Feeling extremely humbled and blessed, I landed an amazing offer.
My interview preparation started way back in Dec last year.
I want to give back to society, happy to help or discuss.

The CEO of a listed company wants a comedian to service thousands of substandard Ola bikes.

Funny indeed!!

In a reading phase currently, and finished a couple back to back. Want the streak to continue.
Looking to get suggestions.

My favourites:
- Steve Jobs' Biography
- The Kite Runner
- Grit by Angela Duckworth

Please add :)

Hi, I am 23M, working as a software engineer in Bangalore at a Fintech company. My current CTC is 45LPA with in hand salary is around 1.8 L.

Since I came to Bangalore after finishing college, my life has been going up and up only. Everything is getting perfectly aligning month by month. Got a very nice salary increment after 1 year of working. The tech and projects I am working on are challenging. Although my WLB is not that great. Best of all, I got into a relationship with a girl with whom I was friend for like 9 months.


As a self satisfied person I think my life is going very well. But what next?

Therefore I took 1 week leave to think about what next and after a lot of thinking I have decided to start a business/startup. Will share about my startup in some other post. But I am taking a leap of faith in myself and planning to leave my job at the end of December. I will slowly start to make the base for my startup until then.

Thanks for reading this far.

This shitty and scammy organization revoked my offer letter just one week before joining, so I decided to alert the community.

Everything seemed to be on track for my start date. Suddenly, one day out of nowhere I received a Google Meet invite from the Talent Acquisition Leader, who casually informed me that my offer had been revoked, providing no genuine explanation or concern.

After pressing for answers, I was given a vague and nonsensical reason: a "management mistake in deciding hiring needs." But when I spoke to my internal contacts after a few weeks, I discovered this was all a ploy to cut costs.

My overall experience with the hiring team was very disappointing and unprofessional. It was evident they were trying to fill positions quickly without any real thought about long-term vision or goals. I would advise using their offer only for negotiating outside. Half the folks inside the company are actively looking outside.

- BookMyShow may cancel tickets for Coldplay's tour bought from reselling platforms.
- The company filed an FIR with Mumbai Police against Viagogo, Stubhub Holdings, and individuals reselling tickets.
- Despite rumors, BookMyShow confirmed the concert will proceed as planned.
- Tickets were sold out within minutes, later resold for up to INR 4 Lakh.
- BookMyShow's rival, Zomato, faced a similar issue with Diljit Dosanjh’s concert tickets.

Source: [Inc42](https://inc42.com/buzz/bookmyshow-mulling-cancelling-coldplay-concert-tickets-bought-from-reselling-platforms/)

Tl;Dr - 100+ matches in less than a week, but the experience still sucks as a guy.

Hadn't tried using premium+ on bumble, it was them basically copying Tinder in this aspect by tiering the likes and features further.

Seems like most dating apps trend towards 3 or 4 tiers: free, premium and premium+

I used to get matches as a free user with occasional premium subscription (one week max). That changed a while ago, roughly when they introduced premium+. Thought I'd give it a try and share my experience as a user in NCR. Hadn't used bumble in a few years either.

Some numbers :
🔴10-15% of matches expired without any messages exchanged
🔴50-60% of matches did not initiate or put effort in conversation
🔴5-10% looking for sugar daddy and passenger princess treatment
🔴5-10% are absolutely unhinged and desperately need doctors and therapists. 1 psycho blocked.
🔴 Remaining profiles are scammers and fake

The sad part of being an average guy on dating apps is that you don't usually get matches 99% of the time. And when you do, it's often shitty nonetheless. The level of entitlement in women on dating apps is way too high, with very little substance to offer.

On the plus side, did get a few decent contacts (10-15) and some are also interested in attending my dating mixers too. Haven't met any of them yet, will see how it goes.

To those who want more matches on bumble, give premium+ a try with good pics and profile. It could be a very different experience for you in a different metro city. Planning to visit Mumbai and Bangalore soon, might try this there as well. Don't think it's useful for tier 2/3, not enough users there in the first place to need premium. Happy to help you with profile suggestions and consultation if need be.

But please be very careful, don't exchange insta/numbers too soon, and watch for scammers who ask you to come to a specific location/restaurant only. Always decide the place of first date yourself, letting women decide is too risky these days.

Got any questions? Comment away ✌️

Are you?

Bro please take 30 mins and cook the food fresh. If I had to eat in 10 mins, I'll buy ready to eat and heat

Random Sunday bkcdi, provided AI with kundali and asked if marriage is on cards (if at all) and with whom (the interesting part 🤭)

So, marriage is on cards.
Apparently I'll meet the guy end of this year or early next, marriage happens in another 2 years (ooo long term dating)

Fun part - the guy is yet to come in my life (so all existing are off chart now)
He will have a out-of-box career (whatever that means), will have me intrigued (honestly not that difficult).
Financially will be better than me (2 peanuts are always more than 1 duh 💁‍♀️)

The confidence that AI has predicted all this is what makes it exciting. If this is coming true, God it will be fun!!!

