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Private Equity

I don't know man. I was there for a short while. Arnav was pretty even though shit hit the fan a couple of times but thats may be because I am from the same college

Product Manager

When I was there as a skip it was all chill okay fine and logical. The moment I became a direct reportee shit got real and I then understood why did his one downs leave saying it is toxic. So yes can understand what you are saying.  
 May god give him peace.

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Worst company to join, The founder is a mad man….he treats employees really bad and consistently harasses his reportees.  So many senior folks have left because of him, he is extremely toxic and en...

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Worst company to join, The founder is a mad man….he treats employees really bad and consistently harasses his reportees.

So many senior folks have left because of him, he is extremely toxic and ensures that you don’t have life outside work.

Please save yourself!!!
Thank god i left that company months back and still my friends their continue to rant about him.

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How is the culture at Navi? How is the culture for Product and Engineering teams?

Navi Reviews?

Software Engineer

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Hi Everyone, This post is about the Toxic Co-Founder of Quantiphi (Mr Toxic Asif Hassan).

Reasons:

1. Work-Culture has become Toxic, People in Project are working since 5 weekends without any single leave ( No Extra Pay/No Comp-offs/ No weekend Leaves) and that to 13-14hours a day Straight.

2. People in my project who have raised voices have been told (" You know what options you have and I have "). Indirectly saying if you revolt either i will fire you or you resign immediately.

3. People facing issues with Clients(Canda's BigTicket Insurance Firm) paying a huge amount for an un-realistic deadline project were told by Asif. If you have any problems that don't come to me, i want only solutions( He doesn't want to listen to Anyone).

4. People were forcefully told to come to the office ( Some people who had some genuine issues e.g. one of our colleagues recently got blessed with a baby) was told by Asif you are not the one caring for the baby, So you have to come.

5. All our advanced leaves are cancelled, People who are taking Sick leave are being told either bring your backup or work with your Illness, we don't care.

6. Issues raised with HR, HR says "We cant do anything".

7. In the last 7 days many senior people and colleagues were either Forcefully resigned / got Laid-Off.

8. The people suffering the most are the ones directly in touch with the client or the developers reason being Asif bashes Managers and Managers Bash us for No fault of ours because of the un-realistic deadlines set.

9. People revolting are put on the bench and are laid-off the next day without any reason. 

The Moral of the whole team is near to Zero and many of us are thinking to voluntarily Resign from this toxic workplace. 

Guys do suggest, should we call out these kinds of toxic Co-Founders and Companies or not. I need to help me reach this post to a wider audience.

Happy to hear comments.

Quantiphi's Toxic Co-Founder

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Hey
Does anyone here have any intel on Loop Health's work culture? What are the people and founders like?

Culture at Loop Health?

Graphy has forced a 30% salary cut on each employee to achieve profitability this year. This cut will be applicable from February onwards until 7-8 months. 

Truly a sad time for the Edtech ecosystem.

30% Salary Cuts at Unacademy

I repeat: 
  
 If you have options, avoid joining EdTech companies. 
  
 If you're already working for one, exit at first opportunity. 
  
 Indian EdTech companies are largely sweat shops in fancy office buildings.

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50% layoff at a Bangalore  based health tech startup. Founder had no shame or guilt. Has raised funding recently but chose to fire people again. This is the third layoff in the last 1.5 years. Terrible management, declined variable pay. Severance is to paid in the next 4 months. Just trying to pivot the company into ‘AI’ without any plan whatsoever.

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HealthifyMe is the Startup. They are having other PR articles to cover this shit now

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Hi folks, has anyone here interviewed with JUSPAY for the PM position? Can someone share some insights, please?

Also if possible do elaborate on the coding round. I really wonder how much coding they expect the PM to do in an interview.

Product Manager Interview @ JUSPAY

is slice a good company to work at? i am interviewing with them for an engineering position. please help with the details on work culture, leadership and work life balance. (engineers at slice, please help)

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Guys, applying for a role at OYO. Biz-Ops role, mid management role. How's the work culture and work life balance there. Don't want to go at a toxic place again.

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Strategy & Operations

*IMPORTANT*

Monday morning and nobody at office. We have no option but to force strict rules now: 

1. If you arrive any later than 9:55 in office, it will be marked as half day leave. 

2. Lunch breaks are supposed to be max 40 mins long. I accept basic courtesy of following this, if not, I’ll tag people on the group. 

