Founder must be too busy asking his analyst to make single axis charts on condom sales.

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The country is growing rapidly. One set of people have hugely benefited. One set of people are so poor that they have given up. There is a big chunk in the middle that is desperate to move up and keep up to the pace of growth or be left behind. 
These people will do anything to earn that extra profit.

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Why is that India cares less for people on business level?

Why is that India cares less for people on business level?- Grapevine

As per internal company sources: This is big like 500+, lots of folks cut in platform teams, brand teams, marketing teams, business teams, product and tech. Wish everyone there all the best. This shall too pass!

Layoff at BYJUS as mentioned by articles

Hired lionel messi to promote brand and cuts employees to save costs.  
  
 What a fucking high IQ C suite the company has🤣 piece of shits, thats why never work for Indian companies. No morals

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I’ve always had this question on why Indians are very stingy when it comes to paying money for premium products. I agree there are Indians especially in the young generation who aren’t shy from spending for quality products but the masses are still stuck in the bargaining or cheap mindset. 

When we look for cars the first thing we probably check is kitna mileage dega ?

When we look at a premium product we compare it to a copy or a product that does not offer the same quality or service that a premium product offers. 

What are the reasons to it and when or how can we come out of it. This is one of the reasons we have got the “slave / miser ” label outside our county and why we’ve got weak passports which make it difficult to take a vacation like citizens of other countries .

Why are Indians still stuck in the freebie or cheap mentality ?

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What has his government done right and what has his government done wrong in the last term?
Stay civil folks. ❤️
I love my India 🇮🇳

Modi has one of the highest approval ratings in the world

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I've had the fortune of having worked in 3 countries so far. India is by far the most exciting place to be in 2024.
But there's something about our work ethic that just concerns me. In both white and blue collar.

In most other countries, I've observed people strictly sticking to the 9 to 5, working diligently in those hours - not wasting too much time on chai sutta breaks, instagram browsing, gupshup etc.

They work for 8 hours, then leave. And think about work directly the next day.

In India, most of us spend more hours - but very obviously very few of those hours are productive. In fact, I lately feel that too many people around me are doing even 2-3 hours of work on a good day.

We end up just staying around, passing time, and then go back home. When we could have achieved so much more.

Work ethic has fallen. Work hours have gone up.

We need to be more mindful of our actions, we need to work well at work, and then do well at home.

I think it's a function of being over populated. There are 1.5-2 people doing what 1 person should be doing, hence this effect.

Needs to be fixed, it's the sign of a major problem in the workforce. Thoughts?

Disguised unemployment in India - It's all around us :/

We don't end up staying long hours because we need to. But because we have to, so that the manager doesn't feel like we leave the office by "half day".  
  Also, they have a leverage that they can shut their laptops at 5 and nobody will reach out to them. But here in India, managers do reach out for escalations, or make us attend lat evening calls because it's afternoon in Europe or morning in NA. The people sitting in Europe or NA are not made to wake up early or attend night calls to accommodate us during our actual 9-5.  
  People also chit chat etc. bcz they know for sure that they have to sit for long hours..so they need to take small breaks in the day. No one has the capacity to work 10-11 hrs without any breaks.  
  Here it would never be possible to have such a strict 9-5.

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I myself am a Software dev with more than ten years of exp. 

I mentored a bunch of folks and was active in lot pf communities. I have been noticing this trend for more than couple of years about how freshers and developers with experience of less than two three years are aggressively looking to switch companies to target 30L or 50L or whatever they are currently looking for. 
But I feel this is really bad for future in terms of career growth. I am not against looking for the best offer, but I feel people recently don’t have any priority for career growth. 

I am trying to understand their perspective. I am not jealous of any of these. Heck I prefer that they get more, so that they have to increase my pay to keep up with current trends. It’s just when people ask me for career guidance I don’t want to sound like a jerk to prioritise good work over good pay. 

Can you guys share your inputs/perspectives?

Are juniors salary expectations even realistic?

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From Salary range mandatory to banning non compete. US Labour laws FTW!

Whenever I read foreign media outlets, India is the new Asian Tiger that will outpace most emerging economies in growth. But Indian media and Indian people act like India is the worst place to be.

The dichotomy is extremely confusing. Why is it that foreign media coverage on our economy is more favourable than our own hopes and aspirations from this country?

PS: I am really big on Indian Exceptionalism, the belief that India's economic development and trajectory are unique or exceptional compared to other nations, driven by our large and diverse population, thriving middle class, our entrepreneurial spirit, and the emphasis on technology and innovation.

Source:
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2024-04-07/can-india-overtake-china-as-world-s-growth-engine-it-could-happen-by-2028

Why do Indians hate India?

Lack of opportunities, too much competition and no support from government (unless you know someone who knows someone) 
  
 It is just not India, you speak with natives of other countries they will not paint rosy pictures. Happiest country Finland has such gloom in population and they accept it

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It wouldn't have been much of an issue had they taken 2 days to ship it.
You gained good PR, and revenue of the day.
But at what cost?

But again, it is India - people will work 70hrs and not question why

Someone did point this out finally

It's infuriating how everyone's advice to deal with layoffs is side hustles, wasting your life away to constantly upskill and reducing spending. Basically everyone here is saying "live life like shit to appease your corporate overlords" as if layoffs are OUR fault?

Instead, why aren't we seeing any advice on the lines of:

Build expertise in something while you're an employee and later start your own company/business/consultation on the basis of it. This will increase competition within businesses and will force them to treat their employees like humans. This was kind of the reason why things were generally good for employees from 2021-22 because all the startups popping up increased competition for labour.

