Advaith
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@OjasSharma276 My office is like some 25kms away.After returning back home my body feels squeezed & tired .The only thing I could do is eat and sleep. No time for learning expect on weekends(I have only alternate Sat holiday 🥲)
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Honestly, once I reach home after coming back from the office, I know for a fact that I can’t do anything related to studying.
It’s tiring, I don’t know why, but it happens only on Mondays.
How do people manage to crack crazy things while working full time?
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so @drxddy, my previous cofounder and flatmate, has left bengaluru to permanently move to hyderabad to take on family responsibilities.
we first met when i was hiring for my previous yc company i used to work for. he was the only one hired after 100+ interviews. insanely technical and talented. official contributor to the dart compiler and flutter repo. his code runs on your apps.
he has taught me most of the low-level programming that i know today. the most natural, nerdy, and insanely product-first-minded person i have ever met.
eventually we thought we could see if we complement each other and decided to stay together under the same roof.
we wanted to scale folksable, we had great traction: thousands of users, a 4.7 rating, and most users from the us, the uk, russia, and ukraine. we wanted to scale to the west and eventually, with enough of a marketing budget, move into the south asian markets.
we were ready, but in early 2025, something happened in our professional lives that changed our focus. we experienced something that 21-year-olds never want to experience.
we eventually decided to leave our previous company and started searching for better opportunities. i landed at atomicwork, and he at dashtoon.
at dashtoon, he helped scale from 8k downloads to 40m downloads in under 6 months and was critical to the team. his product-first and metric-first insights were remarkable for growing the user base.
we stayed together, but by then we had lost focus on folksable and were probably burned out as well.
today, we are both in comfortable places in US based remote roles and are happy with what we have found.
grateful for everything he has taught me over the years.
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@Abhinavstwt Damnn man , if I had this kind of setup I wouldn’t move out of my room ..
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@astrosumitbajaj Advaith Mahendrakar DOB: 30-03-2004 11:30 am
Place : Hyderabad
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Today for next 45 mins to an hour or so, you may ask question by providing your Date, time and place of birth here.
Shall try my best to provide answer or give a one-liner prediction based on horoscope.
Kindly Comment and RT the quoted tweet using hashtag #astrosumitbajaj
#astrosumitbajaj #Astrology
Sumit Bajaj (Astrologer)@astrosumitbajaj
Sridevi’s Death — Astrology Explains What Really Happened Most people accepted “accidental drowning.” But when you decode her horoscope layer by layer… ➡️ Timing ➡️ Place ➡️ Cause Everything was precisely indicated. Let’s go deep 👇 #Sridevi #astrology #astrosumitbajaj
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Nobody told me a 21 year old from India could be a founding engineer at a US startup.
Good thing nobody told me.
First salary just credited 💸
I am so cooked if this is a dream 😭
Krishna@KrishXCodes
2 years ago I had no real experience. Today my first full-time job is Founding AI/ML Engineer at a US startup. No fancy background. Just consistency and a lot of building. Here’s the real story 👇
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Just a recap of what happened on Hanuman jayanti last year
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True, the gap is massive.
I know a 2 YOE guy pulling 1.5Cr+
and even a fresher at 2.4Cr remote role.
And more folks like this in my network.
At the same time, plenty of 8 to 10+ YOE folks stuck at 12-25 LPA in service-based or low-growth setups.
The real differentiators:
- Awareness: Knowing what’s possible (levels.fyi, Blind, targeted upskilling in AI/ML/Systems/Quant) and actively job hunting every 1.5–2 years.
- Deliberate effort: Grinding LeetCode/HLD/ system design, building depth in high-demand areas, shipping visible impact, and getting comfortable with interviews.
Luck plays a role (right company at the right time, good manager, market boom), and yes; some high earners lack insane depth but rode the wave well. But the low-salary high-experience group often stays in comfort zones, avoids interviews due to anxiety, or sticks to loyalty in places where raises are 4-8% max.
The original post nails it: switching smartly compounds way faster than tenure in one place. Most people underestimate how much consistent action + market awareness moves the needle.
What has bee your biggest salary jump factor - switching, upskilling, or something else?
SumitM@SumitM_X
I know a 3 years experienced guy getting 48 LPA ... And also a TCS top performer who reached ~12 LPA in 7 years ...
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Joined Razorpay as Principal Engineer II :)
From being a long-time customer to now building parts of the system - it's a full circle. Fintech is a new territory for me - time to get under the hood of how money actually moves.
New domain, same guarantees - availability, correctness, performance - just with real money on the line.
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