neerkumar

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by neerkumar 9y ago
Not necessarily. You can do great networking without having built anything. Say you are a student. Some startup founder starts a business where she targets college students. You like her business. You then reach out to her telling her you a
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by neerkumar 9y ago
Horrible article. Networking doesn't mean asking someone for her email address or exchanging business cards. Networking means creating meaningful relationships based on mutual benefits. If you are in a position to help someone, help he
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by neerkumar 9y ago
"He claimed that Google’s diversity efforts represent a lowering of the bar. Google has stated many times that its efforts involve focusing more resources on searching for candidates in minority groups rather than lowering the bar for
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by neerkumar 9y ago
The fact that google fired him doesn't imply they had the right to do so. There are plenty of illegal firings in Europe as well. Then the employee sues the company and wins. If a judge decides that google firing was legal under those m
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by neerkumar 9y ago
It is really hard to be efficient in terms of headcount. Every single manager inside the organization has a personal incentive in pushing to hire more people cause that's how we measure career growth. So they all come up with all sort
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by neerkumar 9y ago
When FB bought Whatsapp, Whatsapp was handling 20 billion messages a day and was the #1 app on the phone pretty much anywhere in the world, except for US, China, and Australia (it still is). Not that they needed some tool to find that out.
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by neerkumar 9y ago
There was a huge harassment culture on Orkut. It was a place where was normal to get insulted. Exactly the opposite of FB, which might be extreme on the other side, full of fake compliments. One of the things that FB got right was exactly t
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by neerkumar 9y ago
http://datascientistjobinterview.com
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by neerkumar 9y ago
Price seems expensive to me as well. In data science there is a similar site which has become pretty popular if you are interviewing in those top tech companies, but it is cheaper. As the guy above was suggesting, that data science site doe
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by neerkumar 9y ago
In fairness, it also comes from the fact that booking is especially huge in Europe. So it is hard for a very US based audience like HN to realize how big they are. It is like Whatsapp. 60 billion messages a day, but it doesn't look tha
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by neerkumar 9y ago
"Reserving the conversation around pricing until after you are in contact with a sales person is often helpful" -> such a BS. Everyone in the world knows the reason behind that is charging differently for the same product accor
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by neerkumar 9y ago
That's (a bit) clearer. I hadn't seen that. I think the entire airport experience is a mess and one of the few things I can think of that's actually worse than 20 yrs ago. If you guys gain deep knowledge about their process a
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by neerkumar 9y ago
I think this can make sense. I recently traveled with a toddler for the first time. I was amazed by how in certain airports (the Asian ones), when they saw I had a toddler, they managed to speed up the process by sending me to other lines.