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The Head Of Product Design At Facebook Shares 3 Important Lessons About Design

March 15, 2016March 15, 2016 Guest Author

The times they are a changing. Especially within the tech industry, it is becoming increasingly important to be aware of what goes into making a good product. Product designers come in many forms. UI & UX designers, graphic designers, data scientists, business analysts they all serve as part of the product design team. They are here to help you identify, investigate, and validate the problem, and ultimately craft, design, test and ship the solution.

So, who other than the head of product design at a product we all use, and is ubiquitous is every way. Luke Woods, head of product design at Facebook, shares the 3 important lessons he’s learnt at Facebook.

Why The Pricebaba Offline Model Failed: Our Learnings And Journey

March 15, 2016March 15, 2016 Guest Author

As I sit down to write this blog entry on why our offline model failed, a realization sets in. All the hundreds of conversations with mentors, friends, colleagues and investors across the globe over the last three years discussing this business is now seeing a closure.

A Facebook Engineer Elaborates How To Prepare For An Interview At Facebook

March 14, 2016September 4, 2021 Guest Author

A software engineer at Facebook, who’s been a successful convert at both Facebook and Google draws up an elaborate plan to ace an interview at Facebook within a month.

How The Lack Of Fraud-Free Matrimony Sites Led Me To Build Truejodi

March 14, 2016December 13, 2021 Guest Author

The inspiration to start up came when friends and family who used matrimonial sites to seek matrimonial alliances, often cribbed about fakes and frauds on those sites. While matrimony is quite an important life decision, you often get bumped into a lot of fakes. Having seen this happen with close family and friends, I thought that no matrimonial site was looking at authenticating profiles. This led me to build Truejodi – a reliable place to find a 100% verified match.

How We Are Building Spinny

March 13, 2016December 13, 2021 Guest Author

Spinny’s story started from a conversation over coffee. Ramanshu and I were casually remarking on how many of our friends had bought used cars and how the experience has always been a very complex process.

MagicBricks Launches An Online Auction To Buy Homes In Bengaluru

March 12, 2016March 14, 2016 Guest Author

Buying a home is usually a painful process as it involves excessive research on locality and pricing, high knowledge of rules, regulations, technicalities and operational challenges.

But MagicBricks is attempting to shake things up in this sector, and the transformation is starting with Bengaluru.

I Got Fired From Facebook And This Is What It Was Like

March 10, 2016May 17, 2017 Guest Author

A first-hand description of the reason, the process involved when the author got fired for violating a policy, from Facebook, Menlo Park, CA. He describes the shock and trauma he went through, but eventually moved on and built a life yet again.

8 Important Budget Announcements About Income Tax Every Professional Should Know

March 7, 2016November 25, 2020 Guest Author

The union budget has been declared and and the average individual must be wondering how things are going to change for them in the financial year 2016-17. Over 180 announcements were made which would make it somewhat difficult to keep track of the really relevant ones. Hence, we analyzed the budget for 2016 and summarized the relevant announcements. The 8 announcements listed below are the most noteworthy topics of the budget that you should be aware of.

6 Ways to Tell if Your Resume is Your Weakest Link

March 2, 2016November 20, 2019 Guest Author

Considering the average recruiter spends 5 to 7 seconds to read a resume, as a job seeker you’re privileged with a time-frame not much longer than the blink of an eye in which to convince the reader your document doesn’t deserve to be binned. Ouch, that’s gotta hurt! Here’s some egregious mistakes people commonly make with their resumes.