You are already doing more than most people reporting to me. xD 
 Just make sure that you are methodical in your approach and keep using MECE (Mutually Exclusive and Collecitvely Exhaustive)

Elaborate on what you mean by methodical?

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I am a consultant with around 2 years of work experience. I find myself spending a lot of time perfecting documents, and ultimately compromising on its overall quality in the stipulated time. Upon ...

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I am a consultant with around 2 years of work experience. I find myself spending a lot of time perfecting documents, and ultimately compromising on its overall quality in the stipulated time. Upon evaluation - I personally see myself spending a lot of time researching and getting the perfect statistic or argument that will make my case. Sometimes, I do it even for sections that are not as important as the main analysis. 
In such a case, what would you advise one to do? 
How do I become more structured with my research and final output?

Time Management

Time Management- Grapevine

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Hey everyone, heading into my first internship this summer, no other work experience  and want to hear from full time employees on the lesser known things that secure the return offer. By this I mean things other than being able to adapt to work, ask questions, not making same mistake over and over - basically the things that aren't talked about but from your perspective really makes huge a difference in your opinion on the intern.

Thanks in advance!

The "Not So Obvious" Things That Get You A Return Offer?

Software Developer

Manager seems to give more work when I complete the assigned task in a short period. Should I do work at the pace of others in the team who work at normal pace or continue with the very fast pace. How to escape this deadlock.

Btw, I try to be fast paced in my work to maintain WLB and have some me time. 


Advise/Opinions please.

Workplace issue !!!

Welcome to Software Engineers's Private Community

I'm a fresher who just joined my company, and I want to take learnings from the experienced folks here on this platform, It would be helpful for any fresher here on this platform. Any kind of advice regarding anything are welcome 🤗

Lessons you've learnt during corporate life

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AMA. Happy to answer anything about the Product. I'm looking forward to it.

Director Product at one of the respectful US based Product company in logistics space. AMA.

Product Manager

Hi everyone, sorry for the rant in advance!

 So I have recently joined as a consultant and got tagged in a project 2 months back. Given that it was a stress period deployment, the pressure at times has been maddening. Besides, I am a fresher from a not so same background, so I often take a little time more than others in a few matters in grasping things. At times, I am scolded by manager for some minor mistakes which I do not complain about as I consider those as learning steps but sometimes it gets me that despite working for more than 12 hours a day ( not even getting to charge that many hours). Not that I am looking for any easy way out but some constructive suggestions would really help. Thanks in advance.

Morale boost

Program Manager

I'm a 2022 graduate working in as an analyst in a service based analytics firm. For the past 1-1.5 we have been getting close to no work from our client (avg. actual work 2hr/day) but I have to fulfill 8 hours and stay late for meetings sometimes. I'm looking for suggestions on how to make better use of my time in office since switching right now is not easy.

No work coming to my team

Business Analyst

Hi fellow client-facing (sales/marketing/BA) folks of Grapevine, I wanted to know how much time is spent in prospect research and some challenges associated with it. 

How important is the data available from the digital footprints of a company/individual, from LinkedIn, Twitter, websites, podcasts, annual reports, blogs, etc? Also, what are the data points you need/seek for, to understand your buyer?

Time-consuming prospect research, or is it just me?

Product Owner

Hi, guys. I just switched to a new role (UX Writing) and its been 14-15 days. I am getting major work FOMO here. Here are two things I am feeling, help me navigate through this? 

1. I am not aligned to a project/account yet. Feeling a bit restless, I feel like reaching out to seniors and teammates and I do. Yet, there’s little clarity on how I will be resourceful to the entire set up. 

2. Brushing up on my skills until formal tasks are allocated to me. However, I learn more on the job, rather than through training. How to make most of the time and resources available?

3. I am not sure if I am overthinking this, but I feel like my role isn’t as well-etched as I first thought it would be.

New Work. Feeling utterly confused.

Social Media Manager

I work in remote mode full time, occasionally visit the office, once in 3 months. My office is located in a different city from where I live in.

The work I do is challenging and interesting, but I manage to complete my tasks by working for max 4-5 hours a day. Remaining time of the day, I get distracted, not with household duties but by doing research on random stuff. I want start a company, but I have no idea where to start. I consume a lot of information, yet most of the time I spend goes unproductive. By nature, I am very unorganized. 

Most of my friends are busy in their own world and I don’t want to disturb them seeking advice.

Any idea how I can get over this habit to make productive use of my time, while WFH?

Distracted with WFH setup. Seeking ideas to be more productive.

Software Architect

Hello folks,

I am facing a time management hurdle. I am doing a full time job which takes 9 hrs of my time. Office days you can make it 10. I am also prepping for my GMAT and aiming for a good score (already cancelled my previous 700 in older format, aiming for a 715+ in new GMAT FE). I have gained a bit of weight and BMI is slid into overweight by a narrow margin (83.5 kgs and 181 cms). I am also learning a few things related to my current job to upgrade myself.

So I need to balance: job, prep, health and learning, all seeming mandatory at this point.

I work 2PM - 11PM, have househelp for cleaning and a cook for cooking.

People who have done this before, how did you manage? I am finding it extremely difficult. In theory, it looks easy as there are 24 hrs you know it's not the case. Between all the things I need to catch small breaks as well.

Need advise.

Finding it difficult to manage time

Just for better mental health. Because like sometimes managers or similarly ranked people, would make it seem like everything is important and needs to be done by xyz timeline. Have u tried to not take it seriously? How did it turn out for u?

