r/IndianWorkplace

I work in a private bank. They have sent a senior officer and there is no place to sit for me. I need to sit on customer chair and if rush is there I sit on stool. I have given 5 years to this bank and this is how I get treated. I'm so frustrated with the work culture that I'm planning to resign this week.

Hi, 29-year-old male here. I’m currently working as a business development professional for the North America region in my company. For the last 8 months, I haven’t received any meaningful work. It feels like I’m on the bench, and I’m worried they might sack me if things go bad.

Do you think there’s something I can do to change my situation, or am I already screwed and should start looking for another job?

Finding a job in this economy feels really difficult right now

I have been working for a service-based MNC since past 7.5 years. It’s a non-tech job that offers great WLB. I have an amazing manager and genuinely kind colleagues too. Work mode is hybrid though they are making it increasingly difficult by introducing new rules every quarter or so.

I realise that these are aspects to celebrate in this job market and economy but I am starting to feel that the longer I stay at this job, the more unemployable I will get. It’s becoming a dead-end job because the company has no plans of promoting the employees at my JL to the next one. In fact, there have been no promotions at all at the higher levels in the past several years, no matter how deserving the employees are. I am not growing much; my role isn’t moving into strategic collaborations or ownership. I am stuck at execution level. Hikes are insulting and rare since past 2-4 years (before that I used to get decent hikes and have also been promoted). Though my pay is enough to take care of my bills and offer stable money in a double income household, it is much less than my market value based on my 13 years of experience and expertise.

I know I can bag a better pay but I have also been hearing horror stories from my friends in the same domain about horrible managers, toxic companies, layoffs and what not. My previous manager at my ex-company used to micro-manage and I hated it. It made me anxious all the time. So I understand the value of a good manager and the blessing of a stable income, but the longer I stay here, the lesser my chances of getting a good job in the future (I fear).

Is it a good idea to switch considering the market and economy will only worsen in the next few months? Or should I cling on to this job (at least for a while) even though it is making me self-doubt and lose my confidence (apart from making my WFO days stressful)? I have already started looking out but I would love to hear from mid-level professionals, especially non-tech folks, about the current market situation. My worst fear is that I stay here just for stability only to realise that I am now 40 and have no where else to go.

TL;DR: 13 years of non-tech experience professional working for the same company since 7.5 years is starting to feel underpaid and undervalued at a seemingly dead-end job despite a good WLB and supportive manager. Is switching in this market the right call?

I had this question, if anybody could help me here. Microsoft Teams has a HR chatbot called Amber and it has a feature called Anonymous Ally. Can anybody with prior experience please confirm whether the concern you raise in anonymous ally really stays anonymous? I have recently raised a concern after going through months of extreme mental pressure and my job being at stake so I needed to know whether my manager would get to know about it.

2 women have filed posh against me(26M) , their complains seem out of proportions i dont know what to do next here. The IC committee is asking for an explanation and why they shouldn't take an action against me. One girl lets call her Z simply says i made her feel uncomfortable cause i sat beside her and talked, and once i sat behind her in shuttle(force) when there were literally 2 seats available there, she said asked me to move but I clearly remember she didnt ask me to move from the seat in shuttle. The other girl lets call her J, I requested art from her and added her on insta(only msg i sent her was "can u draw somethign for me", as she herself told me that she takes sketch requests). She said i asked her multiple times which made her feel pressure but i only asked here twice for a particular sketch if she should give it to me. How is this POSH, i talked to these women and instead of telling me that it might have made them uncomfortable they mailed it and I had meeting with IC committee(who btw didnt even had a external member and she said they dont need a external member) who wasnt even ready to listen, they were always cutting me never wanting to hear what i have to say. The IC person told me the J girl told me she has a boyfriend who doesnt like her drawings to be given, i didnt even ask any of them about their relationship. What should i do, i categorically denied some of it and accepted i sat with her in shuttle and for the J girl i purchased chewing gum from her from a shop near company, she was beside me i was already paying as a kind gesture i paid for her as well. The IC team isnt ready to listen to my side or let me present women character witness from the company itself. This is ridicoullous what should be my next steps??
IC actually asked me why u sat beside them, I told them they are senior at work so i mostly asked them about the process and work itself mostly.

Please help my future might get wrecked,my family depends upon me as i am the sole earner, i dont have much money for a lawyer!!

