Only in big companies!

I thought I was the only one frustrated with meetings until my colleagues also mentioned they were not able to get work done because most of the day was spent on meetings Plus our boss (CEO) loves talking, anyway the meetings are agenda-less. He stretches 30 min calls to 2 hours and then has the audacity to question the productivity. Cannot tell me this, he gets very touchy when feedback is negative for him. And then writes sarcastic messages. Also, who wants to take up fights with person who pays your salary What to do in this case? I'm tired of working 12 hours each day

We got a round of funding in early 2022 and decided we hire aggressively. The new employees did not get adequate training and guidance. Till August 2022, 4 members of my team left and no one asked the manager why is this happenening. The remaining were just being loaded and loaded with work. From August, we went on a hiring freeze. Then one more person left and things got serious, we were loaded with work. In November, we had layoffs. One team member quit voluntarily. For a company that boasts its great culture, no one fucking asked the manager why so many people are leaving your team. The remaining are just waiting for a good opportuntiy to turn up. And don’t get me started on the manager. Complained to HRBP, no action. While our counterparts in the US are getting everything and everyone in need. Our all hands meets are about cost cutting, conservative appraisals and other bullshit while other teams are roaming the world and chilling. Just wanted to vent out.

It's getting dirtier by the day and sure some orgs are still up to their dirty tricks. The models: - Appraise and then Lay Off: Why bother putting bandaid on a stab wound? Anyways the folks are going to fight how to answer the ..why were you laid off war, and now you are adding another twist.. why were you appraised and then laid off? - Low appraisals to force quit: Undervalue them so they leave on their own. It’s a leeches way to cut costs. Kill morale 100%. Severance penny spent $0. - Trap them in PIP: Dress it up however you want - very very few escape this death sentence. - Silent treatment: No assignments, No meetings. Watch them spiral into anxiety and leave to save their sanity. - Workload overload: Drown them in work until they break. No need for layoffs list until they make it to your collapse list first. - Strategic reorg: Re-organize them out of existence. Offer a demotion or a proxy role in a random team that you know they dont want as an alternative. - Sudden policy changes: oh! I have seen so many I can't keep up with this one. New policies that make their life hell. People leave to escape your pettiness. - Mandatory relocation: Demand they move to an undesirable location. Then you treat remote employees like outsiders. Exclude them from key projects, conversations until they feel like foster care kids, second-class citizens. You know the outcome from there on. - Use the "Culture Fit" excuse: Call out how they’re not a culture fit. Vague, unchallengeable, and forces them out without severance. And don't sell me "the org has got to do what it has got to do to survive" line. I don't buy that If you have seen this being done, I understand your silence, but I don't value it. If this has been done to you or someone close to you, I am sorry. Orgs and the people failed you. We could be 1000x better than what we are operating as.

I am a 6 yrs experienced Software developer and part of a mid-stage startup. This is my third job; I have been working here for 3 years. I was involved here as one of the core engineers at the start in developing the overall platform, After that, my growth as an engineer stagnated for 2 years . Constant importance and priority are given to business requirements and hacky work getting pushed to production in the name of fast iterations and business impact every week. My engineering manager lacks proper engineering skills and doesn't respect engineers even after their impact on the company and constantly keeps saying the engineering team doesn't contribute to the revenue of the company despite us pushing work that improves business positively. Last year around November, around 80% of the engineering team was subtly suggested to start looking out for work (basically a soft layoff) because management was too scared of a social media backlash Due to all this,2 years' worth of technical debt has accumulated on the overall codebase and apart from giving justification for every code improvement that we try to make there, we still have to work on business/product requirements. My growth as an engineer has stopped and I am worried about missing out on the latest developments in the tech industry, especially with AI in the picture, and want to make my skillset somewhat AI-proof. I have come back to hands-on coding this year , so that's a positive start. I am considering taking a 3-4 month break after resigning from my company to study, develop side projects, develop a portfolio etc Has anyone else been in this boat ? How did you come out strong?

Dear Fellas, I hope who so ever is reading this post is doing great. I need a personal advice from all of you who have started 30's journey with a wife and newly born kid ( 2-3 months old). I am working with analytics role with a Edtech renowned company for 2 years now. Due to following reason I feel like I to switch : 1. Job insecurity ( lay offs) - (however they don't have any replacement to my role.) 2. Very short sighted leaders. 3. Very low increments even with maximum ratings. 4. Sir & Ma'am like culture. 5. They poke for working from home even with genuine reasons. 6. Strictly time bounded culture. 7. Less chances for promotion as sometimes I give priority to my personal life. So I want a suggestion that does it sound good to rejoin to the analytics consulting roles. Will that make my life easy or this is not the right time looking at the market situation.

What are the biggest disadvantages of working in FAANG acc to you? According to me: 1. Company leadership says A (which is something I most of the time agreed with), but I kept seeing middle management do B. 2. More and more processes and red tape. I did not like the direction the company was developing (I was in a sensitive org, so we had a lot of lawyers etc to begin with, but it got overbearing) 3. Promotions are extremely formulaic and at times I felt like an ape trying to tick 10 check boxes in a half.

Just moved from a WFH startup to a Full WFO legacy corporate company. These corpo people talk so much, too much restrictions to get access or to create a MVP, a lot of unnecessary paperwork/ email loops. I feel sleepy all day and these people find and make you speak hell lot making me confused and feeling that I have done no work and what will I say about deliverables 🥲. Side note: renovation going on so not getting any corner + the setting are like this getting it is difficult 😭 Any suggestions or I am over reacting 😄