It is at this point that she contacted me and described what happened, and I asked her to reply back saying that this is extremely unfair to make her go through all several interview rounds, then reject her on irrelevant stuff, and go back on their word w.r.t salary, and that it was a huge waste of time. It seems like they replied back saying admitting that it was indeed unfair on their part, and offered her an Amazon gift voucher worth AUD $40 for all the trouble (which is laughable!) 😂 I saw the company website, they in-fact have some "Employee Assistance offering" that they market and sell to other companies - which reeks of hypocrisy to say the least. I know it was a bit too long to read (and thank you for bearing with me so far!), but wanted to provide you a context of what transpired. Now this is just 1 such experience - she has applied to exactly 2 companies here, and both experiences have been extremely demoralizing, just like I described above. I've had better luck in this area but I myself have experienced these things in the past - and I've noticed that such tactics like asking for previous payslip information are often used mostly by Indian companies, and sometimes rarely even by non-Indian companies (so that they can get leverage during negotiations). I don't why her luck turned out to be so bad, maybe is it because she is a woman or something, I don't know - but I do know she isn't the only one, and I know several others who have shared similar horror stories of horrendous hiring tactics, designed to lower the confidence of really smart and talented engineers and make them feel worthless, and goad them into accepting poor offers. Folks, don't you agree that this is super unfair that companies make a candidate go through several hiring rounds (after already agreeing about salary expectations), and then go back on their word? Any thoughts on how we can do something to discourage such dirty and shady practices? I actually found this repository here https://github.com/poteto/hiring-without-whiteboards that have a list of companies that don't have a broken hiring process. Maybe remote-indian should consider creating something similar, a list of companies that have broken and shady hiring practices. Or at the very least, encourage people who've had similar experiences to come forward and share their story anonymously (and perhaps publish it in remote-indian blog or podcast). Might seem a bit extreme I know, but unless these companies are called out and shamed, they will continue to get away with this behaviour and underpay engineers and won't change their practices. Eager to hear your thoughts on this.

Here's a fun youtube channel I discovered today for high-quality educational videos. Not just for kids. https://www.youtube.com/user/crashcourse

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Hey Folks! Anyone worked as Voice over recordings in the past? What are the charges for same in india?

Hi All, Please suggest an easy to integrate CMS platform. This is will be used a help section on our Android and iOS App. Features we are looking for- 1. Easy to integrate 2. Supports Indian languages (we have 13 right now) 3. Easy to navigate by content team

Hi all, I have one question related to AWS step functions I have one basic question if I have to design state machine definition for step function then I have to know what is the input data and what is expected output data right?

Anyone here using a Kindle Oasis? (https://amzn.to/33QSNKM) Would you recommend it? I have been using the Kindle since version 1 (with the huge keyboard at the bottom). I currently have the first version of the Paperwhite which is decent - but also frustrating at the same time (no hard buttons to turn pages). Touch screen is very laggy. (The new generations might be better). The battery is about giving out now after many years and was thinking whether the Oasis would be worth the upgrade?

Which external portable drive do you guys use for time machine backups? 🤔

is there a channel where remote job aspirants can combine together and prepare? (maybe folks who are already in remote jobs can help those aspirants)

Hey folks! 👋 I have a question for all the people using React (or ReactNative or any other flavour) in production. How much time do you end up spending baby-sitting the dependencies? Upgrading them, changing code for breaking-changes, etc. Why I ask: I wrote an app on ReactNative a few years ago to learn the framework and since then, I have constantly been pinged by the

Dependabot

on Github that a bunch of my libraries have high severity vulnerabilities - even though I have used only a handful of libraries. (My libraries, in turn, use these which have vulnerabilities). Many of these libraries have breaking changes and if I try to upgrade just the ones it is pointing to, I’ll end up changing a bunch of app-code to work with the new libraries. I was wondering if I am doing something wrong — or if this experience is similar across the board?

Hello friends I am developing a flutter project. I want to integrate payment gateway in it. How can I bypass google 30% fee charge in it.

Big billion days is here. What are the best things you have bought for yourself? Looking for some interesting products to buy and try. Anything counts. 😄

Folks, I want to buy a screen for both programming and some gaming as well. What would you recommend? And what's the difference between buying a TV set and a monitor? Is a 4k TV supposed to be better than a 1080p monitor? I need some advice please 😅

Anyone worked on multi tenent architecture? I am able to understand tenent id but what is scope and context in multi tenant architecture?

Is there any app that you like/admire because of the way they handle referrals during user onboarding. I like Dropbox but would love to know about others too

Hey all, I have this issue with working from home. I am not able to start on time. Once I start, I get along fine. Do you people face this issue ? If you are, please let me know, How are you dealing with it ?

@silly-butcher-14067 checkout focusmate and #focus-buddy

sipping pina colada's will always be easier than working, but probably not the most effective thing to do all day 🙂

and it gets boring quickly

Random thought from a lengthy discussion on another community - I am sure pretty much all of us do not like employee monitoring and tracking software. But the creator of one such software is celebrated as a remote work advocate and is invited at almost all conferences to speak on trust, hiring and other aspects of remote work. Do you think as an audience you would like to hear from someone who created a software that is exact opposite of what he is talking?

What did you folks on the group end up buying during the diwali sale? I am yet to make a purchase so drop in your items if you’d not mind and I’ll see if something tickles my fancy.

Hello, all. Any recommendations for printers that can scan/print/copy and are Wifi enabled? Just need to print black documents only.

Hey everyone, I’ve recently launched a pet project of mine, where I’ve curated a list of design resources over the years for anyone who is interested in having all-in-one link for design resources and workflows (Designers, front-end and product folks.) Also, a great resource for beginners. It’s a book-letter (bookmark+Newsletter) Here you go - Resource link: https://www.notion.so/deesenapati/Design-Resources-2087472f668c4f228cb850c6634f1212  (Linkedin post about the launch - https://www.linkedin.com/posts/dineshkumarsenapati_design-resources-activity-6724589049316802561-3zsk)  Please help in spreading the reach of the post if this resource was of help to you. Thank you! 🙂

Has anyone here moved homes across cities during the pandemic? Need some advice. Asking for a friend.

has anyone joined nomadlist.com membership?. i thought of getting the membership?. is it worth for $99?

📉 Peeps in Bangalore: Is this true that rents have come down and are going to stay low for a while? Is this sign of a bigger trend of decentralization 🔮