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What's a company secret you can share now that you don't work there?

Software Engineer

My offer (from a FAANG company) has been deferred to January 2024. I don't know what to do now: 
 
1) I have another job offer (~8 LPA), but that job requires me to serve notice period of 2-3 months 
 
2) A startup's founder rejected me, saying he wanted someone for long term (he thought I'll leave next January)  
 
Should I try for full time jobs? Many companies become unwilling to take me in, presuming that I will leave in January 2024. 
 
Or should I look for internships (even though I have graduated)? Getting an internship won't help mitigate the risk of not having a fulltime job offer after graduation though.

Offer deferred, don't know what to do

Welcome to Indian Startups's Private Community

What’s a company secret that you can share now because you don’t work there anymore?

Employees of BHARATMATRIMONY, shaadi can read to customer chats and its gets damn interesting

Product Manager

Growth Manager

Hey! I have been working with a startup for the last two years & this is my first job.
When I joined, I was of course this naïve, wide-eyed college graduate who believed in the goodness of people & the 'mission and vision' of the company.

However, over the last 2 years I have realised that my company is definitely in a morally grey area in terms of business practices. We're not breaking any laws, but I can see that we're being unfair to our users on many levels. All for user acquisition, growth, revenue, profit. 

I can not reveal more information, but I can draw parallels! 
Just like how swiggy/zomato don't pay their fleet of deliverymen enough, or charge restaurants really high commission + reduce quantities for customers, or how Amazon affects small businesses & their profit margins, my company is also lowkey being unfair to our users. 

How do you deal with this feeling of guilt? Do you separate it from your personal life? Do you switch it off?

How do you deal with your moral compass?

Marketing Associate

Anonymous platform 🫥

Corporate Strategist

What does stealth mean in grapevine

Saw this question on a really old AskReddit thread, and it made for a very interesting read. 
Learnt that Lancome is exact the same products at Loreal but 20% more expensive.

But most of the things were US related. Got me curious what the Indian version would look like.

Looking to learn some industry secrets, TILs, and more :)

What secret from a former job can you reveal now that you no longer work there?

Energy domain - my previous company was selling their Software in the name of AI but all they were doing in the background was manual calculation and Power BI methodologies.  
 Scam 😆

Consultant

Please name some stealth/not-so-famous decent paying Indian startups which we can target. Domain doesn't matter. Obviously it has to be product company to pay decent. Location within India doesn't matter. I see so many of you with company name as stealth or new, so please help with the name. Also if you dont mind then please give an idea of pay range.

Stealth/not-so-famous decent paying Indian startups

Principal Engineer

I’ll go first, I’m a dev and have an unlimited hardware budget to buy any device/accessories that I can justify for my work 😎

What are some cool perks of your job/role?

I’ve been promised that I won’t get laid off. I guess that’s a pretty good perk right now.

Growth And Strategy

Analyst

Heard Groyyo is cooking numbers? Is it true? Can any VC guy confirm?

Gerson Lehrman Group (GLG) had approached me for help with a topic related to my subject matter expertise. They will have their paying client on the other side of the call and I will have to answer their questions without revealing my identity or any trade secrets. They do pay consultation fees (billed at a negotiated rate per hour) for the same.

1. Firstly, is this a scam?
2. Secondly, they give independence to us to not answer any question (if it reveals any information that we don't want to reveal). Yet - is it a safe bet? What if my current employer comes to know about the same?

Is GLG Consultation a scam?

Sales Leader

Recently caught up with a friend who works for an “employee friendly” HR tech company. This brand has been boasting about how great they are with the sort of employee benefits they offer. The founder specially keeps boasting about this on LinkedIn and Twitter. 
Found out yesterday, that the employee benefits come at a cost of micro management and a toxic environment at the workplace. Really sad to see the perceptions that the brands create and the reality they offer. 

Would you prefer:
1. Few employee benefits with no micromanagement? Or
2. More employee benefits at the cost of micromanagement?

Insider tea from an “employee friendly” startup

Number one definitely. 
  
 Is this springworks?

Marketing Creative

Business Development Manager

How do you guys approach any startup company or MNC for work? How do you find a job? Is there any secret sauce that you use?
PS- Please don't suggest using LinkedIn jobs or career pages, that is a very basic thing that everyone does.

Reveal your secret

Hey Folks, 

Many kind people in and outside Grapevine have expressed interest to work with our small team. 

We don’t have any open roles just yet but may have a couple coming up in a few weeks/months. 

Just wanted to see if some people here were ‘really’ interested to work at Grapevine.

Rest assured if a role opens up you’ll be the first people we consider. Please fill in the form only if ‘actually’ interested. Cheers! 

https://forms.gle/z67iZtMsVxoC9ZyWA

Interested in joining Grapevine?

Founder

Be it about investors, co-founders, hires, freelancers, family, or yourself

Founders, what will you never share publicly about your startup?

I know sometimes we refrain from saying too much about our company. But exes can usually be talked about, since there's not much holding back.

Maybe it helps someone else avoid a mistake you did, or gain a new learning :p 

Shoot.

What's a secret from a previous workplace you worked at? 🤫

Not my workplace, but true story. 
  
 giant american retail company (assume it's W*) hires one giant indian IT services company (assume it's H*) for some maintenance work now this H* company has offload this work to small Indian IT services company (assume it's M*) which has a employee named R* who's one assigned to actually do the work but R* is smartass he's scouting internet for freelancer to fix the issues. He gets one junior guy P* to work for few thousand rupees and shares his credentials, vpn provider etc and our P* now messes up , in the whole scenario there's no safety lot's of mess total grey zone. 
  
 From knowing this incident, I'm like no one gives any fucks about anything, only if people weren't so bad.

Backend Engineer

[whistleblower] what's stopping you from leaking your internal company information which you know is illegal/fraud or is not what your company portrays ?

Senior Software Engineer

Most bullshit company ever. No respect for employees no work-life balance fires people just because they are sick. I myself joined there and worked for a while and one Monday i got a text from hr that i should come to the office today. I was sick the day before but he didn't pay any heed when i told him. I went and they forced me to resign on the same day and didn't even let me say my goodbye to my friends. FYI: I just got appreciation for finding the most number of release blockers by the team lead on the last Friday before firing.

They have a non-disclosure on the release letter i couldn't even tell people what happened so sharing here.

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