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  1. Article

    Service company vs product company: 9 saal dono taraf kaam kiya hai, ab sach sun lo

    Kal Ankit ne apna monthly rant daala, "WITCH model is why Indian engineering has a bad name". Main usse hamesha "calm down" bolta hoon. Aaj properly jawab dunga, aaram se, chai leke. Pehle disclaimer: main dono taraf kaam kar chuka hoon. 4 saal ek badi service company mein (Noida, banking client), 5 saal ek product company mein (haan, Noida mein bhi product companies hoti hain 😂). Toh ye opinion bahar se nahi hai.…

    Rohit Verma39likes35comments

  2. Article

    हिंदी दिवस पर एक पोस्ट, पूरी हिंदी में: मैंने कोडिंग हिंदी में सीखी, और इसमें कोई शर्म नहीं

    आज हिंदी दिवस है, तो सोचा एक पोस्ट पूरा हिंदी में लिखूँ। टाइप करने में तीन गुना टाइम लग रहा है, ये भी मान लेता हूँ 😂 2011 में जब मैं कॉलेज के दूसरे साल में था, मेरी अंग्रेज़ी बहुत कमज़ोर थी। हिंदी मीडियम स्कूल, छोटा शहर। क्लास में सर "polymorphism" बोलते थे और मैं बस सिर हिलाता था। समझ कुछ नहीं आता था, और पूछने में शर्म आती थी। फिर एक दोस्त ने यूट्यूब पर एक हिंदी वीडियो दिखाया जिसमें कोई भैया पॉइंटर्स समझा रहे थे।…

    Rohit Verma30likes16comments

  3. Article

    DSA is not useless for real jobs. Grinding 800 questions without revision is.

    Every few weeks the same fight starts in my comments. One side says DSA is useless because "real jobs are CRUD". The other side says you are not an engineer if you cannot invert a binary tree on a whiteboard. Both sides are a little right and mostly loud. Let me give the boring answer with examples. Where DSA showed up in real work A nightly job deduplicating 2 million customer records with List.contains() inside a…

    Nikhil Sharan28likes19comments

  4. Experience

    what the layoff did to my sleep (and the 5 things that are slowly fixing it)

    nobody talks about this part so i will. first three weeks after the layoff: 3 to 4 hours a night. i'd wake up at 4 am and check email for recruiter replies. then linkedin. "excited to announce" posts from people i used to work with. then email again. heart racing every time my phone buzzed, even when it was my mother sending a good morning forward. 4 am, most nights in september. not my laptop. same glow. i'm not…

    Sneha Kulkarni20likes10comments

  5. Article

    Two pointers is not one trick. It is three shapes.

    Every week someone messages me "bhaiya two pointers samajh aata hai but question mein apply nahi hota". That happens because people learn it as one trick. It is actually three different shapes, and the problem statement tells you which shape it wants if you read it slowly. Shape 1: opposite ends, moving inward Signal: the array is sorted (or you are allowed to sort it) and you want a pair with some property. Classic…

    Nikhil Sharan19likes9comments

  6. Article

    Pehli job ka offer letter: CTC 8 LPA hai toh haath mein kitna aayega? Pura breakdown

    Har saal yahi scene: fresher ko 8 LPA ka offer aata hai, ghar pe mithai baant di jaati hai, "beta 66 hazar mahina kamayega". Phir pehli salary slip aati hai aur 52 hazar dikhte hain. Dekho bhai, CTC aur in-hand do alag duniya hain. Aaj pura hisaab samjhata hoon. CTC kya hota hai CTC = Cost To Company. Matlab company tum pe saal mein kitna kharch karti hai. Isme woh paisa bhi hai jo kabhi tumhare bank account mein…

    Rohit Verma17likes13comments

  7. Experience

    Appraisal letter aaya: "Meets Expectations", 4% hike aur saath mein ek motivational quote

