Product Manager

Every generation works a little less harder than the previous one.

What has hardwork got to do with it? Hardworking doesn't equal not making mistakes or faulting out.

Business operations

Scrum master

No one at any level has any clue on what works and what doesn't. The ones who can cover their asses and project productivity move up the ladder and prey on those who couldn't.

Program Manager

Everyone makes mistakes. Repeated mistakes are a isssue. Learning from mistake is a skill

Software Developer

Why do they behave like when they were in junior positions they never faulted or did all the work within working hours. As if they were so perfect that there could be 0 faults against them.

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People in senior posts

People in senior posts- Grapevine

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I have been getting a feeling that software engineers (SEs) have a sense of entitlement, believing they deserve a salary of 50-60 LPA with 2-3 years of experience and a 30-40% raise every year. As an SE myself, I believe this sense of entitlement leads to unrealistic expectations in the workplace and hampers actual output. Past nine months have been brutal, with mass layoffs and minimal or no increments. Due to this I have noticed people putting minimal effort into their work. I understand that getting no appraisal can be demotivating(trust me I do) but considering what we are paid for what we do is just insane(I am comparing with other industries).
With funding becoming scarce, many companies are no longer burning through cash. Most Indian companies will prioritize profitability to secure further funding rounds or pursue an IPO. Since engineering teams account for a significant portion of expenditures, everyone will be looking to cut costs by any means necessary.
What are your thoughts on this situation? Do you still give your 100% even if you didn't receive a raise but are being well compensated?"

Rant on entitlement of Software Engineers

Data engineer

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It has almost been 18 months since I have joined TCS. I was on the bench for a total of 5 months in the beginning, and finally got a project.

I went to the office and my manager told me that it would take few days for document verification and security clearance. I was coming to the office daily but had nothing to do. I was getting anxious since I was just watching Youtube videos for almost a month. I wanted WFH but when I asked they said I had to come to office even if I had no work.

Finally, I got a KT from someone working on the project. I came to realise that I was doing work that even a 9th class student can do. The problem? 5 people were doing this work.

The problem? I was working 30 minutes a day. I had to come early to the office, login using my seniors login creds and do timepass work. I have to send an email to our point of contact at the client side that the work is done at the end of the day.

I have learnt nothing here. I feel that these companies are just too inefficient. I am planning to leave ASAP now. I have learnt nothing and I am scared that I will not find another job because I have the Years of Experience but no skills. This is how IT companies destroy your career. Now I am doing DSA to get into another company.

What is the dark side of working at service based IT companies?

Software analyst

Why do seniors in office here treat the low level employees as majdoor?

Toxic culture in the team

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I know sometimes we refrain from saying too much about our company. But exes can usually be talked about, since there's not much holding back.

Maybe it helps someone else avoid a mistake you did, or gain a new learning :p 

Shoot.

What's a secret from a previous workplace you worked at? 🤫

Corporate Strategist

New silent layoffs at the end of November. Some teams are merging. 

So team members will be moved to new teams and then laid off 😞

Unacademy will now reach an irrelevant status like vedantu etc

Unacademy Layoffs Season 20

Growth Manager

Hi, i have been working outside India for the last 5 years, so am not sure of what to enter as expected salary for senior leadership roles in design. Any insights would be great!

Product designer salaries

Product Designer

Grapeviners, this is what your corporate overlords like "Mr 70HoursperWeek" and all want from you, to DIE. 

70 hours per week? This is a tight slap to Mr. NM and his supporters. 

Consider the case of the McKinsey consultant who lost his life( https://www.consultancy.in/news/4168/young-mckinsey-consultant-commits-suicide-due-to-work-pressure ).
 
Wake up Grapevine!

Aftermath:
BofA Juniors will begin strike today.

Bank of America employee dies from working 120 hrs/week

Founder

Why Ola Cabs CFO Karthik Gupta steps down?

Context
1. Shantanu, Bombay Shaving Company founder has been very vocal on LinkedIn about this.
2. Morning context article today on Ashish Mohapatra, OfBusiness cofounder and their bad HR practices

Does it stem from some kind of superiority complex Mc Kinsey consultants have?

Why are McKinsey founders so tough to work with?

Wipro layoffs 

https://www-businesstoday-in.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/www.businesstoday.in/amp/technology/news/story/cost-optimisation-at-wipro-hundreds-of-mid-level-jobs-slated-for-elimination-says-report-415528-2024-01-31?amp_gsa=1&amp_js_v=a9&usqp=mq331AQGsAEggAID#amp_tf=From%20%251%24s&aoh=17066948529697&csi=0&referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com&ampshare=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.businesstoday.in%2Ftechnology%2Fnews%2Fstory%2Fcost-optimisation-at-wipro-hundreds-of-mid-level-jobs-slated-for-elimination-says-report-415528-2024-01-31

I worked in one of the WITCH company. Most of the middle Managers are just email routers and no real depth in expertise or hands on with technical. What do you think? How would this year pan out?

End of the road for IT middle Managers?

Senior Data Enginee

Let me go- 
Coworker who used to lie a lot and spread rumours. Like they'll make up a story in their head, and start telling random things. Once she pinged everyone saying that I got engaged, and I suddenly started receiving texts in company groups 🤷🏾

What are some of the worst habits of your coworker?

It can be either a strange workplace policy, an altercation with a manager or absolutely anything else.

What's the most toxic incident you've come across at your workplace?

Consultant

Note - I am a product manager too

4 out of 5 product managers will act all high and mighty of themselves, bragging their way as if they run everything going on in the company, flaunting their business degrees and being utterly disrespectful towards their team( dev design qa name it), 

Recently started going to office so the attitude I am seeing is very transparent and more visible (more with the higher experience folks)

It makes me wanna leave this hyper inflated role, thinking of I will end up like them scares me, and you have to do is speak out jargons in meetings day in day out and have a English accent of Shashi Tharoor.

Recently my manager told that this is a role where you have to very representable or very visible and act in floor as if you are the busiest person on earth and I seriously some PMs in company doing that, they walk so fast in floor as if they will fall off or would be better to have 4 legs.

I am done with this product management shit

Suppose I(intern) am preparing a excel sheet (no numbers)
It's been quality check by mentor 
Again its been quality check by lead person

Again its been a final verification done by manager 

But if the fault is found .. it's my error ??

Who's fault it is??

I currently work in a project that is driven by CEO and he is very intimidating. I work my ass off to make sure he gets what expects but today he was especially aggressive during the call. After the call I asked him to wait up for two mins and started telling him that I am getting intimidated by him. Although he was nice to me when I confronted him, now I am feeling embarrassed because I broke down a little when I spoke. Tears started flowing and I am feeling like a weak person. Just fyi I am an adult male.

I ended up breaking down in front of my CEO

Product Marketing Manager

They have no life
They have nowhere to go
They have no one to be with
They have no passions outside work either

And they make your life hell as they become the baseline for comparison for all sorts of management from appraisal to work distribution.

Feel free to disagree with me, but I’m genuinely pissed today. How do you deal with them? I have a decent life outside work but lose most of it while trying to catchup to such people so that I don’t get fired.

Sorry for the title.

How the F do I deal with overworkers?

Software Engineer

I am one of the top people pay wise in my team but I don’t want to put in crazy work hours… like I earlier wanted to when I was in my 20s. Am I wrong?

Should a senior employee be counting work hours?

So how do u folks manage work life balance. Does it exists or is it the case, more money more responsibility more fucked up work life balance.?

people who are in senior positions or earning a very handsome salary

I have gone through this idk about others but many may have gone through this phase when your manager or senior just tells you in some what inglorious manner

People in senior posts

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