There are good places, where they have right environment

Software Developer

Supply demand economics. There’s an abundance of supply and a shortage of demand. So no merit in valuing software engineers. So attitude of management changes from “We are overloaded and understaffed.” to “There are many in line for your job so either keep your head down and do as you’re told or GTFO.”

Software Engineer

Does anyone else feel workplaces are becoming more and more toxic by each passing day? I feel software engineers are not valued as much as they used to be once upon a time.

Welcome to Software Engineers's Private Community

Toxic work environment

Toxic work environment- Grapevine

Why do so many people work in the Big 4 given that you have to work so many hours and your work life balance doesn’t exist.

Is having a Big 4 on your CV really worth all of that hassle and not having a life in your 20s? 

What about you guys? What are your personal reasons for staying with the big 4?

Why do you work in the Big 4? [Deloitte, EY, PwC, KPMG]

Product Manager

Work culture has become ultra toxic. Managers have started nano managing and literally are a pain in the ass. Product giving unrealistic timelines and leadership agreeing on the same without even consulting the developers and even if the developers are raising concerns, no fucks are given infact they are made to realise that this is how a startup should work. Literally everyone is working their asses off and still unable to meet the deadlines. Empathy is completely lost and WLB is a sham. People including me want to switch but are not even getting time to prepare.

Rant on Swiggy wlb

This is all trickling down from the Leadership, they are trying to cut down costs by any means. Already had one round of layoffs, now they are doing silent layoffs in the form of PIPs. 
  
 Also, Leaders have lost the long term focus and are trying to find out more and more short term projects related to profitability.  
  
 There was always this pressure of work, but in the past 7-8 months this has become unbearable with no empathy in the organisation.

Analytics Manager

How do you deal with extreme work pressure and a toxic working environment.
I'm just done with my current company the culture is so toxic that people are leaving left and right. Dev's are working even on weekends and are denied leave. If anybody raises their voice then disciplinary action mails are used as a threat.
Office politics and salaries getting hold. 
It came to a point I'm ready to resign without any offer in my hand and maybe Month's carrier break to work on myself and keep myself sane.

I want to know how you keep yourself sane and keep up with this shit show. 🙏

Toxic work culture

Welcome to Office Gossip's Private Community

What is the most toxic thing u encountered at work?

Product Designer

Welcome to Indian Startups's Private Community

Recently whenever I come across any post on GV asking about the culture of a particular company people generally point out it to be toxic... Even in big companies like Swiggy, Upstox etc.
Are there even any good product companies in India with decent TC + WLB + Culture??

Is a toxic workplace becoming a common thing??

I've been hearing some pretty bad things about Navi's work culture - esp. in the analytics teams. Apart from the 12-14 hour days, apparently you're not even allowed to take leaves. If you want to go home for a few days, you're asked to apply for wfh for those days. If you want to wfh, you're asked to apply for a sick leave and then work nevertheless.
 
Can someone from Navi or otherwise confirm this?

Work culture at Navi

Team Lead

Can someone vouch for this?
---------------------------------
Avoid JSW One Platforms Limited at all costs. The company exhibits an abysmal work culture, a toxic environment, and exceptionally poor management. The non-technical CTO Anish Nair, along with ineffective manager Kuldeep Singh and AVP Akrant Rao, contribute to a negative work experience. Together they make it a very unethical, biased and toxic workplace. Despite their deceptive pleasant talk, they exploit employees' efforts, pushing them to work tirelessly while quietly erasing their variable pay and subjecting them to Performance Improvement Plans (PI) without prior discussion or indication, even for those with exceptional performance. This unexpected action comes as a complete shock.

JSW One Reviews from Leetcode

One of the old employees dropped a bomb of an e-mail against the entire leadership of PhonePe Mass Offline leadership addressing about mental harassment, hostile comments, threatening to sack, and pushing employees to have no work life balance. This mail was sent to the Founder Sameer Nigam and the HR Head.