Has anyone tried taking a serious task at work less seriously?

With my small experiences in the past, I haven't seen a good Startup with WLB for SDEs (0-3)yoe.

I want to know whether you work in a startup where there's WLB.

I understand that more work means more learning but I do not agree with this every time. There are way more SDEs working in very very small startups who have humongous learning with a pinch of money they are being paid.


For me WLB means enough time to relax and spend time with my loved ones and also less mental stress.

I have observed that the Leads/Managers will give any features no matter how complex they are, need to be built with 0 to no help specially for SDE-1 people.

And later they are blamed and scolded or they're put in PIP and ultimately thrown out.

What is your experience?

Are there any startups where WLB exists or it's just all about money and doesn't matter even if the employee is no more?

Welcome to Indian Startups's Private Community

I'm working at HeyCoach, which is an EdTech startup where we get to work directly on many big projects. As we work on these big projects directly, we spend a significant amount of time on research before starting. I think this affects the delivery time of the project.

How can I work more smartly to reduce research time and still deliver the desired results efficiently?

At HeyCoach, We Believe in New Opportunities

Yesterday I completed 10 years of career in consulting. Started with a Big 4 and then moved to another consulting giant Accenture Strategy 2 years ago. In this tenure ,I have met a lot of talented people, worked with some of the smartest ones and travelled the world like anything.  Now looking for the next 10 years of better work life balance :P .

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New Work. Utterly Confused.

Hi 
Wanted an opinion on how do you all tackle the assignment bit when it comes to assignments as part of hiring processes. One, how regular or normal is it at senior positions ? And two, I feel that a lot of times they just ask you to do everything that is expected of the job. Eg: Create a marketing strategy after analyzing landscape and top 3 competitors. Add graphs etc.
I always have a concern of getting most out of you. Since its at round 1 they would be getting multiple such assignments, which means by design lpt of this work will be a waste and lots of inputs freely sourced.
How do you all handle it ? Can you push back ?
P.S: Am from business/ marketing aide of things and not sure of how it works for techies/ product.

Assignments as a part of interview process

Brand Marketing Manager

I think the current phase in my life is the lowest I am already PIPed by swiggy and I have broken up with my gf.

Feeling like my life has reached the end. Can't sleep at all specially after the break up. Now I regret for blocking her atleast I should have waited until getting into some company. But now I don't want to go to her due to some personal reasons.

It feel sucks. I am not able to focus on interview preparation. I am not in depression but my mental health is shit right now and gets headache daily.
Please help me shall I consult some doctor for this or is this okay. I don't have much friends that's why I am asking here

I genuinely need help

Sorry for posting here. Can anyone help me

Sorry to hear what you're going through. It may sound cringe but praying to god helped me during my tough times. 
 Talk to your parents and siblings if you're on good terms. If nothing helps talk to a psychologist. 
 I may get flack for saying this, but right now you have a much bigger problem to deal with, i.e. PIP. Start preparing for interviews during weekends and try to finish your office work diligently.  
  
 As for your relationship, no one here knows how serious you were about it. If both of you hadn't considered making it long term, I would say it's better to keep things the way they are right now. I had a pretty bad breakup few years back, but now when I look back, all I can do is laugh about the fact that,  I was head over heals for such a shitty person. 
  
 It's my suggestion and I might be completely wrong and being a d*ck here. You have to decide what's utmost important to you write now. 
  
 Prioritize your physical and emotional well-being, then your work, and then someone else. Wish you all the best.

They have no life
They have nowhere to go
They have no one to be with
They have no passions outside work either

And they make your life hell as they become the baseline for comparison for all sorts of management from appraisal to work distribution.

Feel free to disagree with me, but I’m genuinely pissed today. How do you deal with them? I have a decent life outside work but lose most of it while trying to catchup to such people so that I don’t get fired.

Sorry for the title.

How the F do I deal with overworkers?

I'm also like this brother. But why I work like this? 
 I come from a small village in India . Haven't got proper education or exposure. Not born with silver spoon and this is the only way to feed our family. We too have emotions like you, but sacrificing everything for our future and family. I strongly disagree with @Elon_Musk. Usually, only people who don't work hard do like that.

Product Designer

feeling like I am literally in the worst phase of my life. Our company is taking ownership of an abroad project and those abroad folks are not supportive or even if they support us then they give little information so that we can't take ownership. so we freshers have to figure out everything, and now even after figuring out, my manager and higher management asks me anything with respect to the product(features, deployment, anything literally- it's a big & complex project) even though I am a fresher and don't even have the proper knowledge and then ask us to explain to them what we know, and it's literally frustrating to explain to every single guy every single time. Because the manager asks to prepare to explain to him and then to the higher manager and then whenever something is there they keep asking again and again to give a presentation or our ideas about it, but they don't even ask abroad folks when they are the one who is doing the work. I just feel like I can't keep up with this and I want to resign. How to say no to the manager for doing a particular work again and again or should I resign because I am feeling very low right now and still after 1 year it looks like I have wasted the time because I got to write code for maybe 5% and 90-95% feels like college presentation. Every time there's something and they ask the same thing 3-4 times, sometimes it would be give the x info or then y info and like this only  and because of that i can't do the real work or work on new features because the Indian manager and higher officials keep giving extra work which they should ask from US folks. What should I do please suggest

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