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Tech recruiter. Previously CTO at https://t.co/fRXzo9kX9I and https://t.co/8Y1nUjblhR. 2x founder. Author https://t.co/KiGz0PUAMt & https://t.co/cQ3MBBJlB3
Joined March 2009
Anyone who thinks per capita GDP is the driver of cleanliness should visit Cambodia. 1800 ish per capita GDP. Hard pressed to find a wrapper or plastic bag on the road let alone turds. India is too comfortable in filth and it has nothing to do with poverty.
2km morning walk in Sri Lanka. No spit on roads. You can barely see wrappers in corners. Area outside shops are clean. Street and roads are even. We are similar people with similar climate, similar geography, similar economic conditions but why is the public hygiene so different?
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Please for the love of God. Read more fiction. The pervasive and relentless need to improve yourself every waking moment is driven by fear. Life has more than enough materials for you fear. But donโt you want to feel something else? To be inspired? To feel love? To take.
Saw this posted on LinkedIn as a leaderโs recommended reading list (or something along those lines). Once again I am begging of you, please read more fiction. I promise that it will do more for you vs another productivity optimization book.
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How to stand out as a SDE-1/2 in the job market. Ok younglings, y'all say you want a job that you'll do anything for a job but the truth of the matter is y'all are not even trying. Let me just give it to you straight - spraying and praying your CV doesn't count as trying. This.
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Today was Raju's last day at @ShaadiTech. Started his career as an office boy fetching tea, jumped on to html, studied hard, finished his 12th then got a BCA, learnt php, lately been doing React development. No limits. Wish you all the best!
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Forget that. As a nerd, if Zomato sold NYE tickets to their war room, Iโd probably be there instead at one of your proletarian parties. Iโve been in war rooms. Iโve known friends whoโve been in IPL war rooms. And 99% of the people there know theyโre lucky to be part of.
Imagine running a sweet shop in Delhi and saying you'll be closed on Diwali for work life balance ๐.
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Instead of asking for one generation of Indians who will work 70 hours a week, I challenge any notable person to demand one generation of Indian bureaucrats and government servants to not be corrupt. We will see an entirely different country in 15 years if this happens.
One way to understand Karnataka's preference for a 14-hour workday is to put it in the context of the central theme of the essay "Meditations on Moloch"โit is a race to the bottom of the spiral. With an unprecedented wave of incoming automation and no one anywhere close to being
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How to tell if your github profile is mid (for juniors). - No pinned repos.- All JS.- Pinned repos are projects from some course.- Movie browser.- Food ordering website.- README written by CRA or equivalent. When I see a repo like this, you know what I see? Fear. I see your.
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All HR departments in tech are now legacy, in India for sure. 90 day notice. 30 day ESOP exercise window. Relieving letters. Full and final after 90 days. All of this is legacy. Just the way that 'guaranteed employment for life' is legacy. [When I say legacy, I don't mean.
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In the placements of IIMB 1998, an IITD grad and merit lister was caught cheating on the entrance test for Reuters, a day 3 company. Hold that thought in your head as you read this. In that same placement season I got hired by DMG the brand new investment banking arm of DB and.
I was talking to someone with an MBA from a top college when he nonchalantly remarked, "I'm always surprised how none of you techies know what true luxury and actual wealth is!". I've witnessed similar conversations unfold countless times around me. Perhaps we never really grasp.
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career pro tip ๐. The easiest way to career progress is to make your coworkers and managers feel 'relaxed' when they see you. Proactive communication is the cheat code to this. You don't need to develop a personality or anything absurd like that. Simply do what you said you'd.
a painful lesson ive learned about communicating is to communicate status proactively and immediately. even if i think "i'll just do the work soon, i'll give them the update with the work," NO, decouple decouple decouple. decouple communicating with actually doing the work.
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If youโve ever thought about doing an MBA this thread should be enough to put you off it. Not one innovator in the list. 22 years in CRISIL. Jeez. Somehow get the right credentials and then hang on to them for dear life. Pathetic.
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The only reason men have nice homes is because their wives and mothers make it nice. When you stop taking this for granted and feel grateful for the feminine energy in your life is the day you become a good husband/son. The fact that your wife wants beautiful things, nice.
I found, setup, maintained a home in DLF phase 1 for 5 years. From 2018 to 2023, and one thing I learnt is that only women can make home, and homemaker is the most thankless job ever. (A thread).
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We introduced our young son to MasterChef thinking he'd take an interest in cooking. Yesterday he came dressed up to the dinner table and criticised the food for not being restaurant quality. Thanks for nothing Matt Preston.
