If you can't handle office politics, Wayfair might be tough. Promotions and benefits often go to those who navigate the politics well. Consider a company with a better work culture.

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Wayfair-Absolutely not recommend if you don’t know how to play politics

Principal Engineer

Wayfair-Absolutely not recommend if you don’t know how to play politics- Grapevine

Hi Folks,

My office is in Bellandur. I am planning to rent a 1bhk but the rates at Bellandur are absurd.(28k -30k)
Any recommendations which area should I look for properties. Have heard a lot about Bangalore traffic and dont want to travel much.

Moving to Bangalore

Account Manager

Does all the MNCs, including FAANG, have politics involved at the top management?

Asking for a friend 🙂

Top level politics

Security Engineer

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Have you ever received any perks or benefits from your company’s clients? For instance, from a tool that your company uses, like freshworks or hubspot. 

By benefits, I don’t mean company employees insurance, upskilling, therapy, etc. i am curious if anyone offers employee-focused benefits via client-company relationships? What would it entail? Do we even want it? 👀

Benefits for employees? 👀

Content Marketing Manager

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Hey guys,
So I'm a senior BTech CSE engineering student from a Tier 2 college in Karnataka and I will be interning at a Top MNC in Bangalore over the summer for 2 months. 

Any advice for me? As I will be entering the infamous corporate world as a new chapter in my life, I wanna know how the dynamics in corporate works and what I should prepare for. 

Thank you lads.

Any advice for a student who will be joining his first company?

Hey Viners, 

Thought I'll start a thread to share everything that can make each other's holidays better. Let's share our recommendations of what one could watch/hear/play/or do and maybe even tag it so. 

Could end up being a very handy list when one of us is just lying on the bed just scrolling through insta mindlessly or when somebody has ordered some amazing pizza, but it ends up getting cold because you can't find something to watch :p 

Hope you do relate :p 
Let's comment here, and hopefully make it a good set of days :)

[Holiday Megathread]: Cool ideas on what one can do in the holidays (movies/shows/games/music/others) 🎥🎶👾

Corporate Strategist

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1. High pressure on timelines- business and top management shits on you if you don’t deliver on time
2. No power to control the outcome- engineers don’t listen to you neither does the design or analytics team, you end up begging for resources
3. Too much politics- business or a senior PM can steal your bandwidth anytime
4. Lack of recognition- if it succeeds business did it, if it fails it is product teams fault (engg never gets blamed for shit)

I believe Product Management is a really toxic role

Product Manager

Context: Pine Labs ran an ad on X, poking fun at PayTm’s regulatory challenges with RBI. We got a lot of backlash for it but I’m curious to know what folks in this community think about it?

How many of y’all think this wasn’t cool?

Product Owner

The biggest conundrum is that everyone claims to not indulge in politics but are sure that there exists politics in companies. Just goes on to show that you have to be extra careful with your colleagues, they aren’t your friends. You’ll be thrown under the bus at a minor inconvenience. Integrity and ethics are rare, mind you, extremely rare. Most managers are class monitors, not leaders. Leaders are rare. A high-performing, transactional team that keeps personal things personal is GREAT for you. We work, get stuff done, and then your life is yours — but we’ll show up when needed. Culture can’t be forced, it cannot be shoved onto a team. “My destiny is more powerful than my will.” — Napoleon, or whoever I don’t know. But you get it, I hope. Keep continuously learning, that’s the only way onwards and upwards!

Corporate Sacchaiyan EP 1

Marketing Manager

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Hi, I'm looking for advice on how to avoid surcharge and huge tax of 12 Lakhs + on salary. Can someone tell me if there is anyway to avoid this? Or refer a good CA for the same. 

I have consulted current CA and she says that nothing can be done, also I have done maximum possible deductions by fair means. Do you think I should go beyond this but a notice can cause real damage. Has anyone experienced notice issues lately if trying to avoid surcharge? 

