I'll start. Got admission into an MBA college after UG (Engineering). A bunch of us were hanging out with our Humanities professor (Public Policy) and discussing next steps in our career. One of my close friends mentions to the professor that I got placed in the MBA college and plan to go there. He said, "Oh really! My condolences" and everyone laughed for a good 10-15 mins. 
 P.S: I didn't go there

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What's the most savage insult (of recent memory) that you gave / received after which you were lowkey proud of your wit (or embarrassed) ?

What's the most savage insult (of recent memory) that you gave / received after which you were low-key proud of your wit (or embarrassed) ?

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I woke up and chose Violence today!

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Sometimes trying to prove that you are the best is an insult. Did that happen to anyone recently? 😔

Situations you can't avoid

This is not specific to Software Engineer, but in general, what was the piece of work that you contributed to directly/indirectly. Also were you appreciated/recognised for the same?

PS - Go wild! Brag your heart out.😅

Biggest achievement you achieved at work

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PhonePe crosses PayTM in terms of MAU

GooglePay ke interview mein I told them that unlike in GooglePay the money getting stuck issue doesn’t come in PhonePe so that’s a great area of improvement. They took it to their heart and didn’t select me 😂

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Keep it clean guys, I don't wanted to get banned after 27k 😏

What's the best 'That's what she said' joke you have heard?

For me its "I never asked you to do it" and "your emotions are a big turnoff"

What is the worst thing the opposite gender has ever said to you?

Data engineer

What’s something you did as a teen that still makes you cringe?

So basically I don't hesitate in challenging the interviewer if I feel like they don't know how to interview a senior candidate

so during many interviews, this is how I have caught them off guard:

1. The interviewer was asking me technical questions and expecting to explain properly throughout. So at the end i asked him about the tech stack they use, he said Azure. I asked him why they use Azure and not AWS, to which he said "it's cheaper", i didn't let it go, i asked him for a proper technical explanation, his red face was worth seeing.

2. The interview asked me a hard DSA question, and I wasn't able to solve it properly, he didn't even give me enough hints, just expected me to solve it. So halfway I asked him, would you like to solve a DSA if I ask you right now, he said no because it's not his interview. To which I asked, are you afraid that you won't be able to solve? If you are going to reject me for not solving this question, would you resign if you aren't able to solve the question. He ended the call.

3. One interviewer was asking me absurd technical detailed questions. I asked him why are you asking such questions, he said he needs to know my thought process because he will work with me. I started asking him similar questions, he said he won't answer because it's not his interview. I said I also need to know your thought process because we'll work together, so you should also answer these questions, he had no reply.

4. The interviewer asked me about a challenging project that I had done recently. I don't like this question at all. So I said there wasn't any challenging project because I'm good at what I do so it's always easy for me. He moved on to the next question.

5. HR asked me why I resigned without an offer? I asked if it's mandatory? No reply.

Having some fun with the interviewers

Not sure whether this is something to tom-tom about. Talks more about the quality of interviewer & the approach taken by the person.   
  
 To be honest, they're well within their right to ask you a tough question and/or to test your thought process, that's their job. If you get so easily offended, you're probably not going to fit in, in the long term.  
  
 I'm sure there are better ways to communicate that the interviewer is asking you a lame question or there's insufficient information.  
  
 Honestly, I take tons of interviews, an hour spent interviewing is an hour spent not doing actual work and drop in productivity. Doubt if senior people would ever do this to waste 'their' time... (Forget yours). Sensible people wouldn't.  
  
 No offense, but with so many interviews going this way, maybe time to point the mirror the other way...

What's the worst thing your boss said to you

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What's your most embarrassing moment in your office

Was sharing screen for internal call when I zoned out and started texting my girlfriend on screen

Chief of Staff

I am a fresher 2023 graduate and have been doing this (applying for jobs) for almost a year, everyone said you have to do internships as it is necessary so did 2 internships one for a year and another for 6 months but apparently no one counts internships as experience even jobs that had 1-3 yoe as requirement and now everyone's hiring 2024 grads as freshers (I tried to look for another internship but there were none during the time of placements).

I am now tired of this field, many full stack devs don't know shit outside Javascript world and many of them can't even use tools like git properly and are so cocky of themselves. 

Saw an SDE on twitter who apparently has 6 years of experience, doesn't even know how to configure multiple SSH and says managing multiple ssh is a downside. A women dev (cause in India you have engineers and female engineers apparently) doesn't know about sidebar cache and calls it a bug and she's in google. and If I try to roast these people with my real name there's a whole cabal of Banglorians who will grab their macbooks inside third wave coffee and start tweeting against me after aggressively drinking their Chocolate mocha frappe.

Just go into any random tech twitter space no one seems to be talking about tech it's always about DSA, interviews, LIFE IN BANGLORE, which cafe they visited.

I let myself believe tech was my passion and worked hard  for but Indian techies and companies are worst, this generation thinks they are better than their predecessor but follow the same politics everywhere even when it comes to Tech communities (who tf does politics in a community that produces open source code wtf).

They talk about networking and creating a community all the time but can't even respond to linkedin cold dm and blame the sender by nitpicking about the format 👏👏 and then they'll go on post the screenshot and rant how it's the sender fault to even try to network with them with a message that isn't written from their own blood.

Tech rant

Bangalore tech scene is weird man. I feel even the auto driver knows how to code and the third wave barista is definitely doing leetcode because that coffee & sandwich clearly don't take 15 minutes to make

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What's the most embarrassing thing that has happened to you in office

I met one of my college friends yesterday at a bar. She got married last year and was laying down the struggle of finding a new job. 

Now, apparently in many interviews when she reached the final few rounds, the HR or the Hiring Manager enquires about marital status and whether she has any children. 

When she mentions that she recently got married and that she does not have any kids, the company stops responding to her. 

She elaborated that although they might have found another fit for the role but she is a T-1 grad who did her Masters from an Ivy League college and has worked for 4-5 years in both NA+EMEA and India.

It is becoming more apparent to her that, HRs and Hiring Managers have a strong bias because they are definitely presuming that since she recently got married and will likely have a child soon, that she will use up her maternity privileges leading to significant productivity drop. Meaning, that the company will likely have to hire someone else to make up for productivity loss.

She does not plan to have kids for another 3-4 years but getting married is proving really hard for her. 
Especially in the Series B+ startups that she is applying to.

[Thread] Have you ever witnessed someone get discriminated against at work? Why do you think happened?

All these issues root from this being an employer market. We won’t see this as much in good times.

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Applicable to situations apart from being friendly/flirting too.

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Doesn’t change the fact that HR is a bunch of obnoxious and cringeworthy folks. For the most part.

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