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What’s the most important career advice you’ve ever received? It could be anything, an advice from your colleague, a lesson you learnt the hard way, or a piece of wisdom that changed your perspective! 🌟🌟

Pov : A Corporate employee

Hey everyone, I wanted to know if any of you have bagged remote ML/DL jobs from the US and are working in India. What tips could you give me so I can bag it myself as well? How do you find those openings? Cold messaging founders? and how is your experience working at a different timezone. Things I know that will help: 1. Good online presence 2. Good experience in Startups + MNCs 3. Openings on y combinator, wellfound etc? Current TC: MLE-1 22 CTC (18L + 4l esops) Yoe: 9M Intern experience (2Y)

I writing my thoughts about me(26 years) , I am web developer with 3.5 years right working at Amazon as web developer contract employee ending in Dec , looking for full times roles to join right now , I from a petroleum engineering background (2019 passed out ) later learnt software engineer frontend mostly from my brother's help & through online resources built personal projected ,started career in 2020 by joining a MNC as contractor developer worked there 4 months in 2020, then joined another startup their for 3 months , then 8 months at a startup , then 1 year 8 months at us startup but had a layoff in Feb , then joined Amazon contract through a referal( current CTC 12LPA). Not sure where will I work next ? Sometimes I feel lost & have imposter sendrome like in close to 4 years what have I learnt & excelled?when will I earn more ? But I have a many ambitious like built my own startup , write articles and earn, travel for treking , become fit, become a indie hacker , speak at conference internationally as well, work at top startups & innovate things? Not sure how to plan things & grow in my career ? Maybe 1 or 2years before marriage ? Not sure how I plan to have a stable job and grow in my career with better salary before marriage?

Is that the case or I might be wrong?

Hey folks, Happy friday! What this post is: a place to hang around and chat just about anything - without having a specific topic to discuss. Think of it like the watercooler at your office. Look forward to hearing from you all :)

There are already too many players in the fashion industry. Every brand tries to put out unique designs on their T-shirts, hoodies, etc. Will it make sense to start another such business? Maybe not from the perspective of building a big brand, but just making money. Watching shark tank has made me realise that if you spend significant amount on marketing, you can get sales.

TLDR; Did B.Tech in ECE from a tier 3 college. In college, explored different avenues and finally found deep learning and computer vision to be the most interesting. Did lots of projects, research paper etc. However, being from a tier 3 college, making a career in this domain wasn’t easy. Graduated in 2020, joined a startup as an intern with a stipend of 35k per month. 6 months later, the internship didn’t convert, although I worked really hard and my manager liked my work. Joined another startup with a salary of 6.5LPA. Although I had better offers, I decided to go with this one ad they were providing WFH (it was peak covid time). A few months into this startup, I realised the founder had no goal, no vision, was given random vague projects, founders would pick up any project that their client would somehow talk about, assign it to me without doing any market research, and few months later scratch that. I realised, there was no future here, and for no reason, one of the founder kept micromanaging me (although the colleagues and seniors were great). And by that time, I also realised I was severely underpaid, as one of my close friend, who was a year junior to me was paid higher. I decided to leave that place, during a time of mass resignations in 2022 (the founders did try to retain me, but I was adamant as I didn’t see any vision and founder was too rigid to listen to anyone). I worked there for 1.3 years, at the same salary. Later on in August 2022, I joined a series C funded startup, with a base pay of 14.5LPA, at nearly 2 YOE. While the hike was well above 120%, in some time I realised that this was the salary that they paid to IIT campus hires. Felt a little demotivated, Also, the culture here isn’t exactly good and sometimes gets quite toxic. However, I kept commited to my work, and come March 2023, I got a 10% appraisal, for which the VP personally had a conversation, I conveyed that I had higher expectations considering I joined at lower pay (1/n)

Hi All, I am thinking of starting up in a space that in very passionate about and feel I have a unique insight. I also have a cofounder who I know from a long time from college when we studied comp science What are some common pitfalls to avoid at the early stage of an startup?

We have heard so many times that it's difficult to beat the index and people should stick to investing in index mutual funds. Well I've been doing SIP in selected non-index funds for past 4-5 years and surprised to that I'm comfortably beating nifty 50 benchmark. How are your gains looking and how long have you been investing?