Airlines are now informing all passengers to arrive 3.5 hours before domestic flights to the airport
Which means passengers in
@peakbengaluru
now need to leave a whole 1 day before their flight to make it in time
Itβs 2023 and Iβm watching a couple guys try to pat a cricket pitch dry with a sponge. What am I missing here? Is this the farthest cricket tech has come?
βThe spirit of Mumbai is unmatchableβ
- said Vivaan, 19 year old from South Bombay, lives in a 22 Cr apartment owned by dad overlooking racecourse
Folks from the suburbs know not to say shit like that. Weβve seen too much
Itβs been a rough week in tech..
Layoffs:
Global
- Stripe 14%
- Opendoor 18%
- Twitter 50%
- Delivery hero
- Chime 12%
India
- Udaan (tranches)
- Chargebee 10%
- Byjus 5%
Hiring freeze:
- Apple
- Amazon
All of Big Tech is now in freeze. Tough being someone seeking roles rn
Finally sharing the secrets: How I grew my bank balance to 1 Crore rupees at the age of 25:
Salary: 3 Lac
Stocks: 1 Lac
Side-hustle: 1 Lac
Cash deposit from Papa: 95 lacs
Atmosphere at Amazon India as layoffs take place:
βYou can hear people breaking down and crying in the officeβ
"75% of my team is gone, I'm still employeed but don't feel like working anymoreβ
Link to post on Grapevine:
It's funny how Mumbai is the 'Financial Capital' of India but 99% of rickshaw and taxi valas don't accept UPI. Heck, several shops and popular establishments like Rustom Ice Cream and Kyani only deal in cash.
Come to Bengaluru and every rickshaw has like 3 different QR codes.
Have an interview coming up? Just keep a window open on a split screen.
These answers are legit good enough to get you through any PM, Analyst, PMM, sales, business development job.
Nambi Narayanan built a rocket engine for 60 lac rupees when his team was given only 1 CR for the whole project.
And then thereβs some engineers in tech who make 1 CR a year and wonβt deliver your feature for another 2 quarters π
Scary stuff at Goldman Sachs India: Employees are being asked to go to a conference room, told that theyβre laid off and asked to leave immediately without being allowed to go back to their desk
Started a while ago with a 10 person layoff. But now 100s are expected to be cut
So far what Iβve gathered is that Sam Altman was fired on a Google Meet link
Open AI is literally owned by Microsoft and even they donβt use Microsoft Teams π
Bangalore's favourite Rameshwaram Cafe makes 4.5 crore/month in a tiny space BARELY fitting 25 people!
This is how they did it π
1) They sell dosa in Bangalore in a crowded area
...
Me at 7 years old: I want to go to space, be an astronaut
Me at 14: I want to win India the World Cup, be a cricketer
Somehow me at 28: Letβs take this offline and sync within the week. Please block my calendar. My Thursdays are usually light
David Beckham is being paid $277M to be the brand ambassador of the Qatar World Cup
And the thousands of migrant workers who toiled for 12 years to build the infra in over 40-45 degrees of heat are mostly broke, and some even dead
The inequalities oft times are too cruel..
Iβm a 24 year old shitposter who has lived through exactly zero recessions. Let me teach you how to manage your personal finances, your portfolio and your startup through an economic downturn in a 75 part tweet thread below π (1/75)
A very strongly worded rant on the state of SDEs. With quality comments both for and against the topic (including the depth of contribution to open source, made from India).
Rest of the rant along & 96+ comments:
Sam Altman did what many in tech have been doing for a long time
1. Leave old company
2. Get an offer from a FAANG company at a new pay band
3. Stay at old company at FAANG pay band + 10%
Good game π
You open LinkedIn each time it feels like everyoneβs getting into Google or Microsoft or the IIMs. You make a bunch of effort trying to make it there, and when you eventually do, you realize itβs not what you wanted in the first place. A thread π ( π§΅1 of 5)
In an interesting experiment - researchers put Candy in front of 10 children and asked them to not eat it for 1 hour. 5 ended up eating candy immediately, and 5 ate it as advised: after 1 hour.
Guess which children succeeded more as adults?
The ones whose parents had more money
The Headline: Get MacBook Air now for 55K
The Article: βΉ1L MacBook now at 10% discount. But if you exchange your βΉ5L MacPro you get 20K off. Further if you use HDFC CC you get 8K off. If you buy your HDFC CC with an ICICI CC you get further 7K off. Now your MacBook is just 55K
Tech layoffs:
Unacademy will be laying off 350 employees, 10% of workforce. This is their second round of layoff.
Hope things get better from here π€. If youβre impacted and are in product or tech, please drop us a dm. We will try to connect you with right opportunities.
Elon is considering putting all of Twitter behind a paywall
Which is interesting because India is its 3rd largest market with 25M users
After some sophisticated modeling I can share that I expect between 7 to 13 Indians to buy this subscription, resulting in a loss of 25M users
Hello Twitter, this is our biggest launch since the launch of Grapevine itself
Introducing - Salaries on Grapevine!
Everything explained in 90 seconds. Sound On π
Anyone who leaves India realises pretty soon that all countries are complicated in their own unique way
You just gotta choose where you find more happiness/meaning and for me it was India by farr
Just a few weeks ago we were talking about inflated 1CR+ salaries for people with 3 years of exp and this week we are hearing about the unfortunate layoffs at many tech companies. The market is unpredictable, but here's a few ways in which we may be able to help. Thread below π
I rarely see people with so much clarity about their priorities and future choices
His reason to get his next job is simple: good food
Whole discussion is quite good, 68 comments :