How to Sabotage Your Office Culture

This is from the US military on how they shutdown German business efficiency in WWI.

Basically, your office is probably sabotaging itself already, but if not, it’s pretty easy to use military-approved methods.

“When possible, refer all matters to committees...

Insist on perfect work in relatively unimportant products...

Haggle over precise wordings of communications...

Insist on doing everything through 'channels'...

Bring up irrelevant issues."

https://newsletter.butwhatfor.com/p/simple-sabotage-field-manual-how

What’s the culture like at H+K? I get the impression that it’s a lot more up tight than other big agencies. I get old school, suited up, lobbying type PR vibes but I could be wrong.

Hi fishes, I have a few questions about employment with Nokia for the role of Senior data analyst.
1. How is the company in terms of growth and learnings, for data analysts?
2. How much shall I expect in terms of salary and benefits?
3. How about work culture and wlb?

I have 12 YOE

I got offer from Aioneers. Does anyone know about the work culture in Aioneers.?

Any ex-Amazonians product managers who moved to Google? How did you find the move 1) from an innovation and learning perspective and 2) is the company’s culture better? I.e expectations and recognition.

Has anyone exited from Management Consulting in KPMG to Microsoft Consulting services? Keen to hear of opinions primarily around quality of work, WLB, Pay, bonus and work culture. Any opinion/ view is greatly appreciated.

Hi All,

Im 3.8 YOE Software QA engineer, I have got offer in HPE and Qualcomm. Apart from salary i just wanna know which company has better for long term.
Qualcomm - Manual testing (wifi)
HPE - Cloud QA

Which role is good for my career and future scope (wifi testing or cloud). And which company is good in terms of culture and work life balance....i heard qualcomm has too much pressure (around 80% of the company) and on the other hand HPE has good cultural values. Please suggest...

Is capgemini worth joining? Please share light on work culture, job security, projects and other benifits.

Honest opinions please.
Yeo- 3.5

Any thoughts on asking a hiring manager to speak to one of his/her employees without the manager being present to get a good feel for the culture?

Anyone in the tech industry (strat & ops) open to generally chat about WLB, perks, and company culture?
DM.

Any one in JP Morgan FP&A (Bangalore location) ? I have a couple of questions about profile and work culture. Please DM if you know.

Guys how's the company Entigrity in terms of hikes and culture in Ahemdabad? Any idea @Entigrity

Hello,
I would like to know about Siemens Balewadi, Pune (Smart Buildings / Infra account)
How is the work culture, wlb, what are some Pros and Cons?

How is work culture in S&P Global platts segment for Software Engineer II role?
And weekends may not be on Saturday and Sunday?

Anyone here able to provide insight into company culture and WLB at SentinelOne? Please share your salary/position as well if you are currently working there or previously did.

Does anyone know the work culture at Ryan Law in Dallas?

I've 2 offers, Please help me choose from following:

1) A large (15K employees) product based company with good culture.
22.5 LPA

2) A small (150+ employees) service based startup company with excellent culture.
17 LPA.

Both the companies are profitable.

Anyone in this bowl with AlixPartners? Would like to get a feel of their culture, treatment of employees, handling of GC etc.
Thanks for any insights. My DM is open if you'd prefer to chat 1-o-1.

Can someone explain what’s a culture day and how do you take it?

Hi folks,

Need your help, I got an offer from fidelity investments. I am hired to work in FFIO Business Unit as lead software engineer. Can you please share the work culture, work life balance and career growth. Hiring manager said the tech stack will be Java, spring boot, spring batch and now they are planning for AWS migration in Q4. Please help and thanks in advance!

Hi,
I have 2years experience in us healthcare claims.
If any vacancy available for this profile please let me know

What does a year one international tax senior make in HCOL West?

Any recommendations for turtle necks? I usually buy them from massimo dutti back in Europe, the ones I find here tend to be very thick

What do you do when you hit one of those times where the project work is just so terrible (like at least 14 hr days bad) & on top of that nothing else in life is going right either & (cont).

Does anyone have any visibility on raises and promotions? Do career conversations even matter, is there a quota on how many can be promoted, does anyone actually look at an individual's numbers?

