Cursing the Indian Startups

This is a small sample.
People write 100x more of their negative experiences than positive ones.
There are 100s of startups where culture, work etc is good imo.

People complain period. If you say I love company x, some joker will come.and say I worked there it's full of politics and bullshit and no one knows anything.

It's a waste of time to argue with anonymous jokers so no one bothers to put great reviews about their company. Result: you see only shitty reviews.

In an app like this why would you expect great reviews...will probly be from HR or the founder only :)

Tbh if you are at a startup your priority should be the mission. The problem they are trying to solve for. The road would be crappy. Long hours, unstructured setups but the goal could be rewarding. It is a high risk high reward setup. People are bound to complain. If someone wants a chill setup they can work at an established company. That would solve their problem regarding environment.

It's only a few who actually complain about things like this. LOTS more people are either stuck in the system or perpetuating it. The leaders should discourage a shitty culture, only then it's possible to make it better. If any of you are managers or leaders, please start with RESPECT. Long hours, layoffs are all part of the game sometimes.
But respect every single person in your team.
Sometimes just the words "I hear you, I'm here for you, let's get through this shit as a team" is all that matters.

But many managers are hell bent on blaming and stealing credit.

People curse start-ups and thier culture because founders behave in that manner. They want long hours for people sacrifice everything for the mission. But the first thing they do after realising funds is buy a sports cars and a penthouse. This is what make people call it a scam.
In a country where people hate the ones being successful. Being showy in fancy cars and asking others to slog for you and then firing them makes it worse. As for as I know the negative attitude about start-ups was not this much a year back.

Every post on Grapevine shits on every Indian startup. I'm not surprised at all.

Entitled crowd aint seen nothing, cribbing full time. Even ppl with 80L-1Cr feel underpaid.

I have been in town hall where employees were asking for cash in lieu of free food company was providing in office earlier but stopped during covid WFH....

Then in the same breath they wanted internet & furniture payments as well for WFH setup.