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Just met insanely talented young developer @delta2315. 20 years old, 2nd year college, contributing to v-lang since 2020. Got started reverse engineering Pokemon games in 7th standard doing assembly!. He's finding it hard to get an internship because no one can make sense of his
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I know someone who did this. The codebase is one hot mess, the engineers are burnt out and customers are starting to churn. In the absence of significant equity ownership, no one should be asked to work like this. Even in the presence of significant equity ownership, I never.
recently i started telling candidates right in the first interview that greptile offers no work-life-balance, typical workdays start at 9am and end at 11pm, often later, and we work saturdays, sometimes also sundays. i emphasize the environment is high stress, and there is no.
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Got to hand it to RaGa. Guy just keeps on trooping on, in the teeth of such intense ridicule. I think he shows incredible strength of character. He does the work.
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Career update - I started a business!. Some of you already know what it is. Some might have guessed it already. But first a small story. Y'all already know me as the sabbatical guy. Over the past year I've been on sabbatical, working through my backlog of experiences and
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Just met a candidate who said that they're due to join some place in 15 days and were looking for a better offer. I politely declined to continue the call. Candidates, I understand the compulsions but offer shopping is not elite behaviour. It reeks of desperation and tells the.
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@thekaipullai My kid was once bitten by a society dog. Thankfully he told us. 7 injections. Even went and inspected the dog a week later and a month later. She was fine. But no chances. Not with rabies. Heart goes out to the father who had his son die in his arms like this.
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Arenโt bank accounts supposed to be private? Under which provision of law are banking transaction details being shared with authorities?.
Reportedly, pani-puri vendors are also getting GST notices based on RazorPay/Phonepe transactions, asking them to comply. If you are a small business owner running an informal set-up accepting payments on UPI apps then, please register under GST and comply. ๐
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Story time (relevant to job seeking as a medium capability person). The year is 1998. Iโm graduating from IIMB. Iโm fourth from the bottom in the entire grade. I have a D in Investments. Which is pretty messed up if you wanted a career in finance. I had spent my summer.
I have been a teacher and mentor to many and I refuse to accept that for someone who buckets themselves as โmedium capabilityโ the best strategy is to โoptimise for what works for medium capability peopleโ instead of simply working towards becoming โhigh capableโ ๐คทโโ๏ธ.
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Salute to all the fathers and husbands taking their Ls and just keeping on grinding on. I remember my late 30s. Wrapped up a startup. No income for years. Undecidable tax liabilities hanging over my head. A kind soul threw me a lifeline. I went to work. I remember at an.
We are closing on our new house in 2 weeks, my wife is 25 weeks pregnant, and I got laid off last week ๐คฏ. Note to myself: . Forget about making 5yr or 10yr plans. Life doesnโt work that linearly. Just take one day at a time - thatโs all you can control ๐ช๐ผ. PS: Here is my
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Fucking fantastic year. I started a business. Built a beautiful system to power it. Cleared as much as I did in my last job (not bad for year 1). Got great clients and lots of grateful job seekers. Placed 26 people for a combined annual cash comp of > 13 cr. Didnโt miss a day.
No one is posting about their achievements and personal wins this year. Bleak af TL.
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Hereโs how you mate in a situation of oversupply (for straight men). 1. Get good at feeling things. GenZ and latter are fucked in this regard because yโall only love your phones. All your dopamine is being milked by social media leaving you unable to desire deeply. Get off that.
@poetofgrindset @uncommonnayana I'm too old to comment from current experience but as an observer:.1. humans are built to mate under conditions of undersupply. we are great at selecting, but terrible at filtering. 2. 'great at selecting under conditions of undersupply ' means we are built to compromise+adjust.
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Cultivate anti fragility in your career. Please spend some time as a freelancer/consultant. Get comfortable writing contracts, making estimates that will cost you real money, negotiating terms, sending invoices, meeting your CA, doing business development, pitching, asking for.
An industry where the workforce is shaped like a pyramid will always have this problem as you are forced to move "up or out" from the higher rungs of the pyramid.
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Just had a call with @arpit_bhayani. What he (and his community) are doing with is so inspiring. This gonna be yuuuge. Heโs created a container where database nerds can build something truly deep tech. The amount of research that has gone into finding a.
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The punishment for corruption in China is execution. When the money for the people reaches the people, you get cities that work and freedom from fear (not claiming either of these about China, surely there are ). Freedom from fear is a prerequisite for ambitious, long-term.
