Yeah! literally pms can't do shit in war rooms, probably they are their to entertain engineers :P

Product Manager

Poor PM - “Mujhe kyun toda” 
  
 Jokes apart, PMs do play an imp role warna koi kyu dega paisa!

Product Owner

They are stupid. Don't know how to demand or pure optics. Mostl likely both.

Exactly my point, where is the AI in these scenarios? Even a junior analyst can predict demand and help plan accordingly?

Product Marketing Manager

exactly my point, deepi doing time pass in zomato.

Management Consultant

Recently we all came across a loud event in the name of "War room" . War room on 31st was nothing but either bad planning or pr stunt , any product or growth manager would know about it .  I am not...

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Recently we all came across a loud event in the name of "War room" . War room on 31st was nothing but either bad planning or pr stunt , any product or growth manager would know about it .

I am not saying that war rooms are useless , but what Zomato did surely was . How often do you guys across such war rooms which are basically execution hell for a lot of bad planning.

War room secrets

War room secrets- Grapevine

Welcome to Indian Startups's Private Community

While the Internet was divided when Zomato, BlinkIt, OYO, Zepto founders were sharing crazy stats on social media on the evening of the New Year and their War Rooms. I found some of the stats literally nonsensical..

Do you think not having a auto-scalable product which can cater to higher demands leads to a bunch of people missing out on the opportunity to celebrate?

Contrarian Argument 1: Soldiers do not get to celebrate any holidays at the Border.

Argument 2: Hotstar handling the India vs Pakistan game where viewership crossed 3.5 Cr..

War Room or Cry Room?

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

The more I age, the more I have started to respect my sleep. 
  
 Quality sleep > 5% "Handsome" Hike

Data engineer

Software Developer

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Since I am Done-Zo with Dunzo, AMA anything. Here to spill all the scoop that’s happened.

Ex-Dunzo employee. AMA.

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I joined Zomato for a work life balance as I was from the Finance industry and used to work 6-6.5 days a week for 10-11 hours a day. I'm enjoying my time here but it's an individual role in sales and I'm provided 8 LPA for Tier 2 city. My peers are getting a little higher but my colleagues from the previous industry are making 12 LPA on average. I don't want to go back to finance, plus I want to engage in a team leading role. Can anyone suggest?

What after Zomato?

Growth Manager

how is Park+ as a startup? need reviews about its problem statement, work nature, culture and pay. 
thanks in advance Grapeviners 🙂🙂

Park+ reviews

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As everyone knows that zomato is now hiring 800 employees after two months of a mass layoff, and exit of senior profiles like VP and CTO.

Let me tell you the truth about the founder. He is an opportunist. He doesn't give a shit about the culture or any employee. The company is built on the death of many riders and cheating with low-wage workers.

Timing- Isn't it a bit weird that a company that did a mass layoff two months back is now hiring? Seeing that many employees got laid off from the top-tier company. It is a great time to employ smart folks as the hiring competition in the market is at its lowest. Or the mass layoff that happened previously was planned with the thought of hiring again next year with very little competition and desperate candidates. 

Layoff: In zomato, it's hire and fire culture. I have seen many of my friends leave even after performing well. Honestly, sometimes I don't even feel human. It's expected from employees to start their day early and go late at night. If you want to leave early (around 6 or 7), you should have a solid reason for doing that. Here code release happens late at night due to less traffic. So it's expected of you to be available all the time.

Incompetent Managers- I have worked with two managers here. Both know the existing system as they were once an IC building that system. The issue with these people is that they grew up the ladder because they were the only ones left behind in the team. They lack real-world system knowledge. I have previously worked at amazon, and I know the team lead level there. But here it's like jo ruk gaya vo raja hai. It's hard to work with these people as they lack proper estimations of the projects and at the end of the day. The ICs have to face the wrath of the product teams.

People who are planning to join the company. Please do join, as working 24/7 you would learn a lot in a very short period of time. Also, the culture is team dependent, so you might get a team with chill environment.

Reality check at Zomato

Founder

What is Zomato Legends? I'm hearing about this for the first time

Hi Folks, Can you please let me know which startsups or organisation we should not join 

Reason may be:

No Mission and Vision
Pathetic HR Policies
Burning investors money with 0 Revenue product
Random Hiring and Layoffs
Other reason you can mention
Dirty Politics
Dirty Appraisals and Promotions
If i missed anything mention in comments 

So that our geeks will not join pathetic place and save atleast current job

Do not join list

UX/UI Designer

Though in all probability, what you've already heard is true.

I've worked with the CEO/COO at Unacademy. AMA.

Program Manager

1. They are the most overpaid people in India.
2. They have no work life balance and they don't even know what it means.
3. They think they are the best at everything, but they can't do anything right.
4. They are always complaining about their job and how much they hate it.
5. They are never satisfied with their salary or benefits package.
6. They are always looking for new jobs because they think they deserve better than what they currently have.

Would you like to add anything else here?

Software Engineers as seen by a Product Manager...

PM as seen by Engineers: 
 1. Doesn't do anything other than throwing random jargons 
 2. Can't explain what they do other than say how they are not Program manager or something else

Software Engineer

Can someone share what's going on inside unacademy. What new products are they launching. How good is the traction and runway

Unacademy

Business Development Manager

I have see many lists of places to work at. Let’s create a list of companies not to work at. Please post the company name and the experience of working their.

Top 100 places not to work at!

Zomato is strongly discouraging WFH. How do you guys see it when it's competitor Swiggy allows remote work?

Zomato discouraging WFH

Analyst

You could see little icon in few outlets showing you Augmemted Reality (AR) of food stuffs your are trying to order.  WHAT VALUE PM IS TRYING TO CONVEY TO USERS.
kya sense hai is baat ka fellow PM's

Zomato PM's : What was running their mind when they came up with View Food in AR feature

Associate Product Manager

The restructuring comes just a few weeks after Ola Cabs initiated preliminary discussions with investment banks for an IPO.

Ola Cabs CEO Hemant Bakshi quits, company plans to lay off 10% staff as part of restructuring exercise

OLA is a tough place to work

Heard lots of stories about the person on right. Too volatile, jittery.

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