What's a secret from a previous workplace you worked at? 🤫
I know sometimes we refrain from saying too much about our company. But exes can usually be talked about, since there's not much holding back. Maybe it helps someone else avoid a mistake you did, or gain a new learning :p Shoot.
Not my workplace, but true story.
giant american retail company (assume it's W*) hires one giant indian IT services company (assume it's H*) for some maintenance work now this H* company has offload this work to small Indian IT services company (assume it's M*) which has a employee named R* who's one assigned to actually do the work but R* is smartass he's scouting internet for freelancer to fix the issues. He gets one junior guy P* to work for few thousand rupees and shares his credentials, vpn provider etc and our P* now messes up , in the whole scenario there's no safety lot's of mess total grey zone.
From knowing this incident, I'm like no one gives any fucks about anything, only if people weren't so bad.
Now this could trigger a few people
But 70 percent of employees in the entire company of 150 people were hired from a specific community.
When we are in hiring team , we realised there was a unsaid biased ! No one talked about it and it still is on !
And even with this scarce data, we know where that community is from.
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Company used to ask it's marketing team to report bad glassdoor reviews of itself. They were able remove almost all of them, went from 1.5 to 4.5
Donut
Stealth
2 months ago
Common practice in start ups. They are so worried about their image and reviews but will do nothing to improve the issue which have been clearly communicated to them
Donut
Stealth
2 months ago
90% senior mgmts are incompetent but they’re all in the boys group of the CEO, which means no accountability for them, no layoffs even when their reportees are fired bcos of the useless strategies that they themselves created. All enjoy amazing appraisals and no skills improvement or subject matter knowledge
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We all knew our product didn't work from day 1. But it took the senior leadership about 1-2 years to learn the same through data.
If you spoke with even one person on the ground you would know. I'll not name the product but you;ve all heard of it before
Interns had 50k stipend mentioned in the offer letter. The company paid 50k but asked to send 40k back to the CEO account. Probably to siphon the investor money. Similar thing happened with employees too
Can't say the name but I got to know this after I quit in Jan. They are incubated to IITK and have few investors. I believe investors money is around 1-5cr
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My boss’s boss used to have relation with my female colleagues and they got better appraisals 😅😅
“We don’t design for our users, we only design for vss. Keep that in mind.”
- a VP
Account Managers usually never care about their business, and have misguided targets that restrict them form doing well at helping customers
A previous company had in house web based training module with proper questions. We had some public shared network folder where everyone had a directory for easier file sharing. The sole dev of the training tool had the source code for the tool in it. Along with all the answers. Everyone used it, no one told the managers. These questions were difficult AF and clearing this was a big deal in eyes of the managers. People intentionally had to do it slowly to avoid suspicion.
Jav_bud
Stealth
2 months ago
Didn't understand,lol
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I am consulting for a seed stage startup in hrtech.
There was offline meet arranged for all heads of department and few others. It was a 3 storied building and only 9 people in the house.
While we were preparing for our presentation we noticed the founder was missing for 3 hours after coming and then we noticed the junior hire is also missing. It so happens both were in the same room for 3 hours and then in the evening the founder says she is getting promoted as the co-founder of the company. She is 26 years old, he is 48 years old.
We gave it the benefit of the doubt and thought they must be discussing important stuff while they were locked away. The next day the girl starts asking people individually if we 'know about them'.
It has been all downhill since then. Things spread and on the next call the founders wife comes up onto the call giving a speech about how she met the founder and she knows about the relationship thing between the founder and the lady. People left the organization and he has been asking 'what did I do wrong'.
My CEO and VP had affair and VP's husband knew about it and supported it. They have an affair baby as well because VP's husband was not in India for a whole year and VP was pregnant 4 months after her husband went out of India and the CEO bought a whopping 6.8cr property divided into apartments priced 3.4 cr each and right beside each other and one is occupied by the VP and one by him.
DelayedRam
Stealth
2 months ago
A startup spun off from an existing family business. The new startup gets money from the VC. The new startup leases stuffs from family business and pay the lease amount every month.
Broad day light siphoning of money from VC into family business.
DelayedRam
Stealth
2 months ago
According to the CA, he had to submit reports to VCs at random times when they ask for it. They’re cautious but they probably don’t know how well the startup founders have masked it.
- Company asks for anonymous survey then allots a time when we can fill it , later they take our survey and reflect upon it in performance review.
- company continuosuly monitors glassdoor and questions employees about their review based their role
This company called Nelson Mandela offloads all work to Indian service based companies but the Nelson Mandela company claims itself to be a product company.
Bdw this is a big mess of a company. I want to get outta this shithole asap
Kaka_boom
Stealth
2 months ago
Different variety of milk used to come for the founders that employees were not supposed to drink
Jav_bud
Stealth
2 months ago
How is this different from when senior management eat separately
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We used our company's bot to clear the assessments in the learnings provided to us.
Senior management have smarty promoted all the asslickers/assholes to the middle management layer. Now they do whatever is told to them. Senior mgmt people enjoys huge bonuses by simply giving orders to middle managers. Middle management ppl take credit of the work done by their team, they dont give a fck abt anyone.
us company hires freelancer. Freelancer spends all hours just with mouse clicker software and outsources all marketing work to chatgpt
Profit??
(Not me, ex colleague)
Company (startup) faked documents related to employees pf to avoid tax for 1 year. Then made us rejoin the company with condition for 1 year mandatory bond. I had to pay 2 months salary to get the fk out of the company.
My ex company even didnt provide payslips on time, only after 2 months. Is it to avoid tax?
Not my company, but one a friend of mine was. They got a new intern who found too complex to understand the code. So he created a public GitHub repository, pushed entire code to that repo and asked Copilot to explain him. Some one found it had .env file as well, got DB credentials and dumped the database and tried to get the company to pay ransom. Luckily, this DB was one filled with garbage and is used to run tests, so company escaped. That intern didn't escape though and was fired immediately.
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