Zepto Tea

Out there on Linkedin people are debating whether Zepto should setup shop in Mumbai or Bangalore. The founders are saying they will become like Amazon someday.
Inside the employee's lives are crushed like this. What is the point of raising $5b valuation if you don't have any human nature left in you.
Sorry you had to go through this as a fresher. Hope you got a better job than this.

It started off like some entitled GenZ story, but man so sorry anyone had to go through this. Definitely can see it there, when founder's focus is on the money, you cannot build culture

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https://www.reddit.com/r/developersIndia/s/8K2ZHGURFR

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Startups are getting worse they're straight up scamming people in broad daylight.

I was hired as MIS Analyst in Zepto through some third party and was also on their payroll, as a student (Btech in AI&DS 2024') from tier 3 college this was like a golden opportunity for me, but first day itself killed all my joy when I realized they are making me work on Excel, Canva and some campaign software to send communication messages to riders. All the colleagues were doing this from last one year. My work timings were 10:30 to 7:30 but Manager always brought work after 7 and I always left at 8:30, he did not let me go saying "thodasa hi rider communication kaam h krdo" at time he even abused me with the "c" "b*c*" cuss and when I was already working overtime for no extra pay. As a fresher I did not knw how offer letters work, there was nothing mentioned in my offer letter neither my timings nor my job role, I understood this now. Time went some days I worked from 11AM to 8 PM and dat day something happened and they made me work even at night from 11PM to 4AM no compensation no holiday was given next day. My parents were angry with this kind of job and I did not have guts to tell them what I was really doing cauz my job role did look IT but it was literally BPO job. After receiving my first salary, I left the job without notice. That was the happiest day of my life. Now I'm back home prepping for the GATE exam because finding a job in data right now feels impossible in this market. Thank you for reading till here idk when they will stop exploiting freshers.

Edit1: I left without notice, but I returned the system on the same day. HR literally said submit the system and get lost idc but ur having our precious data right now submit asap.

Edit2: one day my whole team was absent like 3 of them took leave without saying anything L management and 2 already had their week off on dat day. The manager raised his hand as if to hit but didn't actually hit reason: work was slow cauz I was doing work of other 4 people alone I didnt cry dat day but thinking about it today brings tears to my eyes. Why did I go through this much what was my fault...

Edit3: Even after being honest bout my whole exp some people dm me and still want to apply for this same role and they r ready for the trauma, ig people have normalised this now im the only outlier

Zepto has a HUGE talent & HR team.
Wonder what their actual KPIs are - at this point seems like just hiring.
Which then begs the question when they've hired enough people to run the business - what happens to the TA team???

The moral of the story is to go to the gym and beat the shit out of your manager if he tries to hit you.