Have you had not-good experiences while working in "great places 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.

And are there signs somebody could pick up even before joining?

Saw a great place to work org sending a delivery guy to deliver door to door at 9.00 pm It was raining bad in that area here in Bangalore so I asked “no raincoat?” Guy says - no sir.. my company doesn’t give. my friends - only Zomato and Swiggy have got. Baaki.. ko .. Farak nai padta.. So I got to ask .. Kya karoge itna shareholder return deke, itna profit banake? Ki ek raincoat bhi nai de sakte. Branding to wo aadmi kar Gaya Zomato aur Swiggy ka Jo Wo Khud bhi nai kar paaye.

I recently started a new job. I would like to share some of the experiences I have had with my manager. I am wondering if these are red flags or if I am maybe being paranoid or thinking too much. It was quite difficult for me to get into this company and this job. The company is quite great and I was quite excited but some of the experiences I have had with my immediate manager have made me a bit apprehensive. I would like to share them and hear opinions about it. Here are some things which have happened which I have not liked so far - 1. I speak to a Senior Engineer one day and next day my manager asks me if anyone asked me to speak to him. 2. I shared an insight about a new tool which we can use on a deployment pipeline on the overall pod (under my skip manager). My manager immediately called me and started asking my status update and replied 'Discussing 1-1' in the group to prevent anyone getting visibility of the idea. 3. My manager pings me whenever I go offline and recently he asked me in a passive aggressive way, 'Please monitor your Teams status. It was away for most of today.' I now feel kind of paranoid to never get up as I feel my Teams status is being monitored.

Hey Viners🙋, I have worked with Unacademy for around 3 years as SSE. Shoot all your questions to me regarding the company’s culture and state, will be happy to answer them 🙂

M,35 with 10 years of IT B2B marketing work ex. Got laid off this month because of petty office politics. So joined this company in Jan 23. All was going well until the person who hired me left the org and a new external person took the charge. She wanted senior level(20+ years) folks into marketing leadership team and decided to revamp the team. Got a couple of people from her earlier org for senior leadership roles. Also, a Salesperson who was a long timer at the current organisation and who was in my role 3 years back, decided to move back to marketing team as his Sales role was in danger. This led to the domino effect leading to my role getting redundant as my boss preferred the sales cum marketing person with 20 years workex. As a result - i got laid off! Mind you there was no issue with performance as i got an increment mid year because of excellent performance which is also mentioned in the role redundancy letter. Searching for Tech marketing role in the areas of Product marketing, demand generation preferably in Pune or remote roles. Appreciate any help in this regard. Thanks.

"Healthtech startup implodes, axes 3/4 of workforce after lavish Series-C funding round! Upper management rewards themselves with director-level promotions, while loyal employees are left in the lurch. In a ruthless move, the company offers a two-month notice period but refuses to provide termination letters, forcing employees to quit and forfeit their rightful severance pay. The very same employees who contributed to the startup's success are now callously discarded, leaving many wondering if greed and betrayal are the new industry standards." Hint - it's amongst one of the biggest emr platform and says doctor first approach.