remember the value investing thesis, your market value will converge with your intrinsic value anyday.

So dont focus on who is working. Just do your work and get visibility.

Product Manager

Nope. Welcome to real world. This is also part of internship experience. Image in a work environment setup and your team mate is your manager's favourite.  
  
 So Learn to live with it. 
  
 Your manager is MANAGER for a reason he/she will understand/know who is what as time progresses..

Program Manager

So I am working as an  intern in a company,we are team of 2 members,we are working on a project . And she (other team member) doesn't work on project much and even if she does ,then copy pastes cha...

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So I am working as an  intern in a company,we are team of 2 members,we are working on a project .
And she (other team member) doesn't work on project much and even if she does ,then copy pastes chatgpt's generic code ,and it's doesn't look good.
I tried telling her and she says "I don't know this ,that's why "
And yesterday I asked what will you do next ,she  says" I don't know react native so I can't do anything " ,now what do I do ,I could do the project all by myself,but it will take time ,and I also need to study for placements.
Do I report her to manager ?

Team member doesn't work

Team member doesn't work- Grapevine

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I have an onshore counterpart, one level above me. We two are setting up the project and conducting workshops. The problems I have are:

1. I work in the B shift from 2 PM to 11 PM since the client is in PST. But i login usually at 10-11
2. My onshore counterpart works in EST but logs in very late.
3. Although I work in the B shift, I often extend until 1 AM because I am preparing all the PPTs and doing research. I have to explain everything I do daily for 2-3 hours. She schedules meetings during the PST afternoon to present that work.
4. It has been 2 months of the same routine. In every weekly stand-up, she gets appreciation as if she did the work and research, without giving me any credit.
5. I can escalate the issue, but no one will listen because she has been here for 12 years, whereas I joined a year ago. She has strong networking with the leadership, which I lack.
6. I can ask for release, but I like this project and have provided solutions for some challenging gaps. I feel very bad because I work for 16-18 hours per day. She could schedule the meeting in the PST morning, but she purposely schedules it in the PST afternoon and gets the credit for my work.

PS: i saw her creating a transcript to read during the meeting

Do people like this really exist? If you have personal commitments, why come to work? Don’t you have a conscience and feel guilty about stealing credit for others’ work? Nowadays, there are many posts related to stopping gender-based reservations. Is it because of situations like this?

Struggling with Credit Thief Daily😒

Associate Manager

I have a colleague who is terribly inefficient at work. She breaks the code all the time and her code throws runtime errors all the time. 

While I do my due diligence during code reviews, it’s hard for me to justify it all the time. Most of the time, I end up fixing her issues. I do communicate the scope of improvement every time I review her code and add a dozens of basic review comments. While she does fix the issues, she doesn’t follow basic rules. I expect better from her being 11-12 years experienced software engineer.

Having said that, she speaks to me nicely and she is always friendly with the team. I have given her feedback multiple times in a friendly manner and she does seem to take it positive. But I don’t see that getting reflected in her work. She keeps repeating the same mistakes.

She simply doesn’t think the big picture while coding. Applies point fix and makes it work temporarily, screwing the other features of application.

My manager is overly chilled guy. He hardly cares about my code or her code. He doesn’t understand any code and talking to him in a technical language is a waste of time. Even if we encounter a production issue, my manager doesn’t show any signs of concerns. 

How do I deal with this situation?

How to handle inefficient collegue who is nice with you?

Software Architect

I was hired as a front end intern starting from june1 but all they give Me is copy paste work If I resign now will I get my stipend .
There is nothing to learn for me in this company

What should I do

Just wondering if there are any interesting stories around this? Like I know one senior who is pretty important for a project so he takes his manager very lightly. Once the manager escorted him to a meeting room and kind of gave serious warnings. Worked only for a while I guess.

What’s the worst that has happened with u or someone u know once u start slacking off/change attitude?

Software Engineer

Hello guys, I am fresher in this corporate world and a question is stuck in my mind. What if I got some task and I spent numerous hours still not able to complete it then what should I do ??

