Some didn't even get email. Just straight up lost access to company accounts and that's how they found out

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Isn't it hilarious that there was so much outrage over the better.com CEO firing employees over a Zoom call in late 2021, fast forward a year we have these so called GIANTS laying off employees via...

Isn't it hilarious that there was so much outrage over the better.com CEO firing employees over a Zoom call in late 2021, fast forward a year we have these so called GIANTS laying off employees via an email.

Disgraceful stuff.

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Got to know through my network that Brainly india has asked the entire team from their MD to all junior folks to go. Reason - sudden change in strategy.. they didn’t let the product even launch.. the team was in full swing prepping.. impacted folks 30+ or around that number.. within 6 months of hiring everyone.. while in the interviews they promised 5 years runway.. long term strategy for india.. ceo didn’t even apologise.. they come hire Indians and let go at the drop of a hat.. the employment contract said that either party have to give 3 months notice to resign.. so that’s what they did they are giving 3 months pay not in one go but month on month and after that nothing. No severance pay, no bonus paid to eligible employees, no help in finding jobs , no mental health support, medical finishes in 3 months.. in this time when hiring is on global freeze they have treated Indians like puppets come hire and fire when you want, they have money in bank account a runway for 18-24 months.. still they couldn’t hold on to india team.. heartless way of dealing with junior folks how will we find jobs

Brainly India - entire team laid off

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Frontdesk, a proptech startup overseeing 1,000 furnished apartments nationwide, terminated its entire 200-person workforce due to funding challenges over a 2-minute Google Meet call, according to a report. The layoff occurred during a brief virtual meeting where CEO Jesse DePinto announced plans for state receivership. 

Company lays off entire 200 employees over 2-minute Google Meet call

US based startup laid off entire workforce on a 2 min Google Meet call. Waah.

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Zoom communication announce 1300 job cut..

Zoom Layoff

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Link: https://inc42.com/buzz/unacademy-fires-another-250-employees-to-turn-profitable/

Unacademy fires 250 employees to 'turn profitable'

Pathetic. How many times these so called another layoff?  
 This is pure scam. Such kind of CEOs and CTOs have no right to be at such higher places. These id*ots come to media and give lectures also. There should be some laws in place for layoffs. These People wake up and do layoff. Some get funding and then do layoff and some vice versa. Some fire and then again post about hiring next month shamelessly. It's like a fashion for the. Layoff is no more a last resort these days.  
 These kind of companies will surely go down the drain.  
 CEOs and higher management should be made to disclose their salary and perks so that junior employees should also know how much salary difference is there and is there really a need for cost cutting.  
 Of not, we should atleast stop respecting/ideologise such people. If possible stop using/promoting their products as well. Treat them the way they treat employees.

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Operations Manager

Microsoft Layoffs official email

Software Engineer

This is actually happening in every company. I personally went thought this and have no motivation to work because I don’t when my email will be logged out.

Layoff impact

The head of HR mistakenly sent a "layoff script email meant for managers" to everyone. 
So brace yourself, official firing is going to happen at Glance now...
Silent firing anyways has been happening for a month or so.

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Housing.com (REA India) ranked 3rd in the GPTW survey this year. They provide several awesome perks like, laying off without any notice, fucking their reviews just so that they could justify the lay offs, and threatening actions if anything came out on social media. 

10-15% of the whole tech team was laid off (mostly freshers) apparently on the basis of low performance.  It was all carried out by the higher management, not even the managers had any clue about the lay off happening. 

The performance rating was rigged by the higher management who had no interaction with the tech people. They had this awesome idea of getting reviewed by people who we had never interacted with. Managers were merely bystanders who had no say in the performance review whatsoever. 


PS: A note for the management -->
Housing.com would be an employee friendly company only if you guys would give two fucks about employees, instead of Caring so much about the GPTW ranking like conducting hands on sessions and literally forcing people to put in good rating.

Mass Lay-offs at housing.com (REA India)

The rigged performance rating and the secrecy is so true. I got to know about my colleague getting fired when I opened his slack which was deactivated. Upon calling, he said it was all done in 5 mins, Forceful resignation, No Severance and was asked to post nothing on social media.  
  
 From my team alone 2 people have been laid off both freshers.

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There is rumours that in upcoming week , there is mass layoff at pharmEasy .

Is pharmEasy is doing more layoff.

These Big Tech companies like Microsoft, Google, Meta, Amazon, Apple, Salesforce were  the dream jobs, dream workplaces, you know if you got into that, your life was settled, you had arrived. Cool workplaces, high salaries, onsite assignments, basically Big Tech employees were the cream of the IT employees.

But last couple of months, feel that the Big Tech aura has somewhat come down. Layoffs are inevitable in Tech world, but the rather clumsy way these companies have handled it rankles. Employees working from long, fired over zoom calls, emails, access disabled. I honestly did not have much expectations from the Desi service companies, having had experience of their terrible work culture, but expected much better from the Big Tech ones.

I think people will still keep aspiring to land a job in the Big Tech firms, but that aura is no longer there.

Do the Big Tech companies still have that same aura after all the mass firings.

Any chance of layoffs in swiggy in the technology department?

Can't believe when you are laid off from your organisation and ur company decides to take their leftover employees on a retreat ...how stupid is that ?
They even have the audacity to keep it public and share it on their statuses...it really heartbreaking .
Specially when there is no hope for a job in the
Market. 
Nevermind.. that's how companies are.
Will be grateful for the free used company laptop and 2 months severance pay i got.

Companies doing layoffs are conducting offsites at the same time ?

Week back there were posts by linkedin engineers that linkedin is hiring SDEs and anyone can as referral and today they laid off 700 people.

Like whats happening man!!! Is the company dumb or what?

LinkedIn Layoffs India

(1) Reduce cost of human capital -> (2) Post better EBITDA numbers in earnings calls -> (3) Get big bonuses and sell your equity if its value is rising -> (4) Hire a lot of people again so that you can repeat this cycle again to profit

This is what laid off employees are seeing at G

The company did around 10-15% silent layoffs in the last cycle by putting people in PIP. 
My Manager told me that he has pressure on him to put at least 1 or 2 people in PIP, make them leave the company and reduce costs.

Later, the company did as low an appraisal as 2%.

Senior folks are leaving specifically Frontend Developers.

Salaries of a lot of SDE-2 are below 30 LPA.

They have started new positions called Product Developers which will do the same work as SDEs but with a lesser package. PD-1 salary is around 10-12 lakhs and of Lead PD is 20-22 lakhs.

The company is putting itself in a position where it wants people to leave on their own.

There are almost zero perks in the company. 
The team outing budget is a joke which is 2k INR per person per year. That is 500 rupees per person per quarter. 

Also making office mandatory from November.

Razorpay is too smart!

Good thing. Anyways their frontend devs and PMs were doing everything on Twitter except tech.

In 2020, Google made sweeping commitments to advance diversity, equity and inclusion in the wake of nationwide protests over racial injustice, which are now being cut.

Google Slashes Diversity Programs After Big Promises

This had to happen 😆

Business Development Manager

dunzo laid off ~20-25% of it's workforce today, calling it that they overhired, pretty pre-planned.
And coincidentally some dept. heads are on leave for the next few days, unavailable to answer their team.
I wonder why these people even take up the leadership roles if they can't step forward to answer.

Dunzo massive layoff

Business Analyst

CEO takes full responsibility for company’s shortcomings and eliminates1750 roles today!This is done after already eliminating 900 positions 6 months back!!

Wayfair Layoff 1750 Employees Globally

This is how you hire your best employees!

Or, or, this is how you get the work done after firing most of your employees

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