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Don't join Quicko. They are over now The founder is a moron People are found to be working till 6 am in morning Absolutely no work life balance Total shit bullshit Founder Vishvajit just fucked the product Interns are cheap labour For those who are using their products, remember the atrocities the employees went through building this, totally not acceptable

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My friend is looking for PM role and currently has 2 offers. He currently works at an early stage startup as PM. 3 year work experience First offer is from Jar. Role is PM of retention. Location Bangalore. Second from Indialends. Role is PM of Engagement. Location - Gurgaon Indialends is offering 4 lacs more than Jar. Any thoughts?

How is the work culture at Medibuddy? Asking specifically on the tech and product side of things People who are there or have worked do share your thoughts

This could probably be a rant. But I came across this post, and I am stunned that they expect folks to pull through night shifts on Sundays and alternate Saturdays! A Friday off seemingly posed as a favor to the ones applying! In my experience, start-ups like these turn toxic pretty quickly either because the founder has unreasonable expectations or has an impulsive approach towards chasing goals! It's kind of surprising that ed-tech founders still haven't grasped the concept of how this hurts them in the long run. As for my disdain, it's also because I've seen the negative health impact roles like these carry both mentally and physically, and kind of pains me that someone somewhere would probably be picking this. What's more, noticing the tonality and time expectations, the founder thinks he is building an actual 🚀 not simply a metaphorical one😂

Working at a Paytm subsidiary. My manager left the firm 6 months ago and instead of hiring a replacement I was given all his work with no increment or bonus. I worked my ass off and ensured there were no issues. Come appraisal time, no promotion, 5% increment, lot of bonus esops with (5%, 5%, 10%, 10%, 70%) vesting. This is the most weird vesting period I've come across and almost looks they are trying to trap me into staying here. My experience is not unique. A lot of senior people left last year and they haven't hired but rather dumped their work on juniors. I feel like an idiot for trusting the firm to reward my work.

Meesho is so toxic that even hustlers take sabbatical after it

Joined this organization as an SDE. Initially, had a great experience for the first few months, got to learn a lot. However, eventually, the management (co-founder) started showing his true colors where they would favor a few people who would say yes to everything the co-founder had to say, while others who asked for justification would suffer. One such issue is the lack of concrete documentation for policies, and surprise, surprise, the policies change based on the mood of the founders. HR, oh, where can I begin? I honestly haven't seen them work, other than salary processing, where they have outsourced their work like LinkedIn management and basic tasks such as wishing employees on their birthdays. This is perfectly fine with the co-founder, as he considers this innovative. Unnecessarily, we are forced to follow processes that hamper productivity, and we have to attend meetings for half the day. Still, they expect us to work for more than 10 hours when the salary is peanuts—hell, even peanuts are better; at least we can have them with alcohol. My learning is saturated, and there’s no zeal to learn as the manager and others demotivate you. The most frustrating part is the quarterly rewards, which make no sense, as the rewards are given to people who can appease their managers (confirmed). And now that we have increments incoming, they have all of a sudden started highlighting mistakes, finding mistakes even if they don’t exist. Like one such example was the co-founder asking us to write a script when the script was already shown, and asking for an update on a JIRA ticket when it was already given in the comments. They lost my respect when they started canceling people’s PTOs and disturbing people on their much-needed PTOs where they spend time with their families and unwind. The co-founder asks the PO to call and disturb the developer on their much-needed vacations after working for long hours and weekends as he wants to satisfy his ego.