Automation & Scheduling Analyst

Types of cringe LinkedIn posts people should stop posting

1. Screenshot of an Easy Apply job having 1000s of applications. "The market is bad" No Easy Apply made it too easy 2. 100% hike in Impressions after one post after being dormant for weeks continue this

Should I leave my toxic work environment with no backup in a job market like this?

I'll set the context here. I was suppose to join a new organisation in the start of the year but it went on a hiring freeze immediately after my notice ended with my then employer. I ended up accepting the first offer that came my way. It was not of my desired profile but it was better than being jobless. Now, couple of months into the new job, I realize this is a very toxic place to be. Dormant founders only caring about money, rampant nepotism, no clear path for career growth. It is becoming difficult to sustain at this place. I've been trying but now I can feel my mental health dwindling because of it. I dread going to office everyday. But again, in this job market, atleast I have a job. The product role I mentioned is still on pipeline but no one knows when the freeze will end. My hiring manager and HR are pushing for my candidature (according to them) but management isn't allowing them to move ahead with new hires. Now my question is, should I quit my job and try finding my desire role (which seem like a humongous task) or stay put and wait for a offer to come and then leave my current employer? I'm torn. I dread going to office everyday. I don't know how much do I have it in me to keep continuing but I'm pushing my limits. Want some advice from fellow grapeviners here. TIA!

Don't believe the engagement numbers just as is

I was leading a team which was involved in building the retention loop for a consumer app( dating/social), and the trigger we were using to send alerts to the dormant users from the backend was completely fake. It was supposed to send a ping and provide a generic 'someone viewed your profile' message to minimize the drop-offs we had. It was such a hit feature that led to 150% growth in DAU numbers within a week. i was promoted, the star. My manager was promoted too.. But i knew inside something wasn't correct, the alert just meant a bot pinged them but they still had to find a real match sometime and 150% growth was just not something I could digest. I asked the team to switch it off last Wednesday, the whole company esp. Marketing teams were baying for my blood. After a month, there was cohort analysis, and we realised the users were just opening the app to check the alert but were never actually engaging with it. The app lost almost 40% of its core users to uninstalls. No one wanted to believe this at all from top to bottom. The company never told the investors we fudged up but instead raised more funding by mentioning the 150% growth. From then on I realised most investors are just watchmen. They want to be on the fast growth more than being on the correct growth. Don't believe anything on pitch decks that you read. Almost all DAU numbers are cooked.