"Starts with a Generic quote"  I used to be an average student......rants about Indian education system......then boasts about how  his life quickly turned around when he started to get calls from ...

"Starts with a Generic quote"

I used to be an average student......*rants about Indian education system*......*then boasts about how  his life quickly turned around when he started to get calls from IIM Dholakpur *


Do you want to know how I achieved that?
(*No genius stfu*)

**Ingests random productivity jargons like pareto principle, rich dick poor dick, the 12pm club, the monk who drowned his ferrari, 69-69-69 rule, STOA karke onsite pakka, Atomic bomb habits etc **

Join me for a masterclass (*pitches his business*)

*Inserts a random picture of them near a cliff , ambitiously watching the sunset*

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Data engineer

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Opportunities are so much more then when I stared. We never flaunted getting a job into a Top company even when options were fewer. What is the need to give average gyan on linkedin for getting a job offer. Open question to Gen Z why are you so desperate for social validation?

GenZ flaunting job offers on LinkedIn as if they won a Olympic gold medals

Data Scientist

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Every second/third post on my feed is promoting some mentorship/coaching. Fed up with it. 

The post starts with some gyaan ( mostly related to interview) and then ends with mentorship or coaching promo. Especially people who cracked interview at amazon and microsoft. And now any random company. Some post has pic too, which is fully unrelated to the post. 

From SDE’s perspective. 
Job at work is different from interview. And i am sure current employees, if they have to go through interview process of the same company for the same position, most of them won’t be able to crack in the first go. ( Unless they know the exact questions to be asked ). 

Coding rounds.
Companies usually have a set of questions (question bank) and interviewer picks question from it. Except for the very exceptional case, it is quite difficult to solve these questions if you haven’t solved them ( or related questions) earlier in the given time. So, it all boils down to how close are you to their question bank. 

So, instead of other things, if linkedin mentors posted about the questions they were asked, that would be more useful. 

To be continued….

[Rant] Linkedin mentors

Software Developer

Hmmm

UX/UI Designer

Presenting your average brainwashed teenager

Software Engineer

17 yr old LinkedIn branding coach sprinkling job search gyaan without having one 🥲🥲🥲

Product Manager

LinkedIn Monday motivation

A perfect foundation of a profitable business in India. Sell hopes, create FOMO, increase competition and be rich. 

All those who wanted to change Education System are very much part of same system now!!! 

[Src Reddit]

How beautiful!

Why not use your FAANG tag and exploit a market of desperate students by selling them big hopes and dreams.

I wish one day LinkedIn goes down and never comes back online.

King of LinkedIn India - accept it

Product Marketing Manager

the whole reason, i don’t have youtube and instagram on my phone.

using youtube on desktop, with scripts that removes the shorts crap.

why these updates are evolving backwards? teams gone shit, outlook gone to shit, and it’s linkedin now.

i guess, thinking and brainstorming is a history now, god bless the AI revolution!

guess its time to abandon linkedin now

Security Analyst

Was having morning chai and realized I should write this somewhere. Not sure if there’s anything to learn here. Just one guy’s story 

Years 0 to 5: Small town child

Was born in Bhubaneshwar, father had a government job. Very average middle class life. Middle class values. 
Parents always wanted me to study hard so I did. Used to be most excited about playing cricket and football very day 

Years 5 to 15: The studious class kid 

We shifted to Jaipur - dad had a transferable job. Took time adjusting to a new school but eventually made some friends. Realised I do not have any music/sports/artistic talent, but I can work hard. So I started working hard on my studies and started being top 10% of my class every year. Maths came easy to me.  I am not in touch with any of my friends from this period but they have all gone on to do good things as I see from their LinkedIn profiles

Years 15 to 22: IIT years  

Worked super freakin hard - gave the JEE and made it to one of the top 7 IITs in the Mech department, soon realised I do not love Mech and there weren’t any jobs as well. Started learning to code and made a few projects. Did an internship at Microsoft and another at a startup from a college alum. Ended up realising becoming an engineer is not my cup of tea long term. Took a hard turn to working on non engineering skills and jobs.   Most importantly made so many friends, had so much fun. These are still some of my best friends and we still meet each other and stay at each other’s houses. 
Picked up a deep obsession with E-Sports (Counter Strike mostly)

