Instead of this description if you had simply written "for example : BYJUS", this would have implied the same

Hahahaha, true. But didn't want to impose my thoughts.

Intern

The above statement should be that OceanWater is byju of tourism industry

Software Engineer

Finance Consultant

Have people forgotten about housing.com? OG Byju. Lol

Generalist

Growth Manager

Basically a startup with poor leadership, questionable work culture, and while it managed to stay afloat so far, but is destined to sink to the bottom because of how poorly managed the company is. ...

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Basically a startup with poor leadership, questionable work culture, and while it managed to stay afloat so far, but is destined to sink to the bottom because of how poorly managed the company is. 
#RIP  #OceanGate

Which startup is the "OceanGate" of the Indian Tech Ecosystem?

Which startup is the "OceanGate" of the Indian Tech Ecosystem?- Grapevine

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Considering an offer from Razorpay, how's the cculture andwork life balance there ?

Razorpay culture ?

Product Marketing Manager

Another one bites the dust. Alpha Wave is too big, and this is fucked up for the ecosystem. They were really one of the heavy weights. Another big wallet with growth funding ability, just gone...

Alpha Wave Global to stop startup investments in India 🚨

They have big pockets but very cunning and power hungry people. They promote cut-throat ruthlessness. They are being smart now and backing out early so that later they can wash off their hands form being one of the primary players to have destroyed the startup ecosystem. The OG falcon had at least little bit of honesty, business savvyness and heart. From the time it became alpha wave and some terrible incompetent people took up important roles, it has been a downhill.  
  
 Someone from alpha -  be the whistleblower. But unlikely there would be anyone who has the guts to speak up. Their leaders have ensured to hire only weak yes-people.

Investor

Investment Associate

This is an interesting trend fully driven by VCs/board

(Co)founders laid-off

Apart from a few good ones here rest are toxic-ologists 🥲. Startup ecosystem is rosy from outside only (folks who know, know :))

Private Equity

Product Manager

I recently got an offer from a seed stage startup for a SDE2 role. They shared the offer in a 2 liner mail. Weirdly enough they have a probation period of 3 months which could also be extended to 6 months during which there'll be no paid leaves, nothing, and you cannot be late to the office any day.
I asked them to share the detailed offer letter with all these verbal probation clauses penned down and they've not replied for a week.
After getting the offer, they asked me to submit my adhar card, pan card, 10th, 12th marksheet, graduation certificate, passport, birth certificate, payslips, previous offer letter, resignation mail, proof of bonuses and all sorts of documents. 

It's funny how they think trust only works one way. I've withdrawn the application as there were too many red flags during the entire process. I really wish the Indian corporate system had an open culture where trust is bidirectional and not act like we're at the mercy of their job.

Funny interview at a startup

Former Mooofarm Employees allege that the company's founders ignored widespread sales misreporting and misled investors with projections

How Accel-Backed Mooofarm’s Dairy Tech Promise Soured

Another one bites the dust!

Software Developer

Currently I'm just wondering why interviews feels so fake especially the behavioural ones, which I actually struggle with. 

I think it's just a game where candidates say what the interviewer wants to hear instead of trying to know the real character of the candidate. Compared to coffee chats, I think you can actually know about a person more than when you actually do interviews. Any thoughts here?

Interviews Are So Fake

In personal life, and at work, you will have situations where you have to provide instantaneous answers with feigned passion to trite, mundane, and sometimes borderline idiotic questions. Your employer wants to know if you are capable of marching as a dutiful soldier thru the corporate charade.

After going through so many posts on grapevine..I feel like all the startups in India are toxic only 😕😕

Really want to know which are the startups worthy of joining? Preferably in product roles

Non toxic startups in India?

Loosing respect for the companies which are laying off the freshers. I thing it is the worst thing which can happen in an industry. 

Ola and Amazon have fired freshers very recently.
Any other companies which had done this?

Freshers laid off

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

While the company is doing absolutely poorly and laying off people left right and centre, the two so-called founders are on vacation to the US chilling and hanging out with people.

It's a disgrace that the Indian startup ecosystem has founders like them who are busy expanding their social and financial status at the cost of employee wellbeing and mental health.

What a disappointment.

Double faced founders

Program Manager

will help potential job seekers to avoid the startup and save many lives. lot of blessings from everyone to whosoever calls out toxic workplaces

Which startup has the most toxic work culture?

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What an absolute shit show
https://www.moneycontrol.com/news/technology/fraud-threats-sexual-harassment-zilingos-ankiti-bose-files-fir-against-co-founder-ex-coo-12706929.html

Zilingo CEO files FIR against COO & CTO

Zilingo is already defunct. A once billion dollar startup that is now literally 0. 
One of the major startup scams. Investors just kept lapping up the GMV growth.

And now when everything is over, co-founders filing FIRs against themselves.
Disappointing.

My only appeal to everyone: please call out if you're at a startup that's doing similar stuff. A lot of careers can get saved...

Corporate Strategist

Name of company
Months left according to you
Reason

For me:

Byjus
7-8 months max
Selling tabs and doing fraud with poor parents 
In name of edtech doesn't work

Which indian startup do you believe will die soon and why do you believe it

Hard-core banglorean here.  

Seen dunzo grow from when it was a WhatsApp group in Indiranagar to when it became a verb. What happened to dunzo? 

Call it not understanding what I have read or just plain lazy,  I am not able to fathom what happened to a company that was the OG of its industry and grew with 0 marketing and solely on the product and how it happened. 

Anyone care to simplify it and explain?

Dunzo for dummies.

Sales Manager

Project Manager

I have evaluated a lot of startups as part of my work. My approach has changed from being optimistic to being suspicious of a lot of founders, even before the process starts. 

The sheer number of founders that I come across that try to game metrics/play around with data to make the startup look good. 

Most commonly:
1) Completely changing the definition of margins, repeat rates, etc. and never clarifying that they are using different definition. 
2) Often giving rebates/discounts to key stakeholders but finding ways to hide it from their P&L so that it’s not visible. THIS IS SO COMMON - lot’s of them start showing revenues, and then you will see another cost item rising at the same pace, and lot’s of times it will just be money moving around
3) Sometimes completely giving the wrong picture of how their product works on ground. You then speak with their customers, and they describe something completely else.

Things like these are eating up the ecosystem. These founders also end up fooling some VCs, and then capital get’s kept away from actually good founders who have good intentions.

There was a recent major investment in the commerce space, and that is another one such example of a startup doing this. Needs to stop.

RANT: Founders who fake metrics

Product Owner

Majority of Indian startups has toxic work culture and the same is not true for any US or Europe based startup. Indian startups just copy paste ideas from the west and apply it to Indian context. We don't have original product barring few such as Postman and all. Why is it so and how we can improve the situation?

Majority of Indian startups are shit.

I was speaking to an ex-colleague and he mentioned how my previous employer, a lending startup, has been intentionally over-reporting disbursal numbers and under-reporting delinquencies in portfolio.

They conveniently chuck the NBFC partners who dare to ask questions and instead catch new fish. During my time I saw sales staff committing rampant frauds and making money on the sides from users. The founders conveniently turned a blind eye till there was new business coming in. They've seemingly moved on to the next level now.

The founders have top pedigree and already come from well off families. Makes me wonder how many such skeletons are buried across startups and what leads to such behaviour. Especially in the wake of what we saw with GoMechanic, Zilingo etc.

Frauds at startups

Business Operations

Ola.  
 I doubt there’s any startup which comes even close in terms of Ola’s toxicity.

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