I work at witch. today, we are asked to register for some event. while registration, they require personal information such as mobile, interests which also includes some internal data fields like w...

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I work at witch. today, we are asked to register for some event. while registration, they require personal information such as mobile, interests which also includes some internal data fields like who my current client is (as far as I know, employees are not allowed to discuss this (officially) outside of org)

privacy notice also says they may share it with a third party. also states that they do not have data selling cases in the past. (well, who knows the future) they may also share it with media publications.

I am opposing this because I don't like their policies for eg.. formals, daily office of frustrating hours, and bs policies (even if you are NPC atm), I mean... who the fuck writes code while almost sweating in formals?

I do not want to be part of this. HR is here to check if everybody has registered!

ps; before you advise me to get out of this org... yes, I'm  preparing for interviews.

how to say no to mandatory registration?

Software Engineer

how to say no to mandatory registration?- Grapevine

So I just started this new role as a Frontend dev in a startup. But during these past weeks, I've gotten a much, much better offer from a bigger, mid-sized company. It's fully remote, and no way I'm letting this opportunity go.

How should I approach quitting after just joining? I've met most of the teams and the Director himself took an interest in me, giving me my own project. Do I have to serve the notice? It's mentioned in my offer letter - 3 weeks notice during probation.

I'm gonna have to quit my job that I started a week and half ago

Backend Engineer

Welcome to Indian Startups's Private Community

Has any recruiter asked you to share PAN number before even scheduling interviews?
I recently got a call from Physics Wallah recruiter and after exchanging common information she demanded PAN number to which at first I refused then told her I’ll share over email. I said that so that I could check if she is not a scammer. I also asked her why it is necessary? To which she provided generic BS(to put into portal, big companies also ask this). Verified from truecaller and linkedin that she is indeed genuine. But anyways I didn’t feel comfortable to share a sensitive government ID before even having interviews. I told her my reasons and she rudely said they won’t be able to proceed further and I said no problem!

Request everyone to refrain from these practices otherwise this will become a norm. You don’t know in whose hand your ID will go and how and where they will store this info. Cut the BS and just say no.

PAN Card before interview.

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I'm have put in resignation, and requested 8 days less than notice period 
Now boss wants "copy of offer letter" as to why I want to leave early

Is it legal?
I don't want to share my offer letter 

What can be done

Urgent advice

Consultant

I have given interviews and cleared them.
I got a call from HR asking for payslips and another offer details.

They said they will get back with offer.

How to go about here? If they come with a lower offer than what i asked, how much liberty i have to ask further.
Does HR will come with 2-3 various levels of offer and then try to negotiate with me.

Any help or insights would be helpful in how HR comes with offer details.
My interviews were pretty good and i think they like me.

How does salary negotiation before offer work

Don't share payslips yet if possible. Do it after finalising your offer details. 
  
 What information have you shared? Current compensation? Expected range? Do you have any other offers in hand? 
  
 The game that follows now is that of leverage of information vs offer expiry timelines. 
  
 They will share an offer. You can call it "interesting" but don't share more details on if you like it or not - you need to "think more" before you can share your opinion. Say that you need to discuss it with your well-wishers and also evaluate compared to other opportunities. 
  
 Get back to them on email and call the offer "strong" (if it is really good) or "interesting" (for all other cases). Suggest some improvements to the offer that would make it more compelling for you. Don't guarantee that you will accept the offer if these things are provided (unless it's your last day till offer expiry). Keep negotiating with everyone that is interesting and keep dropping the non-interesting ones. 
  
 Also, don't call the negotiation discussions a "negotiation" - that word sounds negative. Call it "discussing offer details" or something. 
  
 FYI: All of these tips are from the highly popular negotiation blog posts by Haseeb. They've worked well for me.

Software Developer

Equity Research

Welcome to Software Engineers's Private Community

In recent times, I've observed a concerning trend where numerous individuals, including some HR professionals, are posting job listings. Many of these posts require users to log in to their web apps, ostensibly to collect email addresses for advertising purposes and often demand an excessive amount of personal details. Unfortunately, a significant portion of these job openings never materialize, leaving job seekers frustrated. Moreover, HR professionals sometimes request comments like "yes" and "interested" without providing a direct link to apply, promising to "get back to you soon" but rarely doing so.

LinkedIn's feed also appears inundated with content geared towards gaining followers rather than delivering valuable insights. While there is a demand for followers, it often comes at the expense of substantial content. It's a situation that can be disheartening for those seeking genuine job opportunities and meaningful engagement on professional platforms.

Have you noticed this as well, or is it just me? I'd appreciate hearing your perspective on the matter.

Post a fake job and get followers

I am currently working for a startup for about 3 yrs now and they made me sign a non compete which states that I cannot join a similar domain work for 2 yrs post termination. I am currently in my notice period and have received an offer from a company in a similar domain with good pay and benefits, what should I do?

Does Non Compete really matter

Data Scientist

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Hello all! 
I am working as HR Head in a growth stage startup in Bangalore. So many people here talk about compensation, culture, growth etc. Happy to answer questions related to HR/Culture/Startups.

People & Culture Manager

So, this company I have an offer from seems great culture wise. I asked some members for red flags and they said its a software they use that tracks them for 8 hours and takes screenshots every 10 minutes. I have no experience working in companies with this implementation earlier. Can anyone shed some light on whether this may be a deal breaker or not? Heard mix responses from current employees that it’s hard to clock 40-42 hours a week and takes away our personal freedom. What are the thoughts?

