Today someone, tomorrow your closed one's, even you. This needs to be taken care of. Every community has their association. What about corporate employees. They are earning a billion dollars but there's none to ask what happened.

Associate consultant

Software Engineer

Their only aim is to treat employees as animals and do PR to show that they are The Best Place to Work.

I agree, see next in 1 year we will get the best place to work award😂😂

Consultant

Wow did this come to EY GDS associates? I did not get this email (I am from EYI)

Management Consulting

Instead of checking with their employees, if we are doing well and asking us if we are going through a similar phase, these bastards have the guts to ask us to keep our mouth shuts and let their PR...

Instead of checking with their employees, if we are doing well and asking us if we are going through a similar phase, these bastards have the guts to ask us to keep our mouth shuts and let their PR team work to settle this😞😞

Started looking for a new job from Today.

Shameless Bastards

Shameless Bastards- Grapevine

Welcome to Indian Startups's Private Community

Paytm layoffs

Product Manager

Welcome to Office Gossip's Private Community

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.

Fed up with Chargebee

I spoke to my boss, 
no increment this year is not what I expected starting off. Less money, atleast put me in a role that is interesting. 
Current role is monotonous and tiring.

Boss: No money, no role change. So what are your plans now?
(Legit in this tone)

Cut to two months later, I hand in my resignation

Boss: what happened?!!

😒😒😒😒😒😒

The Audacity

Leadership is clueless and one of the most toxic workplaces where people are bullied and no boundaries are considered 
.Just a week before the appraisal cycle, the let go of 100+ folks both billed onsite and offsite without even informing anyone in the team which impacted the work and morale of existing people. When asked about this to the management, all they cared about was the reviews on the ambition box and Glassdoor being low. They asked employees to give good reviews and when it was not working they used the marketing team to give good reviews, you can check the reviews yourself to verify this. The next big thing is , keeping org wide evaluations from manager level also and calling it some development program and mandating the employees to take it along with delivery work. So we can expect more rounds to happen going forward. What is more sad is the blackmailing and forcing employees to take down reviews and  employees who are planning to goo

TheMathCompany - Layoff more than 30% workforce in 6 months

Data scientist

For a marketing role where i had an assisnmrnt with a lot of deliverables to complete in 2 days. On asking for feedback the recruiter told me “the person who screened assignments didn’t like your work much”. I feel absolutely garbage and am looking to feel better. Can someone tell me I just escaped a bad company or something.

Rejected by Swiggy

Marketing Creative

Welcome to IT Company Discussion's Private Community

An HR from Infosys just contacted me on WhatsApp and asked about my details I told them I am comfortable talking on a call rather because I will explain better about my past job profile and other details and that shameless person showed attitude and blocked me.

HRs are worse than human beings and shameless they think people are there to satisfy their ego

Software analyst

Welcome to News Discussion's Private Community

This is absolutely meme material!! They declared that 75% of employees will work from home by 2025, and before even 2025, they reverted that and now claiming everyone to come to office all 5 days!! I mean not even Hybrid, but all 5 days!! News mentioning recent report of asking employees to come all 5 days- 

https://m.economictimes.com/tech/information-tech/tcs-asks-employees-to-return-to-office-five-days-a-week-may-end-work-from-home-from-october/articleshow/104049381.cms

TCS- From 75% to 0%, that was pretty fast!

Welcome to Product Managers's Private Community

I'll go first. I got a call for an APM role from one of the companies which did sound pretty sketchy and the recruiter was started bullying me into answering questions, when I asked to know more about the role. The recruiter was extremely unprofessional, and obviously the conversation was nowhere great. They however, did go ahead and sent me the JD and other links, etc to fill in and apply for the job. Mind you, I hadn't applied for the job. 🥲
It just was a pretty sour conversation which had left me in an uncertain situation. Any similar experiences?

Weird recruiter experiences

so somehow I have transitioned from being a senior level designer who went on a sabbatical and eventually unemployed to leading asia team. 

one of my initial tasks was to assemble a local HR and accounts team for the company’s local office. account team seems to be good considering I have no idea what they do but everything is on point according to HQ. now the problem the HR team. we vetted and hired few folks with good experience but completely got blind sided by their attitude. internally we create and apply with fake profiles to judge how they work n experience was shit to say the least. ironically like my last post asking everyone for high school grades to last salary slip (both are completely illegal in HQ country). on top of it they give a call to everyone and never follow it up. so as I am petty and decided to lay off the whole team.

now our strategy is to hire through department heads. we need only 90 folks or so to be hired. what I need advice is does our European method work here.

-Apply to job on LinkedIn /website.
-your CV gets masked up it’s our internal AI. (basically you name,sex,address,university names,school etc) only thing visible to hiring folks would be your tech stack, your degree name, your percentage not that it ever matters and work ex. 
-if it looks good we call for a video interview (we require both parties to on video) speak shit about life get to know each other.
-one take home assignment on your strongest skillset (you define your own assignment albeit we decide the difficulty level haha)
-immediately paid out a one time €50 on paypal for time spent on the assignment. the work cannot take more than a day.
-if it works well, we ask you to come to our office for team fit meeting (we will take the expenses)
-you start working with us 

any chance we can get fucked over with this methodology in India?

HR situation at work .. need advice from candidates .. :)

Creative Head

Welcome to Software Engineers's Private Community

This is so bad.

Software Developer

Hi all,
I have been giving interviews for several IBs in last few months and i have had a very laggy, slow experience.

Namely, i have been interviewed by JPMC for about 3 profiles, Barclays for about 3 profiles, BNP Paribas and DB for about 2 profiles.

