This is my company Ideas2It here in chennai. Unfortunately I have been in this company for only 2 years now so no car for me

Ah, no worries. Stick around a few more years and you'll get one too it seems 😄

Product Owner

Software Engineer

Consultant

Recruiter

Great gesture.. needs big heart to do this

"We don't hunt for IIT, instead we hire software tech Engineering grads from Tier2& 3 cities, modest backgrounds"  Any employees here by any chance?  https://www.wionews.com/businesseconomy/indiate...

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"We don't hunt for #IIT, instead we hire #software #tech #Engineering grads from Tier-2& 3 cities, modest backgrounds"

Any employees here by any chance?

https://www.wionews.com/business-economy/india-tech-firm-valued-at-100mn-gives-away-33pc-ownership-to-staff-675944

Motivation for fellow non IIT IIM folks

Motivation for fellow non IIT IIM folks- Grapevine

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?

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Generalist

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.

Idiots hiring! Pocketfm edition

This is pretty common, has been like that for ages. It’s their company and their rules. You also have the freedom to NOT apply. Maybe they have had better experiences with candidates from top tier universities. Remember getting into most tier 1 colleges is itself difficult and only top talent make it. Also get better academic infrastructure, exposure to alumni networks, etc. So there are high chances they will do well. 
  
 Doesn’t mean that candidates from non-tier1 universities can’t excel. Some can be equally good or even better. Maybe these guys don’t want to take a chance with this role.

Product Designer

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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

Switching companies vs. staying in one company

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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.

Where do IITians go after 15yrs?

Diversity split is still sad though, less than 10% female founders

Inc42 has found that over 60% of Indian soonicorn founders do not hail from IITs, and over 77% had a non-IIM background.

Now, Non-IIT, IIM Graduates At The Helm Of Indian Unicorns' Growth Story

Times are a changing

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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?

PM role at Paytm

Product Manager

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?

Why do many IITians do dick measuring contest during interviews?

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 ?

Few Incompetent colleagues

Create a toxic work environment for them that they leave themselves ☺️

Corporate Strategist

Is IIT IIM tag worth it? I hear it works in the matrimony market if not in the job market

Can someone give me a sense of salary for Principal at a leading VC fund based in Mumbai? Just for ref - 15+ years of experience.

Sales

I have been interviewed with lots of companies. I have lots of Engineering Manager in my LinkedIn connections. I don't see a single manager from IITs? Where the fuck did they all go? Tens of thousands of them in past 20 years and I don't see a single one. I know they started with big techs but what happened to them. I know there are IITians running big schools like MIT, Berkley, Harvard, CMU. But these are academics. What happened to the techies and core devs? Do you know anyone?

Why are all Engg Manager non-IITS?

I have been unemployed for the past 6 months and have been rejected in a dozen of interviews. How can i get my confidence back?

Unemployed and Depressed

Senior Product Manager

https://entrackr.com/2023/09/rario-burns-through-120-mn-in-15-months-future-looks-uncertain/

Tell me no corruption was involved in this ;)

120 million USD gone in 15 months

Burnt through 60-70 crores per month (average) with 70 employees. Put the best combustion engines to shame.

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