NonTechInTechGuy

Companies certified "great place to work"

Does anyone else feels that whichever company gets the certification of "great place to work" actually turns out to be a shitty toxic place?

The irony of this!! The places which didn't bother about such certifications were so much better in their policies and employee first culture. No fucks given to any external validation.. just casually going about their business and letting the employees become their ambassador for postive word of mouth.

16mo ago

Lenses

Stealth16mo

When a metric becomes a target, it ceases to be a good metric.

Careermode

LivSpace16mo

I mean, not revenue and net profit surely?

SlavaRussi

Stealth16mo

not surely, people can maximize revenue and profits by exploiting employees, underpaying them ans cheating customers. is an apple sweatshop in china a good company? im pretty sure their profits are through the roof.

BiryaniEnthu

Stealth16mo

Bullshit certification.

So I was fascinated with these labels until our company made it mandatory to fill the survey and had one person overlooking while we sugar coated our experiences.

And HR would mail, please ensure all have submitted our views and help company become a great place to work.

Basics hi hile hue hai

Careermode

LivSpace16mo

https://www.greatplacetowork.in/indias-best-companies-to-work-for

Ayo Housing is the 3rd best place to work in India. Brb... applying Wonder why people make such a big fuss about Google and stuff

Jesusbaba

Housing.com16mo

Don't apply - you might get laid off without giving the appropriate reason

Careermode

LivSpace16mo

Risk hai toh ishq hai @Jesusbaba I'm just kidding

AITookMyJob

Startup16mo

So true. I've worked at a place that fussed so much over GPTW but wasn't a great place to work at all.

I've also worked at a place that didn't fuss about all these certifications at all - that place was heavenly. Although, I recently saw them advertising getting such a certification too :(

Careermode

LivSpace16mo

Which one was it (the first one), if you can share?

Ravan

Stealth16mo

Yea I remember working in a large bank which have this annual Global people survey to see pulse of company and all the managers forces their people to give better results so as to get in their manager’s good books and once one guy got 101 out of 100 for this team. 😂😂😂

NonTechInTechGuy

Stealth16mo

PTSD trigger!!

Bakwasmaal

Stealth16mo

Pretty standard affair in most corp. what rankles is every year some BS people leader will rise from their slumber around the time of the survey, draw up an action plan to basically- do nothing! But on the flip side people always want more of the good and less of the bad, so the the co. needs to draw a balance.