My current project manager is a walking Super red flag, which I can't dodge unfortunately

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My previous manager was a red flag (more red than China’s 🇨🇳 flag). Spoke to partner/director and got my team changed. Now life is better😌. Corporate isn’t worth to test our patience/mental health. Now i have my red lines which i do not let anyone cross.

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I interviewed for a company called tooljet, cleared all the rounds.

During the negotiation with HR, in the later stages of negotiation I had asked few questions like
1. Is there any Esops(no)
2. Appraisal cycle(it's a startup, depends on performance)
3. Promotion possibility(it's a startup so depends on the performance)
4. Performance bonus(it's a startup depends on performance) no range given
5. Medical insurance ( it's a startup so no)
6. Probation period(3 months)
7. Leave policy(21 days yearly, can't take more than 3 days consecutively) the head of product and tech lead said it will be unlimited
8. Public holidays(national holidays yes + 1 day for diwali) so 5-6 days I'm assuming 
9. Work from home expenses if any?(no)
10. Working hours(10-7, it's a startup so you might have to work long hours)
11. Working days( 5 days)
12. Notice period( 1 month)
13. Joining date(tomorrow) lol, I asked her to defer it by a week

1st call was regarding my expectations ( she said she will give me 30-35% increment on previous)
2nd call was about her offer(gave me 23%)
3rd call was regarding all these questions
4th call I accepted asked her to defer it by a week
5th call she said no, saying you asked a lot of questions, we want someone who can focus on the growth of our startup and not worry about these things.
I never got a chance to negotiate, she never accepted or even bothered to listen to any of my requests. I asked her to increase it by 30% and she didn't even bother to listen and refused it. Her entire attitude was , take it or leave it.
She said she can't negotiate each and every day,and I barely got a chance to even negotiate.
Did I say anything wrong or is the HR stupid?

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So I received a call from a recruiter for a PM role at Bharat Pe. What seems odd to me is that the recruiter messaged me on LinkedIn at midnight and called me today (15th August) to schedule for tomorrow. Is it a red flag? I mean who’d do office work at midnight or on a national holiday. Am I overthinking?
How’s the culture in general since all the drama that happened? Insights/Opinions welcomed.

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We are building a recruitment platform to make hiring easy and fun. Having worked with a recruitment startup, we weren't able to hire for our own team. Hire first, fire faster mode ON tha humara.

So, we found this gap mostly in the early stage startups who don't invest in their recruitment properly.

So can you guys please share your experiences with landing a job with early stage startups.

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Experienced fellow PMs: 
How does it feel to see the product division you worked with getting shut down or kept on just life support?

Not at a pod or charter level - like higher level where the head of product suddenly leaves or is asked to leave.

This usually happens with all the team members re-staffed to other division. 

How did you feel, react & how long did you stay with the org?

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It just was a pretty sour conversation which had left me in an uncertain situation. Any similar experiences?

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Asked for my expected CTC. I answered and they weren't happy with it. Said they could only give at 40% increment of current CTC and then asked for my current CTC. After hearing my current CTC they said I shouldn't be earning this much and that I was obviously making it up. Then asked to send over my salary payslip which I refused. Basically the HR started being extremely rude at this point stating that I was being unprofessional. I asked their salary budget for the role which they refused to answer. Then I asked if they were willing to hire me for a lower CTC which she instantly agreed and said she knew I was reasonable and I shouldn't have lied about my CTC. I then said good luck finding a candidate for that amount and hung up.

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