China and India have 1.4 billion population. Chinese engineers made deepseek_ai, tiktok, BYD, etc. We can't even make a cheap clone of twitter. Where did it go wrong?? are we dumb, or chinese are intelligent?.
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Are you cracked? Did you get into computers because of video games? I want to hear your story. Please share below.
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First offer rolled out on ๐ฅน. Making me emotional. Ok itโs not a done deal until they join but an important milestone in my eyes at least.
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Alright who wants to work at one of India's hottest early stage startups? @foldmoney_ is hiring!. I met with their co-founder Akash and was quite amazed by the story of this group of friends who have been building companies since they met in college. The people behind @devfolio
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Professional Update - Friday was my last day as CTO of People Interactive where I spent the last 3+ years building (or should I say re-building) and Today I join @InVideoOfficial as CTO.
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Tuition classes are also the reason we were never able to fix our schools. We externalised their failure onto the children. We mined the life force of the next generation to pay corrupt administrators and subsidize bad policy. And this is why I am an advocate of sane working.
"Coaching centres are a sign of broken-window economics. See how China crushed it all overnight." @ShekharGupta
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Personal/professional update from me - I have moved on from my role as CTO at Invideo and am on sabbatical for the foreseeable future.
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@jenwiderberg My favourite story about this is of the Wall Street trader who would randomly throw half the CVs out of the window saying 'I don't want unlucky people working for me'.
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Just closed a huge position!. February targets met and exceeded :-) My wife has started to believe!!. Unlike other toxic bosses, I'm not going to raise the March target as a reflex action. We grow slowly, carefully and with attention to both clients and candidates. Hamara kya.
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If youโre building a tech product, you will do better if you limit working hours of your team. Allowing work to consume every waking moment ie death march mode, will lead to a worse product. The whole point of tech is that it is *not* a strength game. Strategic pushes for.
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People asked me why I cancelled. LLMs ruined my code. Once I prompt and the LLM starts spewing code, it sets the direction of my thoughts. And it rarely arrives at the elegant solution. Because verbosity is not a problem for the LLM, it provides verbose solutions. And in.
Cancelled my @cursor_ai subscription within a month and they gave me a refund!?!. Color me impressed. Who does that, in this age of 'oh you forgot to cancel your free trial too bad'.
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Tell me youโve never been to a high profile rave party without telling me youโve never been to a high profile rave party.
Empty liquor bottles started falling from the 19th floor. ๐Supernova building, Noida.When the police arrived, they found 25 boys and girls. A high profile rave party was going on. The students are saying that their age is between 19-21.
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@itspsneha IB parent here. We took one look at the IGCSE textbooks and bounced. IB is very alien to those raised in the Indian school system but its effect on students is markedly different than Indian boards. Whether that works for you is a personal choice. Weโre very happy with the.
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Here's another. When you, as a software developer, are asked for an estimate, don't just give the estimate. Scene - sprint planning. A task is being discussed. The PM asks for an estimate. You say 'four days'. The PM says 'four days?!!??', incredulously. 'But this is such a.
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Modi is like the new CTO who wants to rewrite everything. Whatever came before is garbage and must be replaced immediately. Complex systems bro. they bite back. Hard. Some humility, some appreciation for what came before is required. Else you just cruisin for a bruisin.
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A government that cannot provide air to breathe is illegitimate and has no right to collect taxes.
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@manthanguptaa There are two kinds of code bases. The ones that are clean and the ones that make money.
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We have a new role that has opened up:. Role: Applied AI Research Scientist.Salary: 35 - 70LPA + Good ESOPs.Work Ex: 3 - 8 yrs.College: Tier 1 (IIT, BITs, Top NITs, IIIT, US colleges).Worked at Big Tech as Applied Scientist or have an AI PhD.Experience in:.LLMs, Transformers.
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Iโm planning to rent a bare shell office in Mumbai and turn it into a nerd friendly space to build and hang. Not that corporate slop like WeWork. Whoโs in? Will cost money. If youโre missing a โclubโ scene where you can just drop in and hang, play, side hack then you should.
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I just met a very talented student who has been working while he's been in college. Extremely bright and driven, complete polyglot. Elite programmer. Looking for a remote job where he can work from 4pm - midnight. I know. But he's been doing this for years and I believe him when
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The West will rediscover arranged marriage in my lifetime.
dating app where women post photos, men post descriptions of them written by women in their lives. there's no messaging, if you swipe you're assigned a time and place to meet. the number of times you fail to show up appears on your profile.
