WigglyBanana
WigglyBanana

What's a secret from a previous workplace you worked at? 🤫

I know sometimes we refrain from saying too much about our company. But exes can usually be talked about, since there's not much holding back.

Maybe it helps someone else avoid a mistake you did, or gain a new learning :p

Shoot.

8mo ago
SparklySushi
SparklySushi

Now this could trigger a few people
But 70 percent of employees in the entire company of 150 people were hired from a specific community. When we are in hiring team , we realised there was a unsaid biased ! No one talked about it and it still is on !

WobblyBurrito
WobblyBurrito

And the community segmentation was based on?

DancingKoala
DancingKoala

And even with this scarce data, we know where that community is from.

CosmicQuokka
CosmicQuokka

Not my workplace, but true story.

giant american retail company (assume it's W*) hires one giant indian IT services company (assume it's H*) for some maintenance work now this H* company has offload this work to small Indian IT services company (assume it's M*) which has a employee named R* who's one assigned to actually do the work but R* is smartass he's scouting internet for freelancer to fix the issues. He gets one junior guy P* to work for few thousand rupees and shares his credentials, vpn provider etc and our P* now messes up , in the whole scenario there's no safety lot's of mess total grey zone.

From knowing this incident, I'm like no one gives any fucks about anything, only if people weren't so bad.

FloatingTaco
FloatingTaco

I am from this company and i thought this was an urban legend, thanks for clarifying, good juicy office chat topic for tomorrow!

SleepyBanana
SleepyBanana

What did P* actually do to mess it up?

SqueakyJellybean
SqueakyJellybean

Company used to ask it's marketing team to report bad glassdoor reviews of itself. They were able remove almost all of them, went from 1.5 to 4.5

SqueakyKoala
SqueakyKoala

Common practice in start ups. They are so worried about their image and reviews but will do nothing to improve the issue which have been clearly communicated to them

SqueakyKoala
SqueakyKoala

90% senior mgmts are incompetent but they’re all in the boys group of the CEO, which means no accountability for them, no layoffs even when their reportees are fired bcos of the useless strategies that they themselves created. All enjoy amazing appraisals and no skills improvement or subject matter knowledge

SwirlyNugget
SwirlyNugget
IBM8mo

We all knew our product didn't work from day 1. But it took the senior leadership about 1-2 years to learn the same through data.

If you spoke with even one person on the ground you would know. I'll not name the product but you;ve all heard of it before

GigglyKoala
GigglyKoala

Watson?

GigglyWaffle
GigglyWaffle

Yes sherlock

BubblyCupcake
BubblyCupcake

Interns had 50k stipend mentioned in the offer letter. The company paid 50k but asked to send 40k back to the CEO account. Probably to siphon the investor money. Similar thing happened with employees too

SparklyCupcake
SparklyCupcake

Kaunsa lodu company hain ye

BubblyCupcake
BubblyCupcake

Can't say the name but I got to know this after I quit in Jan. They are incubated to IITK and have few investors. I believe investors money is around 1-5cr

BubblyWaffle
BubblyWaffle

I am consulting for a seed stage startup in hrtech. There was offline meet arranged for all heads of department and few others. It was a 3 storied building and only 9 people in the house.
While we were preparing for our presentation we noticed the founder was missing for 3 hours after coming and then we noticed the junior hire is also missing. It so happens both were in the same room for 3 hours and then in the evening the founder says she is getting promoted as the co-founder of the company. She is 26 years old, he is 48 years old.

We gave it the benefit of the doubt and thought they must be discussing important stuff while they were locked away. The next day the girl starts asking people individually if we 'know about them'.

It has been all downhill since then. Things spread and on the next call the founders wife comes up onto the call giving a speech about how she met the founder and she knows about the relationship thing between the founder and the lady. People left the organization and he has been asking 'what did I do wrong'.

BubblyPanda
BubblyPanda

Best thing on grapevine I have read today

SnoozyDumpling
SnoozyDumpling
PayU8mo

What company is this? Deserves to be named

PeppyDonut
PeppyDonut

“We don’t design for our users, we only design for vss. Keep that in mind.”

  • a VP
SparklyCupcake
SparklyCupcake

Paytm?

ZippyBiscuit
ZippyBiscuit

What's VSS?

PrancingPotato
PrancingPotato

My boss’s boss used to have relation with my female colleagues and they got better appraisals 😅😅

GoofyUnicorn
GoofyUnicorn

Explain this more bro ?

FluffyMochi
FluffyMochi

This is 1% fact , most large companies had re orgs and manager n sweetie will get a chance to break up and they move on to find another

GoofyCupcake
GoofyCupcake

A previous company had in house web based training module with proper questions. We had some public shared network folder where everyone had a directory for easier file sharing. The sole dev of the training tool had the source code for the tool in it. Along with all the answers. Everyone used it, no one told the managers. These questions were difficult AF and clearing this was a big deal in eyes of the managers. People intentionally had to do it slowly to avoid suspicion.

PrancingPancake
PrancingPancake

Didn't understand,lol

SillyHamster
SillyHamster

😂

GigglyMuffin
GigglyMuffin

Account Managers usually never care about their business, and have misguided targets that restrict them form doing well at helping customers

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