forcing to use WebStorm

I have been talking to a few companies, across different size bands. Only Indian startups seem to obsessed with full week WFO/Micromanagement. A few years back, startups were known for being more flexible, now it just seems to be the reverse.

A company called loop health started allowing remote work and hiring in early 2022 soon after receiving $25 million dollars investment. Founders are a great pair in the initial but as soon after investment of series A , difference broke out and one of the co-founders left the company in the name of sabbatical from backdoor out. He was visionary and had great product sense which the CEO got jealous of and stopped him at all the cost of investors recognising him. Anyway now the real unhealthy thing is not this story but due to this product the scope got messed up and customers started complaining and renewals badly hit to 60-80%. The competitor got them easily , one of the sales people said on call at a loop that loop company customers are easy to catch for competitors. Now the real story is, the CEO wanted only the Pune office to survive and all remote employees to leave so he did a little magic ✨. Instead of laying off people, strategically not compensating anyone started layoff from the beginning of the 2023 this year by asking each outsider to resign and leave. The strategy was simple, Find weakness and make them accept simple mistakes as well and ask them to resign. At the same time, hire contractors at Pune to join and work. If any employee is strong or doesn't want to leave then make them contract employees and expect work in the same way. This is not at all acceptable and the CEO is not alone on this. CEO, CTO , CPO involved plan. The problem with this approach is unfair practices, if someone makes a mistake they won't give any PIP plan. They just fire them in easy ways to resign. CEO proudly says he wants great tennis 🎾 team but infact ceo is just a ball boy.

Joined a company recently and they gave me a shitty Linux laptop whose screen is just unbearable for me who is used to using Mac for past work experience. How to handle this? Before joining I presumed they would give Macs but they didn't.

my company is wipro, i got an offer from a startup, they are asking me to join in 25 days and asking a date so that they can put it on the offer letter. But as y’all know about service based companies N.P. how do I handle this as its my first job switch im frustrated. working in angular at wipro and will work with react in the startup.

Please name the companies that are offering remote roles.

Are there any monetary benefits when companies hire excessive Interns?

So, I joined this company located in Delhi last year from Bangalore as a permanent WFH employee. Initial 6 months were fine, even though I was aware they had pre-installed tracking software called "Teramind" while sending the laptop! But in the last 3 months the work culture or environment has completely flipped and turned into Toxic. First they made us install a remote tracking software called "Hubstaff" which tracks keyboard and mouse activity and time, and takes 4 screenshots every 10 minutes. Then they made it compulsory 8 hours a day excluding any break like lunch or tea. This month they tied work hours with Salary and started deducting the entire day's pay even if you are short by like half an hour! Almost all employees know they need to leave but are kinda stuck due to the current job market situation. I'M thinking of quitting without finding another job now, I'm just mentally tired and frustrated with the situation I find myself in. All my emotional energy is spent, I just don't know what to do😞

I am working as SDE 1 in a good Indian startup. It's getting toxic day by day. Late night workings like 3AM and working on weekends is normalised like anything. Since I am new to IT ( no sort of politics never) and have almost 2.5 Years of experience, I am facing issues in getting credits. Last appraisal cycle in January, I was nominated for promotion but wasn't given to me, reason: you have not worked with architect and he was making decisions. In that case, architect should have been distributed tasks to us. one SDE3 is leading one of the projects ( not a big one ) and manager/architect is not much interested and never join any standup or retro, I have contributed immensely to that. Now since it is completely driven by sde 3 , he takes updates from us and show his work infront of seniors and director + announces like his work and seldom we get thank you in threads. Like if you did one function or wrote complete flow, for both thank you. Because of all these reasons, my work is not getting recognised. There is no one in team to help in this. Whenever a manager or Architect show cases some features or release, it's pretty evident that his team has done it but when a sde 3 does it, it is not the same. It conveys the message all or 90% work is done by him. I would like to take some suggestions from my seniors and fellow mates here. Hierarchy - sde 1-2-3-4-EM I can't leave or switch right now due to some critical persona reasons.

Just came across a caae where the person is asked to use his own laptop for company work(she is a front end dev) joining a startup.Is this practice correct.They are going to configure the personal laptop and are not issuing the laptop.What should she do to ask for the company laptop?

Off late, the frontend engineering at Razorpay has become more of a data entry job. The design system (god knows how many years it will take to be completely ready) is restricting both the devs and the designers a LOT. Designers are literally fed up with being dictated to design things only in a particular way (limiting even animations, font-size, choice of italics v/s bold). There was even a long 2 month discussion to get font size for a component to support higher value, if you honestly want to know. The so called core team has been developing blade since God knows when. Agree that they've done a great work with tokens and other stuff, but it seems that by the time it's ready, it'll already be outdated design wise (suxs). So, any other devs, all they have to do is follows. 1. Open Figma 2. See if the component in Figma is supported by Blade. 3. If yes, then see if our designer has by mistake used any font-size, color, margin or spacing not supported by Blade. 4. If yes, start a thread between everyone and give them a month to come to a resolution (Blade team always retaliates like it's a personal attack) 5. Eventually end up using your own component to save time and move fast. 6. Explain to your manager's manager's manager why you can't use Blade. (they've funded it for 2 years and no dev likes it, so they push it from top) If your company has some interesting approach to this, please add in the comments.