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Software Engineer @Bookingcom | Previously @swiggy @amazon | Coding humor | Dank memes
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Kevin and Devin:
Meet Kevin, a software engineer making 6 figure salary. Kevin lives in the centre of the city, paying 2 times the rent because it's closer to his work, his new found love for bouldering and the padel centre where he meets his other tech buddies.
It's a warm
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Indian hyperlocal startups today would be setting up their war room. Swiggy, Zomato, Blinkit etc would be prepared to handle the peak demand today.
Meanwhile in Europe 🤦♂️:
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My system design interview in europe taken by principal engineer and a senior engineer of the org lasted less than 30 minutes! The solution I proposed was fairly simple and it worked and they were really happy with it.
Contrast this to Indian interviewers who expect that the
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The NRIs just want to keep other Indians from relocating abroad by telling how difficult the life is in a new country. Yet don't see majority of them relocating back to India anytime soon.
I moved to Amsterdam 2 years ago. The only reason I refrain from posting about life in
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One of the best things to happen to aspiring engineering candidates was limiting the IIT-JEE to just 2 attempts.
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Massive layoffs at Swiggy. Engineering heavily impacted. My previous team is pretty much gone. If we have worked together in the past, feel free to reach out to me.
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Back in 2022, I was holding an offer of around 85 LPA in India before my move to the Netherlands. Had I used the so called PPP comparison, that would have meant I needed upwards of 250000 Euros which is an insane salary by European standards. Thankfully, I did not make the
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Well, as a fresher, I would rather be laid off on a 50 LPA package than grind on a 5LPA offer with job security 🙃
If done right, can save over 1 cr in 3-4 years. Put it in an FD. Move to a village and do some farming.
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System design interviews in Europe are easy to pass purely based on the things you built in the past.
System design interviews in India are easy to pass based on whether you mugged up the design from same resources as the interviewer.
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If you're skilled enough to make more than 30LPA in India, you're skilled enough to make above 100,000 Euros in the netherlands.
Assuming you qualify for 30% ruling(you will get it if you're from India, but it's going away soon), your effective tax rate will just be 22 PERCENT!
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For the 100th time, 120k is NOT comparable to 30L. Please stop misusing PPP for any arbitrary comparison.
$120K in the US is ~30L in India on PPP
70K Indians get new H1Bs/yr, and with H1B median salary being $125K, 35K Indians get $120K+ new jobs
10L+ Indians file taxes for 30L+, assume 20% churn/growth that's 2L new jobs
6x supply of high-paying jobs for Indians in India than US
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Folks be like:
1. Spending lacs of rupees
2. Grinding for months and years
3. Running after resources
4. Seeking mentorships
Just to cover these topics. 🫠
This is it! This is pretty much the "syllabus" (as everyone has turned this into exams 🙃).
Some practice on top of
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That’s because I forgot to turn off an EC2 instance 😭😭
BREAKING: Amazon reports $170 billion revenue in the 4th quarter, beating estimates.
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Researchers in germany broke ssh integrity! 😯
Would be a fun paper to read over the next week.
Only if folks focused more on research rather than building some clone apps on MERN all the time!
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When your salary increases by almost 10 percent without you doing anything 🫠
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Only if I could tweet stuff for Swiggy as
@deepigoyal
is doing for Zomato. I mean, I do have the numbers live in front of me, it's just that I'm not the CEO 🙃
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When I was at Amazon, people used to ask for discount codes, but I didn't have any.
When I was at Swiggy, people used to ask for discount codes, but I didn't have any.
Now that I'm at Booking, I do have discount codes, but nobody has asked yet. 🤣🤣🤣
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The offer from Amazon
The best investment till date I did was buying that ticket to Bangalore for my Amazon interview.
6 years ago, I received a call from the recruiter if I would like to interview for SDE role. At that point, I had just started working in a start-up, and
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The 2023 market is crazy for freshers
All the experienced folks who are sharing roadmaps, tutorials, job links, resume reviews, paid mentorship etc, if they were a fresher right now, they would be struggling hard to land a job.
Not a dig at anyone specific, in fact, If I were
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The Unix timestamp just crossed 1700000000 yesterday 🥳
Was so used to them starting 16.......
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Your CTC has nothing to do with the work culture of a company or a startup.
There is a misconception about how a high-paying job comes with long working hours, no work-life balance, and a lot of stress.