What if I am not Able to do a task

Welcome to Indian Startups's Private Community

I'm interning at a startup. My manager gave me this task
I'm trying all my best efforts to do it. But I'm not getting a solution for this
I'm becoming mentally ill because of this
Is it okay say that I can't do this anymore??

Is it okay not to complete the project?

So I'm an intern at this bootstrapped startup which is doing really good (touchwood). Three months into my joining, everything was hunky dory but lately my manager has turned less friendly.

She points out little mistakes, asked me to create reports on things that went wrong, uses aggressive language on common slack channels. I'm really not sure what I've done to **** her off. 

Yes I did make a couple of mistakes here and there but I put in my 100% effort to see them fixed and talk to her nicely and respectfully. I'm lost. I also think if this will hurt my PPO chances :( I want to know if this is okay and me working extra hard will solve this or should i do something else about this?

Confused. Need advice urgently.

I was currently in a project with no proper planning and the majority of the code written by team mates are full of bugs. The code is being written for a new application not yet deployed or in the testing stage so no way of knowing the bugs.
If I point out the bugs I end up fixing them and it is getting really frustrating. But I can't just look away. I'm 💯 sure this application won't even work. 
Should I just ignore and continue my work?

How to deal with this?

Software Developer

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Hey guys, I have been working in a startup company for 3 weeks. I am a fresher and I am forced to work on weekends and even during holidays like 2nd of Oct. My Team lead always tells me to come to the office during weekends and he says it's an order. I am working in sales and the reason they gave is that we have to work as festivals are coming.

How should I tell my team lead and manager that I  am exhausted and can't work like that. I am totally new to the Job life and don't have any clue how to move forward. Please help!

Need help! Been working 7 days a week since 3 weeks.

So thing is  In last 1 week my manager/project lead has been threating that you will have to work on weekend if you dont complete your task by friday and put the the task to testing.

And this boils my blood soo damnn much . But as a person who is on lowest level i cant do/say shit. I just disagree with him and dont argue.
What would you have done .[ practical advice only]

And thing is i do all my dev work on time even earlier almost everytime and he just goes around and threatens everyone with this. Soo annoying thay dumbfk needs to get rekt .

Work on weekend?!! Advice needed

Data engineer

As the title suggests, does it make sense to talk about a colleagues’s inability to deliver to my manager. The colleague’s incompetence to take ownership is very evident now to everyone and the manager is not taking any steps on it. Others have to basically cleanup and babysit him. Worse part, this colleague gets paid the highest in the team. At this point it’s just breeding resentment across the team. How to handle this situation? Any tips. Early stage startup, the manager is part of the founding team.

Should you confront your manager about a colleague’s incompetence?

Do not get involved. Try to minimise your own additional work due to that colleague. In one-to-one meeting with manager, let the manager know. Use the words: I just wanted to bring your attention to one more matter. Then describe the challenges that you face. Not your team. Do not gang up, do not conspire or collaborate. Do not mention about how other colleagues feel the same way. If your manager takes a negative opinion of these activity, you'll be fucked, because such a thing would create a negative impression. If the manager is not inclined to go by your judgement of your colleague's competence, you'll lose face. But it's much easier to control the narrative and restore your manager's confidence in you in a one-on-one conversation, than when it's a group mutiny. No matter what others tell you, do not get encouraged. People often sound like they're with you, but they often are not. They won't back their statements, and you'll be alone holding the bag. And moreover, if you stay out of it, you'll be able to carry the high ground of being above the fray, out of politics, and being balanced. Don't do netagiri of this sort. Conserve it for initiatives for which getting consensus is harder. It might be possible that you're the only one feeling so strongly about it. Then you may be in need of a weekend, or someone to vent to, or even therapy. But get your hate in check.

Generalist

Let’s suppose you’re a backend developer (not fullstack) but now you’re suppose to contribute in frontend code or you’re suppose to support a project where you’ve no idea about the product or the tech stack. Do you just somehow plan to quit or survive?

How do you survive in a multiple hat role job?

