EU companies have good WLB but are not good paymasters in comparison to US counterparts 
 US companies pay well with well defined scopes but are ruthless in cutting dead weight if one doesnt contribute

Ofc, pay in US have no limits. But we can’t directly work for US companies or with US employees seeing the timezone difference. I can’t imagine to work stressfully during nights.

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This post is mainly about working with EU companies from india.

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never worked with UK. Curious to know where Revolut, Zalando, Deliveroo stands here.

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I work remotely for an european company and i have to say this indian companies cannot match culture and WLB in european tech companies. This is attested by my friends who work at companies like sp...

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I work remotely for an european company and i have to say this indian companies cannot match culture and WLB in european tech companies. This is attested by my friends who work at companies like spinny,flipkart,amazon…etc. lets debate!

Experience at working with a EU company

Experience at working with a EU company- Grapevine

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I have worked in 2 Indian-born startups, one of which has its branch in US and Europe. Almost everyday I have to reach out to folks both in India and in US to ask questions and get details regarding technical features. 

Now, whenever I reach out to people in India, they all have this rude attitude while replying back. For example: if I ask a very detailed question they often don't respond back. Sometimes it takes 2 days, 2 followups to respond. 

Example: As a new joiner I asked a dev "is there is any docs regarding certain product feature. If not could you point me to the PM or EM who worked on it?"
He took 2 days to respond and his response was "NO". Just No. He didn't even read the full text. 🤷🏻 In my 10 year experience, almost 5 in 10 indian employees behave this way. 

Whenever I reach out to US folks, ofcourse they take time to respond but when they do they provide most of the info on slack; whom to reach, how to get access. They seem to have the courtesy to actually help. 

I get it, we all are busy with stuff. But shouldn't we have a basic courtesy to atleast respond respectfully? Why is this need to act superior to others?

The attitude among Indian tech employees

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I'm Arnav, Director of Engg at Jio Cinema. I previously exited my startup to Scaler. Some of you may know me from ScalerPod. I've also led engineering teams at Zomato & Target. 

Here to chat with you about my journey in startups, leading engineering teams, and products at scale, among other things.

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I am a 6 yrs experienced Software developer and part of a mid-stage startup. This is my third job; I have been working here for 3 years. I was involved here as one of the core engineers at the start in developing the overall platform, After that, my growth as an engineer stagnated for 2 years . 

Constant importance and priority are given to business requirements and hacky work getting pushed to production in the name of fast iterations and business impact every week. 

My engineering manager lacks proper engineering skills and doesn't respect engineers even after their impact on the company and constantly keeps saying the engineering team doesn't contribute to the revenue of the company despite us pushing work that improves business positively. 

Last year around November, around 80% of the engineering team was subtly suggested to start looking out for work (basically a soft layoff) because management was too scared of a social media backlash

Due to all this,2 years' worth of technical debt has accumulated on the overall codebase and apart from giving justification for every code improvement that we try to make there, we still have to work on business/product requirements. 

My growth as an engineer has stopped and I am worried about missing out on the latest developments in the tech industry, especially with AI in the picture, and want to make my skillset somewhat AI-proof. I have come back to hands-on coding this year , so that's a positive start. I am considering taking a 3-4 month break after resigning from my company to study, develop side projects, develop a portfolio etc

Has anyone else been in this boat ? How did you come out strong?

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Does anyone know if someone moves to any of the European country and comes back to India after 2-3 years, does they salary still remains upto the Indian market level or they are given lower salaries in India on return?

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This will help the people to get the list of good companies with compensations, WLB.

Based on your response I will Inmail the recruiters.

I will start
- Microsoft (I am already working)
- Atlassian
- Google

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Atlassian is horrible. With the new changes in management, the company is going down to dogs. Please research instead of making these random claims

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IT industry is going on the least downfall as compared to the last 20 years. College graduates are not getting jobs and the IT professionals are in the fear of loosing their jobs anytime. There is no surety for any company or any employee even of they have given their best for the last n number of years. 

Is it fair for us to vote the government on religious grounds? 

Do check out this video 

https://youtu.be/H7zzrcanm3Y?si=pLvJnoKArUXBkyNM

Kudos to Ravish Kumar for unvieling the reality of the government

Pointing out mistakes is fine. But just want to ask the options out here? Between Modi & Rahul Gandhi (probably the PM candidate)...I don't it can be much clearer than this. I see all these andhbhakt comments in this chat but I will rather be a Andhbhakt than vote for a person who has never held a position of power and wants the position of PM all because of his surname.

