block time on calendars just for getting work done. Have frequent coffee breaks, invest in good anc headphones.  
  
 Dont hesitate to reach out and ask for help, keep sharing even smallest of updates in standups, dont need to create unnecessary pressure on yourself for these updates 
  
 any task, break down to granular level, show it to leads/stakeholders then only begin to keep everything transparent

dont need to engage in any gossip, keep to yourself and your personal shit to yourself 
  
 learn polite corpo speak(please, thank you, the basics), it might seem superficial but its always safest  
  
 Have frequent (monthly) 1-1 s with manager with a set template, asking honest feedback, this would ensure no surprises during appraisals/shit goes down 
  
 Lastly, figure and carve out your niche, something that you should be known for in company when anyone thinks of that particular task, this will keep your visibility high

Data Scientist

was in exact same shoes hence can hard relate.

Over-reaction : Such cultural changes are expected. MNCs operate in a compliant and careful manner to not go beyond barriers.  
  
 Working fast & break things work in startups only as liabilities are less.

Product Manager

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...

Welcome to IT Company Discussion's Private Community

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 😄

Rant and Feeling confused

Rant and Feeling confused- Grapevine

Welcome to Indian Startups's Private Community

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

Not a great culture, also you don’t have to give the actual reason, instead say due to some unavoidable work or family health reason you will need to wfh. Its a good way of seeing what kind of employer one is, when they also treat urgencies like that. Indians feel they need to give a detailed explanation as to why they deserve wfh or leave, whereas in international companies, you just have to inform the manager.

Senior Designer

Growth Manager

Welcome to Software Engineers's Private Community

I am a Software Engineer with 6 years of work experience. Currently working for a US based startup. Previously I have worked for Amazon and a couple of Indian startups.

My current org is remote and I am working from my hometown. It's super chill in this company and work is only to build CRUD and APIs. I feel too stagnant here, my manager is also super chill and is in retirement mode. I feel this will message my future.

I joined this company so I can work on my start up but haven't been very active there too.

Recently a Google recruiter contacted me for a L4 role and had the recruiter screen and he scheduled the interview for the next month.
Google base monthly salary for L4 is way below my current since it's a US based startup. But with RSUs Google annual CTC his higher.

I am confused whether to continue in my org and focus back on startup or start preparing for Google interview. In the long term I want to start my company. At the same time Google will offer an AI ecosystem and resources that will help my startup.

Please share your views.

Please help. Too much confusion.

Software Developer

I'm a 2023 grad but I've worked in VC/HFT/GSoC/startups

I'm so fed up with the WFO culture. What do you even get by getting employees in office?

What's the point? I'm an engineer, I can write code from anywhere on the planet with internet and laptop.

Been looking for a role since August, while having a solid dev ex yet all these fools are WFO that reduces half the number of companies I want to work for.

Any suggestions or am I being a fool?

RANT: I HATE WFO

Software Engineer

Today, I received a warning email from the HR stating my performance is slow and they are going to decide on my employment.

I have joined this company very recently, as SDE 2. They are expecting me to complete a 30 day task within 10 days. I got excited and took it. I have been working my ass off, beyond the clock to achieve it. Most of it was new to me, since i don't have professional experience on this particular stack. It took me 6 days to achieve stability and structure of the application. Literally I haven't been sleeping a bit.

Now after 10 days they just shared this email. I really wanted to let this out.

Feeling shitty about performance feedback

Performance appraisal is just a yearly reminder that the employment is at their mercy. Beyond that it's has no meaning full value.  
 As a rule of thumb, one must always crib and complain at their jobs. If it takes 30days , one must say 50 days. If they ask us to complete in 10 days we must cry in front of them and shown tham that we are suffering. That's the only way to survive. Have you seen any ceo come on TV and say "life is good we are going to make a ton of money" no they always say " tough times ahead, recession time" , "perform or perish".. all the usual BS. We should follow our leaders.

Consultant

Welcome to Ask Grapeviners's Private Community

Mine was okay, started managing a new product/platform (matured one), lots of moving pieces. 

Kuch samajh nahi aa raha hai 🤷‍♂️ Still leading the calls with clients 😬 and leadership 🫤

Living each day as it comes

How was the workday?

This is kinda weird and unexpected - It has just been a couple of months since I left my previous company (a Unicorn) from a senior role in business. I left on good terms due to reasons like : Lack of personal growth in sales-led roles and being in the same industry for long.

I had just moved from BLR to Gurgaon to a new startup (run by a conglomerate) and it has not exactly gone as per my expectations - no Hybrid WFH option (WFH is not very common in non-tech domains too); extreme micromanagement and the weather+vibes in Gurgaon (no offence please).

Now, my previous company has called me back for a strategy role. I'm super confused:

1. I prefer BLR any day
2. I prefer working in Hybrid mode any day
3. But I left my previous company due to stagnation in sales roles. The role offered to me now is a Strategy+ Partnership one.
4. I am not exactly sure how I will tell my current employer about this. It will be a dark mark?

Boomerang to Old Company in 2 months?

Sales Leader

Welcome to Data Scientists's Private Community

Currently working in a startup and contributing in data science projects. Learning is good but a lot of time goes down in meetings and discussions and I have to do late night work. Everyday starts to feel like the same and I am not able to get time for extra learning to enhance my knowledge and tech stack.
Also thinking of company change but most of them need 3-4 years exp to the data science team. 😭

Feeling losted

I know this is not what majority of people like to listen, but for people coming from other cities with no friends and poor social skills, working remote or hybrid starts taking a toll on your mental health. 