I have been added to data team recently even though I'm more into web(software intern)
Here I have been given task like data analysis and validation
Every day I query the db 
It feels so much boring and I'm not interested too
I'm much interested in like web,gen ai or making any tools/ extensions rather than this querying or CSV's matching everyday


Should I approach my manager regarding this ? 
How to tell him that I don't like these types of task ? Will it affect my PPO or my future with org

Note: I have been an intern from past 7 months in same org 😔

Should I approach my manager?

I have a senior in my team who considers herself a manager, when she's not. She's just my senior.  She will ping me 100 times in a day and delegate me more tasks before even before the first one is complete. She knows nothing about how work is done as she keeps delegating it to others. If I don't respond she keeps calling and she calls me in the middle of the night too. I have a really cool manager who doesn't ping me daily, will only ask for the deliverables on the deadline. I would have ignored my senior as she's not really the manager but she is the manager's pet. I have seen her delegate tasks to her seniors as well. It's been only a month since I have joined. Any advice on how do I deal with this? It's getting really frustrating.

Micro Manager

Associate Consultant

Long post ahead!!!


Its been around a year since I've started working in a service based company as a Frontend dev, WLB, compensation and all is good based on I've just started.
During this year of working I do not feel like I've done anything, our team is working on a product for past 2-3 year and its nearing the completion. My role was mostly to cordinate with testing team and solve frontend bugs and minor addition to the project (which was mostly copy pasting), even doing these minor task took me some time initially and I still have to take help from seniors time to time. 
I got kinda bored with all the repetitive task and I requested my manager to assign me to other development happening within team, he agreed and assigned me some different task but I cant seem to understand anything here, 
I get stuck in the most basic things, I feel stupid when I am not able to come up with easy solutions.

I am seeing other engineers learning new tech stacks in a small amount of time and getting hold of it while i am not able to understand things in my own tech stack.

I've recently gotten a appraisal as well(my company is quite good and gives it to everyone) and I feel like I don't deserve a bit of it.

 I am a 2023 graduate , I did MCA because that was the only good option I could see for myself(mostly cz of money) at that time earlier to that I did a bachelor's (Non CS) without gaining any knowledge of anything.
My basics are not that good, In college my only focus was to get a job so I did DSA and some front-end development using ReactJS(projects mostly code along with ytube) to be able to grab a good placement.

Is software engineering not for me? If no, then how do I overcome this, i don't wanna be a mediocre.

Am I a bad engineer?

I was assigned a development task. We could not come up with a solution to implement few of the requirements from PM side. We managed to push an MVP after cutting down on few requirements. There are new requirements coming up related to this task. I have been unable to come up with a generic solution for this and I feel irritated when working on this task. No one from my team has knowledge or has worked on this task. I am ready to hand off this task to my teammates and have told my seniors that I don't want to work on it anymore. Any thoughts from fellow developers on my approach? Have you faced such issues?

Is it wrong to say I don't want to work on some particular development task?

The experienced colleague in my office is not supportive. How do I make her favourable to me ? She don't like work collaboratively when managers assigns a task for us. When I ask her she used to say Sir have not said to me do that.

feeling like I am literally in the worst phase of my life. Our company is taking ownership of an abroad project and those abroad folks are not supportive or even if they support us then they give little information so that we can't take ownership. so we freshers have to figure out everything, and now even after figuring out, my manager and higher management asks me anything with respect to the product(features, deployment, anything literally- it's a big & complex project) even though I am a fresher and don't even have the proper knowledge and then ask us to explain to them what we know, and it's literally frustrating to explain to every single guy every single time. Because the manager asks to prepare to explain to him and then to the higher manager and then whenever something is there they keep asking again and again to give a presentation or our ideas about it, but they don't even ask abroad folks when they are the one who is doing the work. I just feel like I can't keep up with this and I want to resign. How to say no to the manager for doing a particular work again and again or should I resign because I am feeling very low right now and still after 1 year it looks like I have wasted the time because I got to write code for maybe 5% and 90-95% feels like college presentation. Every time there's something and they ask the same thing 3-4 times, sometimes it would be give the x info or then y info and like this only  and because of that i can't do the real work or work on new features because the Indian manager and higher officials keep giving extra work which they should ask from US folks. What should I do please suggest

Team member doesn't work

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