Ex Employee shares a mail about workplace culture and toxicity at PhonePe

Respected Sir/Madam, 
 I am writing in regards to the current environment at our (PhonePe) workplace. I believe that there are several factors that could be addressed to create a better environment for employees, and I would like to bring these issues to your attention. 
 First, Our Top Management Leader Mr XYZ, ABC & STU is mentally harassing employees 
 and intimidation are common occurrences in the workplace. This is in the form of hostile comments, threatening to sack, creating undue pressure. It is creating a detrimental effect on employee morale and productivity. 
 Secondly the work-life balance is often out of balance, with long working hours (8:00 am to 10:00 pm and limited opportunities for relaxation or breaks, it is leading to burnout and stress-related illnesses. It is essential that employees are given reasonable working hours and frequent breaks to ensure their physical and mental wellbeing. 
 Fourth, These managers shout at employees on occasions by calling them on calls and asking random questions and harassing. This type of behavior is not conducive to creating a productive environment within the org. It only serves to create an atmosphere of fear and anxiety among employees. It is important that managers treat employees with respect and professionalism at all times. 
 Lastly, to say - Sales is a continuous process and it fluctuates day on day depending upon good and bad weather, political environment, absentism in team etc but managers above and down the line shout only for numbers without recognition for our hard work. This is leading to burnout and discontentment among employees who feel taken advantage of or undervalued. 
 Furthermore these action have had severe consequences in those leaders personnel family relationships, causing irreparable damage of their own life is trying to damage life of others by ruthless behaviour and poor decisions. 
 Finally I have decided to leave the organisation and I hope this will be taken into consideration when creating a p

Founder

Somehow in india all the product startup’s have adopted the most toxic and worst translation of what it’s being like as a product manager and engineering management. Both these roles have become nothing but fear mongering, power grab, and most being extremely bias towards almost everything. 

So your success is very much dependent on how your manager is and the opportunity that they provide. So if you want to avoid toxicity sooner, it’s the right step rather than stick and fail in the long term. Once again, I am talking based off of my 10 yoe. You may have a different experience and I’d definitely wanna learn more.

Toxic Leadership in Engineering and Product

Engineering management is pure dumb in India for US product companies. Non contributing managers and directors who won't even pass design interviews. These are parasites who'll latch on new host, one of the reasons keeping India down and also talent leaving

I am a 2022 grad and 1yr into my corporate life and I have stopped liking software engineering. I took software engineering as a career because for the love of it but after experiencing the office politics and constant mundane work I have lost my zeal.

We are always caught between the CTO and the Manager not being on the same page and redoing a lot of our work. For the past 1yr we have been migrating the same stuff to different platforms. No innovative work, no recognition for good work.

Is this normal in the corporate world?

Also I am thinking of taking a break as I want to focus on my health. Is it a good idea to take a break now for 3-5 months and then get back to working again?

Is this normal in corporate?

Sad reality of corporate - What can be done to change it?

I've seen this only a couple of times as a hiring manager. 
  
 It was a bloody dogfight with the TA teams and Business Finance to get approvals to come somewhere near the market parity comp for experience. 
  
 The usual culprit is folks who don't speak up and demand that they be paid for the value they are adding ti the org.  Mostly due to a severe inferiority complex and lack of confidence to ask!

Sales Manager

Consultant

Is it just me or design culture in India is just becoming worse?

Saw a lead designer come in for work. Sit down for 5 minutes and make crass jokes and then leave. What even man. I am super disappointed. All the best people I have worked with have either left or are about to leave. All the women in office become uncomfortable with these jokes and it is visible on their faces. 

They then take credit for our work and speak really well to the senior management about "HE" has done. 

I transitioned to design to learn and grow in my career but this is the least ambitious field I have seen in my career.

What do you think?

