Startup Mahakumbh, Delhi : Experience Review

There I said it. It sucks. The start is a joke - cause here's the plan - If you spend too much time on intros, and you wasting the so called "interview" time. And then you think I should save it for later, lets focus on the interview. so we move to the stinky middle - the interview part - a web of questions with the obvious non relevant ones in there - and for a fact you will still give a green light to folks by a measure of retention of knowledge, not by knowledge application - cause you give hints to solve the problem sparingly. Here's the fact about your measure of potential - Take away Google and ChatGPT from these managers, and more than half your team would crumble. Wouldn't they use it on everyday job? If yes, then why are you depriving them of it in the interview. You will ego battle them - Not answering most of their questions - cause you are not interviewing - you are an interviewer - and they are the interviewee.. or you will conveniently park the questions for later, until a hiring decision is formally made - so you save your time - I mean cmon! thats your game plan. And the closing: it’s usually a weak handshake or a sign off and a 'We’ll be in touch' OR 'HR will get back to you' CLASSIC. And yet.. you expect the job seekers to buy into their 'mission and vision' and become dedicated team member to "your" team. Seriously? CONVERSATION has a CON in it and you are doing it. + you cant hold it, even if your life depended on it. The only reason the job seeker turned up, and thanked you for your time after the interview - is cause they need a job and were polite. NOTHING ELSE. In a rare case - you really did a good job, and hence the "thank you" Podcast here - https://lnkd.in/gMe6v9hV

- Sarvam AI - $41M (Lightspeed and Peak XV) - Mad Street Den - $67M (Avatar, Peak XV) - Wysa - $25M - Neysa Networks - $20M (Matrix Partners) - Scribble Data - $2.3M (Blume Ventures) - Expertia AI - $1.3M (Chiratae Ventures) - OnFinance - $ 1.1M (Silverneedle Ventures) - Krutrom AI - $50M (Matrix Partners)

I'll go first : 1. Clickup 2. whop 3. Even healthcare 4. Gumroad 5. Polymarket And mention the reason also, if possible. Time to discover some less-known startups 🍿

I know sometimes we refrain from saying too much about our company. But exes can usually be talked about, since there's not much holding back. Maybe it helps someone else avoid a mistake you did, or gain a new learning :p Shoot.

Name some startups which are really good- solving tough problems for India, good workplace policy and perks, founders aren’t d, and have good policies to support employees building our startups (sabbatical policies, financial support etc)

Stupid Ways to make money 💰 that shocked you

I was working as head of data and analytics in Zepto , Swiggy , flipkart now is razorpay. I felt work is of very poorly quality in most Indian startup , no idea of kpi, useless machine learning model , no investment in infrastructure. I think no point in joining any Indian startup as very few founder value data Now I have worked in Walmart and Citibank , core strategic decisions happens in USA and headquarters so Indian office is only pleasing the hq with support work Now analytics service like tiger fractal again work is to do sales bring any work and add to top line Witch company even more shit show So I am delusional and thinking of quitting the data and analytics field or build something of my own Data and Ai in India is just to show off and get investor money and load the pnl without return

What made you stay here instead of moving to Bangalore or Gurgaon?