Journalists using Grapevine to publish scoops

Is this a good thing or bad?

Id love to see Grapevine create a catalogue of Grapevine approved verified anonymous accounts of detailed employee accounts of how good or terrible a company is. Think The Ken but filled with employee reports. But the style of writing leaning on the casual office gossip side. And the content saved in an archive and searchable. The biggest problem of course would be getting people to verify their identity to a Grapevine mod or writer may be tough. Me personally, I’d love to talk to some writer about my experience at my previous businesses. So many scoops and insane stories! (I dislike Glassdoor for the HRs infiltrating and BSing everyone)

While its sad to see all those layoffs happening all over the IT sector, its nice to see a strong community of grapeviners providing news and updates way ahead of mainstream media!

May treat this as a thread to list out some key-happenings that you would like to see reported. Please stick to speaking about companies you are employed at. Third-party commentary, and hear-say doesn't help anyone. Let's keep this genuinely, Grapevine.

All the news sources that are popular are too biased. With Adani buying stakes in all major news sources, they all have become too rightist. So where do you get your news from? Do you have any paid subscription?

I’ll go first. To me, it’s all about access. Access to authentic ideas. The best search result you get on Google is high SEO but low authenticity. On LinkedIn, there are so many people but everyone is shilling a course or 1:1 resume reviews. Mostly it has become a place which started as vanity signalling Like ( I have started a new role…, I have been accepted at …, I have received offers from F, A, N and G and I’m joining G.) And now people pushing mindless content with “Agree?” or “Comment Interested”. Somehow, everyone is truly inauthentic to please a wider audience and say the exact same generic gyaan to maximise engagement. For now, Grapevine is where people are genuinely themselves and I get to hear interesting things that you get to hear near the coffee machine. Kinda feels like we’re all a big community where we all contribute and learn new things about the professional landscape around us. Godspeed Grapevine. 🚀

Recently I was talking to a girl who was working a startup in BLR. She left the startup with some horrendous experiences. This startup was working from a startup hostel in BLR. Things she told me shook me. She was dating the founder. So this founder who claims to be on his 2nd startup dates his own employees and then blackmails them. The average age of his employees is 24. All these girls that he dates are not above 23/24 Apparently this guy has 2 court cases against him. One for fraud and one for a rape case. Both of them are not easily found online. He uses VC money to keep in under the hood. The fraud case is about his first startup which was a stolen idea apparently. This guy’s whole life is fake. He claims to be an IIT Madras dropout, but he's from some local college. There are rumours that one of the girls he dated tried to kill herself because he allegedly filmed them. He also does not pay salaries for months to his employees but compensates by giving them expensive gifts. He claims his parents are IAS officers but we checked and they are not. His last startup was around around AUTH and current one is around Fintech Girls and boys stay away from working with such shady startups.