That's her spending money on her own PR. Unacademy ain't doing shit.

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Sinking ship 🚢 Byju and unacademy ruined Indian EdTech dreams

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Unacademy has gone bonkers 💩

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Unacademy has gone bonkers 💩- Grapevine

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After a confirmed research, following resignations are happening at Unacademy, resulting in a massive instability in the organisation

1. CHRO
2. COO
3. CTO
4. VP IT & ADMIN
5. CBO ( JM)
6. HEAD OF OFFLINE CENTERS
7. GENERAL COUNSEL
8. IAS COFOUNDER


Adding to this, following BU's have been shut

1. Content Growth
2. Coheshve 
3. Next Level

TRULY SAD TO SEE THE HOUSE OF CARDS FALLING DOWN.

Series of resignations at Unacademy 👾

Unacademy's COO has stepped down from his position today and will serve a notice period for the next 3 months. 


Adding to this, Top Educators and directors have resigned too. These are from test prep categories.

This seems like a massive call fallout of the company.

Unacademy in deep shit 💩

We all have heard about the toxic culture of Edtech. Unacademy is now in the top spot when it comes to companies with toxic culture. Any company cannot be more cruel than this:

1. Abusive language by leaders - COO, CBOs, SVP, VP and other leaders treat employees as slaves. They themselves have made huge lossess and are burning investors money but when any employee voice out their opinion/asks for leaves, the leaders abuse employees badly even in front of other stakeholders.

2. Forceful long working hours -
Even if you complete your work in 8-9 hours, you are forced to sit for 11-12 hours just to show the founders.
People hardly work after certain hours but they just have to sit and waste their time. This is tiring and there is no work life balance. No time to spend with family. I hardly get chance to spen time with child. 

3. Late night reviews -
So the company has started this new way of conducting monthly reviews late in the night. People are asked to sit till 2-3 AM for reviews. And this review is nothing but a setup where COO abuses the employees.

4. Forced paycuts -
We have seen a forced paycut for the leaders (VP, SVP, Directors etc). 'No appraisal' was still somehow digestable but how can a company justify the degrowth in the earnings of their employees. Company has money to sponsor TVF web series (Sandeep Bhaiya), invite Standup comedians (Biswa and Prashasti), distribute pizzas to all the employees but when someone voices out for paycuts, they don't have money. 

5. No Flexibility In Working
The company witnessed its highest growth and revenue when 100% of the employees were working from home but now the founders think that people do not work from home so they have called everyone to work from office for 6 days a week. If someone asks for a work from home, the leaders denies or ask to apply leave to work from home.
Be it rains, election, etc - we are asked to work from office. Even during the day of election in Karnataka we were called in the office.

Unacademy is synonymous to Toxicity

There has been internal new circulation going on that the IAS Co-founder at Unacademy is finally leaving the organisation.

He already sold his stakes in the company worth 700Cr last year and was sticking around because of the face value

However with a failure to raise capital and grow revenue, Investors have asked roman to exit.

Unacademy is truly going deep shit.

Unacademy co-founder exits 🤦💩

Unacademy elevated Jagnoor as (COO) of its offline centres business in January this year. However due to tiff with GM, he has decided to part ways with Unacademy.

Unacademy is nearing its death with every leadership exit.

Just in : Unacademy's COO for offline biz steps down

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Principal Engineer

Unacademy is on another level

Investor

https://entrackr.com/2024/06/exclusive-unacademy-in-talks-to-merge-with-orchid-schools-owner-k12-techno/

Big: Unacademy merging with Orchid Schools in a 50-50 merger

Software Developer

Unacademy HR Head steps down after a 5 year stint. Today was her last day. There are too many stories around her abrupt exit from the organisation﻿.

Next in line : COO, VP Engineering, CBO

Unacademy house of cards finally falling down 🤡

I don't understand, the sector that makes sureshot money on small and medium scale is continuously failing on pan India scale.

A small IIT coaching in Patna with 2 centres generates profit in crores but these Byjus and Unacademy are not really able to do anything significant in long run.

Unacademy is up for sale

Founding Engineer

Most edtechs have been infamous for mis-selling, poor teaching , etc but are there any good startups who are doing great work?

Any good Edtechs worth joining?

Software Engineer

Hey all. My first post here. Can anyone tell me what the work culture is like at Unacademy and Upgrad. Currently in another ed-tech firm and looking for a shift.

Work Culture

Operations Manager

Was interviewing at one of the acquisitions of a major edtech player for a design role in Bangalore roughly 2 years ago.

🚩 Didn't share agreement on email unless I came to office for a day's worth of work (after completing interview assignment).

🚩 Exit clause in agreement mentioned company can terminate contract any time with a few days notice, no provision for me ending contract (never in my life did I see such a one-sided contract).

🚩 Was asked to reuse free resources available online to repurpose content for them (why fucking raise funds if that's all you want to do).

🚩 Overheard - "Who cares about quality, just bring in teachers who are influencers that can bring more students behind them". Boiled my blood.

