neerkumar

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by neerkumar 8y ago
Ironically, when interviewers talk about how they interview, they pretty much all seem to believe they are very good in evaluating candidates. But when candidates talk about job interviews, they all seem to agree interviews are done badly.
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by neerkumar 8y ago
They also changed their answer ranking algorithm. It started giving much higher weight to answers from users who answered many other questions on the site. I guess the goal was to incentivize users to answer more questions. But Quora was ni
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by neerkumar 8y ago
I agree, this is actually a really really good business idea. I heard so many times top devs wish something like this would exist. Can you give an idea of what an ex-FAANG dev can expect after signing up? Like what's the frequency of p
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by neerkumar 8y ago
"We have the best product in the world and we are revolutionizing the life of our users. What's next? What more can we achieve in the next 5 yrs given how great our product is already?" On a more serious note, I wonder why th
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by neerkumar 8y ago
Sad news. WhatApp really feels to me as the future of social networks and its massive numbers tend to prove it. 1:1 chat and phone calls to communicate to your friends, groups to keep in touch with people you are less close to, and status i
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by neerkumar 9y ago
I would suggest anyone interested in learning more about this to watch the BBC documentary The Big Bank Fix. It shows how these traders didn't do anything wrong. The documentary shows how there were some really high level bank executiv
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by neerkumar 9y ago
I hope my comment didn't come across as I am portraying them as a victim. I saw first hand hiring based on quotas and I hated it (and I am an immigrant with dark skin). I was just stating a fact about Google, that they were among the l
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by neerkumar 9y ago
Anyone who has worked for a large tech company in SF in the last 3/4 years knows that this has happened everywhere. In fairness, Google was one of the very last ones among large tech companies to play the quota game. But the problem is
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by neerkumar 9y ago
The promotion process at google self-selects for a very important skill: you are given a certain goal and you find the optimal way to achieve it, regardless of whether you agree with it or not. This is a crucial skill for middle managers. T
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by neerkumar 9y ago
Yeah, that sounds so bad. It sounds like: try to screw them over, but be aware that some employees will realize that and, just for them, you will have to adjust compensation.
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by neerkumar 9y ago
Maybe that's a way to give Detroit hosts an incentive to stay on Airbnb. After all, the more money they make the more likely they are to still use Airbnb despite the new city rules. So pushing more demand towards Detroit will reduce th
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Ask HN: Best companies that help consultants make sure they get paid?
3 points by neerkumar 9y ago|0 comments
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by neerkumar 9y ago
I have never worked as a quant, but I have got a couple of job offers a few years ago when interviewing at the end of grad school. Things might have changed in the last 5 years or so, no idea. But back then, in my experience, you didn'
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by neerkumar 9y ago
If you ask them to cover insurance for 6 months, they will probably do it given the circumstances. Health insurance is usually the most negotiable thing. Beside that, just accept that you no longer work there and look at them just like you
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by neerkumar 9y ago
In the US, in tech, it is relatively common for people to sign an offer and then change their mind and choose to not join. It happened a few times in different companies where I worked. It wasn't really a big deal, it is considered par
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Ask HN: What are some good resources about sales prospecting emails?
2 points by neerkumar 9y ago|0 comments
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Ask HN: How to get word of mouth when customers heavily compete with each other?
18 points by neerkumar 9y ago|7 comments
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by neerkumar 9y ago
I don't get this. Eventually, it is just taking a cut from a transaction. What does even mean the seller is paying for it or the buyer? Let's say the final price is 100$ and cut is 10%, so seller gets 90$ and buyer pays 100$. You
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by neerkumar 9y ago
And InstaEdu, within the education section, was that site where students would pay people to do their homework. It was just a place where students could cheat.
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by neerkumar 9y ago
As many other things in the corporate world, the easiest path is firstly get that at your current company, where you hopefully have some leverage. You typically need to wait for 1 yr before asking to go remote. After that, it becomes much e
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by neerkumar 9y ago
If the goal of this was looking smart to attract smart talent, I feel it didn't work particularly well. At least, by reading the article, I didn't get that feeling. Any game where the last survivor wins are based on the idea to ge
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by neerkumar 9y ago
This is very nice. Are the emails validated or guessed based on company most likely format?
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by neerkumar 9y ago
Glassdoor has a huge conflict of interest. Its customers are the companies themselves. And it is not just a review problem. Even for job interview questions, where I work we were unhappy that someone wrote a detailed and correct answer to a
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by neerkumar 9y ago
Finding the right journalists to reach out to so that they can then write about your business can be seen as a special case of sales. Similarly, I think it would be very useful something like: "I built product X, scrape the web and fin
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by neerkumar 9y ago
I really like the idea. Feel there is lots of potential to build similar stuff for anything related to sales.
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by neerkumar 9y ago
It is so hard to actually get the VC business model. If in all these years, every single YC company had failed except for Airbnb, YC would still be 4X better than the second best competitor.
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by neerkumar 9y ago
I never find advice on how to grow when your customers are heavily competing with each other and, therefore, they are very unlikely to recommend your product no matter how much they love you. I feel this is a very common situation and I nev
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by neerkumar 9y ago
Everyone who worked at Google or a company like Google knows that 90% of people do a job well below their skills. That's how it is in those places. To sue them because you have back-end skills, but you were doing front end is laughable
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by neerkumar 9y ago
The problem with these things is that you end up stop writing or even talking cause you get so concerned about offending others... English is not my mother tongue, and I actually thought here I was being sensitive, cause putting "he&qu
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by neerkumar 9y ago
I think if you put some effort to help people, you will get help regardless of your skills by many of them. But that help will not be that useful in the long run if you don't have the skills to take advantage of it. Stupid example: if

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