PS: I dont need advice on how taxes are important to run country or feed less fortunate, so save it. I understand those problems but I've seen same all my life.

Looking for Advice to avoid surcharge

AI Engineer

Hey everyone,
   Whatever politics you believe in, please do note the following before casting your vote -
1. Do not vote NOTA. In India, no matter the % of NOTA voters, it's simply ignored. I saw a comment somewhere and I thought people are unaware of this, hence, wanted to let you guys know
2. Please don't vote based on who becomes prime minister in this country. Please choose the candidate you believe is least corrupt(not corrupt is ideal), will work on your local issues, will raise relevant questions in parliament. If you see politicians just lining up their pockets(check their wealth growth from 2014 to 2024) or they have criminal cases against them, they most likely cannot help the constituency
3. Do note, there's every chance of horse trading, and politicians would rather go to other parties than not be in power.  We are quite helpless here

Video for reference on NOTA -
It's from LLA channel
https://youtube.com/shorts/oMlLEXxhV04?feature=shared

Do not vote NOTA!

Consultant

I have heard few people do political donations and take money back in cash.. Thoughts on it?

Political donations

Business Development Manager

Is this PR or Pyaar 🤷‍♀️

Storytime: I work at Gojek. This year on 10th March 2023, I was supposed to be laid off in their second minerva round. But got saved due to office politics. Ever since I found out, like a sane person, I've been on the lookout - but like an insane person, for whatever reason, not aggressively. Finding out that you got saved because of petty office politics, and how pointless everything is- changed the way I look at Jobs/companies. While I did wanna move, I wasn't desperate. All of them are snakes.

Anyway, Since then, I've interviewed only for 3 companies. All 3 of them didn't work out.

First company - After the intro call , I was told that this wasn't a good fit . No explanations given. I was quite sad on that one. First kick back from the world after learning I was to be fired. Self doubt was heavy at this point. 

Second company - cleared everything but they weren't making a good offer. Took 1.5 months to meet at an agreeable salary. I still wasn't happy and parted ways,sad that it didn't work out. 

During our negotiations, the Indian government changed some policies that hit their industry hard. This company is now just trying to minimize the impact of the new policies, currently. They were not able to offer market industry salary then and I'm sure wouldn't be able to do so now. Layoff rumours in the air. I wonder what would have happened had I given in and accepted their mediocre offer or they had given in and given me something they couldn't sustain. 

Third: I interviewed at MPL. I was impressed by the HR, the interview panel- great product minds to work with and grow. The salary discussed in the intro call seemed great. I cleared 3 rounds. Went and met them. However I didn't clear, post that. HR ghosted me abruptly. I kept following up. After a week they responded. Feedback wasn't constructive or detailed . It was borderline harsh. I was super sad. I thought MPL would be it. 

Woke up to the news of MPL layoffs today. Indian government  changed GST 🤣

Are these signs from God or the government? Starting to believe there's some higher power in the universe

What happens, happens for the best. People don’t seem to get it initially, however, retrospectively it all makes sense somehow.

Growth Manager

I'm struggling with the whole office politics game. On one hand, I want to build strong relationships and advance my career, but on the other, I'm not willing to compromise my values. Recently, I was pressured to support a decision I disagreed with just to stay in my boss's good graces. I stood my ground, but now I'm worried about the consequences.

How do you all handle these situations? Is it possible to play the game without selling your soul?

Integrity vs. Career: Can you win at office politics without losing yourself?

Software Engineer

This is something I feel I need to work on to maximise my chances in the corporate. I want to do it without being a “chaatu” or harming others in the process if that’s possible

How to get good at office politics?

Frontend Engineer

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We should apply and appear for interviews even when not required and refuse to share salaries, payslips etc... We might be rejected but at least such vibe will be given more promptly that employee won't bend as much they will ask to...

Let's unite and sabotage hiring in our favour......

Software Developer

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