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Product Manager

PM's @astrotalk  Relationshit problem  persona seems not good enough from TAM perspective ,so let's delve to job seekers also. Now you know when you will get hikes and promotion before hand

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PM's @astrotalk - Relationshit problem  persona seems not good enough from TAM perspective ,so let's delve to job seekers also. Now you know when you will get hikes and promotion before hand

Astrotalk delving new persona discovery

Associate Product Manager

Astrotalk delving new persona discovery- Grapevine

AMA: PM with 3.5 YoE , 40L TC , Tier 2 BTech

Senior Product Manager

Welcome to Indian Startups's Private Community

I want to quit my job and take a break. 

I Have been contemplating to do the same for almost an year but decided not to do it. So many things have happened since then

1. Layoff wave started in india
2. Got married
3. Had to move back to bangalore from hometown

Reason I want to quit is I don't feel like working , feeling bored and work doesn't interest me that much. 

I want to take a break chill for a bit but don't have guts to do the same considering market conditions ( what if I don't get a job when I am back in the market😅) 

Please give any advice on how to tackle this situation or if someone has gone through the same, would love to hear your experience. 

Also how is the product hiring currently in India? 

PS:  I do have a good runway for 4-5 months considering all expenses but I am scared to take the step

How is the market currently for product managers?

Test Engineer

Is it wise to resign from current job without any job offer in this market?

This may not be an actual LinkedIn post but still the ad is an extreme cringe 🤣 The app is using current so called influencer trend on LinkedIn to promote their brand. Wish life was this simple 🥹

Wish life was this simple

Analyst

Let's list down all the startups which are hiring.

🧵 thread on - Who's hiring

Quite a lot of employers are posting online claiming to be hiring, but candidates seem to be not getting any response after sending email/DM to that HR who posted. 
  
 I myself have applied to an entry level opening at a very well known and establish vehicles related product company. Literally entry level role with 6 months to 1.5yr YoE (I have 1YoE), yet I've not got any response. And they keep reposting the same opening over and over and over, to the point where I feel they are actually not hiring, but just updating their hiring work quotas as they were lazy AF HRs all through the FY23-24.

Software Engineer

Astrotalk got funding and now they started increasing their team size, and giving good packages to all new hiring and very soon when winter funding come they will start laying down same employees without giving second thought… what your take in it suggest

Astrotalk

Project Manager

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Hey peeps, anybody from Attentive.ai?

Growth Manager

I'm a product manager myself and I've been noticing this mentality.

Founders of pre-PMF stage companies, having raised tons of money in the bull market in a last couple of years, have hired tons of resources with no clarity and vision whatsoever.

They continue to ignore they're building a product nobody wants. They barely talk to users. On top of it, they hire Product Managers thinking it's a silver bullet and will solve PMF issues.

It's founders responsibility to figure out PMF and not anybody's else. You need to get in the weeds and not throw money at problems.

It just doesn't end there. These companies with average talent pool and the kind of culture that sets it top-down because of these average founders, expect PMs to own everything and fix everything. Everybody from Tech to Marketing shrugs off from the responsibility expect PMs to tell what needs to be done. This chutiya mindset of 'sit and wait' until a PM tells let breeds more inefficiency as output becomes slower as nobody is incentivised to think and take decisions. Also, everybody enjoys doing what are being told because no consequences if things blow up.

Hire competent people across functions and get involved in product building. It's already too late to fix it if this resonates with you.

PM roles have made startups with average talent pool more inefficient

Unfortunately this is the reality in most companies in the world. It's not just pre-PMF startups.  
  
 That's just how things are in corporate. 
  
 I was lucky to be working in a pre-PMF startup where engineers took more responsibility. And they themselves planned out the tech debt and optimised APIs/queries, etc.  
  
 And I know I'm not gonna find such set of engineers ever again.  
  
 Best thing to do is to make peace with it and do whatever you can to make the best product 😀

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@BaatMaan shared on one of my posts
You can switch off dating right from the start and keep it strictly professional

Anyone tried this?

#TodayILearned: Bumble has a biz section, to apply to jobs

Consultant

Welcome to IT Company Discussion's Private Community

do we know if we can expect anything this timw?
a decent hike perhaps or any promotions
i saw people getting promoted in May as well
and yest most of us got the same VB from last december.

Accenture talent discussion

Software Developer

Incoming!. Every FAANG PM is thinking about and working on integrating Gen AI into their features. 

This includes PMs and engineers who oversee 1-2 features in the entire product. And will oversell their part in it.

For promotions to job switches these guy have to shout ‘I used a lot of Gen AI to change the world’

And then to sell it on LinkedIn for getting likes.

The PMs will sound like they were just as visionary as Sam Altman who made GPT in the first place. 

And the engineers will sound like they coded GPT and will invent AGI themselves while they just integrate 2 APIs.

You’ve been warned.

