Has any of you witnessed a boardroom coup?

In your experience, what are some early signs that help detect incoming layoffs at a startup? It could be company-wide, team specific or in a particular function only.

Here’s my story in the field of software engineering: There’s this colleague of mine who is on a pure tech role but hardly codes. The person spends his entire time on LinkedIn sharing new age tech stuff and projects himself to the world as if he is the Messiah of architecture. The guy preaches the same gyan to members of my team. For the last one year, this guy, in the capacity of Software Architect has not pushed a single line of code into our application source code and this is on record. Yet, he is highly regarded as an expert in technology. The guy has killed the careers of some genuine software engineers with his unique approach to make it look like he is taking a lead to own stuff in tech space. The guy has had tremendous career growth, got promoted 3 times in the last 5 years. In my view, the guy is a tech junkie whose knowledge carries no value. Yet he managed to butter the leadership team to reach to position that he is currently in. Did you encounter any such people? If yes, comment your story.

Amids layoffs and recessions, has your company become more toxic that it used to be?

A thread: 1. Over the last 2 months, the Chief Business Officer, Head of Marketing, and Head of Enterprise have been laid off. 2. CEO has surrounded himself with 3-4 Yes Men/Women who have no expertise in the respective domains that they are currently looking at (being called as Founder’s Office staff – but are basically playing the role of glorified postmen/women) 3. Rest of the senior leadership has been demoted for all practical purposes and all business decisions are taken in weekend meetings between the CEO, and his close friend (who is also acting as the CBO currently) 4. Work culture has become so toxic that employees across levels are either looking out or jumping ship or even resigning without offers in hand 5. There is a ton of investor pressure on the CEO to start showing tangible revenue – classic case of raising money at bloated valuations with no business model in place

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.

"BYJU’S grew considerably since our first investment in 2018, but, over time, its reporting and governance structures did not evolve sufficiently for a company of that scale. Despite repeated efforts from our Director, executive leadership at BYJU’S regularly disregarded advice and recommendations relating to strategic, operational, legal, and corporate governance matters. The decision for our Director to step down from the BYJU’S Board was taken after it became clear that he was unable to fulfil his fiduciary duty to serve the long-term interests of the Company and its stakeholders." https://techcrunch.com/2023/07/24/prosus-questions-byjus-governance-says-indian-edtech-regularly-disregarded-advice/?tpcc=tcplustwitter

-> OpenAI fires Altman & Brockman -> Microsoft & OpenAI investors try to get both back -> OpenAI hires Emmett Shear/Microsoft hires Altman & Brockman -> 500/700 OpenAI employees tell the board to resign

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.

Does such grapevine flow to employees from top management?