NOT True.
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As a software engineer living in Europe, my biggest nightmare isn’t high energy prices or a possible WW3, it’s that I will wake up to my layoff news by
@GergelyOrosz
even before my manager tells me about it 😭😭😭
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A few years ago I wouldn’t have imagined affording a trip for myself abroad.
Now i am sponsoring multiple weeks trip for my whole family across Switzerland, Italy, France and the Netherlands.
My parents also celebrated their marriage anniversary in Venice!
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My compensation over the years from an intern to software dev.
At the moment I'm making nearly 170 times the starting amount back in 2016! Could never have imagined this as a college student.
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An interesting observation in Europe. People don't care about the rat race or moving to the next level. People with decades of experience are fine being an SDE-1/2. There have been instances where people "downgraded" from senior to a level below. Many regularly refuse promotion.
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Professional update: After wonderful ~4 years at Swiggy, I have decided to move on to take up a new stint. Looking forward to the next chapter of my journey!
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I was interviewing this candidate once and he gave a really unoptimized solution for the problem.
But, the solution worked! It took me a while to understand it. I never thought that the problem could be solved that way.
Genius move. Gave a hire verdict from my side.
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How to get shortlisted at top tech companies?
1) Wakeup at 5 AM
2) Learn DS-Algo
3) Do stellar projects
4) Already be working at a similar top company (Microsoft/Amazon etc.)
5) Be consistent
Try this for 3 months and see the result for yourself :)
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It’s perfectly okay to be an average performer, maintain work life balance and prioritise other things in life and not focus solely on career.
You don’t have to exceed expectations every friggin day!
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Startups and companies facing tech talent crunch, I also want to let you know that I took 55+ talented software engineers off the market by referring them to Swiggy in 2021.
Thanks for your understanding. K bye 🙃
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Uncle : What do you do?
Guy : Work as a software engineer at Amazon
Uncle : Thodi mehnat aur karo, Infosys m bhi ho jayega!
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Hotstar does 50 million concurrent users:
Le random person: It's all CDN bro.
Hotstar does 1 million users:
Le random person: It's all CDN bro.
Hotstar homepage loads for 1 user:
Le random person: It's all CDN bro.
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@championswimmer
In pure financial terms, you will likely make more money in the EU for junior/mid level software engineers. Only if you’re in top tech you’ll make more money in India at senior levels.
That’s a different thing that once folks move to Europe, they don’t care about the financial
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So so true. PPP is such an overused term to justify some arbitrary comparison. 100K is a lot of money and nowhere like 22LPA.
@Gravito841
The 22lpa = 100k cope has been the best intelligence based border control ever implemented.
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Across the 20+ counties I’ve visited, Iceland is simply miles ahead. Unreal place!
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Folks believe that relocating to Europe is fun. That everything is going to be so organised, you would be travelling every weekend to a new country, will be partying and enjoying a lot. Or that you are going to have a really good work life balance. The reality is
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It's true 😀
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If I were a fresher in this market I would have been happy with a 3LPA job just to start my career.
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Having lived in Europe for some time I now realise that I would have joined here even at a lesser salary/position. The experience here is definitely worth it for the short term.
In the long run however moving back definitely makes sense.
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1. If you think people are relocating to Europe for the salaries, you are highly mistaken.
2. Unless you're in top tech in India, European salaries ARE better.
3. Yes we get it. You are making 6 LPM or whatever. We don't care.
4. Cope
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Amazing news for folks graduating 2022/2023. It's the Graduate Recruitment Season here at booking and we are hiring for:
1. Junior Software Engineer II in Amsterdam (Netherlands)
2. Junior Software Engineer II in Manchester (United Kingdom)
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If your boyfriend who’s in tech frequently gets promoted or gets above average ratings in performance reviews, just know that you’ll never be his first priority 🙃
Rather date a guy who is on PIP or frequently gets fired. Because you’re likely his first priority.
All the best!
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If I make 30 LPA in India, then what’s the equivalent in Europe?
The correct answer is that there actually is NO answer to this question. It totally depends on where and how you spend your money. No amount of PPP or any other metric can answer that question.
I moved to a
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You’re not supposed to “practice” system design. That’s your job as a software dev. With enough experience and a lot of research is how you go about it.
