 
"Can we get on a quick call?", 
"Let's have a meeting to discuss the agendas", 
"Are you available for a 5 mins meet?", 
"Can you join in on _____", 
stand up, sit down, roll over, turn around, blah blah blah (you get the idea)!

Most meetings would have been an email. Sadly many don't/can't write!

If meetings would have been so important, why would anyone be doing any actual work!

If Meetings would have been so important!

Project manager

Hello guys; I have been actively applying to job/internship openings on LinkedIn (It might have reached 50+ by now) but what I get is either they ghost me, or reject me.

There's only 1 or 2 companies where I actually received a response but even they ghosted me after submitting practice assignment. Also; the rejection mail of each company is the same so I am starting to think that most of the jobs are automated by bots or something.


Can anyone suggest an active job search platform where employers post the role with the intention to hire employees, even look through the candidate's resume and respond instead of ghosting?

Job Hunt Platforms

What are so many people sitting at coffee shops like Starbucks and Third Wave actually doing on their laptops all day?

Coffe shop MacBook people

Product Marketing Manager

I've been thinking about how we're always connected to work these days. The line between work and personal time seems to be getting blurrier, with our phones constantly buzzing with work notifications. 

It's becoming a real challenge for many to truly disconnect and maintain a healthy work-life balance. 

I've personally struggled with this - just last week, I found myself answering work emails at on a Saturday, and it made me realize how much it's affecting my downtime.

In an age of constant connectivity, how do you manage work-related communication outside office hours? What boundaries have you or your company set to prevent burnout?

Slack won't let me Slack: How to unplug when your boss is just one ping away?

Need answer to just one thing. 

Do you guys intentionally ghost candidates or do you guys intentionally ghost candidates? 🙂

Dear HRs - Answer Me.

My current company is cutting JIRA costs and discontinuing their subscription with them to cut costs, and is moving to Gitlab (🤡) for task tracking. 

Are other startups taking similar steps?

Is your company optimising their spending?

Product Head

Like a lot of people don't know scheduling mail is a feature

What are the work things you thought were common knowledge but aren't

Anyone using this?
Is it useful? 
At times I get annoyed tho when I receive emails for even trivial things, like you have this in your cart, go and order this. Why would anyone send an email for this and why can't I disable this

Flash mail

Zomato is just spam for me now. Don’t even care about the brand anymore. The only good thing is the discount  you get when food gets late.

To Zomato Social Media team, Why you do this?

How good is the Perks+ at Microsoft IDC, I have seen many US employees saying that Perks+ is really great. Can anyone please tell us all the benefits we get here in India?

How good is the Perks+ at Microsoft India?

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Context: 10.5 YOE, Marketing lead. I've been looking for a switch since September last year. I'd seen signs of maybe my role or the company itself folding very early and knew 'twas time to bolt. But it's not that easy. Back then - 1 year in a startup meant hey not bad, people still spoke to you and considered your profile. These days, they treat you like Ebola if you've not had your ass stuck in the same place for 3-5 years. 

Anyway, so the majority of my time searching for jobs was the shitty Easy Apply or IIMJOBS premium account route. Suprise suprise. It doesn't work. But hey I was still employed and not nearly as motivated as someone who's unemployed. 

Cut to layoffs: Got laid off with my whole team and a huge chunk of other leaders. My first layoff, felt hilariously like the last day of school. To the org's credit they gave us 3 month severance, leave encashments and extra months for those who'd been there for 2 years+. In hindsight hearing the horror stories of 2k severance from Byju's. I'm grateful for the nice golden parachute I got. I'll be honest, it contributed heavily to my mental stability. I had time, I had leverage, I didn't have to run for the first shitty opportunity that came my way. 

The How I did it (why you struggled through the above stream of consciousness) 

- Wrote to 159 founders with one pagers to 35 of them with ideas on how i'd lead their marketing function. 5 replies. 3 interviews. 2 offers - didn't take em cuz they were super early stage or diff cities. This is immediately in month 1 so I've already started feeling icky about not getting great brands to have in my set. 
- Easy Applied to 768 (I ran a Gmail search, this is a real number) jobs. 99% no responses or you've been rejected. 
-Kept changing one letter on my Naukri.com profile, got me 6 calls, 3 interviews and 1 conversion 

I think theres a word limit to posts 🥲 following up as comments below.

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