When I was a kid, i do messed up alot with this question always 🥲

Does this happened with you as well?

Software Engineer

Does this happened with you as well?- Grapevine

they/you genuinely wanted to know, not just for the sake of conversation, how did it go ?

i can't remember if that ever happened.....

When was the last time you genuinely asked someone "How are you?" or someone asked you the same?

Senior Software Engineer

Welcome to Indian Startups's Private Community

I'm starting a new company and am assembling a team, in all my previous startups had like 7 people working but now everyone is settled and few have retired coz made too much from the exits so back to assembling a new team :p

As in all my previous startups I paid an average of 40Lpa an 2-3% ESOPs to all the early team they made insane wealth. But now I'm thinking of going lower and meet the realities of the market rather than paying higher why not paying the market rate?

I have been taking multiple interviews and experienced this people consider higher salaries to be a lie they want to earn dirt-cheap salaries and don't trust themselves with what they deserve and in the end ended up mocking me. One of the senior people that I interviewed thought 3lakhs per month was very high no-one pays that much. Same goes for an intern who I decided to pay 1lakh per month thought it's not possible and ghosted me thinking I'm scamming him ( his job was to meet high profile people make connection with different founders by going to parties and events regularly )!

My new startup is not in crypto but in something unique!

What do you'll think should I pay people less as that's what they think they deserve?

Paying higher / lower in Indian Startup scene

Welcome to Office Gossip's Private Community

So i am software engineer working remotely and situated at my hometown (Tier 2) , after signing off day I go to a public park daily except Sunday’s for run there i found a girl who comes to the same park with her dog for max 10 min and then leave i am highly confident she is giving the positive sign that she is interested but i am damn sure she will not initiate . I go there  we have long eye contact none of us utter a word then she leaves . I feel sad daily that i have missed that chance to speak i need help how should i approach her mind you there are other people too have walk in the park

I really want to speak to her and i am that introverted man when it comes girl

How Should I Approach Her 😅

I am a senior software engineer with 6 + yoe mainly into backend (java and golang tech stack).

I am currently serving my notice period with no offer in hand.(my last day is April 30)

I have applied and given interviews to almost 12 companies and failed after clearing 2 or 3 rounds.

I feel that I am losing confidence in my skills when I face such rejection even though I shouldn't.

I feel like whatever answer I give during interviews is wrong and I constantly try to lookup the internet in the middle of interviews in fear of getting rejected.


Even though I know things very well I try to validate it and then mug up whatever is written on the internet and whenever a new question is asked which I haven't seen earlier where I would be required to think , i blank out.


This has never happened to me earlier.. I need some advice on how do I keep confidence in my skill and start solving things on my own.

Looking for advice

Backend Engineer

As a kid, who wasn't extreme ill-mannered, have had my share of beatings 
I think it is ego satisfaction or let out of anger on something you have produced and feel entitled to use as punching bag

But ones who haven't been subjected to those are in a high of their own.
Feels like they were God sent for leveling up Earth

Hence, extremes.
What’s your opinion?

Thoughts on Gentle Parenting?

Consultant

Welcome to IT Company Discussion's Private Community

Hello folks,

A bit of a background about me:
Left a stable core PSU job to join tech consulting services of a consulting-cum-IT firm due to less learning and growth opportunities in PSU

Skip to present:
- Seniors with experience of 2 years or more in the team talk about tasks on a very high-level and distribute interesting tasks among themselves, shutting the door for me to do some interesting stuff
- Seniors are expecting me to perform exceedingly ( due to decent past academic background I guess) without doing much KT sessions and hand-holding.
- Seniors reprimanding me harshly (tbh this feels like bullying) for every tiny mistake and ultimately this is bringing my self confidence to the floor, trapping me in a vicious circle 
- Trying to learn from my mistakes and not to repeat them often, few concepts are tough to understand so I ask them twice or thrice but they always tell me not to ask the same question twice
- In a very sad mental state, rethinking my decision to quit a dignified stable job to serve like a slave for a bigtech client

Would seek your opinions on how I should adapt better or should I even do so?

Fresher feeling bad. Help him.

I reflected back on my L4 Google interviews. Although I made minor mistakes and rectified by myself without additional hints from interviewer, they were looked upon as incapability. I wasn’t even considered for L3, though I solved all the questions with minimal hints with correct DS. Follow ups I was able to solve and discuss the right approach too.
Is this fair ?

Making mistakes is "incapability" according to Google 🫣

Top fired execs at Flipkart

Welcome to Data Scientists's Private Community

An actual dumb thing I said was at my first Data Science interview at a top tech company here in Bangalore. Interviewer asked me about my projects, and me being unpolished, I said that I had done a regression project. So he asked me how did I measure whether the model was "good".

I said that, "The accuracy of the model was high"

Interviewer responded with, "...You know Regression tasks are measured with MAE/MSE/RMSE and not accuracy, right?"

Lmao. You live and you learn. 🤡

Most Uneducated/Dumbest Thing You Have Said In a Data Science Interview?

Software Developer

Does this happen to you'll also, where you forget name/keyword and then it take allot of mental pushing/effort to get back it to your mind.

And the you think am I having a problem? 
is it something that happens to me only or others also? 
Is it natural?

