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wo kehte hain naa.. "Jo dikhta hai naa... wo bikta hai!" Shayad sahi kehte hain

IMHO - If I have to underscore the most important theme in recruiting it would be - how many confuse spoken english for depth of skills. How many careers did not take off cause of it. How many just sky rocketted cause of it. The coder who struggles with English but eats algorithms for breakfast? Rejected. The presenter with impeccable English and zero execution? Hired. I was taught .. Skills > Accents. Always. But do we actually hire that way? Or do we just SAY we do? Basic communication is not the debate here. Thats the baseline. Question is who sets the baseline. And how do you know your baseline is not being ridiculed, harassed, made a mockery off.. in a closed room/ interview setting. wo kehte hain naa.. "Jo dikhta hai naa... wo bikta hai!" Shayad sahi kehte hain. If you were rejected - I want to hear your story. If you were hired - I want to hear your story. PEACE.

Veteran Kannada Actor Bank Janardhan Passes Away at 75

- Bank Janardhan, a beloved Kannada actor, passed away at 75 in Bengaluru due to age-related health complications. - Known for his impeccable comic timing, he acted in over 500 films and numerous TV serials. - He had a heart attack in September 2023 but had recovered; however, his health continued to decline. - His notable works include films like Shhh!, Tarle Nan Maga, and TV serials like Papa Pandu and Robo Family. - Tributes are pouring in from fans and colleagues, remembering his significant contributions to Kannada cinema and television. Source: [The Times Of India](https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/bengaluru/veteran-kannada-comedy-actor-bank-janardhan-passes-away-at-79/articleshow/120268281.cms), [Moneycontrol](https://www.moneycontrol.com/entertainment/veteran-kannada-actor-bank-janardhan-passes-away-at-77-article-12993064.html), [News 18](https://www.news18.com/movies/veteran-kannada-actor-bank-janardhan-passes-away-at-75-ws-l-9297773.html)

The Chronicles of a Wannabe Product Manager

So, there I was, a software engineer with an impeccable relationship with Stack Overflow, deciding to make the jump into product management. Why? Maybe I thought it was time to stop debugging code and start debugging people’s expectations. Plus, I heard PMs get to “own” stuff. Who doesn’t want to own things? The first day, I confidently walked into the office, armed with my new vocabulary: “synergy,” “roadmap,” and “user pain points.” Little did I know that “pain points” referred to mine by the end of that week. My first task? A product meeting. Easy enough, right? I sat down, ready to drop some “actionable insights” I’d read about on some tech blog at 2 AM. Then they hit me with, “Can you give us a guesstimate on the projected metrics for Q4 based on the current KPIs?” I blinked. KPIs? Metrics? Suddenly, every piece of jargon I’d practiced evaporated like water on a hot pan. My mind screamed, “Call an API! Debug this!” Instead, I cleared my throat, “Right. Metrics. Q4. Totally got this.” Spoiler alert: I did not have this. I threw around percentages that may or may not have added up to 100. No one questioned me, which I took as a win. Maybe product management was just acting confident, right? A week later, I was assigned my first task: oversee the launch of a new feature. Simple. Just a launch. Until it wasn’t. The engineers threw technical terms at me that felt like the software version of speaking Klingon. The marketing team wanted it yesterday, and customers wanted features we hadn’t even thought of yet. I spent most of the week smiling awkwardly in meetings, jotting down notes like, “Figure out what on earth a go-to-market strategy actually is.” The day of the launch, I was pumped. Everything was in place. Or so I thought. Five minutes before the feature went live, I received a Slack message from a developer: “Small bug, should we delay?” My internal monologue: Define ‘small’ in this context. I made the call to launch anyway. What’s life without a little risk, right? Turns out, that “small bug” made the app crash for every single user trying to access it. So yes, I’d launched a product…straight into disaster. But here’s the thing about product management: it’s all about adapting. Sure, I might have tanked a launch, confused some stakeholders, and messed up a few metrics, but by the end of the quarter, I learned that sometimes the best product isn’t the perfect one—it’s the one that teaches you the most. Also, I learned what KPIs actually are. (You can Google them.)