Which business processes you think still have Dinosaur way of working? Saw lot of innovation in Sales, Marketing and customer support...nothing much others

Which business processes you think still have Dinosaur way of working? Saw lot of innovation in Sales, Marketing and customer support...nothing much others really...

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Razorpay probably has the most overrated engineering culture from the outsider's perspective. Everytime on Twitter there's some npc telling how Razorpay is a dream place to work at or how Razorpay engineering is the holy grail.
From inside it's hilarious that someone could even think of those things. There's no learning path, especially in payments business unit for engineers who are forever stuck in ad hoc tasks. There's no long term plan, no roadmap, just PM and EMs shoving down and hocs.
Even in terms of learning from peers, there are so few charters where someone works with a lead, mostly it's just slogging it out alone in an ad hoc or some bug fix.
It's almost always an eternal cycle of never working in impactful projects -> never get assigned one, because there are so few -> get average reviews -> again being asked to work on "impactful projects".
 If anyone is under 3/4 yoe they should stay away from razorpay for their careers sake.

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People in the firm what is happening? Is this the end of edtech and BYJUs? What went wrong?

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I've had some frustrating experiences at a certain B2B eCommerce subsidiary of a international bank, where the work culture and technology are far from ideal. Expecting 3-4x output from employees with outdated manual processes and technology is a tough ask. The sales team's situation is even worse, having to resort to fake orders due to unrealistic targets and a subpar app. It's disheartening to see top management prioritize PR exercises over addressing these critical issues.

Another B2B eCommerce site that is all hype and no business model

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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?

Side Effects of working at startups

Almost 50% of the org got no increments
People with "exceeds" rating got single digit increments
Only promotion cases have got early to mid double digit increments
Promotions have been significantly fewer this time, max people have been told to hold off their expectations of promotions for another year

The reasons cited were economic slowdown, other companies like Microsoft, Flipkart, swiggy, Amazon doing the same and cost cutting. I think things are getting toxic and the majority of employees have been left disappointed.

Razorpay increments - sad state

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What are your thoughts on the term that I am hearing in some of the podcasts (primary where one of the guest/organiser is a VC) - 'Founder market fit'. Is it really important/relevant/practical especially for aspiring entrepreneurs who have work experience (say 5-10 years)

Founder Market Fit

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Hey guys, last year I built an website to match B2B advertisers and publishers. Like Ad-Mob but for bigger brands and platforms.

Mostly think: the ability to seamlessly explore and book ad spaces in popular apps like PhonePe, Paytm, and Swiggy!!!

But I still can’t get big enough clients with deep pockets to buy them. Most brands just directly go to the merchant ad websites so I tried to get informative dashboard to get people use it for market research. Still no growth.

What should I do??? Can anyone help or explain what I am doing wrong!

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