Anuj Rathi living an intern life 🫠

Not Lenny. I'm asking about leaders actively working in India. Let's give them the acknowledgment they deserve. Please mention any product person you admire even if they are not 'LinkedIn famous',

Saw Anuj Rathi in Lenny s Podcast! Man was brilliant, very methodical, modest,sharp! How is he on real life to work with? Is he unique Product leader or yet another muggu of multiple Product frameworks? Who are some other good Product leaders in India you have enjoyed working for?

Have worked in edtech, crypto and fintech, been through layoff (as an intern 😀), got multiple offers within 10 days of being laid off, got the PPO denied from one while got the PPO from the other. Have seen founders with half a billion of funding boast about their culture and seen them layoff 120 folks the very next month. Yes, its nothing compared to what the very well experienced folks on this platform have seen and experienced and gone through, but it's honest work :) So ask me anything 😀

TLDR; Had a data science intern join our team. His resume was really impressive, good academic record, had a couple of research internship (NUS, IIT), 4 papers in journals etc. His interview was just okay, but we probably got biased by his resume which looked stellar. This guy didn’t know very basic python programming. We gave him basic task of converting a image dataset from one format to another(very first step of developing ML model). Took a week, constantly badgered all the team members, would just randomly copy code from ChatGPT, and if it won’t work, would ask us to solve it for him. Didn’t figure it out in a week, and at the end of week, we arranged a meeting with him about the update of work. Turns out, he didn’t even understand the task clearly. But we didn’t mind him, as it was his first week and we cut him some slack. The next week, I understood that he struggled in programming so gave him very basic task. He just had to figure out a command line program. Took two days, gave the result without any documentation, and the very next day he asked whether he would get the credit of his work and that it would account for his decision to full time conversion. Then he started taking a leave, EVERY WEEK. We used to have scrum call at 10AM, this guy wakes up at 10:30AM, and tells that he slept late and would come to office by 11AM( we had work from office policy), and he would come around 11:30AM. Would slack at work the entire day, give him some basic task, would keep asking silly doubts, copy paste code from ChatGPT and ask us to solve the bugs. Come to office without taking bath, no professionalism at all. One day I scolded him a lot, to come at time, learn some professionalism( if he doesn’t have good skills, atleast a humble attitude and professionalism should be there), but dude had no effect, comes at 12PM the very next day, missing the scrum call again. Was scolded many times, but didn’t have effect on him. 50k/per month stipend, completely wasted.

Very curious on understanding this from Grapevine. Really wish to understand how do you all think about managing funds.

What did you do with your first salary?

So many folks are speaking out (or bragging who knows🤷) about their monthly/yearly paychecks. Just curious, for all single folks who are receiving a hefty wad of cash every month: 1. what do your general expenses look like? 2. what do you like to spend it on the most? Here's my monthly breakdown(jab hum employed hua karte the🥲): rent(coliving PG)- 12k transport- avg. 1.5k food- avg 7k gym & stuff- 7k parties- 5k misc- 2k TOTAL- 34.5k out of 80k in-hand Apart from the general expenses, once in a while, I'll indulge in buying a good perfume of around 5-6k. The 2 most costly purchases I made were a new laptop(asus vivobook)- 50k & prs electric guitar & accessories- 82k What about you?

After LinkedIn introduced laugh react this platform has became a meme sharing platform instead of profesional knowledge sharing platform. Saw this post today where AAP is hiring for interns, which is normal as all political parties need tech support. But due to their CM recent arrest everyone is commenting irrelevant jokes on that thread instead of sharing it actual needy connections.

Recently gave an interview at Jupiter Money for Senior PM role: 1. There is an exploratory call to judge the fit - experience, skill and culture wise. 2. I was told there will be 3-4 rounds of interview and after that they will decide based on cumulative feedback of all the rounds 3. My first 2 rounds were scheduled - product sense and product strategy rounds. 4. First, The round got scheduled thrice. 5. I finally did my product sense round and to me it was one of the the best case study interview I gave. To the proof I also have complete documentation of the live case study I solved and also showed that to few senior product leaders in the industry. They also validated that that it was really well solved. 6. Next day I was told my round didn’t go as well and they are even cancelling the other rounds. There was no precise feedback which is anyway not expected. I communicated that according to the process I was told that all the rounds would happen and then a decision would be taken. 7. They ridiculed that. To me it was the case of strong personal bias where interviewer preferred other candidates because of his alumni or for other reasons or strongly did not like me. To avoid personal biases usually organisations do parallel rounds at senior level and take a decision based on cumulative feedback. In hindsight, it’s good it didn’t happen. Better to join a merit based organisation then biased and politics led.