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Tech environmentalist detected!😂- Grapevine

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Writing on pieces of paper during my childhood in school on world environment day - "Save Trees"
Mind you, this is in school where they impart education...🤐

What are funniest ironies of life you have come across?

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All laptops in my team are down. Apparently it's a global issue with Microsoft laptops - others also facing the same?

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I have 6 years experience. My current base/fixed is 60 LPA. (I also got a 5 lakh bonus and 5 lakh of my ESOPs vested this year making my total vested about 30 lakh. So the total comp is 70). 

I'm being offered a senior engineer position in an early stage startup (as part of the founding engineer team). They haven't given an offer yet.

Being early stage, the emphasis will most likely be on ESOPs. How do I evaluate this and set my expectations? (If I were to switch to a mature company, I believe the hikes usually are between 15-20%? How does this work for early stage startups?)

Salary expectation at early stage startup

Let me show you something, this is how these companies are treating their employees even in a full time remote role, they think if they hire someone and give them salary they can make them do whatever they want. One of my friends is working in some MNC and they are pushing their work hours everyday single day like 5-6 hours like its no big deal that too with no compensation/flexi leaves, one day they sent this link of Google meet 11:30 am to 5:30 am (18 hours) and then they starting doing this everyday, its like we were practically living at work, with bosses expecting them to pull 18-hours shifts like it's no big deal. And when he finally spoke up about it, they accused him of not being flexible enough. So, when the project was finished they laid him off by saying that he is not flexible n all, How can anyone flexible of working 18 or 15 or 12 hours. This kind of toxicity is happening even in big companies.
Remote role doesn't mean that you will sit on my head , make me join some 18 hour meet link and then do the tasks while being in the meeting so that the PM can interrupt me whenever he feels like it with his idiotic comment of:
"is it done"?

Employee Exploitation: The Harsh Reality of Corporate Culture

Software Developer

Am I the only one who’s seeing it more now? Wanna know if anyone has experience or views on this? I tried bamboo fabric vest and it wasn’t as good as pure cotton. Maybe bamboo made products thrive in different climate?

Seeing lots of bamboo made products

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Moengage is hosting a “flagship” event in their “home turf” and are asking employees not to come so they can save money on the number of plates served during lunch and the amount of beer bottles served. 

What’s the cheapest cost cutting measure your company has taken so far?

The irony is that Moengage called an investor to whitewash their financial condition in a recent town hall.

What’s the chindiest cost cutting measure your company has taken?

Product Manager

"we can't send emails more than 500 miles"

https://web.mit.edu/jemorris/humor/500-miles

Fascinating Technical Issue

Senior software engineer

I wonder if Bhavish saw this yet 😂

Generalist

True hai kya?

Okay I want to move to tech... Right now I'm an Ads Performance Optimizer with an MBA and want to pivot into tech. I don't know where to start what to do... 
People who have moved from non tech to tech please give me your valuable suggestions!

Non-tech to tech?

Account manager

“one company found that its most talented developers were spending excessive time on noncoding activities such as design sessions or managing interdependencies across teams.”

We don't need to spend time on system design and making sure it works across teams! What a time and resources waste.

“To truly benefit from measuring productivity, leaders and developers alike need to move past the outdated notion that leaders “cannot” understand the intricacies of software engineering, or that engineering is too complex to measure. “ 

Corporate dogma at its finest.

I’m deeply, deeply, concerned that my engineers spend too much time thinking!

If only there was an organisation that could charge me millions per day per bum (ideally non-practitioners) to confirm my suspicions in PowerPoint form.

Understanding the problem? Design? Waste of time!!! You need a "software factory" code-test-deploy. From the same guys who predicted the cloud is a fad and everyone should build their own data centre, or cellular tech will never take off. 

Sadly, there would be many listening to them and make changes accordingly and suffer badly. 

https://www.mckinsey.com/industries/technology-media-and-telecommunications/our-insights/yes-you-can-measure-software-developer-productivity

McKinsey Illiterates Strike Again

DevOps Engineering

Tech bois checking firing list

Growth Marketer

What the hell is happening at Ecospace? 🥶

Business Development Manager

Never sent a risky mail from phone, always bigger screens!

There are news that massive layoffs are coming in Paytm. HR and Business Heads have been given targets - average 30% reduction expected across all teams. #bravenewworld

Massive Layoffs Coming - Paytm

Data scientist

That's the market cap of Saudi Arabian Oil Co, or Google + Amazon + Apple

https://archive.ph/orZGB

Sam Altman is in talks with investors, including the UAE government, to raise funds for an AI chip initiative that could cost as much as $5 Trillion to $7 Trillion... Is he building a god?

Why are there so many emails sent? How many actually open and read company-wide emails?

Emails! Emails! Emails

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REJECT The Company The Way They Do It

Got to know from my skip manager that there will be another round of layoffs starting Monday.

Another layoff round at AWS India

Cloud architect

There has been a huge influx of posts dissing roles like Product, Marketing, HR etc. by Techies.

Every other post, or comment is made by them undermining the value of other depts and these cuties think business runs just by their sub-par code.

I understand that their delusion stems from the fact they get paid huge salaries by loss making companies. Which is bound to crash sooner or later. 

Rant over.

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