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Ex-Amazon employee who bagged Rs 46 lakh sign-on bonus shares 5 salary negotiation tips
After the initial round of interviews, when Amazon appeared reluctant to offer Jasmine McCall the salary and compensation she wanted, she informed them that she had other offers on the table. 'Within 48 hours, Amazon came back with the full sign-on bonus and stock package,' McCall said.
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Rippling co-founder says wife kidnapped son, filed fake rape case: 'She was having an affair'
'Me and my wife, Dhivya, were married for 10 years and we have a 9 year old son. Recently our marriage broke down after I discovered she was having an affair, with a person named Anoop for 6+ mos,' Prasanna S, the co-founder of a US-based HR company valued at $10 billion, said.
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Bengaluru woman slams police for not helping teen brother when cab driver harassed him: 'Shaking with rage'
'Bengaluru City Police abandoned a 18-year-old kid in the middle of the night with a man who had just threatened him.... What kind of police force ignores a scared, stranded teenager and leaves him at the mercy of a criminal?' Mrinali Priyadarshni, who also works in Bengaluru, said.
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'Bill, you're out!': Sachin Tendulkar plays 'Crennis' with Bill Gates, Satya Nadella reacts. Watch
Meanwhile, billionaire podcaster Nikhil Kamath praised his WTF team for making the collaboration video and hinted at a possible episode featuring the philanthropists, Bill Gates and Sachin Tendulkar.
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Fed up with inflation, US man visits India to start business, finds a wife, settles in Goa: 'I'm happy here'
Elliot Rosenberg moved out of the US 12 years ago and has been living in India for nine years. As a financial consultant, most of his clients are US-based, paying him in dollars. 'We don’t stress about money,' he said.
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Bengaluru techie threatened by Rapido driver recalls 'terrifying' experience: '2-3 unknown men...'
Responding to the complaint, Rapido stated that both the drivers involved with the incident have been suspended to prevent such incidents in the future.
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Sridhar Vembu says 'smart well-educated Indians' are gravitating to finance: 'This is not good'
The Zoho chief scientist said that while making money on money feels easy, a finance-driven economy would destroy society.
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CRED's Kunal Shah says AI has created an interesting impact: 'It’s exposing bad talent faster'
Speaking about the rapid advancements in AI and its impact on software development, CRED CEO Kunal Shah said that while AI tools are reducing the time and cost of building software, efficiency alone does not equate to success.
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Mamaearth's Ghazal Alagh offers a tip for building 'a solid business': 'Don't give your 100% every day'
Ghazal Alagh said that she always follows a strategy called the '85 percent rule' with which she focuses on priorities and does not strive for constant perfection.
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Nithin Kamath shares tips for success inspired by legendary trader Jerry Parker: 'When fear takes over...'
These insights from the CEO of the country's largest online trading platform come amid a period of prolonged market uncertainty.
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Zoho's Sridhar Vembu lists 6 reasons why he's not optimistic about software job market
Sridhar Vembu said that inefficient IT systems of major corporations in the West were transferred to India as they hired more human resources in the country to 'get more done'. As a result, a large number of IT jobs in India came to depend on those original and multiplied inefficiencies, he added.
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ByteDance cofounder becomes China's richest person. 7 points to know about Zhang Yiming
The ByteDance co-founder agreed to an over 10 million yuan ($1.4 million) annual salary to poach a top AI engineer from a rival company.
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DeepSeek founder Liang Wenfeng's village turns into tourist hotspot: Visitors take stones as souvenirs
The development has, however, put the DeepSeek founder's grandfather in a difficult spot. He is the only person currently living in their four-storey house in the village, and the elderly man has to keep his front door shut for most of the day to keep tourists away.
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JPMorgan says it will take 134 years for the world to reach gender equality
Only about 10 percent of the most powerful roles such as CEO, COO, and CFO, are held by women, the JPMorgan Chase & Co report stated.
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Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw, Mohandas Pai support Bengaluru protests for better roads: 'Valid demand'
Former Infosys CFO Mohan Das Pai shared a video on X showing citizens holding placards and protesting on a pothole-ridden road as motorists struggled to drive by.
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Amazon CEO Andy Jassy reveals why he is cutting off middle managers while enforcing RTO
Last September, Amazon CEO Andy Jassy declared he wanted to 'increase the ratio of individual contributors to managers by at least 15 percent by the end of Q1 2025.' The $2.3 trillion tech giant has already beat the marker.
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Ex-Amazon VP supports remote work: Promoted a remote leader to start a centre in Bengaluru
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy had made it mandatory for all employees to work from the office five days a week starting January 'to invent, collaborate, and be connected enough to each other'.
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Ex-Amazon VP recalls shouting match between 2 top engineers that 'ended in tears'
Ethan Evans said he de-escalated the situation by bring the techies into a private mediation. 'This is where one of the engineers started to cry because he was so passionate about his vision for the project,' he said.
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Google techie in Hyderabad exhausted after taking over 15 45-minute interviews: 'I'd rather code'
The Google employee was soon flooded with requests from jobseekers and curious onlookers on what kind of questions the tech giant asks during job interviews.
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Sam Altman says he's very proud of his OpenAI team but is prouder of his baby for 'learning how to eat'
'I realise I am getting neurochemically hacked here but I don't care, it's the best,' the OpenAI CEO said. On February 23, Sam Altman announced the birth of his son.
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Ola founder Bhavish Aggarwal asks employees to send him weekly updates: 'No exceptions'
The 'Kya Chai Raha Hai?' initiative was put into immediate effect with the first deadline set for the end of the day following the announcement and future reports due every Sunday.
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Zomato's Deepinder Goyal 'made an inaccurate statement' about us: Zepto CEO Aadit Palicha
Deepinder Goyal reportedly said that Zepto was losing more than Rs 2,500 crore every quarter while Zomato's subsidiary Blinkit burned through Rs 35 crore per month on average.
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Smallest AI founder unhappy with viral Bengaluru job post: 'We receive 5-6 resumes every minute'
Sudarshan Kamath said he plans to run an AI large language model (LLM) to filter out the good job applications out of the thousands he received. 'This inbox has become a spam inbox,' he added.
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Max Healthcare's billionaire MD on Donald Trump's $5 million 'gold card' offer: 'Wouldn’t want to...'
A major drawback for the 'gold card' has been US' tax implication. The country taxes its citizens on their income around the world, regardless of where they live. Interestingly, Abhay Soi has been paid about Rs 400 crore in income tax in 2022-23.
