Is it the case for your manager and others in your team? Did you decide the work timings on your own?

Software Developer

Depends on team to team basis. In most product base, there are no fixed timings for non-operations teams. 
 We can take multiple breaks of 1-2 hours throughout the day, you just need to submit the work at the end of the sprint.

Thanks for the insight. I assume the breaks are excluded in your work hours and you would need to be present in the office working for ~8 hours. Am I right?

Software Engineer

Hi everyone,  Is it possible to start working after 12pm in any big product companies in India?   I know this is allowed in service based companies where their clients are in the US.  But would lov...

Hi everyone,

Is it possible to start working after 12pm in any big product companies in India? 

I know this is allowed in service based companies where their clients are in the US.

But would love to know the scenarios in big product companies as well. Please share your experiences and thoughts here. Thanks!

Is starting work after 12pm allowed?

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Hi am a fresher working in an IT company as SDE intern. Wanted to know if most of the Indian companies follow strict schedule? This is because I have heard people doing 9-5 job. Often they are having meetings after 5pm and sometimes working on even Saturdays. Does this thing holds for Service based companies like Infosys, Wipro, TCS etc or its true for FAANG or famous startups as well?

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Which product based companies in Bangalore works on a day shift where you can wrap up by 6-7 pm? Strictly no late evening meetings?

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How many of you actually only work 9-5? Do you get paid for overtime? Is Indian corporate culture disconnected from the 40-hour workweek belief?

Is 9-5 a myth in India?

Total disconnect... most of us do not work 40Hrs a week -every week.. sometimes its 60hrs some times its 20.. but the main requirement is we need to pretend to be busy. That's what's defines a hard worker in our country. 
productivity and efficiency gayi baad mein.... if you  finish your current work, you  need to find the next. or you can continue the current work for as long as possible.

Consultant

Copywriter

Which companies have best timings (9am to 5pm etc) ?

Hi all,
What are some of the Big Tech companies who have *core* global product teams based out of India? Most roles I can find are for charters that are backend internal systems / non-core product streams / customizations for APAC or India. This is understandable since US alongside being their HQ, is also their largest market commercially by far. But was curious to see if there are any teams within Big Tech that are bucking that trend, and are building core products from India offices too.

Not restricted to FAANG but to Big Tech at large, including Walmart, Target, Stripe, Uber, Adobe etc.

Big Tech based out of India

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Hi, I am starting my internship at Amazon this summer at their HYD13 office. It'll be for 3 months (june-august) and I am looking for a place to stay. 
One of my relatives suggested Financial District is the best choice for Amazon employees, but also said that temporary PGs or 3 month rental flats would be rare. Any suggestions or ideas will be appreciated. Also if there is a popular app where I can check and contact the places etc

Location advice for Amazon HYD13 Internship

Data Scientist

Is anyone working or has worked for US based product companies as a Product Manager?

If yes, then needed to understand the following

1. Work culture and office hours
2. Type of work compared to top Indian product companies 
3. Did you go down in your designation compared to previous designation in an Indian product company. Was it worth as you would have a better designation in India during that time period.
4. Long term prospects of getting called to work in US permanently or short term.

Would be helpful as I am evaluating a job opportunity.

Indian Product companies v/s US Product Companies

Senior Product Manager

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Peeps in bangalore who come to office at 11am-12:30pm and works till 7:30-9pm are writing such productive posts by backing losses with some research report 😵😵😵 

Merko 2 time zone sunkar hee chakkar aa rela hai, uss loss ka kya

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What are some of the best product based/product led companies to work for in India? Could include MnCs as well as startups. Mostly the factor would be - how much leverage does product team have

Best Product Companies to work for right now

Usually I login by 9 am close laptop at 11pm . 14 to 15hrs of work ..

Overtime is common in india even in product based?

Data engineer

I've had the fortune of having worked in 3 countries so far. India is by far the most exciting place to be in 2024.
But there's something about our work ethic that just concerns me. In both white and blue collar.

In most other countries, I've observed people strictly sticking to the 9 to 5, working diligently in those hours - not wasting too much time on chai sutta breaks, instagram browsing, gupshup etc.

They work for 8 hours, then leave. And think about work directly the next day.

In India, most of us spend more hours - but very obviously very few of those hours are productive. In fact, I lately feel that too many people around me are doing even 2-3 hours of work on a good day.

We end up just staying around, passing time, and then go back home. When we could have achieved so much more.

Work ethic has fallen. Work hours have gone up.

We need to be more mindful of our actions, we need to work well at work, and then do well at home.

I think it's a function of being over populated. There are 1.5-2 people doing what 1 person should be doing, hence this effect.

Needs to be fixed, it's the sign of a major problem in the workforce. Thoughts?

Disguised unemployment in India - It's all around us :/

We don't end up staying long hours because we need to. But because we have to, so that the manager doesn't feel like we leave the office by "half day".  
  Also, they have a leverage that they can shut their laptops at 5 and nobody will reach out to them. But here in India, managers do reach out for escalations, or make us attend lat evening calls because it's afternoon in Europe or morning in NA. The people sitting in Europe or NA are not made to wake up early or attend night calls to accommodate us during our actual 9-5.  
  People also chit chat etc. bcz they know for sure that they have to sit for long hours..so they need to take small breaks in the day. No one has the capacity to work 10-11 hrs without any breaks.  
  Here it would never be possible to have such a strict 9-5.

Customer Success

Corporate Strategist

Is it good to be in bangalore or in Trivandrum for  a better career as an sde wrt to pay

How much can an sde earn in Trivandrum?

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 Guys ! Startup pmo here I have interviews lined up with few big tech companies , I have a small doubt do companies allow me where I can have a side hustle or take up parents business on the side 

Asking for myself any suggestions

Can I have a side hustle or freelance

Data Analyst

Hi All, 
I think with funding winter, the work culture in Bangalore Startups is becoming toxic day by day. In my company, it started with filling the daily time sheet of what work we did, then why do we need work from home( Company gives 4wfh/month), then a circular came today that every data filled in timesheet will be minutely checked with card punches, can't be late even for 5 minutes more than 3 times a month. The hypocrisy part is employees are underpaid(5-6 LPA for software developer) and overworked(9+ hrs/day).
I got to know one more startup where they have normalised 12hrs/day 6 days a week working and if you work less, it will affect negatively. They force their employees to reside nearby to the office so they can work till 12-2am from 10.30am.

Is it common everywhere?

Bangalore Startup work culture is becoming toxic

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This is absolutely meme material!! They declared that 75% of employees will work from home by 2025, and before even 2025, they reverted that and now claiming everyone to come to office all 5 days!! I mean not even Hybrid, but all 5 days!! News mentioning recent report of asking employees to come all 5 days- 

https://m.economictimes.com/tech/information-tech/tcs-asks-employees-to-return-to-office-five-days-a-week-may-end-work-from-home-from-october/articleshow/104049381.cms

TCS- From 75% to 0%, that was pretty fast!

Can't fault Milind Lakkad.  He has a new boss. 
  
 New boss, new tune.

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