Could be a by product of the Green Revolution, increased wealth results in upward mobility. As Punjab became the richest per capita state in India, people tend to shift from Agriculture to Services. As probably the first large scale entrants of any Indian sub-group in the private ecosystem, compared to the fascination with govt jobs of the rest of India, it must’ve been a largely underpenetrated opportunity. It’s simple math that if the entry cohort has a large proportion then, most likely senior leaders will be from that sun-demographic on a pure statistical angle.

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Founder

wow after reading this question suddenly I noticed even in my company our MD is a punjabi...

Software Engineer

Interesting question. Maybe Punjabi people just have more leadership qualities 🤔 they’re good in businesses too

Corporate Strategist

Maybe cos they were good at following orders/ toe the line when they were younger, hence have risen to the top

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Oracle, SAP, AWS, GCP, Adobe all have monopoly of Punjabi men as India MD. Microsoft being an exception on the Punjabi aspect. Curious if there is a reason, or coincidence?.

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Why are most MDs of top tech campanies in India, Punjabi Males?

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Basically title, globally what would be the share of Indians working in the BigTech's/MNCs' engg teams..?

In MSFT I feel like I see atleast one or more Indians in every team I come across... May be it's some bias that I only remember the teams with Indians but still feels like indians form the major part of the global tech work force.. have you felt the same..?

How many Indians work in FAANGM's engg teams..?

Hi all,
What are some of the Big Tech companies who have *core* global product teams based out of India? Most roles I can find are for charters that are backend internal systems / non-core product streams / customizations for APAC or India. This is understandable since US alongside being their HQ, is also their largest market commercially by far. But was curious to see if there are any teams within Big Tech that are bucking that trend, and are building core products from India offices too.

Not restricted to FAANG but to Big Tech at large, including Walmart, Target, Stripe, Uber, Adobe etc.

Big Tech based out of India

Investor

What is the future scope of the PM job role...will it still be relevant after 10 years, Is going to IIMs spending close to 25 lakhs in this economy to get into a PM job role justified??
Context: I know many people will say you don't need IIM to break into PM, But considering I'm a 25 Male, from tier 3 college...currently working as a product designer with 8 lpa...so I think the only way to reach 25-30 lpa in hand by 28 is by joining IIMs

Is getting into IIM to get into PM role justified?

I usually don't share LinkedIn content but this one was on point

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I have been working in the Software Industry for the past 9 years. I feel like I have made a good use of my time and money and maybe some of my lessons can help you folks as well. Recently did a calculation for my NW and I am happy and proud to see my NW crossing 2CR+. I have 0 debt and do not own a house. Here is how my portfolio look like

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In July 2002, Google did something crazy:

They hired a 22 year old computer science student and made him the product manager for Gmail.

Gmail engineers were shocked.

Gmail was the most important new project at Google. Its target was 10M users.

And this guy, who was just out of college, would be the PM?

But they were overruled, because Google had a bigger problem:

Product managers.

Google couldn’t find good PMs.

Co-founder Larry Page rejected all the super-experienced PMs from Microsoft, McKinsey, etc.

They talked about management and strategy and business. Larry Page hated this.

He wanted Google PMs to be technical.

Otherwise how would they work with the engineers?

That’s when a Google VP, Marissa Mayer, had an idea:

If we want PMs with technical skills and don’t care about their experience, why don’t we hire computer science students from college?

Thus, the Associate Product Manager (APM) program was born.

Brian Rakowski, a 22-year-old CS grad from Stanford, became the first APM. He was put on the Gmail team.

Brian was scared.

How could he work with super experienced, super senior engineers on a super important project if they didn’t respect him?

Marissa gave him the answer: Data

She explained to Brian that a PM didn’t give orders to engineers. His job was to be helpful to engineers.

If he had an idea, first he should do a small test on 1% of users. If it worked, he should show the test data to the engineers to work on it.

Thus, data became the centre of decisions, not seniority or politics.

The rest is history.

Gmail was a huge success.

APM program was a huge success.

