Casteism in a startup like Freshworks seems unreal

Community Manager

Never experienced casteism but the hate against brahmins is real in FW. People behind the back throw a lot of anti brahmin slurs sometimes even for their best friends.

Product Marketing Manager

Could be some one who had a grime against them. Check for pattern around the posts. Are they spread across or around the same time stamp?

Software Engineer

These things usually are promoted by a cohort of like minded folks who then manifest each other's thoughts. Eg. While i was at ICICI, there was a manager who was against Muslims and also had very openly called it out at parties.  
  
 Having said that, the whole company cannot be labelled casteist.

Product Manager

Caste system exists in MNCs too, I worked in top service based MNC and my TL,  manager, his manager and his manager all were brahmins, they specifically didn't show casteism on face but they on boarded one more Brahmin for TL and manager posts. TL is completely dumb guy and it is a surprise 
 he has survived more than 8 years in IT.

Software Test - QA

Software Developer

What's the tc there? If tc is good why not lol until you find better opportunities.

Product Owner

Welcome to Office Gossip's Private Community

So many post of glassdoor about Freshworks being casteist. Is this true? Pls help considering an offer.

So many post of glassdoor about Freshworks being casteist. Is this true? Pls help considering an offer.- Grapevine

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I recently worked at a startup and it was terrible. 

To be honest, I still worked at one of the better ones but it just sucked. 

Some of the clear downsides I see 

- Survival mode leads to chaos. You can be treated anyway and asked to leave whenever  even though you left big opportunities to be here 
- Brand loss to find next job (Big problem)
- Trying to make you feel unworthy(Doesn't bother me but I have seen people lose self confidence)
- Loss of opportunity to build real skills like building sustainable teams for the long run

I think over all working at a startup especially early teams is a losing proposition. Do it only if -
 - you know the founders/team well 
- you know the industry and market well and it is a bet you personally believe in
- you are secure enough in life that if you go back to your job, you will easily get employed 


For middle class kids, startups are the worst bets one can take.

Working at startups is terrible

Product Designer

One of the most toxic people out there. Never hire from Freshworks.

Never hire folks from Freshworks

I am going through an interview with them, wanted to understand the work culture, since i will be reporting in Bangalore for there product freshsale, Any feedback will be of great help

Work culture at freshworks

UX/UI Designer

Welcome to Software Engineers's Private Community

What the hell is wrong with companies these days? They are trying to take advantage of laid off people!!

I had 2  offers from renowned companies, both of them quoted me numbers and I agreed with. And now, the HR calls me and says since you don’t have a counter offer we can’t offer you that much we promised you earlier.

Well, f*** you. I have competing offers but just got them confirmed over calls. As soon as I get them, I’m gonna kick your offer and never coming back doesn’t matter how much you pay.

And for sure, I am gonna keep you hanging till the very last moment of joining date and then just write a apology mail (which I wouldn’t even mean) saying that sorry I can’t join tomorrow. You get what you deserve.

I deserve better compensation, better people and not just the ones who goes back on their words.

F*** you again!!

F*** you Corporates

Gave an interview for Product Ops at Cred. Didn't convert, but the overall experience was great: 

1. HRs were empathetic and helpful - called after a week to give detailed feedback (covered what they liked, didn't like, what they were expecting)
2. Interviewer was also nice and keen to know more about my experience 

They were expecting a good understanding of growth and metrics, and I didn't have much experience with that, so I got rejected, but overall, it was an excellent experience. 

I have been putting all my recent bad interview experiences here, so why not also put a good one! :)

CRED - Product Ops Interview - Great experience!

Woow you must be someone really in control of your ego. Being able to appreciate a company even after getting rejected is a high quality

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What is the pay offered for lead engineer ? Pls share  it as comments with YOE. It will helpful for my negotiation. 

Thanks 🙏

Is anyone from freshworks here?

Have very less time to finalize pros and cons for both and exit options in data science!! Also salary difference in project44 is 15L higher than freshwork is which makes more confused in deciding 

Can someone pls help ??

Freshwork v/s project44 for data science role? Which one is better can someone works there or share some insights what to choose? Very confused in deciding

Frsh is doing it again. Comment if you know folks who have been affected.

Freshworks Layoff alert.

Journalist

I'll go first. 

Narcissistic AF, named a whole product after his name!

Awkward things about Byju's. Let's do a thread!

List of companies doing silent layoffs using PIP and Cultural fit issues.

Myntra
Flipkart
Meesho
Cars24
Smallcase

List of companies doing silent layoffs

People in my organization recently went through performance appraisal and like every time, the manager does not reveal employees’ rating. This is most likely a scam as the employees are rated and the ratings are recorded in the system but not revealed. Is it how we have in other organizations? Add your comments.

Ratings not revealed during appraisal. A scam?

Software Architect

I have see many lists of places to work at. Let’s create a list of companies not to work at. Please post the company name and the experience of working their.

Top 100 places not to work at!

Has anyone interviewed with Jar recently? The company has been hiring for the SPM role for the last 6 months (afaik). Are they not able to hire one or are they hiring more than one person for the same position?

Interview experience with Jar

I don’t know who needs to hear it, but do not blindly trust good glassdoor/ambitionbox/others ratings. In this bad market every company is working well below what their  rating portrays. Now it could be 5/5 in one team but 2/5 in another in general sense. However, now the top to bottom trickle of pressure, politics and such is ensuing. You might think you’re seeing good people in ur next job, reviews are mostly good, work/role looks fine and jump into the company - only to realise that soon good people are being removed or they’re moving.

See if u are not able to get honest feedback from someone in the company or ur new team before u join - be prepared for harsher reality. Like Swiggy was really good 1 year back or more but no longer. So it’s in ur best interest to get the current ground reality before joining somewhere in this economic condition.

PSA: Do not join company based on too good Glassdoor rating

Glassdoor really isn’t a trustworthy platform. Think of it in this way, not many people would post good reviews about anything, be it a product, a service, or a company. Always check the negative reviews, understand whether they sound legit (the legit ones are usually well explained), and speak to ex employees of that organisation/team.  
  
 Also, most good reviews are fake and written by the HR Team. Two of my previous employers used to do it.

Growth And Strategy

I have recently got a position in HR team of Bajaj Finserve, need to know os there culture really toxic? I keep getting feedbacks that it’s very toxic.

Bajaj finserve work culture

Talent Acquisition

Hi Folks, Can you please let me know which startsups or organisation we should not join 

Reason may be:

No Mission and Vision
Pathetic HR Policies
Burning investors money with 0 Revenue product
Random Hiring and Layoffs
Other reason you can mention
Dirty Politics
Dirty Appraisals and Promotions
If i missed anything mention in comments 

So that our geeks will not join pathetic place and save atleast current job

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