Original tweet here https://x.com/dharmeshba/status/1778724873994666232?s=46&t=WrWonXjafCq4BPxD7ZWIwQ

Word!

Growth Manager

Word!- Grapevine

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40171125

Google layoffs clarity

A lot of these jobs will move to cheaper countries, they won’t be completely scraped. India should benefit

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Investor

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Have been on my first job for over 8 years now. Joined as an associate, changed various roles and made progress to become a PM. Happy with my job and importantly, I've been learning new things everyday and have a great leader.
But constantly, at the back of my mind, i have a thought, will i become irrelevant one day? Is it bad to stay at the same company for too long (or forever)? What are the pros of changing the job? What are cons of sticking back?
Any input, is much appreciated!

How long should one work at the same company?

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Analyst

Sharing something I saw on X. 

https://x.com/smb_attorney/status/1745609324544536778?s=46&t=75M9ooHyv6ZxcnXYHYGynw

I thought she asked the right questions and that Cloudflare team actually were just throwing corporate doublespeak.

Saw this. Thoughts?

Brand Communication Manager

https://x.com/maheshperi/status/1772489350934110510?t=Ondrw6T8B_p4piYFyH703w&s=08

Good thread. Please read and give your insights in comments

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The manager here will give you unachievable targets will shout on you and put the blame of everything on you this is the dumbest company ever and such ill-literate managers gosh should have never entered xoxoday, never go for this company warning you guys ,gonna give my notice period tomorrow wish me luck

Xoxoday the worst sales culture in a company

Founder’s Office

X (formerly Twitter) owned by Elon Musk — by 71.5% from the original valuation of shares

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Context: 10.5 YOE, Marketing lead. I've been looking for a switch since September last year. I'd seen signs of maybe my role or the company itself folding very early and knew 'twas time to bolt. But it's not that easy. Back then - 1 year in a startup meant hey not bad, people still spoke to you and considered your profile. These days, they treat you like Ebola if you've not had your ass stuck in the same place for 3-5 years. 

Anyway, so the majority of my time searching for jobs was the shitty Easy Apply or IIMJOBS premium account route. Suprise suprise. It doesn't work. But hey I was still employed and not nearly as motivated as someone who's unemployed. 

Cut to layoffs: Got laid off with my whole team and a huge chunk of other leaders. My first layoff, felt hilariously like the last day of school. To the org's credit they gave us 3 month severance, leave encashments and extra months for those who'd been there for 2 years+. In hindsight hearing the horror stories of 2k severance from Byju's. I'm grateful for the nice golden parachute I got. I'll be honest, it contributed heavily to my mental stability. I had time, I had leverage, I didn't have to run for the first shitty opportunity that came my way. 

The How I did it (why you struggled through the above stream of consciousness) 

- Wrote to 159 founders with one pagers to 35 of them with ideas on how i'd lead their marketing function. 5 replies. 3 interviews. 2 offers - didn't take em cuz they were super early stage or diff cities. This is immediately in month 1 so I've already started feeling icky about not getting great brands to have in my set. 
- Easy Applied to 768 (I ran a Gmail search, this is a real number) jobs. 99% no responses or you've been rejected. 
-Kept changing one letter on my Naukri.com profile, got me 6 calls, 3 interviews and 1 conversion 

I think theres a word limit to posts 🥲 following up as comments below.

Finally got a job (here's the do's and dont's)

Part 3 
  
 - Add HRs and hiring managers on LinkedIn, send them free ideas and strategies. Its ok if they steal them it meant they were great. One of them will refer you, remember you or hire you. 
 - Have a CV and a summary (half a page) that gets people excited about wanting to read the CV. Only areas of expertise and bullet points for results  
 - Don't put the OpentoWork filter on your LinkedIn DP. Its radioactive. I know people actively avoid those profiles. But make sure to keep open to work beacon on for recruiters. It pushes you ahead  
 - Dont post low effort i need a job because im laid off, i dont have money, copy pasted by millions on Linkedin. If you're gonna publically ask for a job, make sure that post has enuff of your skillset screaming for a potential hirer to want to explore more. Else you'll get velle gadhe typing CFBR 
 - Dont be anal or choosy about interviewing, i literally gave 35-50 in 3 months that culminated in 4 offers. Each one taught me something, heck ive spoken to startups with 7 peeps in it  
 - The only one that can negotiate CTC is the one that can walk away. When the offer i wanted finally came, my fixed went down a tad, but variable increased. The role was worth it so i didnt bother negotiating. Places i wasnt excited about - oh i quoted 30% hikes and got it at one place :p

Brand Marketing Manager

Zuck’s original email to WhatsApp founder

Operations Analytics

Indian SDEs on LinkedIn & Twitter are some of the worst engineers you will ever find across the real world. Their typical value lies around:

- Cracking a FAANG/MAANG or Product company.
- Make an announcement on LinkedIn & Twitter and accumulating followers.
- Starting YouTube channel, Topmate links, affiliate marketing channels, and more.
- Rant DSA, System Design, Interview resources all day long. 
- Post daily of their office, their colleagues, candid shots, and barely getting any work done.

