ZestyWalrus
ZestyWalrus

Loop is unhealthy!

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.

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SleepyCupcake
SleepyCupcake

Thank God I didn't attend their interview. Got a call but said no. My instinct was right, something seemed fishy about this company

CosmicDumpling
CosmicDumpling

Same here, I was thinking about interviewing as they were hiring and were remote. Glassdoor reviews seemed good that time. But I was having bad feeling about the company. So didn't go ahead.

ZestyWalrus
ZestyWalrus
Amazon12mo

Glassdoor reviews are made up and HR sends out a dm to everyone to give a review and follow up till they do it.

PrancingDumpling
PrancingDumpling

A friend interviewed for a product position and the CEO basically said he doesn't believe in product managers but he's hiring anyways. What arrogance!

JazzyBanana
JazzyBanana

He is obsessed with the idea that PMs are useless. He basically wakes up, reads twitter in the morning and then decides company strategy and values based on what is trending. Totally inexperienced guy. Heard this from multiple people at the org.

JumpyBiscuit
JumpyBiscuit

How come they raised series B? I've seen this archetype before

JazzyWalrus
JazzyWalrus

Ball boy 🤣

SquishyWalrus
SquishyWalrus

Can vouch for this - I work here lol

FuzzyPickle
FuzzyPickle
Amazon12mo

Story of every other company who raised their series A/B, preseed back in 2021/2022

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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.

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