Consultant

Chartered accountant 

This is the job of a manager. Make sure performers stay and perform even better. 
Why would the company hire someone and pay them for lazing around?

There should be a special place in hell for such managers!

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Managers at byju’s

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Sundays, the day where even Jesus took a breath of freedom, Unacademy Leaders think that just because you are a working professional you aren't supposed to have ONE DAY OFF!

The whole Saturday we ran around creating data pointers and decks for a meeting that never happened with GM and now Sunday evening they are informing the whole team to report early for the same meeting that was supposed to happen on Saturday changing the data pointers and getting all ready before 10am Monday. 

I mean I understand mismanagement but this behaviour is getting way out of hand!

Word to the wise and also to the so called leadership at Unacademy, you guys have no clue what you are doing and within the next 3 months I bet you guys will be the next Byjus. 

au revoir!

Work Life: No Balance at Unacademy

Founder

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Link : https://www.financialexpress.com/jobs-career/ex-byjus-staff-face-hiring-blacklist-3462708/lite/

Sad state of affairs for Byju’s employees

Corporate Strategist

I think, I haven’t seen a worst managed company like this.

Bye-Ju at its worst!

Product Manager

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There are managers who are paid close to a Crore Rupees a year for doing this.

Scene: Our team is working on it. We’ll get back to you.
Reality: I have no idea about what the issue is. I’m completely dependent on my team.

Scene: I have a hard stop now. Have to drop off.
Reality: I don’t care about the ongoing meeting. My “passive” attendance in some other meeting is more important than the ongoing meeting.

Scene: +team FYI 
Reality: Not my responsibility. Team must take a look.

Scene: Do you have some bandwidth?
Reality: If you say no, I will use this against you during appraisal.

Scene: Feel free to give feedback about leadership. Your opinion is important for continuous improvement.
Reality: Negative feedback should be worded with politically correct statements. Else be ready to face consequences.

Scene: The leadership team expects so-and-so from you.
Reality: I’m not capable of questioning the leadership team. I’m just passing the buck to you.

Scene: Can you prepare a deck by this day?
Reality: I want to show a rosy picture to my leaders. I will ‘use’ you to impress my leaders.

Scene: Who wants to work on this item?
Reality: I’ll judge employees who don’t volunteer.

Scene: I want you to complete this (bullshit work) by this weekend at any cost.
Reality: I want to save my ass in this job.

Scene: Do you have any blockers?
Reality: As if I’m capable of resolving them…lol

Scene: Taking a day off. Reachable on mobile.
Reality: Added the second statement to ‘show’ how important & flexible I am. I know you’ll not call me anyways.

Scene: Manager presenting something. Do you have any questions?
Reality: -silence-

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Have you ever encountered Managers like these?

Inefficient Managers

Software architect

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Indian managers will make the work culture toxic even if they are in good international companies. Indian branches of the same company will be shity because of these insecure managers.

Indian managers of no use

After fooling countless customers, investors, loan partners, byjus employees are now all set to destroy what little is left to Unacademy.
Unacademy is now frantically hiring people from BYJUs across all levels and verticals. With BYJUs employees employment stood on the base of false promises and unethical sales, it is just a matter of time, Unacademy will become the new BYJUs.

With the company’s product first approach and the apprehension towards aggressive selling, it is disheartening to see the new fondness towards BYJUs.

Uncademy the new Victim to BYJU’s

Category lead

Feedback letter from employee to Founders, CEO & CTO

Heartwarming message from ex-Byjus employee to founders.

Software Engineer

Just In : Byjus India CEO Arjun Mohan Steps down

Program Manager

"BYJU’S grew considerably since our first investment in 2018, but, over time, its reporting and governance structures did not evolve sufficiently for a company of that scale. Despite repeated efforts from our Director, executive leadership at BYJU’S regularly disregarded advice and recommendations relating to strategic, operational, legal, and corporate governance matters. The decision for our Director to step down from the BYJU’S Board was taken after it became clear that he was unable to fulfil his fiduciary duty to serve the long-term interests of the Company and its stakeholders."

https://techcrunch.com/2023/07/24/prosus-questions-byjus-governance-says-indian-edtech-regularly-disregarded-advice/?tpcc=tcplustwitter

This is major - Prosus just publically said that BYJU's had improper governance and failed to improve despite their recommendations

Investment Associate

India Business News: Byju Raveendran, CEO of Byju’s, criticized investors for hindering salary disbursement due to the lock on funds raised through the rights issue. Inves

Byju's unable to pay salaries as funds locked: Founder Raveendran - Times of India

Byju's Unable To Pay Salaries

The job market has not been good for the last 12-15 months, but organisations around are offering good severance to their employees and aiding them for their next steps. But UC conducts "performance reviews" twice a year, which is basically a platform for managers to wage a personal vendetta against the "low performers"(read: people who don't suck up to them). And hence, they strategically 'ask people to leave', in return of making sure that terms like 'fired', 'laid off' would not be associated with them. So, people put in their papers, and serve the one month notice without working, and get that salary as their 'severance'. 

Leadership team goes on to boast the fact that there hasn't been any layoffs in the company. Well, fair, because one needs to own the fact that they've laid people off, and funnily enough one of the UC values is 'ownership', and managers do OWN the indifference to the sudden absence of a certain team member from meetings. 

Apparently, people perform fine till the time these half yearly reviews are conducted, because there isn't any concern about their performances in the regular one-on-ones with the managers, but cometh the review, cometh the concerns with performance. Managers nit pick over employees not responding within 15 minutes to their messages. Also, there isn't a 360° view of performance, so your peers, who work much closer to you don't have a say in your performance.

UC brags a 'meritocratic' culture, and rightly so, where ones merit is their ability to show their work as 10x of what it actually is, appearing to be busy with a completely packed calendar, and always saying yes to whatever manager says, even if it means bending over backwards for them. 

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Urban Company - A spineless org with hypocrite leadership & incompetent middle management

Software Developer

Heard that there has been some senior management connect, where in due to financial constraints & lack of new round of funding. Some folks will be asked to leave. 
This is a complete 360 from the conversation they had in Mar’23 where in an appraisal was on the cards

Another layoff at BYJUs

Growth Manager

Hey all. My first post here. Can anyone tell me what the work culture is like at Unacademy and Upgrad. Currently in another ed-tech firm and looking for a shift.

Work Culture

Operations Manager

For context: Weekends are off. So just fri WFH. This is a Series B startup. I am not even asking for a leave but WFH for just 1 day. I joined recently. The only thing I did wrong was possibly informing a little too late.

Want to get opinion if I am overthinking or this classifies as toxic culture in startups where you are expected to push limits above and beyond regularly and sometimes weekends.

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Is this toxic work culture or I am overthinking

Byju's is so messed up! LOL!

Data scientist

Just got to know I was laid off, any personal stories or experiences you folks would like to share, 
- what helped you to find the next job
- how to mentally get over it it etc,

Thanks!

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Product Designer

Hearing that Toothsi is pushing their products very aggressively through unethical means which can really screw up customers teeth. If BYJUS had a reincarnation into a healthtech startup, I would imagine that would be Toothsi.

Both education and health can be sold through fear mongering.

Toothsi seems to be BYJU’s healthtech avataar

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