(Senior) Executive Operations

Unacademy is synonymous to Toxicity

We all have heard about the toxic culture of Edtech. Unacademy is now in the top spot when it comes to companies with toxic culture. Any company cannot be more cruel than this: 1. Abusive language by leaders - COO, CBOs, SVP, VP and other leaders treat employees as slaves. They themselves have made huge lossess and are burning investors money but when any employee voice out their opinion/asks for leaves, the leaders abuse employees badly even in front of other stakeholders. 2. Forceful long working hours - Even if you complete your work in 8-9 hours, you are forced to sit for 11-12 hours just to show the founders. People hardly work after certain hours but they just have to sit and waste their time. This is tiring and there is no work life balance. No time to spend with family. I hardly get chance to spen time with child. 3. Late night reviews - So the company has started this new way of conducting monthly reviews late in the night. People are asked to sit till 2-3 AM for reviews. And this review is nothing but a setup where COO abuses the employees. 4. Forced paycuts - We have seen a forced paycut for the leaders (VP, SVP, Directors etc). 'No appraisal' was still somehow digestable but how can a company justify the degrowth in the earnings of their employees. Company has money to sponsor TVF web series (Sandeep Bhaiya), invite Standup comedians (Biswa and Prashasti), distribute pizzas to all the employees but when someone voices out for paycuts, they don't have money. 5. No Flexibility In Working The company witnessed its highest growth and revenue when 100% of the employees were working from home but now the founders think that people do not work from home so they have called everyone to work from office for 6 days a week. If someone asks for a work from home, the leaders denies or ask to apply leave to work from home. Be it rains, election, etc - we are asked to work from office. Even during the day of election in Karnataka we were called in the office.

Biggest Clown of all time

Gaurav Munjal Anything that comes out of this guys mouth cannot be trusted. I genuinely feel so bad for the the current Unacademy employees, especially the ones who stuck around, this clown gives hope of appraisals and then takes a u turn. As an ex employee, I can tell you the culture is probably the worst I have seen. You’re expected to work till 1 AM on most days, your projects/team change every fortnight, the HR team only listens to your issues but doesn’t do shit for you. You’ll receive a voice note forward from your VP/SVP, where Gaurav is demanding some crazy stupid thing at 2 AM. He has attempted multiple things and has failed miserably - Graphy, GraphyX, Relevel, and idk even how many others. There is a trend, he will put up a message saying we’re gonna to the be the next big thing, will deploy a huge team to work on the product, once product is deployed will say that we’ve found PMF or the product is blitz scaling, and then will quietly start firing people from the team and then shut the product or try to turn it into something else. It’s been 2 years of no appraisals, everyone that I know at the company has left, all the products are degrowing (except for the offline business because they’re burning money in that) Let show you GM math - Revenue = online + offline business Burn = online business And then GM will put out a message saying we’re close to profitability and the business has steady growth and shit. I’ve had one personal review with him during a project, and I can tell you this guy has a ton of insecurities which he portrays onto others by scolding / screaming at them for poor English or for not making enough notes. I think his current plan of increasing revenue is to cut employee salaries/no appraisals/employee benefits. I think it’s high time the startup community stood up to people like him, who look at employees as just slaves.

Unacademy Fresh Layoffs 💥

Unacademy has again laid off 40% of people from its business GRAPHY today. The business leader Roman has been a failure in growing this business for the past 2 years, resulting in layoffs every 2nd month. It's also important to note that all businesses of Unacademy are degrowing and no VC is ready to put money in this drowning ship. With the resignation of IAS cofounder, Unacademy is a broken story of an industry that was once considered strong.