mahesh_gkumar

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by mahesh_gkumar 8y ago
Shameless plug -> https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/moving-management-mahesh-guru... . I use this with everyone on my team who wants to explore the management path. Happy to chat more if you want concrete examples abou
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by mahesh_gkumar 9y ago
Amazon AWS is something that you should definitely look into. AWS is always hiring!
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Ask HN: Any political science majors out there?
1 points by mahesh_gkumar 9y ago|0 comments
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by mahesh_gkumar 9y ago
I network. I will get coffee with folks (managers, ICs, Execs) who I randomly bump into in meetings, code reviews, fire drills etc and find out what they are working on, future job openings, collaboration opportunities, new product ideas, e
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by mahesh_gkumar 9y ago
If you really want to go with the startup, I recommend offering to pay back the money the tech company is spending on doing your visa transfer. This might keep a thin bridge alive between the two of you. Also, make sure the startup knows wh
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by mahesh_gkumar 9y ago
If it's difficult to prove one way or the other, why do you care which option is chosen? Just pick one! if it doesn't work once released into production, pick something else! Remove emotions from the equation. No one should feel h
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by mahesh_gkumar 9y ago
Raises are basically useless to depend on these days as a way of increasing your income. In my 15 year career, I have seen an average of 2-3% raise and the highest I have seen is 10% when I got promoted. The fact that your salary is above a
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by mahesh_gkumar 12y ago
I can write code and manage engineering teams/projects/scrums. I am looking for a engineering manager/lead type role where I have the opportunity to lead and grow a small team of engineers and at the same time allows me to co
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by mahesh_gkumar 12y ago
Email is mahesh.gkumar@gmail.com. Didn't know that emails in the profiles are not public.
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by mahesh_gkumar 12y ago
There are a lot of paid options...like Rational Asset Manager, Oracle eAM etc. The only OSS option that I have seen so far is http://www.fedora-commons.org/ .
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by mahesh_gkumar 12y ago
I would absolutely engage... IF the senior management is committed to changing the status quo and is ready to invest money and time into the effort and is ready to make changes (including org changes) to make this effort happen. I have b
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by mahesh_gkumar 12y ago
A foreign worker can form an LLC in the US. You can also sponsor an H1B visa for a founder IF you can satisfy the employee employer relationship criteria (more http://www.uscis.gov/sites/default/files/USCIS&
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by mahesh_gkumar 12y ago
Interesting idea...not sure how much it applies to me. I have my product (www.petworkslabs.com) up and running on basic bootstrap but feels it needs a bit of UX work. I can give your product a shot if you think it might help my product. Als
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by mahesh_gkumar 12y ago
I have tried using "match-making" sites before without much luck, but I personally feel that the best founders are folks who know each other (college, work etc) and have been in the trenches together.
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by mahesh_gkumar 12y ago
HN is a community of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacker_(programmer_subculture) and not http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacker_(computer_security)
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by mahesh_gkumar 12y ago
Few thoughts... 1. Your site is very confusing to me. Maybe a quick tutorial would be helpful? 2. Lot of UI quirks (as the other person has pointed out) 3. Why would I use your site versus the gazzillion other options available to me? It wo
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by mahesh_gkumar 12y ago
I think your analogy is incorrect. When you get your oil changed, you are the customer and the person changing your oil does get monitored by his boss (manager), to make sure he does his job. As a developer, you are not the customer, the pe
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by mahesh_gkumar 12y ago
I wish all companies who ask their candidates to solve a coding exercise give honest feedback like this after the end of the interview. Most times its just the canned 'Sorry you are not a fit' or the response the OP got.
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by mahesh_gkumar 12y ago
I quit cold turkey, but it took me a couple of tries to stick to it. I never thought about replacing it with anything. I just kept thinking about how I couldn't climb 2 flights of stairs without going out of breath, how my hair, clothe
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by mahesh_gkumar 12y ago
Form an LLC with your friends in the US (who are legal residents). Make sure that you form a board which has the authority to fire you (this is needed for the h1b employee employer requirement). Make the company profitable, apply for h1, mo
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by mahesh_gkumar 12y ago
Then IMO, it should say that on your site :) and some reasonable explanation on how you landed on that number.
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Just curious...are most founders coders? or business type folks?
1 points by mahesh_gkumar 12y ago|1 comments
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by mahesh_gkumar 12y ago
Pray tell, why is ruby a terrible choice? You can get a basic website up and running with Rails in less than 10 mins.
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by mahesh_gkumar 12y ago
It bothers me when I see statements like '10x faster' ...10x faster than what? Hand coding? Using some other library?
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by mahesh_gkumar 12y ago
A bigger company (with fancy lawyers) will have an easy time sponsoring someone's H1B than a startup. But I have seen startups sponsor H1Bs as well. If the startup is well funded, has traction and is a 'real' company, then I
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by mahesh_gkumar 12y ago
H1B is for anyone who can convince the company they are interviewing with (you don't need to be a rockstar, ninja, herokai or anything like that. You just need to be honest, reasonably good and hard-working), that it is worth sponsorin
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by mahesh_gkumar 12y ago
What does a complete lead mean?
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by mahesh_gkumar 13y ago
thoughts guys?
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by mahesh_gkumar 13y ago
anyone?
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Ask HN: Question about prospecting via email
1 points by mahesh_gkumar 13y ago|2 comments

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