    Toh bhai appraisal ka result aa gaya. Pura saal ka hisaab dekho: Teen bade prod incidents, teeno mein raat ko 2 baje main call pe tha Payment service ka Java 8 se 17 migration, lead maine kiya 3 freshers onboard kiye, ek toh ab khud PR review karta hai Rating: "Meets Expectations". Hike: 4%. Aur letter ke end mein ek quote: "Excellence is not an act, but a habit." 😂 Manager se baat ki. Unka jawab: "Rohit tumhe toh…

    Rohit Verma16likes9comments

  8. Article

    Notice period 90 din ka, naya offer 30 din mein join karne ka? Pura scene samjho

    Dekho bhai, har hafte koi na koi DM karta hai: "bhaiya offer aa gaya, 30 din mein join karna hai, notice 90 din ka hai, kya karu?" Toh socha ek baar mein sab likh deta hoon. Mere dono switches mein yahi scene tha, aur juniors ke saath 20-25 baar ye dekh chuka hoon. 1. Resign tab karo jab offer letter haath mein ho Recruiter ka "you are selected 🎉" wala mail offer letter nahi hai. Offer letter mein ye sab hona…

    Rohit Verma15likes9comments

  9. Experience

    Company ne bola hafte mein 3 din Gurgaon office aao. Main Noida mein rehta hoon. Ek hafte ka hisaab

    Scene ye hai ki hamari company ne Noida wala chhota office band karke sab kuch Gurgaon (Cyber City) shift kar diya. Mail aaya: "To boost collaboration, all employees are expected in office 3 days a week." Main Sector 62 Noida mein rehta hoon. Toh ek hafta try kiya, honestly, bina complain kiye. Ye raha hisaab: Route options Metro: Sector 62 se Blue Line, Rajiv Chowk pe Yellow Line, phir Rapid Metro. Ek side lagbhag…

    Rohit Verma12likes11comments

  11. Article

    The H-1B 60-day clock: what I keep in a folder, just in case

    First: this is not legal advice. Immigration rules are detailed and every case is different. If you are affected, talk to an immigration attorney. This post is what I've learned from 7 years on H-1B and from helping two colleagues through layoffs. Every few months there's a new headline about fees or rules and our desi group chat explodes. Most of it is noise. What isn't noise is the 60-day grace period, because…

    Vikram Iyer10likes10comments

  13. Question

    tier 3 clg, 3rd yr, koi company nahi aati. is it over for me?? 😭

    bhai log pls help 🙏 btech cse 3rd yr, private clg in bareilly. last year only 2 companies came for placement, both service, package 3.2 lpa. i know c++ basics, 140 leetcode done (mostly easy), 1 project (todo app in react). my seniors are saying "off campus is impossible from our clg". one youtuber is selling a 6000 rs course which "guarantees" internship. should i buy it?? also should i do dsa in c++ or switch to…

    Harshit Gangwar8likes14comments

  15. Article

    monthly rant: the WITCH model is why indian engineering has a bad name

    ok here it goes. once a month i say this and once a month the bench army comes for me. the big service cos hire freshers in bulk at 3.5 lpa, park them on bench for months, then bill them to a client as "consultant" at a dollar rate. the fresher learns nothing. the client gets a ticket closer. the company keeps the margin. this is not engineering. this is staffing with extra steps. and then the same people come to…

    Ankit Khurana8likes16comments

  16. Experience

    To the tier-3 student who messaged me at 2:14 am

    Last night at 2:14 am I got a long message from a third year student. Small private college, "koi company nahi aati", 90 questions done on LeetCode, and one line that I have not been able to stop thinking about: "bhaiya kya mera kuch nahi ho sakta?" I replied to him directly, but I get some version of this message every week, so I am writing the answer here once. First, about me, because people assume things. I did…

    Nikhil Sharan8likes9comments

  18. Article

    India's 90-day notice period: buyout, early release, and what HR won't tell you

    Every second DM I get is about notice periods. "Bhai new company 30 days mein join karne bol rahi hai, mera 90 days hai, kya karun?" So here is everything in one place. I am not a lawyer. This is what actually happens in practice. Why 90 days Most service companies and many large product companies in India have 60 to 90 days in the appointment letter. Startups are often 30 to 60. Read your own letter tonight, not…

    Kunal Bhatia7likes8comments

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