Edit1- they are not unrelated they sit close by, could be friends

I resigned from my current company due to overload. Had to work across 3 projects involving different tech like java, powerbi, goLang, different sql langs etc. problem wasn't tech but parallel initiatives and capacity issues with no additional resources ( ai is a factor too).

I resigned and now giving kt to my replacement. Now the replacement is facing same issue. What to focus with 3 parallel initiatives. I took it up to PM, BA and lead. Ended up setting meeting with all stakeholders to discuss on this while giving kt, closing out existing work and answer to clients on deadlines.

My notice period doesn't feel like NP but draining out everything. Also, I hold 4 years of knowledge which is taking around 1 month of kt.

I am a devops engineer with 10+ years of experience. Recently I have been released from my project and now I need to look for new opportunities. The bench tolerance in my company is hardly 3 months or less. I have been reaching out to people in linkedin, sadly few are my direct connections for reference. Very few took their time responded and referred, but rest, man, what's wrong with these people.

Everyone knows it's a tough market, and what's stopping them to lend a hand to someone.

Anyways, what is the approach you guys are following that has good success rate. Is it naukri? indeed or another job portal?

Please help me.

So Had one of the weirdest HR calls today for a GenAI Engineer role at a Big 4.

I have around 12 months internship experience (2 startups - 100 employee size) and ~7 months contractual experience.(indian PBC)

HR asked current CTC, and I explained my previous role was more of a contractual AI consulting setup after my internship got extended post-graduation (\~40k/month).

Then they asked expected CTC and I said around 14–15 based on the kind of AI/backend systems work I’ve been doing recently (RAG workflows, backend orchestration, operational AI systems, etc).

After that the energy on the call completely changed 😭

Long silence, weird tone, then eventually the call dropped and they never picked up again when I called back.

I genuinely don’t even mind if the expectation is outside budget. Just say that normally? Why make the conversation awkward 😭

Curious how others handle this “current CTC vs expected CTC” situation early-career, especially when previous roles were internships/contracts but the next role is more specialized. Also, is it better to ask their budget first before sharing expectations?

I have resigned from my job and serving notice period . I came to know about significant changes in work on 13th and I could or did not complete work today is 21st. I had some other interviews in between I have one tomorrow as well. I am getting panick over completion of work last email I sent was on 13th probable delivery date is 26th May. Will I be terminated when I am on notice ideally I should focus on my interview but I am getting panick over the work.

Any advice over this ? I have hit major roadblock in the work .

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I'm a 2025 graduate in Electronics Engineering currently I'm 24. Never learned coding in college ( was interested in electronics job) but didn't learn any proper or industrial software for coding either

After graduating did my absolute best to get a job in my final year gave TCS interview twice , cognizant, EY, Wipro, Deloitte you name it. Always failed

So last year i decided to prepare for Gate for my Mtech failed cutoff by 2-3 marks

Now I'm already almost 9-10 months jobless if I don't get a job then there will be a year gap after my graduation then everyone will question what was I doing

After some jugar and literally begging to every relative they got me a job as software support engineer at a firm ( who's name i cannot say cause I signed papers where i can't disclose their name or what work I do there )

Worst mistake of my life today was my 2nd day at that company, I can't use phone at that firm cause of data leak policy nor do I have access to internet. I work from 9am to 7pm a few minutes here and there they'll deduct my half day salary it takes 1 hr to commute from home and 1 hr to commute back

In total i spend 12 hrs of my life for this work. I told my family how will I survive? Today they scolded me a ton saying the job market is too bad and how can you say you wanted to leave this job after only 2 days working there (it's not an MNC) . Wanted to work in electronics field but life isn't fair and there's not a single day I don't blame myself for not working harder in college or preparing more seriously for gate

This year my dad will retire. I don't have money to study from private colleges like VIT or KIIT for my Mtech i can't afford also not even sure I'll even get anything after MTech from these colleges

Worst case I'll be jobless + 10-15 Lakh in debt ( my family will take a loan if I study in pvt college )

This 12 hrs of work is too much for me also I can't use phone in workplace like they'll terminate me immediately if they find ( it's strictly prohibited )

How will I upskill myself if I return home tired? I just fall asleep. It's my first corporate job. I have a contract of 2 years if I leave before I need to pay them 2 months of salary as a bond/security.

No one is understanding me I'm really depressed thinking i have to work for 2 yrs here. My family members keep telling me it's normal and my relatives say if you don't work hard now how will you grow?