🚩 Was tweeting all of this in a discussion about edtech on some thread without naming the company. Got asked to chat with founder's office guy while I was leaving at the end of day. They either stalked my socials or somehow came across my tweets and wanted me to bring my concerns to seniors instead of sharing them publicly. Excuses that were given - "We are a growing company, not everyone here is on our payroll, there's a mismatch in our teams internally, will take time to fix" etc etc.

"You seem very passionate about education, you know how bad it is in India and we're trying our best to make a dent". Balls making a dent. I was even more furious by the time he was done talking.

Politely asked me to delete the tweets (which I later did because I believe in second chances and not burning bridges).

Did not sign agreement or return to work. Came to know later of more toxic stories coming out of edtech companies.

Avoid edtech in India like the plague if you're still considering applying anywhere, this shit is not worth any amount of money. They are literally destroying our future and care more about their investors and VCs rather than their students or even the larger startup ecosystem.

I hope these shitshows shut down soon.

Indian Edtech is a dumpster fire

Generalist

The new policies introduced by CFO Subramaniam in last 6 months have dented company's revenue massively.

His decisions will show results in long term, but in short term they are incurring losses. In the last investor meeting held with peak xv and softbank, this is the question investors were putting-
1. Why the personal distribution policy of educators was implemented without concrete plan in place?
2. Why growth declined in some of the most profit making businesses?
3. Why were educators being paid heavily without including S&M cost and Tech cost to their revenue?
4. Why suddenly there was a mass dropout of existing educators who were helping in driving revenue?

Good or for Bad, investors feel that decisions lacked ownership and growth intent.

Peak xv and softbank decided to replace CFO with their internal finance consultant, likely Jai Decosta.

What is your take on the decision?

Why was unacademy CFO fired?

Consultant

So again Unacademy has asked people to leave, and asked them to resign.

Leadership is so clueless about what they are doing, they fired 3-4 people whom they had hired a month ago. Imagine the situation 😂

And I don't see this stopping at Unacademy anytime soon

They are aching left, right and centre. Still some people are making advt videos with Sachin.

And the nalla has time to tweet and enjoy vacation, I pity the investors who funded them.

100th Layoff round at Unacademy

Growth Manager

After fooling countless customers, investors, loan partners, byjus employees are now all set to destroy what little is left to Unacademy.
Unacademy is now frantically hiring people from BYJUs across all levels and verticals. With BYJUs employees employment stood on the base of false promises and unethical sales, it is just a matter of time, Unacademy will become the new BYJUs.

With the company’s product first approach and the apprehension towards aggressive selling, it is disheartening to see the new fondness towards BYJUs.

Uncademy the new Victim to BYJU’s

Category Lead

The negativity brigade is out in full force against Unacademy lately. Honestly watching this relentless media agenda against us is like watching a bad tv show. As someone who's part of the team, I want to set the record straight.

First off, Gaurav Munjal is the smartest, visionary entrepreneur in the country. He's basically a genius. Like a legend, truly amazing! My observation is that people who are throwing a shade have never built a startup themselves or have never led anything more complex than a lemonade stand. They are simply jealous of Gaurav's awesome success. Meanwhile, legends like Bhavish and BeerBiceps are cheering Gaurav on. Coincidence? I think not!

Oh and layoffs! Every company does it – it's just business 101. Times are tough - stop whining and smell the coffee. This isn't a reason to target Gaurav. I see a lot of snowflake work-lifers who only want to work from 9 to 9 for 5 days. We did indulge you, didn't we? If you really don't want to be "laid off", what is stopping you from doing great work? Even better - why don't you start your own company and keep this stupid to 9-9-5 policy and "not lay off" these work-lifers who are a burden on your company?

Let's focus on constructive support and recognize the efforts of those truly making a difference.

Unacademy: Setting the record straight

Corporate Strategist

Rumours are floating that Unacademy is getting sold by one of its main investors to another Edtech company in their portfolio for just 400 Million dollars, their last round valuation was 3.5 Billion dollars

But founder Gaurav Munjal said they have 200 Million in the bank. Getting confused - Is this a repeat of Byju 2.0?

They have fired the CTO and co-founder Hemesh Singh and Roman Saini ( other co-founder) is also not seen anywhere

I am worried if more people are to be laid off?

Unacademy in bad shape

Sundays, the day where even Jesus took a breath of freedom, Unacademy Leaders think that just because you are a working professional you aren't supposed to have ONE DAY OFF!

The whole Saturday we ran around creating data pointers and decks for a meeting that never happened with GM and now Sunday evening they are informing the whole team to report early for the same meeting that was supposed to happen on Saturday changing the data pointers and getting all ready before 10am Monday. 

I mean I understand mismanagement but this behaviour is getting way out of hand!

Word to the wise and also to the so called leadership at Unacademy, you guys have no clue what you are doing and within the next 3 months I bet you guys will be the next Byjus. 

au revoir!

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