3. All leaves requests need to be emailed to me. Without any record on email, we might not be able give a record of how many leaves in each bracket are left for each individual. So don’t expect this data from us, if you don’t email.

Icing on the cake, CEO didn't come to the office

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I quit Deloitte after 4 years of excruciating pain. Here's why?

The concept of bench will literally kill your confidence the most. If you know how to beg then you will succeed here because if you don't beg for projects then they will definitely lay you off. 

I was always a bright student in college and chose Deloitte because of the brand name but if I had known that once I was hired, I would still have to find jobs every day, I would have never joined this hell. This is utterly ridiculous.

I have now joined an early stage startup which has been the best decision of my life. Deloitte is literally the worst company ever. There were a couple of seniors who used to say the most hurtful shit to me whenever I used to go to the washroom.

These Indian seniors always harass freshers while the American teams are usually much nicer and respectful. Don't throw your youth away in the name of earning a few bucks.

How Deloitte USI almost ruined my life ☣️

I have an offer from Cars24 as a BE engineer should i join the company or not? What are the folks saying here? I am in a bit of a conundrum

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Storytime: I work at Gojek. This year on 10th March 2023, I was supposed to be laid off in their second minerva round. But got saved due to office politics. Ever since I found out, like a sane person, I've been on the lookout - but like an insane person, for whatever reason, not aggressively. Finding out that you got saved because of petty office politics, and how pointless everything is- changed the way I look at Jobs/companies. While I did wanna move, I wasn't desperate. All of them are snakes.

Anyway, Since then, I've interviewed only for 3 companies. All 3 of them didn't work out.

First company - After the intro call , I was told that this wasn't a good fit . No explanations given. I was quite sad on that one. First kick back from the world after learning I was to be fired. Self doubt was heavy at this point. 

Second company - cleared everything but they weren't making a good offer. Took 1.5 months to meet at an agreeable salary. I still wasn't happy and parted ways,sad that it didn't work out. 

During our negotiations, the Indian government changed some policies that hit their industry hard. This company is now just trying to minimize the impact of the new policies, currently. They were not able to offer market industry salary then and I'm sure wouldn't be able to do so now. Layoff rumours in the air. I wonder what would have happened had I given in and accepted their mediocre offer or they had given in and given me something they couldn't sustain. 

Third: I interviewed at MPL. I was impressed by the HR, the interview panel- great product minds to work with and grow. The salary discussed in the intro call seemed great. I cleared 3 rounds. Went and met them. However I didn't clear, post that. HR ghosted me abruptly. I kept following up. After a week they responded. Feedback wasn't constructive or detailed . It was borderline harsh. I was super sad. I thought MPL would be it. 

Woke up to the news of MPL layoffs today. Indian government  changed GST 🤣

Are these signs from God or the government? Starting to believe there's some higher power in the universe

What happens, happens for the best. People don’t seem to get it initially, however, retrospectively it all makes sense somehow.

how is Park+ as a startup? need reviews about its problem statement, work nature, culture and pay. 
thanks in advance Grapeviners 🙂🙂

Park+ reviews

Another day, another newsbreak on a start-up's downfall. The whole Co-living Start-up bubble might burst!
Can go through this article and share your views?
https://themorningcontext.com/internet/stanza-and-the-coliving-business-struggle-to-survive#:~:text=Stanza%20Living%20is%20struggling.,no%20money%20has%20come%20in.

Stanza Living to Crash

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What made it worst? The pay, the culture, or your manager?

What's the worst company you have worked for?

ICICI Bank, they had a strict sign in timing policy where if you are late to corporate office, half day salary would be cut, It would be reversed only when manager approves. The sign out time used to be 5.15pm, but you would be made to sit till 8 pm by most of the managers even if your job is done for the day. A sign out at 6 pm used to be called as half day by most of the managers. 
 I heard now they donot have this dictatorial policy.

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I have see many lists of places to work at. Let’s create a list of companies not to work at. Please post the company name and the experience of working their.

Top 100 places not to work at!

Has anyone interviewed with Jar recently? The company has been hiring for the SPM role for the last 6 months (afaik). Are they not able to hire one or are they hiring more than one person for the same position?

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Basis recent news article and interview of the founder, the company is in talks for external funding. Has the founder money run out, he is also talking about ipo in 2 years.

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