I am working as SDE 2 in Amazon, doing well for now, getting good work however i always have this feeling that one day i may end up losing job due to layoff or anything else and the thing is that in such a scenario i am not at all prepared for job change.
I never liked doing DSA or you can say i was never good at it. I did just enough to get an internship at Amazon and then got converted to full time and from there i never touched DSA again.

My question is how to get over this insecurity?

Basically the title. It would be a great feature

Anyway: here're the details.

1 male flatmate needed in a 3BHK in a gated society near Sakra Hospital. Great for folks working in ETV/Bellandur/ORR - Flipkart, JPMC, GS, Intel, Swiggy, etc

Rent 20k +1.9k Maintenance
Move In Cost - 52K (including ownership of 55" TV, living room furniture, utensils, appliances.)
Optional: Bedroom setup for 25k (bed, mattress, table, chair, iron, etc)
Deposit: 50K

Basically ready to move in, just back your bags and come in.

As someone moving out, this is a steal deal in the area with most other flats in the same society rented for 15-30% more. DM if you or someone you know needs this.

Is this the type of language that should be used by the founder/ CEO of a listed company in a public platform? His choice of word shows how apathetic he is to the need of his customers. If I was a potential Ola customer, I would put off my buying decision immediately. Pathetic!

I've been trying to learn key quant topics in my free time. So I was reading on Modern Portfolio Theory and this plot was generated using Monte Carlo Simulations.

At its core, MPT suggests that investors can construct an "optimal" portfolio by considering the trade-off between risk and return. The key ideas illustrated in this graph are:

1. Diversification: By combining assets with different risk-return profiles, investors can create portfolios that offer better risk-adjusted returns than any individual asset.
2. Efficient Frontier: This is the set of optimal portfolios that offer the highest expected return for a defined level of risk, or the lowest risk for a given level of expected return.
3. Sharpe Ratio: A measure of risk-adjusted performance, calculated as (return - risk-free rate) / volatility. Higher is better.

Each blue dot represents a possible portfolio allocation.
1. The x-axis shows volatility (risk), while the y-axis shows expected return.
2. The color gradient from light to dark blue indicates increasing Sharpe ratios.
3. The red dashed line is the Efficient Frontier.
4. The red star marks the Maximum Sharpe Ratio portfolio.
5. The green star indicates the Minimum Volatility portfolio

**Interpretation**
1. The "cloud" of dots shows all possible portfolios. Its shape (often called the Markowitz Bullet) illustrates how diversification can improve the risk-return profile.
2. Portfolios on the upper edge of this cloud (the Efficient Frontier) are considered optimal - you can't get higher returns without taking on more risk.
3. The Maximum Sharpe Ratio portfolio (red star) offers the best risk-adjusted return.
4. The Minimum Volatility portfolio (green star) is the least risky efficient portfolio.
5. Portfolios below the Efficient Frontier are suboptimal - you could achieve either higher returns for the same risk or lower risk for the same return.

In practice, investors would choose a portfolio along the Efficient Frontier based on their risk appetite.

More conservative investors might lean towards the green star, while those comfortable with more risk for potentially higher returns would move towards the red star or beyond.

I was promised to get batting but didn’t get after fielding for 30 min. They said daylight issues will see tomorrow. What should i do now? Should I tell this to their parents so that i can get batting first next day??

Source - Anmol Garg

Yes you heard it right. It's for a company where most ex-Byju's folks have joined by parasite takeover(You can Search in linkedin). Ex Byju's folks aren't asked to do on call during that week because as per the company only they have a fair share of rights (as their bosses present everywhere)and non-byju's folks don't have. I hope their Diwali will also get ruined sometime, who are doing this kind of discrimination.

Hey all. As the title suggests, whats your go-to hack for regaining control of chaos? For me, it's cleaning 🧹🧼. The process of cleaning & organizing & getting clutter sorted, mentally helps me break down the real clutter & chaos into manageable chunks. Yes I identify as Monica Geller. What are your go to hacks? Share in comments

5 years of grind, and finally made it to Google L5! 💼

Offer details :
Base - 60L
Target bonus - 15%
JB - 10L
Stocks - 220k$

Total TC for first year -> 1.5cr

For anyone out there prepping for Google or an L5 role, don’t give up.

I’d love to give back to the community, please drop your questions in the comment section and I’ll try to answer them as much as possible.

PS : Please do not DM me, as many might have similar questions, and the answers could help others as well!