Senior/ Lecturer & Consultant, Software Systems

ISB MBA vs NUS MBA

Which of the two is better for a Product Management career, which is long term targeted to be in India but do not mind if I have to stay in Singapore for a significant time? Current profile: 2 yrs workex as an APM, grad from tier 1 engg clg No scholarship in either places.

Huge money in flipkart

My friend b tech from regions college joined flipkart director engineering stayed jn flipkart till 2020 earned 6 cr vested esop , in 2020 he went to Coupang Korea 3 cr fixed 7 cr esop vestry for 4 years , this year his vesting period end now he has joined zepto vp engineering 3 cr fixed and 8 cr esop , so much money just in job i am struggling in usa with mba from nus stern iit kanpur cs with no green card and struggling with my startup , i am a looser

Tell story of the worst intern that you had

TLDR; Had a data science intern join our team. His resume was really impressive, good academic record, had a couple of research internship (NUS, IIT), 4 papers in journals etc. His interview was just okay, but we probably got biased by his resume which looked stellar. This guy didn’t know very basic python programming. We gave him basic task of converting a image dataset from one format to another(very first step of developing ML model). Took a week, constantly badgered all the team members, would just randomly copy code from ChatGPT, and if it won’t work, would ask us to solve it for him. Didn’t figure it out in a week, and at the end of week, we arranged a meeting with him about the update of work. Turns out, he didn’t even understand the task clearly. But we didn’t mind him, as it was his first week and we cut him some slack. The next week, I understood that he struggled in programming so gave him very basic task. He just had to figure out a command line program. Took two days, gave the result without any documentation, and the very next day he asked whether he would get the credit of his work and that it would account for his decision to full time conversion. Then he started taking a leave, EVERY WEEK. We used to have scrum call at 10AM, this guy wakes up at 10:30AM, and tells that he slept late and would come to office by 11AM( we had work from office policy), and he would come around 11:30AM. Would slack at work the entire day, give him some basic task, would keep asking silly doubts, copy paste code from ChatGPT and ask us to solve the bugs. Come to office without taking bath, no professionalism at all. One day I scolded him a lot, to come at time, learn some professionalism( if he doesn’t have good skills, atleast a humble attitude and professionalism should be there), but dude had no effect, comes at 12PM the very next day, missing the scrum call again. Was scolded many times, but didn’t have effect on him. 50k/per month stipend, completely wasted.