Or if your employer lays a bunch of people off and starts giving the rest of you their workload, simply refuse! Don't work extra long or extra hard. Get the employees together collectively and make everyone, or at least the majority refuse to entertain these outlandish demands from your employers. What are they gonna do? Fire you all and lose their business? And if that's not going to work, just do everything very poorly and if you're asked about it, just cite that there is a lack of manpower needed to get quality results.

Basically, why have we collectively decided to take the short end of the stick and make our lives miserable when we should instead force employers to face consequences of THEIR OWN poor strategic planning? Why aren't we even discussing ideas for, let alone working on protecting our own best interests rather than interests of those who are screwing us over?

[Layoffs] Why have we just collectively decided to suck it up rather than retaliate?

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Just wanted to know why and how come our companies have horrible WLB and cultures compared to western counterparts. Is it the fault of the employees for accepting whatever and acting like sheep or is it just the mindset of the senior management to treat their subordinates the same horrible way they were treated as some sort of sick rite of passage ?

Why do Indian Companies / Indian management have horrible work life balance and cultures compared to others  ?

Can't share too many details but basically went to an invite only event with some program unveiling and partnership announcements from GOI and other companies.

Minister who was chief guest arrived late, other guests (also ministers) arrived later than him.

After arriving, he starts his speech by saying i left important work to be here bla bla bla, sheer arrogance in the way he conducted himself. Didn't even speak in Hindi, was speaking to press the entire time and didn't care about Hindi speaking locals and audience who were specially invited for the event. Clicked photos, then left within 20-30 minutes of arriving. 

Other guests who were invited who i spoke to (non GOI) were saying the same thing - this govt is all talk and big numbers, detached from ground reality. They were brought there for optics, not for any change or meaningful work. And they can't say no either.

GOI has become an entity who everyone puts up with, not out of choice. No one wishes to engage with ministers willingly anymore. They are forced to. Because when it all comes down to real work and projects, they want their own commissions / benefits regardless of the project at hand. And they will act like kings throughout the process, no scope for dialogue or negotiation. 

I think it's time for more corporate and startup leaders to join politics and clean up the act. Someone needs to. Or else we will lose a lot of business to neighbouring countries in the next few years.

Went for a high profile event, mood towards govt is dismal

Generalist

Writing this from the lobby of a good hotel in the city 
There are 3 types of people I see around me: 
1. Foreigners (50%): Mostly on business travel. From various countries. Their economies and companies can afford to pay for this, it's nothing. Some with family, so maybe just traveling India in a luxury way. 
2. People like me (20%): Indian corporate folks. Working at consulting/VC/MNCs etc. My company pays for this. But there's a deep cost. I work 12-14 hour days. I don't enjoy the hotel as much. We are pretty much slaves, by choice. 
3. Indian business folk (30%): The thieves. They expense all of this to their business. Every expense to them is at a discount, because they can use it to show losses on their books, and get away with tax. They live better lives than us. 

We are not them. Income tax crossing corporate tax data point really struck with me. Governments have started giving more freebies. We enjoy fewer public facilities. 
The only reason to be in India is that I love the friends and family here. But otherwise, as a salaried employee (as we all are), we should know that we're kind of being duped.

Thoughts on staying in a luxury hotel, and income tax crossing corporate tax...

It's a bit too much calling business owners thieves bro. Your hotel stay is paid for by a business too. That's risk and reward, plain and simple.  
  
 Besides, MSMEs in India hardly earn much in the first place to be able to pay a lot of tax. It's the top percentile that gets away with waivers of crores, while business owners like me can't even get an uncollateralized loan at a decent interest rate.

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So recently i was seeing a video where Rahul Gandhi was talking to parents of a young employee from EY who recently passed Away. Het mother said that students work so hard to reach at the top only for being treated like slaves in the end and why work culture in our country is so different from others that made me question everything that why they aren't prioritize the mental health and work life balance. Yesterday I was talking to one of my friends, Who is in USA working in tech and said that the working hours are sometimes go 10-11 hrs but that's in very rare cases and atleast Managers here are not POS like in India in 90% cases who demand to clock 11-12 hrs daily.

My Father always says to me that - India is growing, Companies are shifting their bases to India , why are you looking to go to USA when India is future. I said to him that I know India is the future, it's a developing economy, companies are heavily investing but there is one major reason that we are largely populated in the world and it's really hard to get cheap labours here who can be easily exploited as India is already producing 45-46 lakhs CS graduates every year for ex, way more than USA and other countries so even if you are asking for the 20 lpa , there are already a lot in the queue who are ready to do same job in 12-14 lpa though market is bad , it will improve by the time I'll graduate or even if doesn't then i look for other options in EU .

Guys I understood one thing very clearly there is no other reason except family and loved ones that will stop you moving from here

Attaching the link of video  https://youtu.be/E8qt_LmMmkg?si=bRYSBtQOLjrYwXtH

Anna Sebastian's Parents talked to Rahul Gandhi and her mother's words stucked in my mind

Confirmed from credible source. Gojek Pune office is going to be shutdown in May or June. 

All people from Pune office will be layoff and no other option will be provided. 

So all Pune people , start looking out soon.

Gojek Pune Office Shutdown

India are growing 3 largest economic in the world

Rahul Gandhi in a rally says this :
"The youth who are unemployed and watching Facebook Instagram reels today will be given ₹1,00,000 khatakhat khatakhat!"

Now, I don't know how can someone be an advocate for this kind of statement?
I know this won't happen but at least give a proper reason. He is literally saying watch reels and earn.

I really feel privileged that TikTok is banned after hearing this from a leader who is trying to become PM of our country.

F Hard Work!

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