Category: Career
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Dilemmas of a Class 10 student (and their parents)
When students choose a stream for Class 11, they usually also commit to one or more professional tracks they will prepare for and get into. Here are a few popular professional tracks: As can be seen, each of these tracks admits about 5-6% of those who appear. Anyone who understands probability and statistics even a…
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Engineer, Developer, Coder, Programmer – What is in a name?
Developers in software companies are referred by different names. Does the distinction matter? Does it matter that the engineering graduates are called software engineers but they are at best novice technicians?
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Why do so many product startups fail to build a scalable product team?
How do we understand the complexity of our organizations? Do we realize that unless we see it as a whole, any change effort is likely to be futile? One way to do such a holistic thinking is to apply systems view to our organizations.
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Small actions, big impacts
Seemingly small things can have an outsized impact and this was made clear to me in my interview with eighteen new campus hires of SaaS product companies.
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Unemployability in Tech – Myth or reality?
When approved colleges teach approved courses and give approved degrees to students, how can we claim that they are unemployable? But this is exactly what is happening in engineering education. What about other professional streams?