How can overworking with no work life balance = hardwork

All the people working here are the age of my father I don't even have anyone to talk with. Pls tell me what should I do I'm really lost pls help me

TLDR ; wasted 8-9 months preparing for Gate didn't qualify and now I'm stuck in a hellish 12 hr corporate job with minimum pay and 2 years of bond. Don't know if I should stay or do something else

I work for a US-based MNC and regularly collaborate with teams in the US. One thing I’ve consistently noticed is the huge difference in work culture between many US teams and Indian teams within the same company.

The US teams seem comfortable taking holidays whenever needed. Their managers give them the space to ask openly, and nobody behaves like it’s a major issue.

But in many Indian teams, even asking for leave feels stressful. Sometimes the reaction, tone, or attitude from managers itself makes employees uncomfortable asking. Managers react like we are asking their property .

I honestly feel that many local managers try too hard to prove that their teams can deliver faster, cheaper, and with fewer people. Even when global leadership may be willing to provide more budget, more hiring, or more realistic timelines, some managers still push employees harder just to show “we can do more with less.”

It often feels like they want recognition, appreciation, and visibility from higher management, and the pressure for that falls entirely on freshers and junior employees.

I’m not saying all Indian managers are like this, but some are .

What's your opinion on this?

I’m a junior w 1 year experience, and this project I’m in had only 3 juniors like me… everybody else is 8+ experienced and there’s 2 software engineers w 4 year experience. Now these 2 (one female and one male)people boss around us even tho they’re just our colleagues and not our respective Team lead, and i did let it slide since im the junior here, slowly there was causal ragging, bullying, name calling, what not.

We kinda tried to tell this to our TL and she did nothing…

This thing is getting out of hand, and especially since I’m from the same state as her, she’s getting too comfortable with me, she talks in the most vulgar way known to man kind, and very unprofessional, at times she shouts at me for no reason, it makes no sense…I keep getting appreciation from my TL for working my ass off and on the other side this woman says I’m not doing anything, and everything I do she tries to find flaws, never appreciates

And in one call she mentioned how she was ‘never satisfied with us(juniors)’.

She makes us work overtime unofficially.

I think there came a breaking point where I lost it, but I decided to quit this project…I’ll be released by June first week.

Also before I joined the team a few senior developers left the project cause it’s hectic but from what I heard is that they left because of her.

This project is legit crazy, every month people join and leave. This month it’se and another senior dev leaving.

There’s only 4 people who never left, and they are trying to leave but they were scared to do it because the project manager isn’t letting them leave, he claims they’re the core team and that they can’t just leave.

And yeah I’m pretty sure now I’ll have to face similar kinda people somewhere down the line, how do u think I should handle that?

TL;DR - dealing with an unprofessional coworker, helpp!!

After 7 years in the professional space (5 years of solid experience in a mid-tier consultancy specializing in audits and RTR services, semi-qualified CA), I am finally back in the job market. I’ve always aspired to transition to an MNC, and my profile has luckily been getting good traction from BPO and BPM recruiters lately.

Today, I had a virtual interview with the BPM arm of a massive, global leader in next-generation digital services and consulting. It was a panel interview with two people.

Before we even started, they asked me to keep my hands up and visible to the camera. I complied. Mid-way through, I received a strict warning: if I move my hands, the interview will be halted and my candidature cancelled. To avoid any issues, I kept my hands up and folded them.

Then, Interviewer 2 took over. He literally asked me to close my eyes before he asked a question and keep them closed while giving my reply. I did it, but as the follow-up questions kept coming, I completely lost my patience. By this point, I had been sitting with my hands up in a Namaste position for 20 continuous minutes. If anyone had walked into my room out of context, it looked like I was praying to my tablet and chanting.

I finally just stopped replying to them.

To top it all off, at the end of the interview, the panel told me they received a system notification flagging me for using "agentic AI" to answer the questions.

I am a professional who takes integrity seriously. If I don't know an answer, I openly say "I don't know, but I'm willing to learn." I complied with every single one of their ridiculous, degrading requests, only for their broken proctoring software to flag me anyway.

I’m honestly just stunned at the absolute lack of professional respect. Is this what interviewing for major MNCs looks like now?

TL;DR: Semi-qualified CA with 5 years of audit experience interviewed with a major global BPM. The panel forced me to keep my hands folded/visible and close my eyes while answering for 20 minutes straight (looking like I was praying to my screen). After complying with everything, their flawed automated system flagged me for using "Agentic AI." So is this how it will be. I think no job is above ones self respect.