Just realised the interview process from SDE 2 onwards is very hard, and you need to practice system design, DSA and what not. How do you people switch?
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Not sure why NRIs get triggered whenever I say that you can get high salaries or save a lot of money in Europe?
Folks in my circle on mid engineering level(SDE-2 equivalent + not married) are saving upwards of 50 Lakhs INR in Amsterdam!
This is despite them doing a lot of
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No, forget senior, if you’re even a mid level engineer that means you’re focusing on your life beyond your career which is a good thing.
Bruh, If 8 years later I'm just some senior engineer at a company, I failed at life.
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@championswimmer
1. Hike on the new salary.
2. Trauma endured while hustling for that promotion for months or years.
3. Feels more superior than teammates. Newfound energy.
4. Goal achieved after so much effort. Need new rat race
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When you are casually walking the streets of Zagreb and encounter the chess legends
@vishy64theking
@DGukesh
What are the odds 😁😁😁😁
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Placement season for 2023 batch is going to start(or started in some institutes). My prediction is that the premium colleges are going to see record placements, while the off campus candidates are going to struggle a bit
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Wow!
I would have ended the interview right there if the interviewer asked me to do this!
And if they're so concerned about solved problems, how about not asking Leetcode problem in the first place?
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Exactly. Once we realize it, it would be procrastination along with anxiety and panic attacks 🙃
Procrastination happens because we don't realize how little time we really have.
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If a company is not hiring freshers, it will not hire freshers no matter how good the resume is.
No matter your credentials, no matter your projects. No matter a referral.
Plain and simple!
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While the frequent job hoppers may struggle to find their next gig, and the frequent switches might look bad on the resume, the truth is that in a broader time frame, earnings wise, they would still be ahead of those who did not frequently switch 😬
For the past 5 years, several of my friends & classmates have been voluntarily switching jobs every 12-18 months for better prospects (compensation, designation, stature etc)
But, there is NO free lunch: Today, in a cooler talent market, these folks are now struggling.
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I know this tweet might offend a lot of Italians.
So I’ve tried a lot of pizza across Italy. The best one I tried was in Monterosso al mare(Cinque Terre) and yet not a single one of them is tastier than the Domino’s pizza you can get in any random mall in India 😋. Ok bye
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There’s a lot of gatekeeping in Indian tech scene for folks moving from service based companies like Infosys, TCS to product based companies. Applicants are outright rejected most of the times.
In fact, the more time one spends there and become more experienced, the harder it
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The reason you're anxious is because you think you don't have time.
Take your time, do stuff you love, or don't. Go ahead and procrastinate. Everything eventually works out in the long run🙂
The reason you procrastinate, is because you think you still have time.
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Was browsing the election results from my city and saw my classmate from school as a candidate 🫠
He got 167 votes 👏
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To those who are dunking on Swiggy with Infosys because of the layoffs, Swiggy still pays at least 10 times of what infosys pays for the same experience.
If someone got fired after working for 5 years, they would still have made more money than they would after working their
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I am still not able to understand why it's news that Amazon is laying off 10000 folks. They already have a robust mechanism of putting people in coaching plan > PIP > Fire. They always have high URA(unregretted attrition) targets, and this is how things already work there.
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I just chilled out max all 2023. For my 2023 resolution even my career was the least of my priorities and decided to be "average" for the whole year.
I didn't care about how much money I was making, no care about climbing the corporate ladder, promotion and so on!!!
My focus
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Childhood trauma:
When your dad bought the physical map of India instead of the political map and it’s already 11 PM and the shop is closed 💀
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Starting the year by checking off another item in the bucket list.
Northern lights ✅
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Infosys/TCS online coding assessment is harder than MAANG online assessment
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What the actual hell is wrong with this generation? This guy just compared missing a coding(leetcode) daily streak to the loss of a newborn. It's apparently a black day for him! What's next? Losing snapchat streak is end of the world?
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Start paying your engineers more than 100 rupees per hour salary first.
Narayana Murthy says India's work culture must change: ‘Youngsters should work 70 hours a week' 😳
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There’s so much judgment by wannabe tech people in India towards newcomers. Oh you only solved 100 problems on leetcode? What do you mean you don’t do codeforces?
I personally know people who never even created an account on such sites, but throw a hard problem at them and they
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So much fighting over whose course/platform is better. How exactly have we reached this stage?
