Ex Employee shares a mail about workplace culture and toxicity at PhonePe

Respected Sir/Madam, I am writing in regards to the current environment at our (PhonePe) workplace. I believe that there are several factors that could be addressed to create a better environment for employees, and I would like to bring these issues to your attention. First, Our Top Management Leader Mr XYZ, ABC & STU is mentally harassing employees and intimidation are common occurrences in the workplace. This is in the form of hostile comments, threatening to sack, creating undue pressure. It is creating a detrimental effect on employee morale and productivity. Secondly the work-life balance is often out of balance, with long working hours (8:00 am to 10:00 pm and limited opportunities for relaxation or breaks, it is leading to burnout and stress-related illnesses. It is essential that employees are given reasonable working hours and frequent breaks to ensure their physical and mental wellbeing. Fourth, These managers shout at employees on occasions by calling them on calls and asking random questions and harassing. This type of behavior is not conducive to creating a productive environment within the org. It only serves to create an atmosphere of fear and anxiety among employees. It is important that managers treat employees with respect and professionalism at all times. Lastly, to say - Sales is a continuous process and it fluctuates day on day depending upon good and bad weather, political environment, absentism in team etc but managers above and down the line shout only for numbers without recognition for our hard work. This is leading to burnout and discontentment among employees who feel taken advantage of or undervalued. Furthermore these action have had severe consequences in those leaders personnel family relationships, causing irreparable damage of their own life is trying to damage life of others by ruthless behaviour and poor decisions. Finally I have decided to leave the organisation and I hope this will be taken into consideration when creating a p

Employees generally think or are under the impression that all these culture issues or employee harassment’s are happening without the founders knowledge. But that’s not the case. These founders are the ones who secured the funding and building such valued companies. They know what’s happening and they are actually fine with what’s happening. Majority of the cases are because of the founders - they are the culprits, followed by the useless HR heads. Phonepe specifically is a case where the HR head is one of the most cunning person with just no empathy, building an empire to rule. They did not do anything (founders or HR) when few years ago there was this terrible product head who made the entire team leave. Still there was no action. Founders who actually talk about culture and people are the ones that doesn’t care at all. Such guys do now show any empathy and actually have a huge god complex. May more such khulaasa’s happen.

Can any current PhonePe employees confirm some truth to this claim?

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Even if this true, nothing will happen. Founders and HR Head know all about the culture. Its just that they dont care. The senior management team just work to inflate the valuation and then exit at the right time. You can crib about the culrure and values and its all just to show something on website. Nobody really cares about it. There are not gonna run the company for next 50yrs so why worry abt it. Infact they all laugh at parties about all these issues that employees raise. Nothing will happen by cribbing about all these cultural stuff.

Kudos, but will be happy to see that email

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HR chaps emcourage ceo to do this shit. Seen it time and again.

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Why is sales department in every company so cruel ans hostile? In my previous company sometimes i used to sit near Sales folks(just for some sunlight), I could see and hear managers shouting at employees and even commenting about personal stuff.

I heard good reviews about the work culture at PhonePe. I am not sure whom to believe now. How is tech culture at PhonePe?

I’m also an ex employee, the call out things were real with founding saying come out and I’ll give you a mouth full And he was doing was raising concerns on the company policy of hiring candidates to meet gender ration And he was did it on anonymous form

You missed third point. & In sales, it's common.. Nothing new.