The first APM, Brian, was a huge success. He’s currently the Vice President of Product Management at Google!

Reference : https://www.linkedin.com/posts/shreyans512_in-july-2002-google-did-something-crazy-activity-7192496184895115264-nKXF?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop

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I'm a 4th year Btech CSE student, I want to be a project manager. 
I want to know, can freshers become product/project managers (being from a tech background without an MBA)
 and being a product/ project manager in the tech field do we need to master DSA. 
If freshers can get a job as a product /project manager then what is the right path.

4th year student 🙋: plz assist

Looking to compile a list of a great companies to work for in India for SDEs. The company does not need to have Indian origin.

Some of the criteria to pass to be a great company
1. Good WLB
2. Top tier compensation 
3. Office culture
4. Career growth and visibility 

Let me know what your “best” companies are.

Best companies to work for in India

Lead engineer

Zomato
Swiggy
Myntra
InMobi
Microsoft
Amazon

I have seen a lot of product managers and SDEs targeted from these companies for potential roles at Google. Any thoughts?

Why do Google Recruiters target the following companies?

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Other than FAANG, microsoft , I dont see good product companies wirh high pay in Hyderabad, Can anyone help in sharing list of companies or companies they are aware of,
Im looking to switch to some hyd company from some time now…sharing my list

Amazon
Apple
Google
Goldman sachs
Uber
Microsoft
JP Morgan
Indeed

and I dont find anything after this to apply, as they stop discussing after payroll question.

Hyd product companies

For me it is that sometimes I quote 2x the time it will take for me to code something because I want to test it better and ensure that I don't push code with bugs that affects prod deployment with downtime or unintended behaviour. I can do it faster but I know that PMs don't respect developer time and will ask me to build stuff because they want to get promoted for real.

What is the darkest truth that most engineers don't talk about?

Why does Adobe only hires women for new grads?
They came thrice in my college for placements and hired 30 girls ,10 for mts at package of 44l(18base)
They weren't even the smartest girls,let alone being the smartest in the whole batch.
It's not new, they have been doing this from past 7 -8 yrs in almost all the colleges including old iits .
What's the logic behind this?
A lot of companies like apple ,natwest ,Tesco  do but not in all colleges or not from the past decade

Diversity hiring in adobe

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Cable Installers - 95%
Road Builders - 90%
Construction workers - 90%
Refuse Collectors - 80%
Iron Workers - 95%
Coal Miners - 95%
Electricians - 90%
Firefighters - 85%
Plumbers - 90%
Military - 95%

Percentage of Men in Various Occupations in India.

Why India does not have technology-based product companies and why early companies like TCS, Infosys etc did not focus on the product.

India lacks technology companies.

I have actively hunting remote startups (mostly in Europe that can offer WFH in India as a contractor or full time)
Also looking out for MNCs that offer remote within India


Please extend the list as per your knowledge:

1. Atlassian
2. Twilio
3. Okta
4. Toggl
5. Coinbase
6. Sourcegraph
7. thirdweb
8. Scalable capital

Let's maintain a list of companies which offer remote

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I am from a Tier 1 college and we've our placement season going on. A lot of companies are visiting our campus and we noticed companies are recruiting more girls than boys. Even though they are less skilled. I am not against their empowerment or want to dominate them. I am just being curious over here. Any few findings from HR Dept.?

Companies coming for placement are selecting more Girls than boys this year. Any specific reason ?

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A friend is applying to a US-based unicorn startup. The role is remotely based out of India. First PM from India.

The average SPM salary available online is in $. Comes around $150-250k. No PMs are based in India, and expats are not replying on LinkedIn.  

The PPP comparison makes the average salary in INR go high. Any idea what number could one quote for the role?

Need help in salary

Do we have a list of MNCs which offer stock options? I know only a few- Microsoft, Google, Juniper Networks, VMware; which other MNCs (not startups), have stock options as part of their total compensation?

List of MNCs which have Stock options as part of Compensation?

There are lots of videos and blogs from US PMs, but nothing from Indian PMs. What am I missing?

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