The isolation it brings is so overwhelming. You feel trapped and frustrated, when there's no one to talk to.

Sometimes, I feel the quality of life of our kind of lower than street vendors at least they have people they can talk to. I just hate the way we are wired to be social animals yet find it overly difficult to connect with people.

Unpopular Opinion: I prefer Work from Office

If you are early stage of your career if you don't have responsibility at home you should come to office it's a healthy approach but for people like me who has already spend more than a decade in office life and has a small child at home working for home is like a saviour for me and my wife

Senior Engineer

Welcome to Business Roles's Private Community

Hi, guys. I just switched to a new role (UX Writing) and its been 14-15 days. I am getting major work FOMO here. Here are two things I am feeling, help me navigate through this? 

1. I am not aligned to a project/account yet. Feeling a bit restless, I feel like reaching out to seniors and teammates and I do. Yet, there’s little clarity on how I will be resourceful to the entire set up. 

2. Brushing up on my skills until formal tasks are allocated to me. However, I learn more on the job, rather than through training. How to make most of the time and resources available?

3. I am not sure if I am overthinking this, but I feel like my role isn’t as well-etched as I first thought it would be.

New Work. Feeling utterly confused.

Social Media Manager

Welcome to Office Gossip's Private Community

I have been on a permanent wfh role since covid. Yes, been 2+ years since I stepped into an office. I stay alone and have little expenses but also 0 social life. Friends are all spread out. Not on any dating app because its exhausting. Can someone just talk about any impacts on their personal life from work life? Does anyone here feel a void too? I’d love to connect.

WFH = 0 Social Life

I have been working remotely and honestly, I don't want to go to office ever (at least that's what I feel right now) 
  
 I don't want to become besties with my coworkers, and I stay with family so I'm very happy spending all my time with my favourite people in the world! I also have the option of traveling and have decided to take an out of Delhi trip every 2 months at least 
  
 I might be biased, because my parents and immediate family are professionals as well and have home offices, so all my life, I've had the kind of atmosphere where offices don't play a huge role, so I'm happy! 
  
 But yes, I suppose I do get the socialising aspect, it becomes harder to make friends as one grows older, especially when all your school/college friends have office jobs 🙃🙃

Lawyer

Operations Manager

New Work. Utterly Confused.

I am a new grad working at a big MNC as a Data Analyst. It's extremely beurocratic and slow. We do meets all day and no work, it's as if we are paid for meetings. I was quite excited about it as I though I would be working on interesting ML projects (I find ML and AI quite interesting). But all I have been working on is projects where you try to maintain fucked up legacy stuff. 

I see a way out, startups where I would actually build stuff, use my skills to solve actual problems. Is this perception correct? Will work actually be more interesting and useful in startups?

I am also concerned about the pay? Although I earn a pretty average salary even here, I suspect it might be lower in startups. But I have a gut feeling that I will learn, and grow a lot more working at startups coupled with networking with entrepreneurial people which should result in higher earnings in the long run. Again is this perception correct?

Confused between big corporates and startups

I have been talking to a few companies, across different size bands.
Only Indian startups seem to obsessed with full week WFO/Micromanagement.

A few years back, startups were known for being more flexible, now it just seems to be the reverse.

Why are Indian startups so obsessed with Micromanagement? i.e. WFO

I know a lot of folks will not agree, but when it comes to accountability (+ some integrity), the vast majority are really really behind. Those who show some are stomped up on as well.  
  
 The only way to get over this might be to micromanage. I'm not in support of it, but I myself have been seeing a change around me because of some people, a few others will also have to suffer from micro-management. Yes, it's not easy on me/my mind, but the work is moving a bit more.  
  
 I've seen this at a lot of places. I usually trust others with things, but the results have more often disappointed me. Now, I just delegate only of it's really required.

Founder

I mean it can help save a shit ton on rent and other expenses for running a office. So why exactly do they hate it?

What makes founders/ top management hate WFH?

Product Designer

I joined a startup a couple months ago and I get the feeling that everything is so..slow? These guys take months to get clarity on a single feature, and that too, not completely. Engineering team is extremely slow. Nobody is proactive which has started making me feel weird. They've been at it on a single platform capability for 4 months now and there are things that are still not clear. Plus my KT didn't happen so most of the time I'm trying to put 2 and 2 together. All of this has started making me feel so insecure. I spoke to other people in the team and they were like one of my projects has been going on for years.

Any advice on how to tackle it? I'm trying to see if I can switch since this is not the kind of team and fundamentals I want to work with

Figuring out in a new company

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

Too many meetings, and our boss is one yapper

1. Try sending invites with an agenda 
 2. Drop off the call and leave a message that you gotta attend another meeting or you're working on something that's a priority or any personal reasons  
 3. After every meeting send an MOM 
 4. Do everything for you to escape any meaningless meetings except telling your boss. That's the safest option. 
  
 If there's one thing that TCS taught me...it is to PRETEND like every manager is nice and always right. If not you'll definitely lose your mind.

Never join startups where there is no organisational structure whatsoever if youre coming from a very structured experience. My mind is just fried being at the same level for a year now doing everything I can.

Rant and Feeling confused

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