“There used to be an educator delight team of five-six people whose only work was to send gifts to the teachers: T-shirts, water bottles, big boxes of chocolates. It all used to be sent directly to the teacher’s house. The founder himself used to be involved in this. But now that team has been sacked,” said a former employee of Unacademy, on the condition of anonymity"..
The above clipping is an article on edtech. People who joined these role- did they honestly believe this job has a long term prospect?
If this is the job our youth are working, we should be ashamed of this whole sector.
Demographic dividend: there is always someone willing to do the job.
In every parking area of a mall in india, there is a guy whose job it is to receive/input the parking stub into the machine.
Ppl have to do any job to survive. It's another problem if they stick around without pursuing better jobs.
A lot of people at Unacademy have already resigned, and they are unable to hire replacements from the market( for who knows what reasons). Now as we all know people who are left in the organisation are going to have a tough time.
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Graphy has forced a 30% salary cut on each employee to achieve profitability this year. This cut will be applicable from February onwards until 7-8 months.
Truly a sad time for the Edtech ecosystem.
I repeat: If you have options, avoid joining EdTech companies. If you're already working for one, exit at f...
Edtech layoffs still continuing?
Teams were asked to strictly work from home for today because of plumbing work going on in the office. Roughly 300 people were laid off in a townhall hosted by the founders.
How will they tell people that their courses will help get a job in a product company now?
Was interviewing at one of the acquisitions of a major edtech player for a design role in Bangalore roughly 2 years ago.
🚩 Didn't share agreement on email unless I came to office for a day's worth of work (after completing interview ...