Whether you like it or not. — When I started my career, I was open to do, and learn anything but sales. I used to hate being sold anything, and so could never imagine selling anything. It took me over 10 years to realize that everything that I did was actually sales in the hindsight. From school…

15 years back when I made my first dollar on the Internet from a small town in India, it was based on a simple insight that it’s the keywords that help people surface and discover relevant information. I always used to think how naive that is, but I didn’t do…

(This is a co-written perspective from a Startup Ecosystem Builder and Gen-X American Mike Ducker and Millennial, Vartika Manasvi, a global entrepreneur, sharing their different visions on the future of globalization) Globalization is Dieing, says Gen-X! International borders are closed, international flights are down by over 90%, and the over-reliance on the global supply chain…

A shiny resume can get you in the door, however, hiring managers at (great) companies know that there’s more than just a resume. (Great) Companies have started to realize that just having a computer science degree, proof of academic excellence, or an employment history with some known brands is not…

From the U.S. to Europe, Latin America to Asia, the global immigration and expansion landscape is constantly changing. For fast-growth tech companies looking to expand into new international markets, it’s crucial to be aware of key global markets’ nuances and intricacies before sending employees to new locations. Hence, a company’s…

My work gets me to connect with many tech companies, founders and engineering leaders. I often ask them one question, what is their biggest problem? They all tell me how hard it is to find good programmers. That there’s nobody out there and even when they find them its always…

In the real world hiring is a numbers game for recruiters. They work as agents and often do not know what to value in a role. As they are not affected by the outcome of that decision, there’s always friction between who gets shortlisted and who is a real fit…

I learned a few human elements of software engineering, all thanks to my business partner and co-founder, Celento C George — We don’t need more engineers, now When I said we need more engineering hands to add speed, he said, No it will slow us down, as work cannot be simply measured in man-months because complex programming projects cannot be perfectly partitioned into discrete tasks that can be worked on without communication between the workers and without…

I’ve been part of remote teams since very early in my career, I used to collaborate with my counterparts in the U.S. and U.K. when we wrote resumes for professionals from all over the world. As an early adopter on social media platforms, the cross border connections were way simpler…