Not a dev. But in my prev company, folks were fired when the prod was about to complete because of change in strategy

And I don’t think it makes sense to fire. Because you’ll have lots of bugs and L2 level features

Business Development Manager

What was the reason given to them for firing? Change in strategy or some other reason? At my company folks were fired based on performance issues even though the performance was acceptable.

Software Engineer

Not me but my friend and her entire department was fired overnight. She was readying for a meeting with her boss when HR pinged her and asked to drop everything and come speak. 
 She was so shocked like putting in late nighters and weekend work.

Project Manager

Have you or anyone you have worked with ever been fired with some madeup reason by HR, during a situation when the product was close to completion and maybe the developer was not needed anymore?

Have you or anyone you have worked with ever been fired with some made-up reason by HR, during a situation when the product was close to completion and maybe the developer was not needed anymore?

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Does anyone here have any intel on Loop Health's work culture? What are the people and founders like?

Culture at Loop Health?

Analyst

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Is there anyone here who out of revenge, frustration or seek justice against management sabotaged the work intentionally or did something which ended up harming the firm. Please tell what you folks did???

Intentionally sabotaging work

Software Developer

I work at a small scale startup where I interact daily with the CTO whom I directly report.

Recently, he has been giving tighter deadlines for critical projects at work and is not willing to discuss anything related to the scope or timeline of the projects. He just expects me to finish everything in x number of days without asking for even the slightest estimate of the duration.

This has led to me missing due dates for projects which he later blames on me quoting poor performance during reviews. 

Has anyone encountered such problems before? How did you handle it?

Deadlines without discussion

Product Engineer

Heard from a friend that he flew out to his office in the middle of the night from his wedding because mortgage backed securities started to crumble in NA during ’07 crisis.

Dude was bummed.

What is the worst thing your boss did to you?

Initially he asked me to fill his water bottle, bring snacks for him. Dint mind doing 1-2 times. But it was continuous with other juniors too.  
  
 Took a chance one day to spit on his water bottle and brought snacks for the whole team (20 people, kurkure and frooti).  🫢

Product Manager

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Can someone tell me which are the good product based companies for .Net developer with 1.5 YOE.

.net jobs in product based companies

Google has been terminating the employment of many people, adding fuel to the growing discontent among employees.  A software engineer, who is seeing many people leaving, has vented out her frustration on LinkedIn, saying Google is randomly firing people.

Google layoffs: Software engineer says company is randomly firing people

Google is randomly firing people?

So I’m working on a 3rd party payroll and yesterday I got a call from them that it’s my last working day in Oracle and I don’t have to serve my notice period. They told me that their client (Oracle) emailed them and informed that my project got over. 
I got a little suspicious 2 days back when my manager asked me to submit my laptop for some security testing and said that i will get it back after 2 day. Everything was fine I even got my salary increment letter the day before yesterday (17th). I’m shocked I haven’t got any answers from anyone. I tried calling my manager neither is he answering my calls nor texts. I’m super frustrated idk what to do.

Got Fired

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From the last few days there were talks going on about layoffs in Morgan Stanley. Some 7% of the global staff will be handed over the pink slip in this week. 
Well... It started happening from today ... Few colleagues from my department were laid, and the reason being "company is trying to survive in the market, company is planning the road ahead by taking such bold steps".
When this was announced, my anxiety shot up the next level and I couldn't wait for the meeting to finish.
The past few years have not been great for the business worldwide due to which many companies are forced to take such steps. These companies just have been doing a hiring spree from the last 1-2 years that now they are regretting their decisions and letting off their employees.
My question is - "If a company hires excessively during the bull market and is forced to lay off few of the employees during the downturn, has the company made an error by not evaluating the headcount or it was just simply the need of the hour" 
 
Please note - I know many people out there who have faced job cuts due to many factors, sincerely requesting people to take this matter very seriously

Layoffs - A complete mess made by the companies

Hi Everyone, This post is about the Toxic Co-Founder of Quantiphi (Mr Toxic Asif Hassan).

