- YC Interview: chances to get in? I just found out my startup will interview with YC. Does anyone know roughly what the chances are of getting into the accelerator once you’ve gotten the interview? I know about 150 companies get funded each cohort but wondering how many they interview. Also if anyone has interviewed in the past I w
- Demoralising work culture at Microsoft Bangalore Microsoft has become a sad place for me. I have no motivation for work. And the reason is promotion and rewards. Microsoft really wants a developer to limit innovations into the scope of fhl and hackathons. Any innovation done for product eventually means equal to any other task, there is no appreci
- frustrated with airbnb’s iOS app Airbnb’s iOS app is such a mess. I sometimes wonder how can a company which pays its engineers so much can’t fix its app. I love airbnb and I use it extensively but the app drives me crazy. In no particular order let me quickly point out some major major problems - (a) The problem of unread notific
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and industry lounge. - PM and Salesforce resources I just got offered a promotion for an IT PM job starting in January - heck yes! I've done the work before at a large company but am a little rusty after a few years of grad school and nonprofit work. It will be largely focused on Salesforce (including Salesforce Lightning which I have not used) data
- Would you trade you're job for a lower paying remote job (hypothetical) I’m currently the sole UX designer at a small (about 10 team members) 100% remote company. I’m thinking of trying to make the jump to Microsoft or Amazon. To help make the decision I wanted to describe what it’s like working here, and see how many UX designers at Microsoft or Amazon would want to sw
- Quality of 'Offshore' Contractors So this was my first client project with a new company, that leveraged 'offshore' developers to aid in the development efforts. First observations, offshore contractors introduced a much higher number of defects than company FTE's, most were less than active participants during sprint/epic/user sto
- New boss doesn’t have time to hold my hand I just started a job about 4.5 weeks ago. The work itself is pretty heavily technical with a lot of weird infrastructure decisions made before I started. I am in the process of learning the ins and outs and in my third week I had a few user stories to be put in sprint. I misunderstood my boss and th
- Engineering vs ux design I’ve worked in both software engineering and ux design roles and I’m trying to pick a path forward. I really enjoy software engineering mainly because I find it intellectually stimulating and I’m always learning new things, but I’m a pretty average coder who usually only meets expectations. There ar
- Leveling up visual design I’ve been asked in interviews with Uber and InVision about my comfort with visual design. Up to this point I’ve admitted to recruiters that my visual design skills are behind. Its something I know about and I work on a lot. I feel really comfortable with UX stuff, wireframing, usability testing, des