I’m in a really frustrating situation with HCL Tech and could use some advice.

Currently, I am working remotely for a US-based startup and earning in USD. Since the company doesn't have an office in India, the owners pay me directly via PayPal/Remitly from their personal names instead of a company account.

I recently interviewed for a senior WFH role at HCL and cleared it. I was totally transparent with the HR about my payment setup and even shared my bank statements to prove my income. Initially, the HR told me that the least they could do was match my current US startup pay, and I was okay with that.

However, the official offer letter I just received is shockingly low.

They completely ignored my current startup salary. Instead, they looked at the previous Indian company I left back in November and only added a 10k(annually) hike to that old salary. This is way less than what I am making right now.

When I asked why, they basically said they can't consider my current role because it doesn't have traditional Indian payslips. Now, the HR has stopped responding to my calls and messages.

Is there any way to negotiate this, or should I just walk away?

TL;DR: Currently working remotely for a US startup paid via PayPal. Got a senior WFH offer from HCL, but HR ignored my current USD income (despite bank proof) and gave me a tiny 10k(annually) hike over my previous job from November. Now HR is ghosting me. Any advice?

Finished by final exams of my engineering today , college placements didn't go well. So i am unemployed now , I am applying everywhere .

My friend is going to delhi for exam prep ( IES , etc,, ) , he told he will get an entry level govt job and then try for top exams like state PCS , UPSC .

He is talented and i am hopefull he will get a good govt job for sure .

What I am not gettting is , I don't see why I should not go for these exams , It's a one time effort and you are set for life . perks are top notch . job security , etc..

In corporate every few years you have to learn something nw which is random , you have to prepare for interview again . you are just another resource for in the corporate. .

Job security is a bad , your value decreases as you age ...blah blah .

only reason which is against going after govt job is that the selection ratio is damn low , and it's the only reason .

Can anyone please throw some light

I got to know my org is hiring someone for a managerial position in Blr office and ever since then I’ve been anxious as f because I KNOW how badly this can go.

My current setup is literally perfect for me. Whole team sits across different time zones, practically I’m the only one from India region (Blr office) while the others 2 Indians are fully remote. Till now all my managers were European/American and absolute gem of people

Like I never even had to ask for leave. I’d just inform them over calls or teams chat. And as I’m typing this I’m literally on a 4 month WFH streak because one day I casually mentioned on a call that Bangalore summer was cooking me alive and there was LPG nonsense happening… My manager literally just went “ why don’t you go to your natives, take your time, keep me in the loop” and asked me for a tentative timeline on when i am coming back😭

That’s it!!! She just trusted me like a normal functioning adult.

And mind you this was my FIRST ever corporate experience so I genuinely thought this was how companies worked 💀

this woman somehow even got me approved for a maxed out MacBook even though our team usually isn’t eligible for that config
Then one of our extended team members from SFO came to Bangalore and THROUGH HER my manager sent me THREE Guess backpacks lmaoooo. Like what kind of corporate fairy godmother shit was this???

Never had fixed working hours. Never had anyone breathing down my neck. I’d just ping on Teams, join calls, finish work and everyone was chill

Then she went on maternity leave and I temporarily reported to one Indian manager and HOLY SHIT this guy sucked the soul out of me. Mind you HE HIMSELF was remote but suddenly became started moral policing me to go office daily, earlier I used to go twice, Wanted exact timings, wanted proper leave approval mails, wanted me to SEEK permission for leaves. Earlier I literally used to just INFORM my managers not even seek permission if I was taking leave because everyone trusted each other to get work done. Cocky af too for absolutely no reason.

Then thankfully I moved under another European manager and EVEN he turned out to be the sweetest human ever 😭 Like genuinely caring type. He’d always check if I was doing okay, if I was comfortable, if workload was manageable, if I needed support with anything

Then AGAIN for like one month I had to report to another Indian lady manager and oh my god equally exhausting. Constant weird pressure, unnecessary formality, passive aggressive corporate energy. That one month genuinely irritated me so much

And now I heard from TA folks that they are on the final stage of interviewing, and I am soo anxious idek how to proceed with that ahhhhaaggggggg

TL;DR: My American/Eu managers treated me so good with full flexibility, Every time I temporarily reported to Indian managers it instantly became bs, leave approval drama etc etc. Now they’re hiring a manager in our blr office and I’m stressed af 😭