Looking to connect with folks who actively work in 'legacy-ish' / niche stacks like COBOL, modern Fortran, Ada, Verilog, Erlang/Elixir, Perl.
If you’ve shipped real systems in any of these (or know someone who has), my DMs are open – want to route you to some interesting opportunities.
If you haven't, please 🔁 for good karma.
1/ Most people “prepare for interviews”.
If you’re aiming for top spots like @Rippling , @databricks , @stripe , @nvidia , @Razorpay , @JioHotstar etc, you may need to rebuild yourself for that bar.
Here’s the PLAYBOOK for 0–5 YOE folks in India.
Save this. 🔖
Been an honour to play a small part in this journey 👀🙂🎥
619 Million Views, 65.2 Million Peak Concurrency, handled…!
Looking forward to breaking more records and building deeper tech…
Yeah bro, just sprinkle ‘India’ on the sentence to become cool - zero research.
The global tech-education space is far more exploitative than most people imagine, but taking cheap shots at “India” somehow feels cooler.
Some quick facts:
- LeetCode did ~$33.7M last year. Hardly any videos, just by selling mostly company-tagged questions. Select “Google” on the list, and you will find “palindrome” 🤣 They smartly sell you pattern questions and you get a similar question. But it’s a foreign brand, so they must be right.
- Mock interviews cost $100–$300 per session.
- Salary-negotiation advice is sold for ~$100.
- Recorded AI courses go for $1,000–$2,000.
- Provoking ad’s “wanna be a swe at google”. Oops sorry, creative.
I am not even getting into the quality or customer support. It’s pathetic.
So yes, there are bad actors in the Indian market too, no one’s denying that. Some people have absolutely capitalised on insecurity, and they deserve to be called out.
But casually attaching a country’s name to look smart is not done here.
If you don’t want to pay to learn, that’s a personal choice. You can avoid it completely. No one forces you to.
People do pay for convenience. Almost every product you use today exists because of that.
Most of my Class 10 friends are now posted in the Indian Army across India.
Feeling so proud of them 🇮🇳
After a few days, I’m going to meet them all… Seeing them in uniform makes me so happy and proud! 💂♂️💪
Jai hind 🇮🇳
@adgpi