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

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 !

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.

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

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

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

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'.

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

• a VP

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

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.

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