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Thereโs a pro tip for this. Every night, make a list of things youโre going to do tomorrow. Fill it stuff you already do as well. Brush teeth.Have coffee.Send out 10 cold emails.etc.Etc. Then at night go over the list and make the list for the next day. If you missed.
i am suspecting a potential tool for productivity is a super secret one that no one has ever publicly talked about yet: make a list of what you want to do and do it one by one.
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Precisely the gap I intend to fill. Especially for great developers who aren't from IIT and don't have FAANG on their resume. If you're elite and you know it, and you'd like me to manage your career, sign up at
"Third-party recruiters are leeches. However, if you find a good one, seriously develop a good relationship with them. They can help bootstrap your career.".@_svs_ all๐ on you!.
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@tomowenmorgan I am yet to find anything written about money that expresses the epiphany I had some years ago. Money is electricity, not coal. Itโs power is in the flow. If you try and hoard it, it degrades. It has to be kept moving. And then the mindset shifts from asking how do I acquire it.
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Founder Mode - . The most worrying thing I learned about an MBA is that people think it's about learning business. It's called business school, after all. Well, the full form of MBA is Master of Business Administration. It should be called admin school, not business school. It.
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Unpopular opinion but I think Deepis new wife is doing some white magic on the guy. Just look at him.
#Watch: #ETSA2024 | Had to clear out senior Zomato executives who lost the drive post-IPO: @deepigoyal . Read more at:.
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What is it with young developers struggling with basic database design? Is it MongoDB that ruined yโall? Am I an uncle now? Was it COVID?.
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I used to type โclearโ until a young intern shook his head and said Cmd+K and I feel like I owe him several 1000 lines of code by now.
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Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.
@IndiaAwakened_ @Avir_Ra1 @Binoy_R @cyril_mendonsa @Enraged_Indian @GuptaPragnya @HardikV51396109 @Iamarfat9 @iamharmeetK @LuvDatta_INC 30% tax slab does not mean one third of salary is gone. 2.5 lacs is nontaxable, after that comes tax slab of 5, 10, 20% depending on tax scheme selected. Only salary earned above 15 lacs is taxed at 30%. Please learn mathematics before making such idiotic posts.
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We as a tribe should be more careful choosing role models and aspirational figures. Do better @shreyans512.
Ashneer Grover built BharatPe into one of the biggest fintech startups in India. This is his amazing story๐๐
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Been using cursor a lot of late and itโs awesome, butโฆ. I donโt feel myself becoming a better programmer. Stuff that I would take pride in learning just seems too far away. I donโt learn anything when I work with cursor. Iโm just copy pasting error messages. Then when I go to.
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Enjoy your life!. When I was a kid I used to enjoy life. Then life happened and all enjoyment became contingent on something or the other happening. Iโll relax when I have xxx in the bank, when my familyโs future is assured, etc etc. You relate?.
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@gracejarvisohno Back in college a young lady saw me playing bass guitar and she said - you have such nice hands, your fingers are so knotty. I said oh you have no idea how naughty these fingers can get. Her boyfriend immediately swooped in and took her away. Now it makes sense.
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This is the zone I call The Deep. Here the fear is not that you wonโt find a job but that youโll never want one. As the cortisol clears and the identity shifts, oneโs previous life seems like a question mark - how did I accept those conditions? How did I limit my possibilities
Once upon a time, there was a guy who worked for a big startup. Every month, he would get a nice fat salary. One day, he put down his papers without a backup job in mind. He wanted to take a step back. He wanted to know how it feels to live a life without an externally.
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Me: Spends weeks of engineering effort to avoid 40 minute downtime for database upgrades. GoI:
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You do realize that all the โstuffโ in the world, even the money in your pocket, isnโt really yours, right? Itโs just passing through you. All you can do is choose where to direct it. And if you do not direct it towards your desires it will fester. Spending money beautifully.
offer to pay for the bill in full on the first few dates. absolutely fight for it. not bec itโs a thing men do, but bec itโs an act of care and a technique for seduction. itโs not so much about money as much as itโs about the mentality. when someone offers to pay, they donโt.
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Are you looking to improve your career prospects in software engineering? Here's one simple trick - go to conferences. Finding RubyConf in 2010 changed everything (thanks @gautamrege @AjeyGore @ponnappa ETT and other movers behind this). First of all, I had no idea how shite I.
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One time I posted a job opening which said Tier 1 college required. Cue the outrage on Twitter. Got a massive amount of inbound interest as a result of said outrage. Job went to a guy who wasnโt from a tier 1 college and shot his shot anyways. Lesson in there somewhere.
