If I see some bitch doing a day in the life of a..video while I'm on call in the office.... I will throw my laptop at them.

Founder

Yes the reason I come to work to post random dome shit on IG. Who even comes up with articles like this 😂😭

Assistant Manager

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Some big ones like Cred and InMobi are fairly obvious. But any smaller startups that have awesome offices?

Which early stage startups have the best offices?

Product Marketing Manager

My first startup had a smoking zone where there was gramophone looking art piece where people used to dump their ashes. Later someone told me that it’s a Bluetooth speaker and no one cared to put it back after the party that happened two weeks back. 

That was true culture shock.

What are some of the mindless things that high funded startups do?

Share your employer toxic trait/policy.

I'll go first 👇🏻

- My employer hired me when it was Fully WFH, now they force me to join office after 8 months of joining.
- Attend 5 days/week
- No hybrid
- Biometric system to track attendance 
- Complete 180 hours in a month or pay cut
- No relocation support
- Less appraisal (~5%) citing market conditions.
- Removed unlimited leaves just a few days below announcing WFO.

FYI: I was named best employee for 2023 Q1

Toxic company traits

Software Engineer

I work as a data scientist in a remote setting. I meet my team once a quarter. Here in Bangalore all my friends and my wife have work from office so I end up getting too lonely working from home. Also, this has shrinked my network compared to before. How are others in the city handling this? What forums, IRL places do you visit to counter this. Imho, This surely isn't great for long term career prospects.

Remote job folks: how do you network and how do you deal with loneliness

Look on the positive side. You have a job which is remote.

Product Manager

Data Scientist

"Should be willing to work in a fast-paced and exciting environment."

The environment:

Corporate cubicals are so ugly

Analyst

I have never seen official handle of any FAANG page featuring a day in office? Is it the new trend? 

If this is official then definitely Vasundhra is getting extra hike 😅😝

Your thoughts on FAANG’s IG

Engineering Manager

Overhead from Zomato employees that Deepinder Goyal doesn’t actually deliver food once every 3 months as he claims

These pictures are taken around the Zomato office space itself - pure marketing stunt

Zomato CEO fake pictures

Community Manager

an angry employee deleted the whole GitHub organisation / repos of his company out of spite as he gets fired ;_;

This has affected the production servers as well.

what would be the repercussions for that employee for pulling off something like this.

employee nukes github org as he gets laid off

Do you guys know any similar insta profiles with daily dose of corporate memes 😁

Love humansofcorporate

Product Designer

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

Working late or working on weekends is a sign of hard work.

Legal

What current workplace trend do you think we'll look back on in 20 years and wonder, "What were we thinking?" Maybe it's the constant video calls, or the overuse of corporate buzzwords?

Today's office trends: Future cringe material?

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Disclaimer this is not a rant or this has nothing to put in bad way someones hard work.

With so many ppl making tutorials and selling courses online, I had my few observations. I welcome ppl to join on this discussion with their point of views as well.

The most important things is you need a solid company name on your resume, doesn’t matter what work you might have done there. Everyone knows the meatiest work in google is done at west coast office(just an example).

This gives you the starting point, I would not disagree to the fact that these guys put on the hard work to crack the interviews, but that doesn’t mean you start selling a dream to everyone. It will be like what harshad mehta did to his clients during the days.

If a person is working in some unknown company and even though the person teaches really well, I bet there will be hardly any takers for his/her course. 

Teaching is an art as per me, not everyone can be a great teacher. There are some good ones out there but majority of them don’t fall under above category. I would say they are social media influencers with a bit of tech knowledge. 

We have already lost a generation with rot learning and now with the rise of these ppl, the day is not far way when a person aceing the interview knows jack shit when given an actual problem to solve at workplace.

Rise of bhaya didis selling courses

Everyone wants to get rich. To know more, I have a course you should buy

Recruiter

Computer Operator

Open offices are a scam, designed to save space for companies, and violate our privacy (I wanna hide and work/scroll Instagram)

Am I the only one who would prefer offices that looked like this?

Which startup has the most toxic work culture?

Ola.  
 I doubt there’s any startup which comes even close in terms of Ola’s toxicity.

Software Developer

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

Hi guys, new to Grapevine and I have seen this as a common point here, on Reddit & Twitter than Indian software engineers actively hate in-office work on social media

Trying to understand why is that so. All of my college mates have joined in-office & most preferred that as well. I myself had a terrible learning experience in my remote intern & have had much more success in our startup when we are all together

I understand the pros of remote work, but why is the negative sentiment so strong suddenly? Is this a niche group echoing this

Why is work from office so hated?

I'll go first. 

Narcissistic AF, named a whole product after his name!

Awkward things about Byju's. Let's do a thread!

Product Owner

I have been wfh for than a year now, my parents would keep ordering me to do small household work even when I’m working. I have asked them not to do that as it distracts me, but they will not simply listen and even scold me and compare me with others that they help their parents 😅

I have thought about just going to a different city and wfh from there but my parents are also getting old so have to think about that also.

People who are WFH, how do you stay focused in work when your family members / parents keep distracting you?

I distract myself scrolling reels, who else can distract me 😭

Associate

Instagram drives fomo have created epidemic of status driven consumption like ₹2500 for a one hour class of pottery, strawberry picking for Rs. 2000.

What happened to free activities like playing morning cricket or enjoying IPL finale with your best friends / family . 

Bangalore economy is running on fomo

Bangalore economy is running on fomo

Finally someone said it 🙏  
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