(Rant) The 90-day notice period is a joke
I've been hiring for my team at EY lately and it is an absolute nightmare.
In the US, you give two weeks. In China, 30 days is maximum by law. In India? We hold people hostage for a quarter of a year. It makes zero sense. (my company does too - and i am against it because it fucks me over too!)
The hypocrisy is insane. HR expects candidates to join "immediately" or "within 15 days," but when an employee wants to leave, they point to the contract and say 90 days is non-negotiable.
THIS IS WHY INDIAN EMPLOYEES ARE ALWAYS OFFER SHOPPING!! Why do TA teams not realize this?!
A candidate accepts an offer on Day 1. They now have 89 days to interview elsewhere. By Day 85, they ghost you because someone else offered a 30% hike. And honestly? I don't even blame them. The system forces this behavior.
Meanwhile, the exiting employee has mentally checked out. They are just logging in and doing the bare minimum. You aren't getting a "smooth handover"; you're paying for three months of dead weight.
It’s inefficient, it’s toxic, and it needs to go. 30 days is enough. Anything more is just an ego trip for the management.
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That and while during job search most companies reject the ones just because of the 90 days notice period
I feel like a failure stuck in 90 days notice period...none of the companies are even scheduling interviews. I am 4+ yoe with 10.5 lpa and I have lot of rent and loans.....I am not having money to eat outside also. One samosa also feels expensive 🫰
No solution only....
Life filled with stress and unhappiness
Dude I'm on notice period, everyone used to hang up after hearing 90 days. But I've also seen some people who were able to get multiple offer letters during the notice period
Ahh It never was a democracy to begin with.. criminals took all the power at the start of 'democracy' and started calling themselves as politicians. Laws are unjust? Who cares... what less can they do of criminals.
That's why there is something called buying or buyvout option. It's an open secret. Some hiring organizations uses this option to buy you from the current working org. You may serve one month notice period & the hiring org will pay your Org for the other 2 months. Else, you can pay this from your pocket, if the offer is luring, all you need to do is to pay the basic of your salary for the other 2 months of notice period to your current org. There are always loop holes, no need to break our head for np.
When company is not ready to release what you can do In that case. in my case they don't give you buy out option if you are billed by any chance