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Welcome to Office Gossip's Private Community

Check what my friend sent me on Instagram. 😂

Have you ever seen an "Intern Rocks, Boss shocked" moment at work?

Product Manager

Hello, Friday is here and so is one pick of mine to read as we get ready for the weekend. This is one of the lists I like to refer to every now and then.

https://blog.samaltman.com/how-to-be-successful

Please share thoughts. Share your read for the weekend too!

Weekend musings - edition #2

Growth manager

And it's a bad thingggg, she says. I mean, if I dont have anything to say, I won't say it. I'd rather add value. I've always been the quiet one even during college clubs etc. Honestly tho I'm really not. I have things to say but man they honestly are dumb things.
And the thing is? Most people talk about party n stuff and and I'm not a person who does small talks easily, especially online.

Am I really wrong here? It's my first job. Educate me

So apparently my manager thinks that I don't speak too much.

Account manager

Welcome to Moving Abroad's Private Community

Is it a good place to move to? The job opportunities seem bleak. Are there any good job search engines I can check?

How’s Canada

Marketing manager

Imagine someone approached you and proposed this: they have an insurance policy for a car, but, you get to pay the lowest premium in the market. So you ask how, and they say, that this will cover your great grand child's first car, and you just have to pay premium until the child's born.

Will you buy this insurance, now? No?

Then why are you paying premium for an insurance policy that is supposed to cover your 'soul' once you are in your afterlife?

"Religions are multilevel marketing companies selling insurance for the afterlife"

Why are you taking this insurance policy?

Software Developer

Welcome to Indian Startups's Private Community

A lot of folks working at startups seem to be "passionate " about their job. Some of them possibly, truly are. Some foolishly reverse engineer this passion because they're paid really well and they've been doing a good job and it's good personal PR to say "passion".  A few reality checks.

1. Your cool Bangalore lifestyle is a result of investment risks/bets taken by VC's .

2. Your salary is as much about the market demand as it is about your " passion " and talent.

3. Startups will generally lower the bar for hiring processes to meet their demand for talent. Why need so much talent? Because the startup  needs to spend that 100M$ Series C that just made them a unicorn. That's how they convince the VC to give more money. "We are going to 2x revenue by 2xing our salesforce and buying 10M$ worth of Saas that will increase our productivity by 5x. " And boom ...100M$ transferred into you SVB bank account.

4. You are as replaceable as a garbage bag on your dustbin. The HR is probably flirting with 10 other like you over linkedin.


5. The "values" this startup apparently espouses are mostly nothing but a honey trap and positioning to lure talent.

It's great to have a nice tech job that pays well and allows you to gloat on twitter like a techbro but don't let it fool you into getting an inflated sense of entitlement. You're probably living on borrowed time....and money. :)

" Passionate " Startup folks

You Are The Average Of The Five People You Spend The Most Time With
or There's also the "show me your friends and I'll show you your future" derivative.

And I don't have friends who share my vision in life. They are great friends, no doubt.
Female friends have married, left work or working in one company for stability. 
Male friends are working but not ambitious on money (nothing wrong, it is just how I view it)

I'm not unhappy, but I would appreciate being surrounded by people who have the zeal to make life bet.ter

Friendships after an age

Consultant

Welcome to Software Engineers's Private Community

Bcz of the outburst of ai I feel there are a lot of data scientist/machine learning engineer/data engineer roles in the market and sde roles have bcz very scarce with 1000s of applications
Should ppl shift to these roles from sde ?

Sde has less opening compared to ds/mle/de roles

Data scientist

Welcome to Product Managers's Private Community

Saw a college chick that was a big proponent of "smashing capitalism" and installing a marxist/communist system. It got me thinking why do people hate capitalism? First thing that's interesting is that people don't know what capitalism is. Discuss what it is, as it seems to be hotly debated on its beginning, etc.

To start, the Wikipedia page is wrong on the definition of capitalism. It describes it through the lens of Marxism and calls it an economic system.

Capitalism more so resembles a social system based on individual rights.

The economic system under capitalism that advocates for private industry and production, would be the free market economy. 

Adam Smith described capitalism using the emergence of the division of labor:
"Every man thus lives by exchanging, or becomes in some measure a merchant, and the society itself grows to be what is properly a commercial society. "

The people who understand the practicality of life, know they must develop some ability to produce something that may lead to a valuable and exchangeable surplus that can be traded on the market.

Capitalism is social and natural while the economic system must be reflected in the private and individual institutions that allow for the free exchange of goods.

Why do people hate capitalism?

What Is Capitalism, When Did It Start, Or Is It Natural?

why do you believe in some higher power ?

People believe God exists because they need someone to blame for their own failures/incompetencies

Senior software engineer

I have 8 years of total work experience, graduated from a Tier I college. I still feel lost as to what future holds. Kickass & genuine advises on professional, personal fronts are most welcome. I am sure a lot of folks could relate.

