No idea. I know from a friend that they're doing it under the pretense of poor performance.

Product Manager

Growth Marketer

Yes true. Product management and Talent acquisition teams are affected mainly. Most of them are laid off under the pretense of poor performance. Why call it layoff and pay them severance? instead just put them on PIP and chuck out or they move out themselves.

Software Engineer

Layoffs at Leadsquared?

Layoffs at Leadsquared?- Grapevine

Most of them from product teams / sales teams and few HRs

Leadsquared has done layoffs

Sales Manager

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Heard they are doing another round of firing today, can anyone confirm this?

Byjus layoffs

Analyst

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True?

As part of annual appraisal cycle.. 
  
 "How much hike did you get? Promotion?" 
 "-100%, promoted to customer"

I heard that even VCs like Sequoia and Matrix Venture Partners are laying off people 

Sequoia has laid off 3 Analysts, 1 VP and 1 associate and Matrix has laid off 5-6 people

Any thoughts? Is it true? 

#layoffs

Venture Capital layoffs

Venture Capital

Is this true? They really paid well so curious.

Confluent 2nd round of layoffs?

People who were affected just got emails. Orgs include Search, Cloud, Ads , Assistant,  Pixel, etc. Engg is affected

Big layoffs at Google!

Last I saw someone post that his Google Interview has started.  
  
 Guess, FAANG are showing their fangs.  
  
 Apple laid off subcontractors and not employees from what I read.

Research Engineer

People from mid and top management (with fat paycheques) across org laid off on friday & today. About 100-120 people affected. 

Source: Heard from a friend. + mentioned in the Cross org emails by mukesh

Layoffs at cult.fit & cultsports

Product Designer

Mass layoffs at Miq Digital ! Impacted myself. Open for roles in analytics & datascience. Please help on this network.

Mass layoff at Miq Digital

So basically they laid off the entire 90% of the team or I think 95%

And now they are delaying the payment of the last month's working salary as well.

Got to know that people who were laid off 3 months back received calls from HRs saying that they will get severance after 8 months now.

Very horrible experience. One of the most shitty companies out there. I hope no one falls into their trap again.

Layoffs at Skill-Lync and no payment of last month salary

Growth Manager

Silent layoffs. Heard it from friends at Leap. I know a few folks who have been let go as well.

Leap Scholar / Finance laying off

They fired almost 50% of the workforce

Aug 2022: 20%
Nov 2022: 22%
Feb 2023: 7%

Leaders lie about not having anymore layoffs and they also ensure that we can’t talk about layoffs if we want the severance via NDA.

Affected in Turing layoff number 3

Boys and girls, Simpl is laying heavy this week. Stay tuned for my rant post in some days

Also Dm if you can refer for sde jobs, thanks

Simpl Layoffs

Bruh they were hiring last week. DM me for referrals at Angel One. (Fully remote for SDEs)

Any news about Legato?

Data engineer

How accurate is this?

Lawyer

One of my batchmates got laid off . Wasn’t expecting this. I thought they were doing well

Layoffs at pinelabs

Microsoft has lost all respect from me today. Guys please spread the word so that all come to know reality.

I am writing this post on behalf of my friend who is still in bad mood having mental trauma.

Yesterday my friend from Microsoft was let go from his job in India. He was being pressurised to write relieving letter saying he was quitting at his own will and that the HR apparently said if he didn't write the email in next half or 1 hour he won't be getting any severance or benefits by Microsoft India. 

Wait..who does this to an employee? He was so tensed yesterday that he is leaving for his hometown in few days, he doest want to do any job for some time, he was literally crying. 

He said the ones who didnt got laid off have lost the will to work. His friends who got fired are crying as it was least expected from Microsoft.

imo even amazon and sf handled the indian layoffs in a better way than Microsoft.

Other then that Microsoft peeps are not allowed to write anything rubbish on social media. You can yourself see 3 rounds of layoff have happened in India and you will rarelly see any post yet on LinkedIn.

Just imagine to what extent these firms are going to save their image. 😵‍💫🥺

msft used to have best people culture but now its something unimaginable😣

Microsoft India - Worst Situation Underway

layoffs at expleo

How many laid off by recent Cognizant layoffs??

Software Test - QA

Welcome to Business Roles's Private Community

Context: 10.5 YOE, Marketing lead. I've been looking for a switch since September last year. I'd seen signs of maybe my role or the company itself folding very early and knew 'twas time to bolt. But it's not that easy. Back then - 1 year in a startup meant hey not bad, people still spoke to you and considered your profile. These days, they treat you like Ebola if you've not had your ass stuck in the same place for 3-5 years. 

Anyway, so the majority of my time searching for jobs was the shitty Easy Apply or IIMJOBS premium account route. Suprise suprise. It doesn't work. But hey I was still employed and not nearly as motivated as someone who's unemployed. 

Cut to layoffs: Got laid off with my whole team and a huge chunk of other leaders. My first layoff, felt hilariously like the last day of school. To the org's credit they gave us 3 month severance, leave encashments and extra months for those who'd been there for 2 years+. In hindsight hearing the horror stories of 2k severance from Byju's. I'm grateful for the nice golden parachute I got. I'll be honest, it contributed heavily to my mental stability. I had time, I had leverage, I didn't have to run for the first shitty opportunity that came my way. 

The How I did it (why you struggled through the above stream of consciousness) 

- Wrote to 159 founders with one pagers to 35 of them with ideas on how i'd lead their marketing function. 5 replies. 3 interviews. 2 offers - didn't take em cuz they were super early stage or diff cities. This is immediately in month 1 so I've already started feeling icky about not getting great brands to have in my set. 
- Easy Applied to 768 (I ran a Gmail search, this is a real number) jobs. 99% no responses or you've been rejected. 
-Kept changing one letter on my Naukri.com profile, got me 6 calls, 3 interviews and 1 conversion 

I think theres a word limit to posts 🥲 following up as comments below.

Finally got a job (here's the do's and dont's)

Part 3 
  
 - Add HRs and hiring managers on LinkedIn, send them free ideas and strategies. Its ok if they steal them it meant they were great. One of them will refer you, remember you or hire you. 
 - Have a CV and a summary (half a page) that gets people excited about wanting to read the CV. Only areas of expertise and bullet points for results  
 - Don't put the OpentoWork filter on your LinkedIn DP. Its radioactive. I know people actively avoid those profiles. But make sure to keep open to work beacon on for recruiters. It pushes you ahead  
 - Dont post low effort i need a job because im laid off, i dont have money, copy pasted by millions on Linkedin. If you're gonna publically ask for a job, make sure that post has enuff of your skillset screaming for a potential hirer to want to explore more. Else you'll get velle gadhe typing CFBR 
 - Dont be anal or choosy about interviewing, i literally gave 35-50 in 3 months that culminated in 4 offers. Each one taught me something, heck ive spoken to startups with 7 peeps in it  
 - The only one that can negotiate CTC is the one that can walk away. When the offer i wanted finally came, my fixed went down a tad, but variable increased. The role was worth it so i didnt bother negotiating. Places i wasnt excited about - oh i quoted 30% hikes and got it at one place :p

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