Hi all! As part of joining formalities, Barclays requires the document showing epfo linked with Aadhar. I have not linked aadhar with epfo. Only pan linked. Is there any alternatives available?
Also I tried aadhar seeding in Umang app, that too didnt work.

We’ve had open bars for 3 weeks in a row? The gong, the survey and Masterclass. What a time to be in Ogilvy.

Best books on leadership and sales skills?

Hi, anybody having a manual testing jobs in Kolkata..Immidiate joiner

Anyone have experience working for / interviewing with Silver Lake’s value creation team?

What’s freelancing like in Europe? Thinking about moving because (gestures at America)

Hey all, can you pls recommend resources to get up to speed on Fraud and Risk management for Payments in fintech? Books /sites? I’m not in consulting anymore so no access to internal decks. Thanks!

Desi Fam,

Does anyone use Indian sim outside of India for otp and authentication purpose ?

If yes, which service provider and plan is the best ?

TIA

Let's have a meetup in Pune? I think there will be a lot of people shifting in now from different cities, especially bachelors, and outside of AYDE and stuff, I think this will be a good way to meet each other. What say?

Anyone know of IT Security jobs specializing in NIST and/or FISMA that are hiring?

Who is hiring Human Capital and Learning Development roles right now?

Looking to grow and network with people in different industry. Has a young person it can be a little tough to get your foot in the door. DM if there’s any opportunities.

You are the first sales hire in a funded tech startup, works directly with ceo/founder. You have the freedom to select your title, what would it be? Chief Revenue Officer? Chief Growth Officer? VP Global Sales and Partnerships? Open to all suggestion, and why?
Role to kickstart partnerships and sign sales agreements with the first 10 companies globally and then grow a team at the right point in time.

For anyone interested in exiting to startups, I recently created Startupon, a weekly newsletter dedicated to helping people find exciting startups and technology companies to join.

In the newsletter I’ll dive into interesting companies and answer questions like, “how should I think about early stage vs growth stage startups”?

Source: Exited IBM to a startup that was acquired by Linkedin. Dabbled in VC. Now at a growth-stage startup

Anyone familiar with the startup Hey Jane? I have an interview with them but I’m nervous of job security

I have a business idea in the VR/AR space utilizing AI. However, I lack skill sets to evaluate viability or to create an MVP. Neither do I have a network to tap into.

My plan is taking classes to deepen my knowledge while joining and actively participating in communities to find collaborators.

Does this approach make sense or do you recommend other approaches? If it makes sense, do you have any recommendations for classes or communities?

Look forward to hearing your experiences and wisdom!

New to startup ecosystem. What are some resources, books, podcasts that help you along the way? Are there any communities you interact with regularly on Reddit/discord/meetup?

What are your thoughts on joining a startup that pushes for no structure in their company? Supposedly they thrive from what he told me but I’m not convinced. Is this really a thing?

What is a good benchmark for base, bonus and equity comp at a series C startup exit for a Senior Director/VP position? Valuation is around $250M

I'm wanting to move into partnerships at my company (SaaS business management software for small businesses) so I am looking for different resources entrepreneurs use to get started.
-small business development centers
-chambers

What associations/organizations have you ask use to start your business?

Any good recommended books on how to build a scalable product and team? I'm looking for recommendations for two areas: 1) in general laying the groundwork in a startup to have the tools and especially processes in place to scale, and 2) tactical focus on building a SaaS project. I've been promoted into a management role from Dev roots, so need to learn more PM processes to be an effective manager in day job, plus would like to start building my own SaaS solution.

Have a final round interview with the CEO of a startup (~300 person company) - assuming the job is mine, what question would you be asking to make sure this is the place you want to join? Any help appreciated!

How can I understand the equity in an offer for a Series A? What would be a good offer? For context , base will be 120-130k in London, not sure about bonus yet

Any good personal experiences/advice with moving from finance and/or mortgage sales to fintech space?

What is a reasonable salary/comp expectation for a startup who has $20-25m funding and 50 employees? Had a 1st round interview and they also mentioned equity options, but nothing in detail. Role would be UX Engineer, 4-5 YOE.

Anyone relocate to the bay area with h1 visa and can offer some advice ? Looking to find a local startup that can sponsor my application. Is this rare for startups ? Any tips on appropriate job sites and forums would be great :)