Disney isn’t the happiest place in the world at the moment. 250 of its workers have been laid off, and HCL employees with H1-B visas have taken their place. The Disney workers have had to perform the unenviable task of training their replacements.
Finance internships are known to be famously brutal, and a leaked email from Wall Street has only served to confirm this. Justin Kwan, a second year Analyst at Barclays, sent out an email to the bright-eyed young college graduates about to join the company for its internship program. Ominously titled “Welcome to the jungle”, the email lists the 10 commandments that an intern needs to follow if they wish to succeed in the cutthroat world of investment banking.
It was 2:40 am on a warm San Francisco night. Sarvshreshth Gupta called his father, sitting thousands of miles away in New Delhi, India. “It is too much. I have not slept for two days. I have a client meeting tomorrow morning, I have to complete a presentation, my V.P. is annoyed and I am working alone in my office,” he said. His father was understandably concerned. Sarvshreshth was working as an Analyst at Goldman Sachs, and had recently been complaining about his workload.
Zomato, which had acquired food listing website Urbanspoon for $60 million earlier this year, has officially announced that it’s shutting the website. All users which will attempt to log on to UrbanSpoon will now to redirected to the Zomato.
Thousands of Europeans are working at fake companies to keep themselves busy as the continent battles with an economic crisis.
Zeeshan Shah, the Mumbai youth who was denied a job with a terse email saying that the the company he’s applied to “only hired non-Muslim candidates, has received a job offer from the Adani group.
Offices today are getting cooler. Google has a floor-long slide in its Zurich office, Facebook’s office has an in-house hair salon, and LivePerson’s office has hammocks to kick back and relax in. But these embellishments pale in comparison with what NetDragon Websoft, a Chinese gaming company has done to its office. It’s made the entire building in the shape of the USS Enterprise.
Story of an exciting and bold Indian startup that aims to help you get high
Housing.com has acquired Realty BI, a Delhi based startup that deals with business intelligence in the real estate space, for Rs. 12-24 crore. This is Housing.com’s second major acquisition this year, after it had snapped up Indian Real Estate Forum for Rs. 8 crore in March. Here’s a detailed look at the newest member of the Housing family.