Considering there’s already too many reccos on great places to work, I am creating this thread to raise awareness - Please comment on organisations that you have worked at and don’t recco to someone who is looking to work there. Basis - Toxic culture , incompetent leadership , unstable finances or anything that makes it a bad place to work
I wouldn’t recommend Browserstack as they lack integrity and are entirely founder dependent. Their CEO is shortsighted and rude to his own DRs. Although they claim to be profitable their finances are questionable. There is also the thing about work life balance , this is zero as you are expected to work on a lot of process just to convince the leadership. Ultimately the idea will go thru only if the founders like it
What's the stake % of co founders?
What about the engineering department?
Ola work culture not so great. During covid they increased working days from 5 to 6 per week. Many more such considerate policies. I got an opportunity to work with them but decided not to join finally.
Have heard bad things about PayTM from friends
Not sure if it's possible to describe how bad it is here
A friend of mine interviewed recently. The interviewer brought some interns along who were going to join the company but weren't employees yet. Then he made fun of my friend for not being able to answer a question. After the interview he had the recruiter reach out and ask him to take a "course" and interview again in a few weeks. My friend told them to fu*k off.
Unacademy is definitely a place to avoid. Horrible culture, Bad treatment to employees, Dubious promises, CxOs of business teams are probably very impulsive and sporadic with no clear direction of what they are doing, talent hiring is very skewed in nature and most folks are ex-oyo with a showing growth at all cost mentality (without the right input) with no intent to understand the education business!
Cherry on top is CxO and top leadership flaunting the questionable practices during their stints at OYO and then slyly hinting at what they can do but aren't doing so at all there- so you can take a hint!
Same with Pepper Content. Most of the folks now are ex-Oyo (growth at all costs mentality) and the founders are a bunch of noobs focusing on just cheap work. The quality of freelancers that they work with is also not good. Their attrition rate is astronomical, so many people have left even before completing a year there
Byjus. The culture was improving in Covid but has deteriorated rapidly after the new President, Tech joined from Oyo.
Now all good product and tech folks have left or have moved out and only below average people who can't get job anywhere are remaining
The new president bought lot of program managers rather engineering background. And this made many of good engineering folks to leave.
Basically Byju’s have more non-competent program managers with super inflated salary than engineers.
If we can have a list of Best companies to work for then we should also have a list of the worst companies to work for.
I think everyone in the industry has come across very toxic cultures themselves or at least know a friend that did...
Hi Grapeviners, creating a thread where you can post the name of a toxic culture company along with which department.
This thread is created as a one stop place to know about Toxic Culture Companies whether it, Early/Seed/Growth Stage/...
Putting this again Most YC funded startups Most *.ai All “Ed-techs” (aka “SalMa” sales and marketing) Uber-for-X ...
I have see many lists of places to work at. Let’s create a list of companies not to work at. Please post the company name and the experience of working their.
If you see employees from that company then you know something is definitely wrong with their career
Hey guys. What are the worst companies to work for and why?