Given what RBI has gone today is effectively shut down 60-70% of Paytm’s business, to survive, Paytm will end up doing mass layoffs of a scale that we haven’t seen before in India. And potentially with limited severance (not as generous as what swiggy or Big tech has been doing) What would this mean for the rest of job market? So much unemployment in high earning folks, limited new jobs, means very tough competition for each opening and extremely bad situation in terms of appraisals and hikes too.
Usually such things have ripple effects. More fintechs will introspect and evaluate their business. Major problems with fintech is either zero or very less focus on the compliances. The business team drives everything which results in major compliance issues.
Has fampay ever faced any such notices?
PAYTM Payments Bank essentially asked to shut shop.
Afaik here are the few implications
That stock is about to crash so fucking hard. Thank god i got out. The crappiest IPO of this decade.
Heard that Paytm is planning to layoff 10% of entire work force. Across all levels.
Heard cases that folks who were hired at market premium less than 30 days ago are now being asked to leave the organisation.
And the layoffs will be h...
HR is having 15-20 meets everyday, anyone can confirm with their calendar.
Multiple HRs multiple laid off people. Zero severance. They are pressuring people to resign and saying you have to resign today itself!
Market is going to...
Got to know today that Paytm is planning to shut down a couple of products. Accompanied by 30-40% layoffs accros teams and verticals and reducing the tech force to less than half, it feels like Vijay is done with the payment business. Th...