Motivation for fellow non IIT IIM folks

Do VCs also have this underdog spirit? The early-stage VC, take a lot of risk in investing at a pre-revenue startup. How do they scout such founders? What are the key attributes they look for in the early-stage team, which are pre-revenue and have an MVP?

The stupidity and arrogance of some leaders in some companies to use colleges as filter criteria for what is clearly irrelevant for the role. Mostly these idiots end up fucking up company after company creating these neo-casteist groups sucking off and living off each other. This identity based hiring is the start of corporate politics. I still don’t understand how difficult it is for fucking idiots to understand that while hiring for most roles you have to encourage diverse backgrounds at the start of the process to help you hire the right candidate for the long term, specially in a startup. PS I’m not against preferring candidates from certain colleges if it’s relevant. What i do hate is this herd behaviour of trying to hire only from your alumni the moment you are given leadership roles. It must be such shitty experience to work under idiots like these if you are not from their alumni colleges because their biases play into all evaluations they do about their teams.

As the title describes, have been pondering whether staying at one single company makes you an undesirable candidate for hiring or not. This is my first job and have been in Z since the last 2.5 years Tc: 52Lpa

I have been looking at career trajectory of several people from IITs and non-IITs down the line after 14-15yrs. What I found is that most managers, PMs, director are from non-IIT backgrounds? (Or possibly IIT backgrounds but non-CS background) What do these people(IIT-CS) do later? I saw few opening their own startups. But I couldn't find rest. Where did they go? If you know anyone in your network, please put their designation.

Hi, I have been offered a PM role at Paytm. My overall experience is 6 yrs with >2 yrs in Product. The CTC they are offering is 40 LPA which is a 30% hike. In current company culture and wlb is good. If anyone can suggest, Is it lower/higher than market standards and how's the culture and wlb in Paytm Product team?

Came across a scenario multiple times while searching for senior engineer jobs. I felt that in majority of the cases if the interviewer was from IIT, no matter how much experienced they are they always have a particular style of putting you down during coding or system design type of interviews where they have high acceptance to bookish answer rather than having an open mind to other solutions which can be discussed in details and probably has a far more chances of evaluating a candidate on core thinking and logical skills rather. What do you think? Have you also faced similar scenario?

Hey Viners, would like to know your prespective on the situation that if you face a bunch of incompetent colleagues who dont take their work seriously and the manager constantly asks you to maintain quality because of your seniority and you end up cleaning their work, how do you handle it ?