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Is it true that Microsoft is laying off 10000 employees today?

Microsoft Layoffs

Product Manager

Posting here not for bragging but to just let people like me know who look at extraordinary salaries and feel sad - it is possible just believe in yourself. I never thought I’d reach even this.

4.5 years of workex in a non-tech role, started with 35,000 monthly salary.

I know this number might not mean anything to the FAANG tech bros out there but for the rest here is a bit of context -

- I come from a middle class background 
- Not from Tier 1 college
- Not a software developer 
- No MBA as of now
- This doesn’t contain any inheritance 
- Send some money home every month for parents

Dont get overwhelmed, just keep your head down and don’t compare to anyone. I try to keep a strict budget, track every transactions, limit my needs but once a while splurge slightly when I feel like. 

See you all at the next milestone! 🍻

First Milestone - Hope many more to go

Business Analyst

Got an offer from one of the top 5 FMCG brands with way better pay. I learned a very important lesson of being patient. I was about to resign that day but you guys talked some sense into me to not quit without offer. Happily put in my papers today

Context: https://share.gvine.app/3dFd8PTrJEnwF1J29

Thanks GV community for talking some sense into me

More people should take lessons from this. Random people can sometimes hype you up about quitting, it's how it happens in movies.

Sometimes being sane and patient is all it takes. Marathon, not a sprint.

Growth Manager

Supply Chain Manager

Welcome to Personal Finance's Private Community

I got 100% hike. I joined an abroad company. Now my salary is 30 LPA. Any serious answers what should I do? I don’t want to be reckless with so much money.

100% hike. Now don’t know what to do with so much money 😂

Welcome to Software Engineers's Private Community

Just an update, 

Finally after 1 month of being laid off I got a WFH job.

Got Job 🙏

Welcome to Office Gossip's Private Community

This was the job I so badly wanted. It's WFH. The actual work hasn't begun. Training phase is going on. It's not even training. They've sent me some material to read and learn. That's it. I don't know any of my colleagues well. I just hear their voices on teams meet. I feel like quitting already.

Is it normal to feel like quitting your new job within a month?

We love to create problems when there aren't any

Software Developer

Medical Expert

I will continue with this series for people who like this kind of content, drop "+1" in the chat and I will tag you the next time I post content.

Imagine you have a very complex situation with varying degrees of randomness. How do you evaluate the probability of certain outcomes? 

One way is a deterministic way which is to sit down and try to compute probabilities of events.
Another way is to simulate these interactions with various seed values and see how these outcomes vary. This is called a Monte Carlo simulation, where we use random sampling to model and analyze complex systems that involve uncertainty.

Let's set up a game and apply a Monte Carlo simulation to it.

You(Hero) and Me(Villain) engage in a strategic coin flipping competition over a series of rounds. Before each round, both of us independently decide whether to flip a coin or pass the turn to the opponent. 

The outcomes are as follows:

1. If both players decide to flip, a fair coin is tossed, and the player who called it correctly gains a point.
2. If one player decides to flip and the other passes, the flipping player gains a point without the need for a coin toss.
3. If both players pass, no points are gained or lost.

We can simulate it by making each decision random:
1. Hero and Villain both independently choose between 0 and 1 for deciding whether to toss or pass. We use 0 as Pass and 1 as Toss.
2. If both pass then we let the scores as is.
3. If one passes and not the other, then we add +1 to whoever decided to toss.
4. If both decide to toss then, we do a random coin flip where 0 = Heads and 1 = Tails. Hero can randomly choose between Heads or Tails. The Villain takes the opposite position.

First is the Monte Carlo Simulation and the difference between potential outcomes for 1000 rounds and 20 simulations, which is the graph shared.

Daily Series #2: Geeking out → Monte Carlo Simulations

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My best day of the week is always Friday. After a hectic weekdays at atleast I get this day to relax to the fullest following Sat and Sun...full tune songs,🍻, and masti 😍

Awesome Friday 😍

Human Resources

Drop the one small thing that made you feel good today.

Often we look for “happiness” while we rush through life like there will be time later to pause and enjoy. Little moments should be cherished and enjoyed - makes the day to day more meaningful. 

Mine: 

1. 5 small red roses and 3 white roses in the balcony. Waking up to that felt good and makes me smile today.

2. 5 minutes in the balcony and the morning sun. therapeutic!

What made you smile today?

An important meeting cancelled. Woke up to the cancelled invitation on my email.

Analyst

Hey guys, i am going to be a manager for the first time in a company that i have been working at for 3 years and I have people joining me from monday.. any tips for being a good manager?

Going to be a manager for the first time

- Just be receptive to their thoughts, understand their povs. 
  
 - Help them understand their role and your expectations from them clearly. 
  
 - Direct manager plays a huge role in someone’s POV about the organisation, set some biweekly or monthly one on ones to understand/tackle problems they are facing. use the same meeting to communicate your expectations from them. 
  
 - One thing that is often neglected is, making sure your team members have a visibility outside your team as well. Promote a culture where in your manager also knows about your subordinates and what they are good at.  
  
 - Provide them your support towards their career goals. 
  
 - Finding a good balance between becoming too strict (getting work done) vs too supportive ( some lemons take advantage of this). 
  
 If you end up doing half of the above they will remember you throughout their career. I was fortunate enough to have two manager in my career like that. Both of them I still reach out for career guidance.

