How Senior management quick huddle looks like

Corporate Strategist

How Senior management quick huddle looks like- Grapevine

Wish I could send this to boss, who calls 5 times and then leaves no context

Consultant

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I am going to make a jargon dictionary, please give your suggestions

Corporate is more about jargons☹️

Frontend Engineer

What are some common stereotypes you've all encountered in Indian corporate culture?

I'll go first; the meetings that are never ending (and could have easily been an email).

Stereotypes of Indian Corporate Culture

Legal

Since I work remotely, I get a lots of dms asking for *quick calls*.
Every time I see a message, I get slightly panicked. Is it normal?
How do you guys deal with it?

🎧"Quick Calls" draining energy?

Software Engineer

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Hi good folks of Grapevine, Razorpay recently conducted an annual Product Conclave where all PM Folks - Big and Small, in the company come together for a 2 - 3 days event led by Co-Founder to discuss Product Roadmap, Trends etc. Kinda brainstorming session

Does this happen in any other companies/ Startup in India and is it a sign of good Product Leadership ???

If so, please list down companies that do these kind of events.

Product Conclave at Companies

Let me show you something, this is how these companies are treating their employees even in a full time remote role, they think if they hire someone and give them salary they can make them do whatever they want. One of my friends is working in some MNC and they are pushing their work hours everyday single day like 5-6 hours like its no big deal that too with no compensation/flexi leaves, one day they sent this link of Google meet 11:30 am to 5:30 am (18 hours) and then they starting doing this everyday, its like we were practically living at work, with bosses expecting them to pull 18-hours shifts like it's no big deal. And when he finally spoke up about it, they accused him of not being flexible enough. So, when the project was finished they laid him off by saying that he is not flexible n all, How can anyone flexible of working 18 or 15 or 12 hours. This kind of toxicity is happening even in big companies.
Remote role doesn't mean that you will sit on my head , make me join some 18 hour meet link and then do the tasks while being in the meeting so that the PM can interrupt me whenever he feels like it with his idiotic comment of:
"is it done"?

Employee Exploitation: The Harsh Reality of Corporate Culture

Software Developer

Path to Manager

I thought I was the only one frustrated with meetings until my colleagues also mentioned they were not able to get work done because most of the day was spent on meetings

Plus our boss (CEO) loves talking, anyway the meetings are agenda-less. He stretches 30 min calls to 2 hours and then has the audacity to question the productivity.

Cannot tell me this, he gets very touchy when feedback is negative for him. And then writes sarcastic messages.
Also, who wants to take up fights with person who pays your salary

What to do in this case? I'm tired of working 12 hours each day

Too many meetings, and our boss is one yapper

Founder

Since I am Done-Zo with Dunzo, AMA anything. Here to spill all the scoop that’s happened.

Ex-Dunzo employee. AMA.

Product Manager

Hey folks!
What are 2-3 must dos according to you in the first 1 week of joining a new company.

Must dos in the first week of joining

Associate Product Manager

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I recently started a new job. I would like to share some of the experiences I have had with my manager. I am wondering if these are red flags or if I am maybe being paranoid or thinking too much.

It was quite difficult for me to get into this company and this job. The company is quite great and I was quite excited but some of the experiences I have had with my immediate manager have made me a bit apprehensive.
I would like to share them and hear opinions about it.

Here are some things which have happened which I have not liked so far - 

1. I speak to a Senior Engineer one day and next day my manager asks me if anyone asked me to speak to him. 
2. I shared an insight about a new tool which we can use on a deployment pipeline on the overall pod (under my skip manager). My manager immediately called me and started asking my status update and replied 'Discussing 1-1' in the group to prevent anyone getting visibility of the idea. 
3. My manager pings me whenever I go offline and recently he asked me in a passive aggressive way, 'Please monitor your Teams status. It was away for most of today.' I now feel kind of paranoid to never get up as I feel my Teams status is being monitored.

Is my manager too much of a micromanaging red flag ? I started a new job and my manager monitors my Teams online status.

Linkedin cringe - 30 mins for knee-deep brainstorming

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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

Apna is heading for a cliff!

Project manager

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.

Layoffs at startups: Early signs or warning signals

What exactly ideal but sustainable management you come up with for a start-up that will get job done and make everyone happy. Could you please comment and make it legible not fantasy.

Startup: Money and Freedom of; choice and work

Solution architect

Hi, I am working in a early stage startup and our CEO has established the culture of transparency where he shares every update regarding company funding, customer sales, revenue and answers all questions within company but one thing that has been bugging me is his micromanaging. 


He has integrated a bot in slack which ask for what did you do yesterday ? and what are you going to do today ? , Everyday


He also managed a spreadsheet of our tasks and takes the exact estimate in days makes a calendar view there and keeps asking up to update on our tasks progress in multiple meetings or on chat. 


I didn't had such experience in prior companies but he mentioned, such things were being followed in NyKa, DineOut, etc as well 

Does the well known companies like Phonepe, Uber, Zomato, google, amazon, Microsoft, De shaw, sprinklr follow this as well ? 

I just wanna check, is he doing too much or it this a standard in Indian companies ? 

Thanks to all whoever reply to this post, please share your current & past experience.

My CEO is Micro Managing Engineers 😡

How to easily make employees exit the company

What are some weird terms startups use that could be spoken normally?  They need to stop using these freaking words. Let's put them all in this thread. Here are a few
1. Cohort
2. Kickoff/ Kickstarter
3. Deepdive
4. Supercharge
5. Breakouts
6. Teardowns
7. Kickass
8. Gamification
9. True North

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