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When you commit to something, especially something like building a business, the universe will test you to see how sincere you are. First it tests you with adversity- a candidate bouncing from a signed contract. A candidate accepting a different job. A client pausing hiring.
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Pay 50% tax, pay for private replacements for public services, spend hours every day commuting and then donate to charity also. This is flood relief donation for the freaking CAPITAL of India where we can build a Central Vista but can't take care of our own. Imagine the.
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If two programmers run away to get married, does that make them dev elopers?.
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First of all - stop thinking in terms of โweโ, โindustryโ etc. there is no we. There is no industry. There is you and your career. Forget about everyone else. You need one path to thread the needle of a life well lived. You donโt need an industry. Yes for the first time in your.
@vishwastam What do we do Vishy? . Coding is a diminishing skill. ( not sure about this ) . I know there are enterprises who have large codebases with n problems as well. what is the next big move in the Indian tech industry.
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Yโall so triggered by this post that yโall forgot to read it. So Iโll explain. There is, in this terrible and unethical world, a small set of people who keep their word. The way business gets done and relationships are kept in this section of the professional world is truly.
Just met a candidate who said that they're due to join some place in 15 days and were looking for a better offer. I politely declined to continue the call. Candidates, I understand the compulsions but offer shopping is not elite behaviour. It reeks of desperation and tells the.
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One of the best things you can do for your career is appear to work hard. The default path is hard work coded. As a leader, when you fail, the only question people will ask is - could you have done more? If the answer is no you might even get a free pass. But if the answer is.
Starbucks CEO Laxman Narasimhan recently said that he doesn't work past 6pm and that if anyone at Starbucks gets a minute of his time after 6 pm they "better be sure that it's important.". He was just fired today.
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Had lunch with two techie millionaires. OG folks. With three grey haired at the table, everyone forgot to take a photo. Bengaluru you are awesome. Never change!. See yโall soon. Heading back now. Thanks to everyone I met. It was a magical trip.
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A manager has to lay off one of his two employees - Jack and Jill. He decides to talk to both of them. He calls Jill to his office and says "I have to choose whether to lay you or Jack off". Jill files a sexual harassment complaint and the manager gets fired.
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The middle class should go on strike. Anyone with an office job that is. Just everyone donโt go to office for one day. But it only works if itโs everyone. And the middle class cannot come together. Thatโs why we get political parties. And therefore this.
Ghar ke bahar nadi ban gayi hai. 24 hours of rain does this to Jaipur. Or for that matter, any city in India.
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As the son of a man who wasted a remarkable intellect trying to do alchemy with F&O I can tell you this straight up - stop now. Find something better to do. Even if you are in profit. It does not compound. Every day is your first day. There is no system. There is no pattern.
I quit. I started F&O trading in November 2022, and this is my P&L up to today. Iโve realized that F&O trading isn't scalable in the long run, so I'm taking a complete break from it. I'll shift my focus to the equity market in the future. As I turn 26, it's time to focus on
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GenZ has a database that solves Consistency, Availability and Partition Tolerance at the same time. No cap.
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One of the most surprising things about leadership is that suddenly, your words carry weight. I remember a CEO telling me exasperatedly - "you can't be a revolutionary in your own org after you've ascended to leadership. Your words have weight now.". Of course I was complaining.
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Aaj meeri shaadi ki salgiraah hai. Three years ago on this day I became CTO of @ShaadiDotCom. Been an amazing ride so far!.
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Young people of Twitter - what would you advise a 45 year old?.
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This is why proof of work is going to be the only thing that counts. If you arenโt blogging and building an authentic digital presence (twitter counts too) then youโre going to have to go to the office for an interview. A strong digital presence makes interviews a formality.
Aaaaaaand this is why companies have more intense live coding interviews & technical tests these days. Further, some companies are slowly moving back to onsite interviews because theyโve been burned by cheating / fraudulent candidates.
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@ccanonne_ @MATLAB I once saw a rickshaw with the words "MATLAB KI DUNIYA" on the back of it, and I for a while was like whoa - a data scientist down on his luck.
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What is this cursed definition of CTC?. Counting ESOPs is bad enough but then adding the whole 4 years vesting as LPA? Incredible. Was this sent out by the TA team?.
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Whoa. The kids are alright!. GenZ restoring my faith in people. So polite :-)
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Negotiation with NoSQL vendors is painful. They don't come to the table, just send you the document.
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HR is the biggest impediment to hiring a great team.
What's your opinion on tech jobs that will put you in this situation?
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Any sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice.
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Same story everywhere. The real cost of this is missing that one gamechanger in your 8569 applications.
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