Staff Engineer

I'd made a distressed post after getting laid off.

Update to:  https://grapevine.in/post/86d40198-4ba6-4f24-b830-8934dc196941

I can't help thank you guys enough for helping me get though the tough times and dealing with the shame and shock.

I did end up taking taking the vacation, though I did spend sometime out out it interviewing. I'd only told my fiance about the layoff and she was understanding and supportive 🥹. To the rest of the families I just told them I'm interviewing since I got good reachouts.

I'm thankful to everyone who reached out to me on my post and for the pings with opportunities.

Did end up taking up an offer from one of the reachouts. 

Can't thank you all enough.

& kisses to Michel Scott (No homo) for releasing DMs .

Thank you Grapeviners ❤️❤️❤️

It's been 4 years since covid started and all of us went into the first lockdown (24 March 2020). I just thought of this while making another post, and this has actually taken me aback. It was such a crazy time, and now it's just long gone. 

- We got a lot of time to be home, to be around loved ones, most of us are privileged and hence Covid wasn't bad at all. We were mostly making Dalgona Coffee, sourdough bread, playing PUBG, watching movies, etc. 

- A lot of us also lost loved ones. It was really brutal for those who did. And it was always scary for the rest of us. 

- Most of us who have been in tech saw our salaries climb the fastest. The absolute peak job market, best hikes, the world was very positive in that sense - not as much work and enough pay to enjoy 

- The biggest thing I've noticed: Covid got me hooked to Instagram/YT Shorts/and other social media. I feel like I used to be more aware and awake before covid. Somehow, a lot of exposure to social media/content etc. has made me just very zoned out in life. I think a lot of us have a much shorter attention span. 

IDK if this is true, but certainly feels like it is true. 

Just penning this down because I'm genuinely tripping how long it's been.

4 years since Covid started. What are your memories from that time? How have you evolved since?

Pre & Post Covid me are different person.  
 I don't know that guy now. And for some reason it looks like a decade has passed by yet the lockdown announcement on news just rings like as if it was yesterday. "bhaiyo beheno ..." 
    
 What I miss was empty roads. Blue skies of Delhi and pin-drop silence 24/7. Only rustling leaves and birds. For a moment the world looked at peace.  The sun was fantastic back then.  
  
 I am fortunate to be at this end of spectrum as others have disastrous circumstances. One thing I'm noticing since then. The time seems to be running abnormally fast now.  
 Like zipp! 3 months of 2024 gone.

So We've done it! Few Days of Hardwork and we've caught up with the Backlogs! 

Felt happy that I'm able to achieve this! 

Now lets #EnjoyWeekends

Good Day again at the Office

Associate

Hey Folks, 

Happy Friday! 
Hope the week was awesome for most of you and bearable for others. 

Grapevine had about over 600 posts in the last week. Thought of sharing some of the best ones to make for a nice weekend reading.

Here’s a recap of the best moments on Grapevine: 

1) Linkedin Gyaanis should be Banned by @AvgRasmalaiEnjoyer : Some of the funniest stuff we read this week, some harsh truth bombs were dropped all over 💣
https://share.gvine.app/9NpDNLwGMsQXbwhy9


2) Is rags to riches real ? Anyone on Grapevine changed his financial status drastically ? by @RashOrient64 : The most heart warming comment section ever, some of the most inspiring stories of growth and people who have made it in their own way 📈
https://share.gvine.app/EpFH97nngeJMtL1f6 


3) Comment “Overpaid” and get some gyaan by @salt : @salt does it again with the meme of the week 🥴
https://share.gvine.app/i16Rgyqt2htruBUU6

4) Recruiters are Wylin by @BlandMetal88 : Nothing much to see here folks, the best of Linkedin Cringe continues to be pretty cringy 😬
https://share.gvine.app/MkNJUEDf9Yb5yQc18


5) Where are you working from? by @ElomDusk himself : Top Poll of the Week, almost 76% of the users are either purely working from home or hybrid - I think this might be why we see continued activity on Grapevine 🤣
https://share.gvine.app/UFFRTPKF3M9APbuD9


There’s more, but I’m calling it a week. Feel free to share your best moments in the comments below or add if I ended up missing something major 🙈
Have a great weekend everyone! :)

My Favorite Posts this Week

@Micheal_Scott Petition to build a Readers Digest feature where the best posts of the week are curated by the Grapevine team. 
  
 Hit “❤️” button, if you think it’s a good idea.

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Welcome to News Discussion's Private Community

Hey Folks!

Many of you asked, so we’d immediately started working on it. 2 months have passed since, and Grapevine on Web is finally ready :) 

Here’s the link: https://grapevine.in (grapevine dot in)

Grapevine web can help you: 
- Browse Grapevine while at work on your laptop 😏 
- Write deeper comments and posts from your keyboards ⌨️

We will keep adding more features to the web app. But for now - all the basic things should be working! 

As always, all your feedback is super welcome! 

[Posted from Grapevine Web]

Grapevine now on your Computer

Looks awesome! great work 

-sent from my MAC

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Hello Twitter, this is our biggest launch since the launch of Grapevine itself  Introducing - Salaries on Grapevine!  Everything explained in 90 seconds. Sound On 🔉

Salaries on Grapevine!

Just announced Salaries for everyone out there, with a meme video :)

Yayyy!!!

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