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Worked on a project from zero. Thought-through the idea, built the base, delivered the framework, and ran it till near-finish while my manager was on a 6 month leave.

Meanwhile, a colleague with a strong talent for saying “yes sir” to the right people kept requesting to be assigned. Eventually, he was.

I trained him. Not out of obligation, just so the handover was smooth.

A week later, I was told the project’s being scrapped due to low ROI. I was reassigned. He stayed back to "wrap it up."

Also got told, “Nobody asked you to train him.”

4 months later, he’s promoted and given an award for that project.

Sometimes it’s not about how well you work. It’s about who you work around.

The project that got me nothing , except a lesson

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In my appraisal meeting, they didn’t ask or discuss my expectations about my salary or hike percentage. The entire discussion was only about feedback and performance review. After the meeting, I asked why they didn’t allow me to share my expectations or reveal my hike numbers. They told me that the hike numbers would be decided only by the owner and then they would inform me.

I feel an appraisal meeting should include open discussion about both performance and future expectations. What are your thoughts? Does this happen in your company too?

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I work in Nagarro as a Software Engineer.
It's been a little more than 2 years since I joined as a fresher. Salary hikes are not impressive. Trash projects, nobody knows where the company is going. I've been working with really bad liars for the past 2 years. Everyone in this company seems to be treating it as their retirement plan because they offer work from home.

I work on python automation POCs and my team is one of those "Agile" ones with no direction. It can be renamed as "Team ADHD". Their plans change every 4 hours and none of them are engineers, they are consultants (manchilds or scammers would be a good word).

I'm also not able to get other job offers, Hardly got 2 interviews after hundreds of applications across multiple platforms. I do see other people getting better roles in better companies. Not sure what I'm doing wrong. I'm attaching *one of my resumes* in case someone wants to help me out.

Not sure if I should continue

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Hello guys, 

I started my career at tha age of 21 with the pay of 11k monthly in A company in year of 2022, the main reason of doing job to support my family, my father was doing job, he left bcz of multiple health issue….

Then I switched in healthcare company that time i was undergraduate i was getting 19k in hand and no night allowances, after switching 2 company now i have almost 3 years of exp and getting 44K in hand after OT/incentive salary credit at-least 48K in hand……

Now i’m graduated in 2025 from B.A, my current CTC is 5.7 LPA…

I want to learn any technical course so it could 
Boost my career and salary…

Requesting you to guys kindly suggest me the course name, I’ll really thankful all of you….🙏

Need suggestion on technical courses

One of our colleagues was so enraged because our manager was forcing the employee to work a rotational shift and making him work hard.
We can all see he was too hard on him, but we thought it was part of work and our manager's behavior with everyone....... 
That person went so much into rage that he poisoned extra caffeine in our manager's coffee. He is old, suddenly collapsed after one drink, the blood pressure shooted but after drinking water, he got normal.............. That's what they call the taste of his own blood. Also, a colleague left the job after all this drama.

is it what managers want now? Waiting to get poisoned?

The employee tried to poison his manager

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