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An Engineer is one who can memorize a lot of theory and draw beautiful block diagrams

October 11, 2010 Others

If you are reading this, I’m assuming that you are an engineer. But, are you a true engineer by spirit? Read on to find out. An Engineer is one who uses a plethora of techie words to obfuscate his/her speech and sound knowledgeable to a layman. An Engineer is one who subscribes to at least one [...]

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We hate planning — Indians

July 6, 2010 Others

Let’s face it. We Indians don’t like the design phase in a software project, or in any project for that matter. Given a chance we would like to completely eliminate the time taken for the activity of design and planning, all we want to do is to jump into coding straight without bothering to gather [...]

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Social media x Job search = 0

June 17, 2010 Job Search Tips

I can relate to this. You?

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How to get an onsite opportunity in 3 months — Sarcasm

May 21, 2010 Others

Disclaimer: This article is rephrased version of a sarcastic comment written by a frustrated employee of a popular IT company in India. This is not a serious article at all. You have to follow few simple steps to get an onsite chance in IT industry. In every project meeting, pretend as if you know everything [...]

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Should you take up a job offer or not? Ask your dogs

December 25, 2009 Others

This is a real life funny story of an unemployed person rejecting job offer that offered him a handsome raise of salary. He turned down the offer as his dogs told him not to relocate to a place an hour away from his house. He comes back after six months and tells the recruiter that [...]

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Experience is just another word for losing hope

November 18, 2009

Enjoy this Dilbert Comic. This situation that Dilbert encountered is quite common in any industry. When you try to delegate your work to your coworkers, they find more reasons to bounce it back to you.

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“Do you have any questions” – at the end of an interview

September 18, 2009 Interview Stories

If the title of this post implied to you that this post is going to tell you the questions that should be asked by a candidate at the end of an interview, I apologize; this post is not going tell you that. Instead, it’s about a gaffe that I made in an interview. This incident [...]

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Swine Flu effect on Interviews

August 13, 2009 Interview Stories

This is a real interview appointment letter that my colleague actually got. Dear Candidate, Further to our discussion, we are pleased to inform you that your profile has been short listed and your Technical round of Interview has been scheduled on Wednesday 12th August 09 @ 10.00 AM. Please make yourself available for the same. [...]

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