I would not disclose or discuss anything about offers. What i want to highlight is all these organizations are just taking weeks to finalize and give answer. If they like you, they would have rounds of interview in 2-3 days after each interview, but then, its radio silence. Then they either internally reject you and don't give any update or keep on window shopping with other candidates and try to find cheaper options. Then they come back if they don't find anything.
But something that they should change is transperancy.

Say exactly what is the status of a candidate. Why you want to keep on buying time.
On the contrary, i was also interviewed by EY. And they were simply the fastest and the most to the point guys.
Interviews done in 2-3 days, after final interview with director, i got a call the same evening discussing salary, etc...

No HR HR game and time wasting.

Also, none of the IBs ever update the status on online portal and when you reach out to HR for an update, all they say is its in process, waiting for business to reply and please check status online.

At times, even after months, the status stays the same.

And the worst part is, after playing their time wasting game, say if your scored an offer letter from somewhere else, they will say that this wasn't disclosed or said during the discussion. 
They should understand that if they are wasting a month of an employee on the pretext of "waiting from business for reply", it can happen. 

If any other folks have faced same issue, please share.

I personally have made a decision that if and when i do hiring or am part of hiring process, will try to be as transparent as possible and give answer atleast in a week's time to any candidate.

IBs taking forever to answer

Equity research

Story time- When I left my last organization, I was really pissed and hence released all my anger in the exit interview. Told everything - the politics, loop holes, what needs to be changed, etc. 

Now 2 months down, I got to know from a colleague that the same HR who took my exit interview, asked my ex manager, "ISKA FnF CLEAR KARNA HAI KYA, YA OR KHEECHE THODA? "

Yup, she said that. My ex manager was good enough to not entertain it and asked her to clear it ASAP. But the audacity of the HR!!!!!! 

I so feel like mentioning the company and THE HR'S NAME but let it be. I am sure with such practices, she ain't going anywhere. 

Share your dark HR stories below!👇

HRs Exposed!!!

Another year around and last year was dry with literally 0 percent hike. My salary not been increased for past two years and this year my hopes are going down. The PMS cycle was supposed to be on May 1st. We were supposed to get manager ratings. When I checked  it wasnt even case and they dont even communicate of such a delay. They just keep it closed doors and this is what I see as transparency. Already I have many exits voluntarily. When I was demanded for work day and night. they said company will reward people meritocritic and now when I turn them back and ask they arent even interested with sharing date on when the appraisal would come. What should I do I feel being cheated after 2 years of working day and night? Any news or this is going to be one another year of their sick promises and betrayals?

Am I being fooled @Yubi?

Getting one month of severance. Was part of marketing team in a startup. Series B startup - on the verge of collapsing ( or at least I think of it so due to shorter runway , no pmf )

Laid off today

Marketing manager

Rant alert : 

Have some really sensible friends (thought so) and we banter about startup business follies. Now I don’t want to be friends with them. 

What got to me recently was few of them proudly boycotting people from Byjus, Unacqdemy, upgrad or any of the startup’s who were in news for irregularities/bad culture. 

I thought this was quite insensitive and cruel. I mean - seriously really - let alone  trying to make any changes or raise voices, how many of the employees would  have had any knowledge of the unethical practices. They can’t even leave the company because of arsehole holier-than-though leaders will reject the resumes as quick hops. 

Not at all saying there should be a sympathetic view to them, but a fair chance to everyone is warranted. Why treat the employees as some pariah! Such rotten people and it’s ridiculous they talk about empathy the next min. 

Everyday we are seeing a new level of downfall of startup’s and way of businesses. Why not change the pseudo intellectual, egomaniacal, elitist clannish attitude that founders/leaders  used to exhibit.

Boycott the company founders and not the employees

Investor

I have been hearing from multiple friends across organizations in India. Lay offs are not in news but happening silently across boards. Companies are on cost cutting mode. Interesting year ahead

Silent layoffs happenings across organizations

I want to share my experience as a fresher at Accenture, my first company from a college placement. The first six months were fine, but then I faced severe mental harassment from my supervisor and manager. She constantly criticized my work and gave negative feedback, causing me immense stress. I often skipped meals and worked weekends to improve, but nothing helped.

Despite reporting the issue and requesting a supervisor change or a different track, my requests were ignored. The harassment worsened, affecting my physical health, and I couldn't eat or sleep properly. My manager controlled trivial aspects like where to sit and whom to talk to, making the situation unbearable. I was even forced to switch from a developer role to a tester, despite being trained as a developer.

The final straw was being placed on a Performance Improvement Plan (PIP) without a clear reason, with the same harassing individuals assessing me. I only had 1.9 years of experience then. I reported the mental harassment to HR and resigned due to deteriorating health, panic attacks, and weight loss. Despite having no other job offer, I couldn't continue. Even during my notice period, I was forced to complete PIP assignments, which led to suicidal thoughts and further health issues.

Now, I am jobless, feeling helpless and frustrated. With less than 2 of experience, I struggle to find offers in a down IT market and don't know what to do next.

My Experience as Fresher with Workplace Harassment and Forced Resignation at Accenture

Hi Grapeviners, I have ten years of work ex in performance marketing and CRM. I started job search actively from Feb 15 this year and landed first interview today. 

How bad is the market out there. I usually get hired with in 30 job applications, also I apply to the role only if 70% and above role match with my previous experience also use referrals when available.

Also please roast my resume https://stonedmind.tiiny.site/ have redacted wherever necessary to stay anonymous as possible. For the first time in my career I have a doubt that my resume might not be upto the mark

Please let me know your views in the comments. Any help is appreciated.

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