Design in India is toxic 💩

Just now I was reading a post that a person has to forcefully resign due to a toxic manager/work environment. Shouldn't there be a movie 🍿 about toxicity of office managers, as there was 3idiots for choosing career. Like how employees get treated in banks (that video which went viral, manager yelling at an employee), another example when an employee stood up against his manager (order swiggy par karo jake), there are so many examples. My team and I also face a hell level of micro-management daily but no one speaks up about it. I tried highlighting it to my manager and team but no benefit. In my company, even if you make an HR complaint they are helpless and reroute you to the manager only. I think it's the same for others as well. Any opinions?? 

P.S. Not saying every manager is bad. I have worked with some great ones as well.

Toxic Work culture!!

Operations Analytics

Thinking of heading to FAANG from Goldman. Can anyone confirm what it is like inside FAANG?

How hard is it to survive at FAANG companies?

Analyst

Joined a product based Company two months back. Company culture is great. decent pay. good policies like insurance, cab, leaves etc.
But in the department I'm working at, the work is very Toxic.
It's minimum 9 hours everyday (continuous stretch). and what's surprising is stress and hectic work is normalised here. No one talks about. no signs of change as well.

Company is Great, My Work is Toxic

I am seeing a lot of layoff related posts everywhere from news articles to LinkedIn.. Is the Job market really that bad now? Or just the media is projecting that way? 

If it's really bad, which department you think is the most affected? How's layoffs specifically in India? Or is it layoffs in US but more hiring in India due to cost cutting? 

Are layoffs in technology/engineering dept as in for developers or some other departments? Your thoughts please..

Job Market right now in India?

It is really bad right now 
 1. Layoffs in many of the companies, irrespective of whether they're a startup or a big MnC. 
 2. Almost everyone I know of wants to switch, because of no/less appraisals from last 2 years 
 3. Bad work life balance - people thinks switching might help 
 4. Too much competition for any open position. Because of too much supply, companies are low-balling and people would accept the offer.  
  
 Recruiters ghosting is too common. Even if you've killed in your interviews and recruiters get someone who's ready to join on less pay, they'll simply ghost you.

I am currently working as a senior  engineer at a startup (yoe 6+).

Initially things were good , but from the last few months The workplace turned toxic and all the nasty things started happening around me.
The burn out was deteriorating mental and physical health, so i lost my patience and resigned.

Making this ama , so that I can help someone who is going through the same situation.

Toxic work environment

Discover More

Big 4 on

by Coy Nadeen

EY

Why do you work in the Big 4? [Deloitte, EY, PwC, KPMG]

Software Engineers on

by Jordon Carmden

Swiggy

Rant on Swiggy wlb

Software Engineers on

by Jordon Olive

Unnamed

Toxic work culture

Office Gossip on

by Karilyn Lee

HCL

What is the most toxic thing u encountered at work?

Indian Startups on

by Coy Lee

Seed Stage Startup

Is a toxic workplace becoming a common thing??

Office Gossip on

by Jordon Vernon

InMobi

Work culture at Navi

Office Gossip on

by Jordon Hyrum

Student

JSW One Reviews from Leetcode

Office Gossip on

by Aaron Olive

PhonePe

Ex Employee shares a mail about workplace culture and toxicity at PhonePe

Software Engineers on

by Kalan Lee

Stealth

Toxic Leadership in Engineering and Product

Software Engineers on

by Jordon Lee

Stealth

Is this normal in corporate?

Misc on

by Kendall Everett

Stealth

Sad reality of corporate - What can be done to change it?

Designers on

by Jordon Dean

Razorpay

Design in India is toxic 💩

Office Gossip on

by Isaiah Lee

Laid off

Toxic Work culture!!

FAANG on

by Matilda Olive

Goldman Sachs

How hard is it to survive at FAANG companies?

Office Gossip on

by Aaron Lee

Stealth

Company is Great, My Work is Toxic

Layoffs on

by Blair Taye

Startup

Job Market right now in India?

Office Gossip on

by Isaiah Carmden

Startup

Resigned w/o offer(AMA)

Indian Startups on

by Karilyn Denver

Pocket FM

What's happening in Razorpay ?