I am into Product Management. Any sincere advises please for the career ahead?

If you ask me, the purpose of life has to be more than climbing a self-constructed ladder. 

Like, it has to be more than a 3BHK in a metro, with two kids, a car and a prestigious job at a faceless corporation, 2 weeks of vacation and a movie on the weekend.

Isn’t this weird that, we all continue to fool ourselves? 

When you know nothing matters the universe is yours, and I've never met a universe that was into it. The universe is an animal, it grazes on the ordinary. It creates infinite idiots just to eat them. 

You know? Smart people get a chance to climb on top and take reality for a ride but it'll never stop trying to throw you. And eventually it will, there's no other way off

- Rick, Rick and Morty.

[Thread] What is according to you makes life worth living?

Welcome to Business Roles's Private Community

Context: Worked at a boutique consulting firm this summer and loved it, especially my team and my manager who was very empathetic and caring. Received a PPO.

Problem: Given family financial circumstances (primarily) I had to think beyond my interests and hence sat for placements and received a placement from a much bigger consulting company. I now feel super guilty and do not know what to do. I eventually want to come back to the boutique firm as it specialises in a niche I care about (once family issues sorted).

Question: Is it wise to be fully upfront, first tell my side of the story to my manager asap and reject PPO politely? If not, what is a good way to do it?

TL:DR - How to reject a PPO after accepting it?

Any honest opinion and advice would be highly appreciated. I understand I have put myself in this complicated situation.

Need advice! (PPO + Placement)

I know it’s a very common question, and impossible to know or answer.
But curious how you folks here rationalize the meaning of life.

Add your age if that’s okay, for good measure

For me: I’m 27, my life’s purpose (or so I think) is to build something that helps a whole lot of people have a better life. And it is to make the people around me - family, friends, strangers happier (the scale of which depends on how successfully I pull this off).

Whats yours? Would love to engage on this :)

Thread: What do you feel is your life’s purpose?

Corporate Strategist

Since early childhood all I talked, watched and read was Technology. When I got home from school, I worked on C++ and built games by modelling physics, collisions etc. I frequented a ton of online forums for WebGL and other archaic tech that most of you don't even know about.

I knew all about the Silicon Valley, the stories and legends. I learned all about the history of technology and used to work deeply with my father with transistors, ECU/ECMs etc during weekends. 

I thought I knew it all. I thought I was the deal. I remember schooling folks about all of this, making them realise they are dumb as hell. I remember when I stepped into my MS in CS program and attended a club meeting, I realized that I was just like everybody else.

They were all the same as me in hindsight. They knew the same things and lived and breathed the same passion. I knew I wasn't special. For the first time, I suffered ego-death. I thought I was special, and I was not.

This is just a reminder, that you are not special. You are less unique than you think you are. So lose that attitude.

Do you think you are special?

So after building my venture for over six years, in January,22 I decided to move on and in Sept,22 I joined an early stage startup led by ex-CXO of a small vertical of Indian IT giant. 

i joined as early employee to lead product, but over time I have been moved across multiple things without my consent, but I continued doing in and out across as pre-sales, customer success and blah blah. 
Over the last 1 and half year, the company just got few clients with around total revenue of 15 Lakhs annual. 

On the sides, I started building my venture as well and built a small team of 4 people, launcjed the product and is doing good in terms of revenue. With the limited time I am able to give after spending 10+ hours doing nothing at my job, at my startup we have  scaled well and are doong decent enough monthly revenue of around 6.5 Lakhs and are growing as well. 

Now, at the place where I work, few people including founder come and give me some gyaan but I don’t like it. Not because I don’t want to learns but because I feel these gyaans are one-sides and comes with limited view. 

IRL, I have executed better than what they are doing with a better capital efficiency and with very small team. I don’t like what they say. Am I getting arrigant or am I being selective to who do I want to learn from and what? 

I don’t want to turn arrogant and someone who miss staying grounded. In my venture I listen to my team, my people, my users and stay as much humble as possible, but when it come to my job place, I don’t like them. 

PS: I am not leaving the job because for the next 2-3 months, I don’t want to burden my company with my salary expense and also my marriage is scheduled so don’t want to eat my savings.

Am I getting arrogant or thinking right?

Founder

Just gotta believe that you can, folks :)

Software Engineer

Hi All, what can help me join an early stage startup and grow up to the top close to the founders within a year? I want to be in the middle of the action 

Has anyone here done it before?

How do people climb up/become more important in startups as employees?

Business Development Manager

I have just started my MBA and I feel lost in the crowd.

I consider myself not so interesting and since everyone says personality plays a key role, what should I do to become more relatable and charismatic?

MBA fresher

Don't really want to make dancing reels on insta or shorts, but want to become an influencer. Grapevine should create a feature for this :P

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