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What is the worst thing that you have done in corporate?

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Give me a one liner genuine experience where you thought corporate sucks

Corporate sucks

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Since I’ve been working under a crappy management just wanted to know what others are going through as well. 

My manager takes a PL off my account everyday since I’m on notice period in the hopes this will convince me to rescind my registration and work under her 💀

Worst Thing Your Management Has Done

Assistant Manager

I was done with a very shit project team. The client is notorious, ask anyone in EY GDS about a telecom provider project near Manesar that everyone dreads. They make you work night shifts and literally have nothing to do there. I know people who game there all night. It is just the worst and my health was being affected. I am being paid < 10L by the way. So it was getting very toxic. 

I decided to ask my manager but he said that it is not possible right now. I asked my friends in other projects and I came to know that the only way to leave the project is to leave EY. I also came to know about someone who left EY to leave the project and rejoined EY to join another project.

I am now done with EY. Who said that Big 4 is good? Only Boomers who think Big 4 has prestige ig because they pay peanuts.

What is the worst experience you've had at Big 4?

We have all been told by our managers… Speak freely. It’s confidential, we’re working on YOUR growth plan. 
We have been gullible to believe it.
What are your top mistakes and top things that you should have not told your manager?

Corporate mistakes

Software Engineer

What made it worst? The pay, the culture, or your manager?

What's the worst company you have worked for?

ICICI Bank, they had a strict sign in timing policy where if you are late to corporate office, half day salary would be cut, It would be reversed only when manager approves. The sign out time used to be 5.15pm, but you would be made to sit till 8 pm by most of the managers even if your job is done for the day. A sign out at 6 pm used to be called as half day by most of the managers. 
 I heard now they donot have this dictatorial policy.

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What has your worst experience been working at a job?

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What is the worst boss you’ve ever had?

So, today was my first day in corporate. Joined a company that i hate the most, the government job company. During the induction itself, I experienced shitty HR (including all their internal depts) policies and their shitty rules. They literally told new joiners that they are going to force associates to take up the project, no matter what tech stack you want to work in! what domain do you want to work in! 

Now, you may ask why did i join them in the first place? Well, the current job market for freshers is just too bad! Graduated in may 2023, spent past 4 months trying to get an interview, but never landed any (when applied with referrals HR said they want 4+ YoE, and also the struggle to get referral. got 2 replies on an avg per 40 DMs (<500 followers) per company, that too after expiry.) In the past 1.5 years, I've cracked OAs and tech rounds of fintech like phonepe and juspay, but final rounds went south due to ghosting and a bit of politics from the college side (i know this because I had some friends working for placement officer and also i confronted that officer). Hence, 4 jobless months led me to join this organization.

Please help me structure plan to get a good offer and leave this organization in 4 months.

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Here’s my story in the field of software engineering: There’s this colleague of mine who is on a pure tech role but hardly codes. The person spends his entire time on LinkedIn sharing new age tech stuff and projects himself to the world as if he is the Messiah of architecture. The guy preaches the same gyan to members of my team. For the last one year, this guy, in the capacity of Software Architect has not pushed a single line of code into our application source code and this is on record. Yet, he is highly regarded as an expert in technology. The guy has killed the careers of some genuine software engineers with his unique approach to make it look like he is taking a lead to own stuff in tech space. The guy has had tremendous career growth, got promoted 3 times in the last 5 years.

In my view, the guy is a tech junkie whose knowledge carries no value. Yet he managed to butter the leadership team to reach to position that he is currently in.

Did you encounter any such people? If yes, comment your story.

What type of corporate villains have you encountered with in your company? Comment your story.

Software Architect

Heard from a friend that he flew out to his office in the middle of the night from his wedding because mortgage backed securities started to crumble in NA during ’07 crisis.

Dude was bummed.

What is the worst thing your boss did to you?

Initially he asked me to fill his water bottle, bring snacks for him. Dint mind doing 1-2 times. But it was continuous with other juniors too.  
  
 Took a chance one day to spit on his water bottle and brought snacks for the whole team (20 people, kurkure and frooti).  🫢

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Hey guys.
What are the worst companies to work for and why?

Worst companies to work for in India?

There is thread asking to vote for worst HR.  They are clerks. What is the worst thing they can do other than delay your final settlement.

What is " worst HR"?

Consultant

The worst company to exist from a culture POV. 

- Idiots for managers. People who have been there for years but don’t understand how to manage anything apart from their own egos

- The CEO is quiet most of the times, despite all the claims of wrongdoing happening within his firm

- Terrible paymasters. Denying people their variable pay & bonuses despite their employment agreements clearly stating so. The HR is as useless as the “ueue” at the end of the word queue. 

- No regard for safety & security of their employees when they travel for work. An employee I know is traveling to Delhi for the fashion week and they couldn’t even book her a hotel. She has to figure everything out on her own. In Delhi. 

- Their office smells like shit and can’t even handle all their employees coming into work. They don’t have enough chairs to seat everyone but HR wants to call everyone back to office 5 days a week. 

It’s no surprise that HUL treats them like a stepchild. Nobody wants them, and they’re just about surviving on their own. 

Think twice before working with them in any capacity. Take your money in advance. 

Never work for them.

Lakme Lever Pvt Ltd

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What was your worst experience in corporate whenyou newly joined and also now as well?

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I recently applied to Indian Fintech, first round went well. Got no response from HR for 3-4 days. Once I called her on 5th day, she told me that I had cleared first round and they will assignment next day. Assignment didn’t arrive for 2 more days. HR stopped picking my calls. After this I reached out to third party recruiter (who started the process initially). She contacted this company HR and they sent me assignment next day. 

I had to complete it in 48 hour strict timeline. Spent entire 2 days on it and barely slept. I submitted it on time. 

After this no reply from HR for 4 days. Finally I reached out to my interviewer from first round for help. He said he will remind HR. 

Next day I got call from HR that all open positions are closed and we will consider u in future. No feedback on assignment was given. Not even sorry for making u wait. 

Isn’t the only thing HRs need to be good at is people handling & professional communication?

What’s the worst interview process experience you had so far?

Almost 50% of the org got no increments
People with "exceeds" rating got single digit increments
Only promotion cases have got early to mid double digit increments
Promotions have been significantly fewer this time, max people have been told to hold off their expectations of promotions for another year

The reasons cited were economic slowdown, other companies like Microsoft, Flipkart, swiggy, Amazon doing the same and cost cutting. I think things are getting toxic and the majority of employees have been left disappointed.

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