Operations Manager

In the name of reorg they are just crunching budgets and no clear path. Very frustrating

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Hola people! Today I am gonna tell what is happening in Swiggy since last couple of months. This is a everyday story in Swiggy’s private feed on this app. So thought to enlighten others as well. Sit back, grab a coffee and enjoy the rant of a frustrated employee.

For everyone’s understanding, work culture in Swiggy has gone for a toss. Employees are working day and night to meet the never ending and unexpected goals set by our leaders. All because of the next year planned IPO. Many talented folks have left the company and many are in the process. New CTO is trash and super aggressive. Empathy died a million times the moment he became the CTO.  The only goal which the company has now is to deliver FAST! Nothing else matters. This is for literally every org!  

Micromanagement has significantly increased and you are expected to provide update for every damn thing! Employee motivation level is literal 0 and no one gives a f**k about anything. Some people are put in PIP and there is no chance of coming back from there. Cost cutting is being done on whatever means possible to achieve profitability. 

Number of outages in the last few months have significantly increased and most of the employees are working in the weekends to complete their assigned tasks. People are just surviving and will leave the moment any opportunity knocks at the door. Its sad to see a company who was once known for its work culture is now struggling on almost every front. 💔

Fading glory: A company that couldn’t sustain its excellence

Software Engineer

I left the product design team of Nykaa a few days back & I foresee things going from bad to nasty. My x colleagues are telling me how a large bunch of folks are put on PIP deliberately. Almost all of them have gotten no or single digit appraisal. Just this week they are now forcing even the Tech. Employees to work from office for 5 days a week, this will ensure that a lot of people will eventually leave the company. The new CTO is just trying to bring the amazon work culture, don’t be surprised to hear some bad news about Nykaa in coming days. The fashion business is itself struggling to make business, Superstore might not make any profits anytime soon.

Things aren’t good at Nykaa

UX/UI designer

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What’s the observation about Tata Digital aka Tata Neu in the Industry? I’ve been part of it for quite some time and I’m having a feeling that the insider observations are quite different from what’s known to others. 

To summarise my observations:
1. No vision on running digital business
2. Toxic leadership
3. Very bad work life balance
4. Sub par pay compared to similar orgs
5. Poor engineering culture
6. No money to burn anymore - cash crunch
7. Lot of senior exits
8. Layoffs across levels

Do you feel the same?

Tata Digital aka Tata Neu?

Director of engineer

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I work as a Product manager at a series A well funded startup.
This company is run by a solo founder/CEO.

This is a wannabe tech and product startup that does not care about their product at all. The internal review meetings get 5 minutes on product and 55 minutes on business and operations on a good day!

All they care about is how to run operations and tech just works on automation instead of building the product for the end user. Every OKR cycle runs for two months where OKRs are set for product but we end up building internal tools because things get "re-prioritised" and operations "can not miss targets".

The worst part is that the strategy changes every 2 months and every week, the CEO keeps adding new "wants". Almost like a baby seeing shiny new toys.
At this stage, the product has become a mess with no identity at all!

This baby always says "But is that even do-able" acts critical and tries to seem smart in front of their employees while lying to the investors and board every other week that we are a tech and product company.

I don't know if this happens at other startups in India. 

Would love to hear what y'all have experienced.

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Senior product manager

Since there's many Swiggy employees here. I love Insanely Good. I've stopped ordering from BB / Instamart, Blinkit and my local shops. 

1/ User Interface - just amazing

2/ Quality of Ingredients - the best amongst online retailers

3/ The no door bell delivery - a basic need now. BB guys don't go away till they count every last tomato at 7am. 

What I want to know / suggestions from my side

1/ Are you scaling up in Mumbai/ Delhi? Would love to hook my parents on to it. 

2/ Is the business generally doing good? I've referred it to 3 people so far and they've all started using it. Hopefully this isn't just me in an odd power iser cohort 

3/ Can it get bundled in the Swiggy Credit Card? I shop for all my groceries here, nothing better than the card extending benefits to me. 

4/ What about Meat? If I can get good quality chicken, prawns, fish sourced locally it'd be amazing. Even just a tie up with lucious, I'll order it from your app. 

5/ Looking forward to your inventory expanding - many minor gripes with items missing across sections.

How's Insanely Good doing?

Product Manager

In last 30 days or so three times I was in the situation where hiring people said I will send your offer letter by eod, which obviously didn’t happen. In fact the position is kept on hold or priorities are changed.
This is pretty frustrating as well as confusing. I’m not able to understand how these people decide things. 

Every time I was pushed to go through whole hiring process with multiple rounds of interviews as quickly as possible (within 10-15 days approx) and then suddenly nothing.

I’m not sure why these peoples are wasting theirs as well as others time. This just feels stupid.

How should I tackle this situation going forward?

Hiring is broken

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Dealshare funds have been blocked from use. Something major off.

Founder

In your experience, what are some early signs that help detect incoming layoffs at a startup?

 It could be company-wide, team specific or in a particular function only.

Layoffs at startups: Early signs or warning signals

Software Developer

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Hard-core banglorean here.  

Seen dunzo grow from when it was a WhatsApp group in Indiranagar to when it became a verb. What happened to dunzo? 

Call it not understanding what I have read or just plain lazy,  I am not able to fathom what happened to a company that was the OG of its industry and grew with 0 marketing and solely on the product and how it happened. 

Anyone care to simplify it and explain?

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