While this is expected out of early career professionals, it pains to see senior SDEs doing the same shit over and over again. Things don't end here — Everyone talks about creating a revolution. And the revolution is teaching DSA. 

If you are an experienced SDE and still ranting DSA, it just means that you have barely learnt anything that is of worth any value. You are atmost a "Ticket Engineer". You get assigned a Jira ticket, you bust your ass solving it, and that's it. That's your entire value. 

Its high time that these "Bhaiya", "Didis", "Bhabhis" stop ranting DSA and System Design over and over, and build something of real value. You would barely see any credible open-source projects coming out of India (but hey, we have some many contributors!), barely any Indie dev project, or anything that captures the attention of the world. 

Literally every popular SDE you might follow or see over your social media is the same. Their entire community game is a farce and designed to capture gullible college students and shill thousands of rupees out of them. You might be featured on Times Square ($40 ka showoff), but no one would remember you for anything that you built.

<Rant Over. Peace>

Indian SDEs will do all DSA and System Design chatter but cannot create any real value

Software Engineer

https://x.com/debarghyawrites/status/1803448849668731292

What the !!

Product Manager

Welcome to Confessions's Private Community

It's getting dirtier by the day and sure some orgs are still up to their dirty tricks.

The models:
- Appraise and then Lay Off: Why bother putting bandaid on a stab wound? Anyways the folks are going to fight how to answer the ..why were you laid off war, and now you are adding another twist.. why were you appraised and then laid off?
- Low appraisals to force quit: Undervalue them so they leave on their own. It’s a leeches way to cut costs. Kill morale 100%. Severance penny spent $0.
- Trap them in PIP: Dress it up however you want - very very few escape this death sentence.
- Silent treatment: No assignments, No meetings. Watch them spiral into anxiety and leave to save their sanity.
- Workload overload: Drown them in work until they break. No need for layoffs list until they make it to your collapse list first.
- Strategic reorg: Re-organize them out of existence. Offer a demotion or a proxy role in a random team that you know they dont want as an alternative. 
- Sudden policy changes: oh! I have seen so many I can't keep up with this one. 
New policies that make their life hell. People leave to escape your pettiness.
- Mandatory relocation: Demand they move to an undesirable location. Then you treat remote employees like outsiders. Exclude them from key projects, conversations until they feel like foster care kids, second-class citizens. You know the outcome from there on.
- Use the "Culture Fit" excuse: Call out how they’re not a culture fit. Vague, unchallengeable, and forces them out without severance.

And don't sell me "the org has got to do what it has got to do to survive" line. I don't buy that
If you have seen this being done, I understand your silence, but I don't value it.
If this has been done to you or someone close to you, I am sorry. Orgs and the people failed you. 
We could be 1000x better than what we are operating as.

dirty tricks played by orgs to Lay Off employees

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Human Resource

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I came across this on Twitter.

This is so weird at some many levels. Software Engineer is an absolute joke in 2023.

View the public exchange here: https://twitter.com/MattBinder/status/1632942281362636801

Elon berates a fired employee publicly on Twitter

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Woah

We have removed the article summarizing an Economic Times report about Loginext from Grapevine. This action follows a public statement by Loginext's founder, Dhruvil Sanghvi, contradicting the information in the original Economic Times article.

Key points:

1. The original report was published by Economic Times, which we had summarized on Grapevine.
2. Dhruvil Sanghvi, Loginext's founder, has stated that the information in the Economic Times report is incorrect.
3. According to Sanghvi, Loginext continues to operate normally, with all clients and employees remaining operational.

As a platform for news discussion, we aim to provide accurate information to our users. When conflicting information comes directly from a company founder, we believe it's important to acknowledge this and remove potentially inaccurate content.

Cheers!

Update: Article Removed Due to Founder's Clarification

Journalist

Return to office is ‘dead,’

RTO was mostly about pumping up real estate prices :)

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Dukaan CTO moved out of cloud to save cost,  risk analysis?

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Before people jump into validation mode, I thought let’s do something ulta (opposite)🙃

Pick one of your worst investment mistakes (it can be a stock, RE, ULIP, relationx blah blah) 

My inputs - During 2021/22 real estate boom, I picked a real estate stonk (india bulls) as I thought it’s a growing sector and company will become beneficiary after all the sins they have committed in past. Bam! Over next 5 months stock crashed ~50% 🥲

FriYaY is Investment day on GV!

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Would you rather be an Engineer learning how to Product or a Product Manager learning how to Engineer?

Answer is obvious mate. And it's already in motion. 
 Everyone knows current product management breed is a messed up fraudulent bunch. They will run into poverty if they don't change ways🙂

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