All you need to do is GFG+Leetcode and you're all set for pretty much any interview!
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@theliverdr
In the Netherlands it’s very hard to get antibiotics even for genuine cases. In most of the cases the GP doesn’t prescribe any medication apart from paracetamol.
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Says every junior engineer ever when they’re new to the team 🙃
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I’m always horrified whenever I see hand written notes for programming 💀
I have been procrastinating so much in learning React and finally started it today. If anyone could suggest how can I improve my notes, please do that. Hoping to continue my learning regularly atleast till sem break ends
#techtwitter
#reactjs
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@TheAnkurTyagi
Also depends on the country and your lifestyle. I know so many folks in Amsterdam saving more than 5K EUR per month. Combination of being single+tax ruling in NL 😅
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The focus on work life balance is immense. If people don't like the expectations from their new role, they prefer going back to a level below and it's just amazing!
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With the hiring freeze and layoff across the industry, the people guiding others on how to get into FAANG etc. are now trying to save their own jobs first. Unfortunately, it's the freshers who are going to be hit hardest during this downturn.
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Pro Tip:
1. Get a job in any of the schengen country.
2. They will do all the paperwork for you.
3. Board the flight.
4. Enjoy your vacation.
5. Resign and come back.
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Whenever someone compares moving abroad from India, the first factor is lack of maid and cook??????
I just don't understand this obsession with getting your chores done from someone else.
I understand it's not an easy thing, but how does it become a dealbreaker?
Everyone
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Flip side: I have seen so many folks getting rejected in interviews for telling the true work they did(including me). Most of the interviewers/hiring managers are looking ask the most impactful, interesting work the candidate did. Often, in most of the teams in every company, the
So difficult to call out people who lie on their resume, just because they were part of the journey and try to take fake credit. It’s just so bad.
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Good time to repost this 😇
Anyone who wants to be the next champion in their respective field can contact me 🫡
When you are casually walking the streets of Zagreb and encounter the chess legends
@vishy64theking
@DGukesh
What are the odds 😁😁😁😁
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When I was preparing for JEE, being from general category I had somewhat felt same. Why should anyone get seat on less marks than me? Felt unfair. Thankfully, I grew up! But looks like some privileged people can get into top tech, and yet be oblivious to the societal problems!
JEE Advance Results are declared! The disastrous part of the entire process is the cutoff marks.
General Category - 86 marks
SC/ST - 43 marks 🤡
The reserved category needs to perform half as good as general category to get into IITs.
Can't see anything more stupid than this.
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Here's the thing. Nobody wants to work with a person who boasts on twitter/linkedin about how specific set of people are not smart enough like them and that they don't "deserve" to be there. Plain and simple.
No organization would want that person who looks down upon their
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System design experiences:
1/n
Many startups that I interviewed for were focused on copying standard big tech questions. Design stock exchange, build book my show for millions and billions of users. They were looking for people who have read the standard solutions to the
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@xmanishaa
Damn! So true. Filming there is frowned upon and one can get in trouble as well.
Also the farmers are accommodating and allow tourists to come to the field. It’s a basic etiquette not to pluck the flowers.
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For the last 2 years in the Netherlands I have received 0 spam calls, 0 spam SMS and absolutely 0 marketing WhatsApp messages on my dutch number.
I still receive so many spam calls/messages on my Indian number.
Just can’t wrap my head around how companies think it’s okay to
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I think I just hit the milestone of 100 tech offers via my referral.
Again, apologies to the companies struggling to get the tech talent.
Bye! 🚀🚀
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Visited Hallstatt, Austria this weekend. You might have seen this image on facebook as a must visit place. I saw images from this exact same location some 4-5 years ago. Never could have imagined that I would be visiting here. I’ve travelled abroad multiple cities, but this one..
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Healthcare in the Netherlands is a joke honestly. It’s way faster to travel to India in case of emergency than to try getting the treatment here.
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This is how my notion looked like by the time I accepted the offer and stopped interviewing. What people see on linkedin or social media is just the end result.
The effort that goes into preparation, applying, getting shortlisted, interviewing, following up with the recruiters
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Why do some people think that being able to employ a maid and a cook is called luxurious lifestyle???
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USA : You're fired, take the severance and these are the separation benefits including insurance etc....
India : You need to voluntarily resign by 5 PM 🙃
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