Wave of Smug AI PMs and engineers from FAANG

This is not about the PMs. It is the PM directors or the CEOs that want AI AI AI in everything in their company. 

AI makes it easy to get a promotion or get follow on funding

I can see linkedin turning into Facebook in a couple of years lkl.
Remember the time when you could invite a Facebook friend to play a game with you? The same can be done on linkedin now.

PMs out there, what would be the justification you'd give if you had to pitch this feature? Engagement? "Community building?

LinkedIn introducing games

Account Manager

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Hi everyone
I am working for a service based company. my profile is Devops engineer. I have a 1.6 year full stack developer experience . The last 6 months I have been doing work on the cloud. I switched to DevOps profile. I have a  total of 2 YOE and my current pkg is 4.75 CTC. you all know it's time to start for appraisal so how can I  take more hikes and how can I propose ?

How to take the maximum hike this year

DevOps Engineer

Since I am Done-Zo with Dunzo, AMA anything. Here to spill all the scoop that’s happened.

Ex-Dunzo employee. AMA.

I'll go first. I got a call for an APM role from one of the companies which did sound pretty sketchy and the recruiter was started bullying me into answering questions, when I asked to know more about the role. The recruiter was extremely unprofessional, and obviously the conversation was nowhere great. They however, did go ahead and sent me the JD and other links, etc to fill in and apply for the job. Mind you, I hadn't applied for the job. 🥲
It just was a pretty sour conversation which had left me in an uncertain situation. Any similar experiences?

Weird recruiter experiences

Asked for my expected CTC. I answered and they weren't happy with it. Said they could only give at 40% increment of current CTC and then asked for my current CTC. After hearing my current CTC they said I shouldn't be earning this much and that I was obviously making it up. Then asked to send over my salary payslip which I refused. Basically the HR started being extremely rude at this point stating that I was being unprofessional. I asked their salary budget for the role which they refused to answer. Then I asked if they were willing to hire me for a lower CTC which she instantly agreed and said she knew I was reasonable and I shouldn't have lied about my CTC. I then said good luck finding a candidate for that amount and hung up.

Hey there everyone, 

I hope you all are having a wonderful day.

I'll get straight to the point, I've been applying for jobs for last 3 months and i haven't got a single call back or interview calls from anywhere, I've applied to 100 of companies, from entry level job to mid senior level job, I've tried every job portal, I've tried getting referrals, hell I've sent 500+ cold emails, I've also tried tailoring my resume for the role.

Now a little bit about myself:


I'm currently working as a product analyst and have 3 YOE. I did my b.tech from tier 1 college and graduated in 2021.
Right after graduation i got a job with a decent package.

So considering my profile and YOE, it shouldn't be this hard tp get a job or even a call back!!

Can anyone tell me what am i doing wrong?, or anyone care to give any tips.

Ps: why the hell are companies asking for 5-6 YOE for an analyst profile??!!!

Thanks y'all
Cheers

How do i get a job?

Senior Consultant

I was recently approached by a tech company for a growth product manager role. They asked me to prepare a document or presentation for a hypothetical HR Tech company that helps SaaS companies hire candidates using AI-based HR Tech software.

I don't have prior experience working on assignments like this and I'm not sure how to proceed. I have a few ideas about the unique benefits of AI and more.

What are your suggestions? Should I present my ideas in a pitch-like format (PPT) or provide my point of view in a document?

How to proceed with Growth Product Manager assessment?

Hey all,

I have 10 years of experience and currently I am a senior software engineer in 100 years bank.  In the mid year I had a good rating. Before year end i would like to request for a promotion to a Team Lead. What should be the approach to request/ask the manager? Please guide me

Should I Ask my manager

Software Lead

How’s the market situation currently? 
Are you getting enough calls? 
What skills are getting more attention- is it gen-ai, is it cloud, is it full stack ? 
What all needs to be prepped for more than 12++ yrs experience 
How much preparation is needed? 
Are the interviews getting tougher? 
Pls help- I’m under paid, haven’t got hike, bonus, gdp nothing i got and been given stupid reasons and no approvals for leaves also.. 

Simply frustrating and wanting to start preparing for interviews..

Have ppl tried to switch recently ?

Frontend Engineer

Hi Grapeviners, I have ten years of work ex in performance marketing and CRM. I started job search actively from Feb 15 this year and landed first interview today. 

How bad is the market out there. I usually get hired with in 30 job applications, also I apply to the role only if 70% and above role match with my previous experience also use referrals when available.

Also please roast my resume https://stonedmind.tiiny.site/ have redacted wherever necessary to stay anonymous as possible. For the first time in my career I have a doubt that my resume might not be upto the mark

Please let me know your views in the comments. Any help is appreciated.

To land 1 interview it took 60 job applications

Being a tier 3 college grad, It took me 700 applications to get 25 shortlists, and only 7 interview calls. Converted all of them. 
  
 Sometimes you’re just not allowed to participate in the race 🙂

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