Only thing i’ve heard about livspace is that the services they provide are really poor.  
  
 Wait! they recently hired Anushka and Virat as their brand ambassadors 🥲

Sounds like yet another startup that has thrown big bucks to get a celeb, than focus on correcting the Product and taking care of the employees who are responsible for the product

Marketing Manager

Data Scientist

For most folks, it's 2 weeks of severance. Grounds for laying off are vague.

VC Analyst

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Analyst

They bombard people with calls asking for contract to renovate their homes. Just a broker in between i suppose.

All these broker model dont work in India

Product Manager

Yes. Especially for houses if your point of contact keeps changing then the eventual result might look different than what you started with. Same with budget as well.  
 Plus they got bad publicity with a website dedicated to shitting on them

Why 1 month only? Is notice period 1 month?

Oh no. How many and from which departments? Didn’t they just get Anushka and Virat 😔

Journalist

People are being laid off across the org. Only one month of severance is being given :(

Layoffs at livspace

Layoffs at livspace- Grapevine

Livspace layoff 2% or 100 employee. Majorly from tech, product, content and marketing.

Livspace layoff 100

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

Layoffs at Leadsquared?

The startup Airmeet laid off its tech, sales, and etc teams with one months severance.

Lay offsat Airmeet

Generalist

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

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

It was a pretty tense situation at the office. 

Nearly all engineering managers were laid off, most of the SDE-2s who were not the core engineering team and a lot of SDE-1s who had just joined this year. Even the interns were let go today.

Pretty scary scenario today. Just putting out an update. Apparently it was done to please the investors for the next series of funding. Can't say for sure though.

CityMall conducted layoffs today.

DevOps Engineer

Any chance of layoffs in swiggy in the technology department?

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

Brand Marketing Manager

Welcome to Indian Startups's Private Community

Massive layoffs at airmeet 🥲

Welcome to Software Engineers's Private Community

Around 30% of the staff have been laid off. Some teams have been completely laid off.
This is after the layoffs of around 15% around November/December last year.

More Layoffs at Ocrolus

Edtech layoffs still continuing?

Teams were asked to strictly work from home for today because of plumbing work going on in the office. Roughly 300 people were laid off in a townhall hosted by the founders.

Scaler lays off 20-25% of their workforce

How will they tell people that their courses will help get a job in a product company now?

Recruiter

Software Developer

Layoff @ Licious

I don't know if I'm overthinking or not, but I need a sanity check.

A couple of months ago, our department underwent a huge change. Our department at 400+ people and close to ~25 of those were working in US and UK. 

We had layoffs in may. A month prior to that, those 25 people were shifted to some other department with no changes in their roles despite us being told that our roles were pretty much obsolete and we'll be shifted and trained to take up other similarly structured roles. 

It's just crazy because there were no layoffs only for those people but almost every other department in all countries had some people laid off. 

This question of mine wasn't answered when I asked in our leadership office hours. 

It's crazy because usually Indians are cheaper right? It was not like those 25 people were generating a crazy impact that other Indians weren't.

Anyway, a lot of us like me are now stuck in a different role and are being trained for something that would provide absolutely NO VALUE once we are out of this organisation. 

Have no motivation left and conspiring is what I do to spend my time during those trainings as I don't see them providing value at all.

Non-Indian people/team being treated differently

Account Manager

Welcome to Office Gossip's Private Community

I heard about 2 weeks ago they were going to get shutdown or sold to some other company. Does anyone know what’s happening? I remember they had a decently sized tech team in Bangalore

Anyone know what’s happening with Lummo?

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

Mass layoff at Miq Digital

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

Layoffs at pinelabs

SEVERANCE PACKAGE: Those who have been laid off in the last 1 year or those who know their colleagues are getting laid off.

Kindly comment below

Company Name,
How many months of salary was given as severance, any other details wrt layoff.

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1-on-1s getting scheduled by end of day, 3-month severance, just announced.

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