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I am starting up soon. I care about working on meaningful problems, with good people and building the right culture. 

Have been hearing from a lot of folks about culture problems in startups. Seems more of a norm rather than an exception. 

Curious to know why do startup culture degrade? What pitfalls should I avoid to create a healthy culture?

Why do startup culture go bad?

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So basically the title. European countries like are flirting with the idea of 4 days work week and here at India we have people like Narayan Murthy who is suggesting youngsters to work for 70 hours per week and many people are supporting him including one politician from Congress. I mean why is it so? It makes my blood boil and it's motivating me everyday to leave this country and get a job at some European nation.

Why is there no work life balance in Indian corporate setup?

Hey 

Does anyone know what are the companies that are hiring for remote roles in Backend or software engineering in general?

I tried many platforms but haven't received any replies apart from atlassian. Wanted to know how to get European startups and work from home 🏡 while staying in India.

Was rejected in debrief of atlassian 🥲


Let me know if someone has a story too 😄

Remote jobs for around 2 years of work experience

What made it worst? The pay, the culture, or your manager?

What's the worst company you have worked for?

ICICI Bank, they had a strict sign in timing policy where if you are late to corporate office, half day salary would be cut, It would be reversed only when manager approves. The sign out time used to be 5.15pm, but you would be made to sit till 8 pm by most of the managers even if your job is done for the day. A sign out at 6 pm used to be called as half day by most of the managers. 
 I heard now they donot have this dictatorial policy.

If we look at layoff trends in India, then late stage IPO headed startups are doing it to boost profitability, or mid to early stage ones where they're trying to fit into a viable biz model. some mid sized MNCs also did layoffs where they have seen hit to their books.. all in all, crux was similar - to boost efficiency and eliminate redundancy.
Then comes the companies with their support teams in india or US/EU banks and their ops outsourced in India.. i mean if you got friends in these firms you would understand how chillax they're about this.

Take the example of AmEx...there's so much slack in the company, got few friends there and all of them don't work more 4 hours a day and that too most of the work some excel and next to shit level of python/sql while their salary in almost 90-95% of avg market (similar to what top paying startups).. Along with that teams are operating at 150% of strength so wlb is heaven there. story is similar with folks in similar US based support ops in india (citi, jp morgan, mastercard, some service based orgs etc)

but look the irony of overall market.. you should be efficient and scared about your job as long you're into startups and Indian firms but once you make it captive or offshore centres of these US based firms.. you're life is chill, relax, no bad wlb, practically no layoffs. so you won't find these folks scrambling across GV or fishbowl or like that and getting stressed about seeing how other folks feel when one of the closer startups decided to restructure 

(i am frustrated because i once let go a offer of top US fintech company to go for a startup and now all i have is regrets given how the events across startup ecosystem are folding like layoffs across Fk, swiggy etc.. and not only layoffs but in general WLB and culture has taken a huge huge hit ::///// ) well it is what it is i guess then :,)

Layoffs trends in India

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Indian managers will make the work culture toxic even if they are in good international companies. Indian branches of the same company will be shity because of these insecure managers.

Indian managers of no use

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Hi all,

I felt that in recent 3-5 years the working culture and forced work are increasing in India due to stress, demotivation, and frequent change of jobs happening. 

Any proper solution to unite and we raise it to the right platform.

#Flipkart #Rapido #Ecom #Zomato #Swiggy #Amazon and all logistics and supply chains.

Indian company working culture getting worst

Not trying to be a critic here, nor trying to tarnish the reputation. But just wondering why does employee friendly policies like these change so quickly?

Do investors and leaders get FOMO? Hey Amazon has called everyone to office so let's do it too. Or does the Work from anywhere policy was temporarily to attract good talent?

FYI, this remote policy was scrapped within 1 year of implementing it.

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Hey guys.
What are the worst companies to work for and why?

Worst companies to work for in India?

Which company is better in terms of work culture, policies and salary structure?

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People of grapevine, whoever has moved from an Indian startup like swiggy, Zomato, Paytm, any unicorn b2c  etc to an international one like the ones of zalando, delivery hero,  Spotify in the eu or a good company in the US/uk in product. Is the work and learning better or am I downplaying the good work being done in our country ?

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