Reasons:

1. Work-Culture has become Toxic, People in Project are working since 5 weekends without any single leave ( No Extra Pay/No Comp-offs/ No weekend Leaves) and that to 13-14hours a day Straight.

2. People in my project who have raised voices have been told (" You know what options you have and I have "). Indirectly saying if you revolt either i will fire you or you resign immediately.

3. People facing issues with Clients(Canda's BigTicket Insurance Firm) paying a huge amount for an un-realistic deadline project were told by Asif. If you have any problems that don't come to me, i want only solutions( He doesn't want to listen to Anyone).

4. People were forcefully told to come to the office ( Some people who had some genuine issues e.g. one of our colleagues recently got blessed with a baby) was told by Asif you are not the one caring for the baby, So you have to come.

5. All our advanced leaves are cancelled, People who are taking Sick leave are being told either bring your backup or work with your Illness, we don't care.

6. Issues raised with HR, HR says "We cant do anything".

7. In the last 7 days many senior people and colleagues were either Forcefully resigned / got Laid-Off.

8. The people suffering the most are the ones directly in touch with the client or the developers reason being Asif bashes Managers and Managers Bash us for No fault of ours because of the un-realistic deadlines set.

9. People revolting are put on the bench and are laid-off the next day without any reason. 

The Moral of the whole team is near to Zero and many of us are thinking to voluntarily Resign from this toxic workplace. 

Guys do suggest, should we call out these kinds of toxic Co-Founders and Companies or not. I need to help me reach this post to a wider audience.

Happy to hear comments.

Quantiphi's Toxic Co-Founder

Data engineer

https://www.instagram.com/p/C40iTeTPJSW/?igsh=MTd0cWxmOXZ5eXBmcg==

Developer fired for…

Do you guys think PIP is a tool for layoffs ?

Can missing standups even if u r constantly delivering items before deadline cause to be terminated?

Frontend Engineer

HR is having 15-20 meets everyday, anyone can confirm with their calendar. 

Multiple HRs multiple laid off people. Zero severance. They are pressuring people to resign and saying you have to resign today itself! 

Market is going to get flooded with Paytm folks. 

Worst regret is that management and CEO made bad decisions and flunked compliance / risk. But after crackdown by RBI they are making employees suffer. 

It is heard that this will continue to go on till months. 

There should be a course on how to behave and work like a CEO.

Paytm is laying off people since May 27 (forced resignation)

Housing.com (REA India) ranked 3rd in the GPTW survey this year. They provide several awesome perks like, laying off without any notice, fucking their reviews just so that they could justify the lay offs, and threatening actions if anything came out on social media. 

10-15% of the whole tech team was laid off (mostly freshers) apparently on the basis of low performance.  It was all carried out by the higher management, not even the managers had any clue about the lay off happening. 

The performance rating was rigged by the higher management who had no interaction with the tech people. They had this awesome idea of getting reviewed by people who we had never interacted with. Managers were merely bystanders who had no say in the performance review whatsoever. 


PS: A note for the management -->
Housing.com would be an employee friendly company only if you guys would give two fucks about employees, instead of Caring so much about the GPTW ranking like conducting hands on sessions and literally forcing people to put in good rating.

Mass Lay-offs at housing.com (REA India)

The rigged performance rating and the secrecy is so true. I got to know about my colleague getting fired when I opened his slack which was deactivated. Upon calling, he said it was all done in 5 mins, Forceful resignation, No Severance and was asked to post nothing on social media.  
  
 From my team alone 2 people have been laid off both freshers.

What's the craziest reason someone got fired?

Here's mine at my previous job. A collegue of mine was fired for smoking weed in the bathroom. He got back to his laptop and he was high as fuck, I am pretty sure he didn't even understand why he was getting fired.

Have you ever had to fire someone? How did you handle it?

Firing at Automation Anywhere. As per manager almost 25% of the workforce has been laid off.

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