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Shameless plug -> https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/moving-management-mahesh-guru... . I use this with everyone on my team who wants to explore the management path. Happy to chat more…

Amazon AWS is something that you should definitely look into. AWS is always hiring!

I am noodling on an idea to make the data that people use to make voting decisions more transparent. Any pol sci majors out there willing to answer my questions/potentially collabo…

I network. I will get coffee with folks (managers, ICs, Execs) who I randomly bump into in meetings, code reviews, fire drills etc and find out what they are working on, future job…

If you really want to go with the startup, I recommend offering to pay back the money the tech company is spending on doing your visa transfer. This might keep a thin bridge alive …

If it's difficult to prove one way or the other, why do you care which option is chosen? Just pick one! if it doesn't work once released into production, pick something else! Remov…

Raises are basically useless to depend on these days as a way of increasing your income. In my 15 year career, I have seen an average of 2-3% raise and the highest I have seen is 1…

I can write code and manage engineering teams/projects/scrums. I am looking for a engineering manager/lead type role where I have the opportunity to lead and grow a small team of e…

Email is mahesh.gkumar@gmail.com. Didn't know that emails in the profiles are not public.

I can write code and manage engineering teams/projects/scrums. I am looking for a engineering manager/lead type role where I have the opportunity to lead and grow a small team of e…

There are a lot of paid options...like Rational Asset Manager, Oracle eAM etc. The only OSS option that I have seen so far is http://www.fedora-commons.org/ .

I would absolutely engage... IF the senior management is committed to changing the status quo and is ready to invest money and time into the effort and is ready to make changes (in…

A foreign worker can form an LLC in the US. You can also sponsor an H1B visa for a founder IF you can satisfy the employee employer relationship criteria (more http://www.uscis.gov…

Interesting idea...not sure how much it applies to me. I have my product (www.petworkslabs.com) up and running on basic bootstrap but feels it needs a bit of UX work. I can give yo…

I have tried using "match-making" sites before without much luck, but I personally feel that the best founders are folks who know each other (college, work etc) and have been in th…

HN is a community of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacker_(programmer_subculture) and not http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacker_(computer_security)

Few thoughts... 1. Your site is very confusing to me. Maybe a quick tutorial would be helpful? 2. Lot of UI quirks (as the other person has pointed out) 3. Why would I use your sit…

I think your analogy is incorrect. When you get your oil changed, you are the customer and the person changing your oil does get monitored by his boss (manager), to make sure he do…

I wish all companies who ask their candidates to solve a coding exercise give honest feedback like this after the end of the interview. Most times its just the canned 'Sorry you ar…

I quit cold turkey, but it took me a couple of tries to stick to it. I never thought about replacing it with anything. I just kept thinking about how I couldn't climb 2 flights of …

Form an LLC with your friends in the US (who are legal residents). Make sure that you form a board which has the authority to fire you (this is needed for the h1b employee employer…

Then IMO, it should say that on your site :) and some reasonable explanation on how you landed on that number.

Pray tell, why is ruby a terrible choice? You can get a basic website up and running with Rails in less than 10 mins.

It bothers me when I see statements like '10x faster' ...10x faster than what? Hand coding? Using some other library?