Years 22 to 24: First job 

Joined one of the top 10 consulting companies at a good salary. Moved to Mumbai - started wearing suits and living a great life from hotel to hotel. The job was good, but not engaging enough. Decided I should quit. But was scared to do it for 8 months. Started studying for my CAT 

Years 25 to 28: MBA and marriage
 
CAT went sweet. Joined a top MBA school - the most formative years of my life to be honest. Almost close to my last 2 years at college. Met my wife there to whom I got later married at 28. I still keep in touch with a few people from MBA but not as many as I do from college. 

Years 28 to 32: Making it onto Tech

My campus placement happened as a Product Manager at famous tech company in Bangalore where I have been for the last 4 years now. Got a couple promotions. I love my work and its impact. I still sometimes get to play my Counter Strike. 

As I look back on all of life, I guess the most important things I have learnt are to just stay happy and do something useful EVERY DAY. Be diligent, work hard and you’ll get where you want to. Do not stress over it. Just stay in the game. Don’t tire out. 

Anyway. That’s it folks!

Story of my life: Age 0 to Age 32

I know all social media platforms want more engagement anyhow, but some should take care of such mentally agonizing posts via their policies and/or algorithms.

Likes ke liye kuch bhi karega

Software Test - QA

Bro what?

Cybersecurity

At this point the LinkedIn influencers are just making shit up

Welcome to Indian Startups's Private Community

Can someone tell which startup party was this.

Test Engineer

Rant. Chappri Interns and mid af SDEs on LinkedIn have destroyed the entire point of the platform. Every Tier 1 graduate working at Microsoft or Walmart posts their own pic in some Manali hillstation and give 400 lines of unsolicited gyaan, which virgin btech 2nd year students cant help but drool at.

I get it bro/sis, you mugged up 800 LC mediums and Microsoft came to your BITS campus and picked you up because you solved a system design question in the interview which scales infinitely for infinite users. No, i dont want to enroll is PrepCracker's System Design Cohort for just Rs 69,999 and replace Hotstar's CTO.

Folks like Arpit Bhayani and Addy Osmani are the only reason I open linkedin to actually get some ground level reality of how to be a better SWE, but all i see is bhaiyya didi telling me why my resume is not getting selected because i didnt pay Rs. 1,999 for their Topmate Resume Review session.

Due to them Twitter is full of 2nd year dimwits who think swe is the only path to liberation and their bhaiyya didi will be their guiding angel. They won't. They'll turn out just like your average 3.5lpa employee at WITCH. The only way to become a good swe is figure shit out yourself and do what you love. Its that simple. Im from a shit tier 3 college. I've cracked FAANG and that too with 42 lc solved. What DSA bro?

Thankyou to the Grapevine team for building a good platform where genuine watercooler discussions take place. Deleted LinkedIn for good until i get my sanity back.

LinkedIn Gyaanis should be banned

Middle class people are not wrong in thinking that swe is a path to their liberation. I could only afford to travel to these exotic places, take up (unnecessary) hobbies, pursue gym and eat good after earning those fat paychecks because of these overvalued startups paying me

RIP Stoa MBA 😂 founder-cum-content creator strikes back

This guy has 66.5k followers

I heard from someone in the industry that Stoa laid off most of the people and only 7 of them are still there, including 4 of their co founders. The Main reason was that they were not able to provide placements to the members and their experience had turn to shit . What is happening with ed tech , also the sauce is that now they are pivoting into self paced courses following the coursera model. Alternative MBA nahi chal payega India .

Stoa laid off 90 percent of their workforce

MBA (any course for that matter) is a “means-to-an-end” to a good job. If no job no demand of that course . Maybe they weren’t able to screen good candidates. As good candidates go to top B schools. The avg guys didn’t get job as expected and then revolted .  
 Many edtechs tried this model of taking avg students and promising jobs but jobs are hard to come by even for good candidates. Hence their models fails.     
 If education in India has to be improved it has to start at the school education.

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