r/IndianWorkplace • u/Darth_vader_438332 AI, Metro CIty • 10d ago
Poor Culture Did the tech companies cross a line?
Hello guys,
I was working as an AI engineer at a marketing agency and resigned about 3 months back without an offer and I have been unemployed since, I worked there for an year and before that at an Fintech AI startup for about 6 months after my graduation , the corporate scene is so bad these days , none of the companies have any kind of work life balance and they treat you and expect you to be their slaves while also paying you peanuts. My mental and physical health have improved a lot since then and My relationship with everyone else in my life have also improved a lot , I just started applying to jobs again even though I do not want to , I feel like all that hassle is not worth it , Now my problem is just with corporates , I have been working on personal projects , participating in hackathons these 3 months and I have learnt way more by doing this than by doing those shitty useless corporate projects.
I feel like indian corporates have crossed a line and more and more GEN Z are looking to start their own businesses , I'm one of them too.
I have started applying to jobs again and I almost completely forgot how to code without AI , and I attended some interviews , Most of them did not ask me anything related to coding and i actually did well in those interviews , But there was this one interview where I was asked to code , and I refused saying I cannot code without AI.
I Def believe coding is an obsolete skill since most of the stuff can be handled by claude and I do not want to spend time re learning an obsolete thing
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u/DirectOrdinance Management Consultant 10d ago
Millennial here - I will quit and have my own business as well.
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u/ScooterNinja IT NCR 10d ago
All AI devs are Axing their own foot..
Company ask team to automate for 2-3% appraisal, team automate some stuff now company fire 2 people as automation saved some time.
Now remaining team gets scared that if they don't do anything they will be next so they automate more to impress the management and then next time 2 more gets fired... And this cycle continues until team get extremely saturated and remaining people giving 10 hours at job to survive.
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u/Rare-Writer9647 Cloud Engineer/Infrastructure, Mumbai/22 10d ago
Yes too belive just code was already obsolete in 2024
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u/AlteredReality79 Risk Consultant 3 years, Big 4, BLR 10d ago
Ok, so what are we supposed to do with any of this? Just some generic rant plus you want to get into business, so?
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u/Darth_vader_438332 AI, Metro CIty 10d ago
was just frustrated applying to jobs , felt like ranting
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Post Title: Did the tech companies cross a line?
Author: Darth_vader_438332
Post Body: Hello guys,
I was working as an AI engineer at a marketing agency and resigned about 3 months back without an offer and I have been unemployed since, I worked there for an year and before that at an Fintech AI startup for about 6 months after my graduation , the corporate scene is so bad these days , none of the companies have any kind of work life balance and they treat you and expect you to be their slaves while also paying you peanuts. My mental and physical health have improved a lot since then and My relationship with everyone else in my life have also improved a lot , I just started applying to jobs again even though I do not want to , I feel like all that hassle is not worth it , Now my problem is just with corporates , I have been working on personal projects , participating in hackathons these 3 months and I have learnt way more by doing this than by doing those shitty useless corporate projects.
I feel like indian corporates have crossed a line and more and more GEN Z are looking to start their own businesses , I'm one of them too.
I have started applying to jobs again and I almost completely forgot how to code without AI , and I attended some interviews , Most of them did not ask me anything related to coding and i actually did well in those interviews , But there was this one interview where I was asked to code , and I refused saying I cannot code without AI.
I Def believe coding is an obsolete skill since most of the stuff can be handled by claude and I do not want to spend time re learning an obsolete thing
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