Monitoring employees

Copywriter

I resigned on 24th May from my current company. They have 2 months notice period. 
I asked them to reduce it to a month since I’m not in a good place mentally. My grandma (who’s like a parent to me) is really v. sick, she’s lying on her deathbed. So I want to shift back to my hometown and take care of her. I want to go asap. They didn’t hear me at all. And this job has given me so much stress, from past 4-5 days my bp got low, I had high fever. I sent them doctor’s slip. Even then this HR is saying you’ve to abide by the policy. 
And honestly I hate working here, since they have a tool based environment, that is not getting to my head. 
So now I’ve decided to not work at all. Since my health is also not that good. 
Is there any other way they can agree to reduce the notice period? Since I’m really tired of this. 
Also, I hope not working won’t do any harm.

Company troubling for serving Notice Period

My company is only hiring females for most of the positions. Now I dont really care about the gender/race/religion of the people getting hired but they must have right skillset and attitude.

But most of the candidates who have been hired have none of these two. My team has almost 50 percent female candidates but they have been into the team for almost 6 months but still don't perform upto the mark. In some cases, college freshers are able to get the job done faster than these folks. Availability is also a big challenge and it's difficult to approach them to work beyond working hours even for small things that would take 30 mins or 1 hour. They just reply by saying I have logged ofr for the day. And manager would ask a guy to do the job. And let me confirm that the management expect us to be available 24/7 as its a business and operationally driven company.  The manager dont ask females to work after working hours in most of the cases. They only work after working when the entire team is working. If its the individual owner who has to act, tgen it surely goes to any male guy. and everyone is super pissed of because despite working and giving more than 100 percent, the teams productivity doesn't justify the head counts. 

In my experience, diversity hiring should be done with caution. Candidates hired should have almost same level of knowledge and skillset as of the team and they should be told about the work culture, expectations at the time of hiring. Also people who don't need a job should avoid joining such culture as they aren't not sincere about their job and will be hated by everyone in the team due to these differences.

Recently When I raised this concern to my manager, he said that I should avoid saying all this as it or else if this goes to HR, cases of posh may be slaaped onto me. I am really pissed off, planning to change the job asap. Not sure what kind of work culture have we created....

Diversity Hiring

Applied to Adobe for MTS2 got a rejection mail saying we have rejected your profile for computer scientist 2. Never applying to Adobe again.

Applied to innovacer got a rejection mail from an self entitled HR with BBA degree from Amity. Your resume is not good enough.

Companies that I would never apply to again.

I have been wanting to switch my job for a while now. I finally have an offer the product is good but the team is not ideal I will be the only designer for a while…
I need to sign the offer by end of this week.
One of the clause is if I sign and don’t join I’ll have to pay one month gross salary.
What if I don’t pay it later on?
What are the consequences?

Need advice

Expert

Welcome to Product Managers's Private Community

I received my offer letter two days ago, and i was assigned to quality assurance spc role. However, I'm not really interested in testing and my HR isn't replying when i asked for a role switch. My question is there any alternative way to switch to a developer role? If so, I'd really like to view your opinions on it and i would also like to know what type of skills i should learn in that meantime. Thank you.

How to switch my role from quality assurance engineer to a developer

Associate IT Engineer

I applied for a job which used workday. I created an account, entered all my work info and it took nearly 21 minutes to complete everything. I clicked Submit. 

60 seconds later I receive the email saying "After careful consideration we regret......"

My only wish is that the product team that created workday should end up in hell and they should be asked to apply for jobs that use only Workday. I can't imagine a cruel torture than this.

Workday is the digital version of hell 😣

Install a chrome extension called simplify. It records all your information and can then auto fill when you are submitting same details in workday

Associate Consultant

Analyst

Since I’ve been working under a crappy management just wanted to know what others are going through as well. 

My manager takes a PL off my account everyday since I’m on notice period in the hopes this will convince me to rescind my registration and work under her 💀

Worst Thing Your Management Has Done

Assistant Manager

Recently I had got a call from a recruitment firm regarding an opening in EXL, where they stated without sharing the pancard details they can't start the interview process. They would share a consent form for the same. I declined from sharing the pan card details. They said the process has changed and they require to check the employment details of the candidate.
Another company has also mentioned they would require the pancard and aadhar details after the second round.

Has anyone also faced something like this.
Is it even legal to ask for these at such an early stage of the process.

Sharing Pancard number mandatory for the interview process to start.

After all rounds cleared successfully during HR discussion for offer she told they can't offer more than my current. If that was the case why can't they inform initially before taking interview.

Worst experience with IBM.

SAP Consultant

Now why everyone is talking about benefits of working from office?
I saw post from Sunil Shetty on linkedin.

My take is, when pandemic hit companies asked employees to WFH to keep wheel rolling.
Now we know WFH can give greater control over personal and professional life(at least for me) we don’t want to go back to office.

In my opinion corporate want us to work from office cause,

- they can control our time, 9hrs in ofc, you are getting paid for time not skills.
- they want to show who is the boss here.
- Learning is key reason for WFO, bullshit, we have a lot of learning portals and traffic time can be used to learn but it is never a intention.

What you guys think?

WFH vs WFO

WFO- if you’re at entry level/early days of your career 
 WFH- works for mid- senior folks

Strategy & Operations

Network Administrator

So I was working wfh since past year and recently shifted to a project after a promotion, it’s a nice project and something I was looking forward to work with, but now my reporting manager says that you have to clock atleast 8 hours daily at this tracking software ( Nippon Buddy ). 
And I’ve to report to office 12 days a month, that’s okay but this 8 hours capture time is kinda nuts. 
Do you guys have these kinda policy as well or is it just at service based companies ?

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