Mind block and forgetting names/key words

Support Specialist

Whenever I see people asking questions in wrong communities, I be like

Welcome to Software Engineers's Private Community

My story -
So I switched to a startup last year. I was initially super excited in solving problems. Asking questions and just being curious about everything in general.
   Then, some incidents of my manager's behavior and team folks has turned me into a person who is so fucking afraid of now asking questions, doing tasks. My stakeholder communication sometimes I miss on, some things that seem to be pretty obvious had I been my competent self of previous organization, I am missing out on.
   I don't communicate well simply because I don't want to face my current manager and team. There's huge disconnect as well. I am not at all excited to work everyday. 
 
My friend was miserable in my previous org but now after switch he's damn happy and doing good!

I want to know if this is something that happens with you all? Or are you all like you fit in everywhere?
Or is it just My problem and my incompetence? Because I am always reminiscing my past org and my performance there was exceptional!

Has anyone ever faced a situation where you perform excellent in some org but not in another?

I might delete this post later but recently I came across a tweet that says the average body count of girls in Mumbai, Pune and Bangalore is more than their age.

So are hookups these common? I myself live in Mumbai and I am 21 year old guy and still virgin and I feel left out seeing the people talking so much about sex online and telling that they are hooking up and all. I want to know who are these people, like most of the girls I know in my friend circle are virgin and they are not looking for hookups, so who are these people having sex and what is the average age of these people because I can't find the age mentioned anywhere. And should I be worried because although I am 6 feet tall and handsome guy and still virgin and single, if yes then please give some advice.

Are hookups these common?

I can’t be be the only one, but I am surrounded by multiple people that just do not believe in async communication. They first send a “hi”, wait for me to acknowledge and then only proceed to tell me what they want. Even if it is something ridiculous like “What is the URL to access this portal?”. 

I generally am very quick with messages and from the last few months, this “hi” business is ticking me off. I decided to do some social experiment and delayed my responses to hi. 

If someone just sends me a “hi”, I schedule a “hi” to 3 hours from then. Result? People would rather sit on blockers than tell me what they want. 

I then tried a decreasing backoff. If you texted me a “hi” once, I’d respond in 3 hours. Repeat it a second time, I’d respond in 4 hours. 5 hours the third time, 6 hours the fourth and so on. 

Results? People would still rather I acknowledge their “hi” than tell me what they want.  

Some anecdotes of how “efficient” communication is:

1. A guy wanted access to a portal that I managed. He pinged me a “hi” every morning for 7 straight days before actually asking me what he wants. 
2. Another person wanted to understand git commands that can be used to solve merge conflicts. But not before pinging “hi” for 4 days, then just pulling me into a call with their manager and their manager pinging me a “hi” when I declined the call. 
3. Another person wanted an update on a ticket I closed 2 years ago. All he wanted was a change request number, which he could find using control + F on the Jira portal. He chose to send “hi”s to multiple team mates of mine when I didn’t respond. 

Ultimately, I started telling people to not just ping and disappear and that they can reach out to me. But I guess old habits die hard and I still receive multiple “hi”s. 

Merko unkin”hi” lag gayi. 

Also, before you scream at me for ranting about such a piddi problem. https://nohello.net/en/ is the thing.

Folks that ping “hi” and disappear

I have a feeling I have become dumb/dumber as the folks around me grasp things much faster ! I am a 33 year old guy and have been having this feeling since last couple of years. 

Anyone else in the same boat and if yes,what could be the reason behind this and potential solutions ?

Feel ‘dumber’ as you age ?

Strategy & Operations

Ever since 9th grade, I watch a football compilation video every time I am about to step on the field to play football. ⚽️🏟️

While I’m tying my shoe laces, the music thumping in my ears with cinematic visuals of the most insane football skills ever. 🤯

All throughout my college days as well, before every football game. I used to carry my headphones with me and watch a video. Emulate some flairs and new skills on the field, score long range goals and Shush the crowd. 🤫

Even today, when that time has long gone by, anytime there is a friendly Sunday match between friends. I’m sure to blast some music and just watch football before playing.

And yes, even today I get the same goosebumps as I step on the field and touch the ball. It’s the best feeling ever.

What about you? What’s the one unexpected habit that has stuck with you ever since you were a kid? 🤔💭

[Thread] What is one unexpected habit that has stuck with you ever since you were a kid?

Product Manager

I am one and I have trouble 
always grew up asking parents, permission, rules 

but some decisions need to be taken on own, even smallest 
but the continuous overthinking complicates it further

Shower thoughts: Do eldest kids have trouble decision making?

These past 6 months my performance at work has been dwindling and one primary reason I attribute is memory loss. I find it difficult to recall key points of mails, design reviews, MoMs etc. and often end up missing out things at assigned tasks. What's scarier is that it not only applies to new concepts, I often find myself forgetting even formerly familiar things. During morning updates and discussions I find myself giving uncertain inputs and asking shaky questions because I find it hard to remember key terms, figures etc. I sometimes even forget to pick up some assigned tasks altogether. Random brain freezes have become everyday affair.
.
Sleep-wise it has been little medium-poor but not so bad that could explain such drastic changes. I'm 30 yr old, male, unmarried and don't have any major health issues (except some stress / anxiety and accompanying Irritable Bowel Syndrome condition).
.
If anyone else experienced this, how have you dealt with it?

Anyone else experiencing memory loss?

Yes everyone experiences this 
 I sometimes forget what I was working on 
 I forget things in short term 
 I don’t know if it’s some kind of coping mechanism 
 The only solution is to write stuff or journal not just personal but work stuff too. 
 I used to have Jira but now I have a piece of notebook with me too giving me the top priority tasks.

Does this happened with you as well?

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