I remember reading something very interesting about why parents are so concerned about their daughters staying out or partying late, but being lenient with sons of the same age. The point made was that parents don’t get to share in the good parts of a daughter going out with a …
Read Quote of Siddharth Deswal’s answer to Web Applications: What is the step-by-step description of running an A/B test? on Quora
Close friend of mine went to a New year’s party. He was looking for some action but got none. This poem was written by him but he shall remain anonymous because he didn’t want future employers to see this in case they googled his name. So, ladies and gentlemen, I …
Here’s an interesting phenomenon across Indian b-schools: everyone wants to be doing some kind of “strategy”. You ask a fresh-as-fuck 22 year old engineering grad what his latest live project is, he’ll say “brand strategy”. Or ask the 27 year old with 4 years experience in Infosys/HCL/Accenture/Wipro/Cognizant/you-get-my-gist, and he’ll say …
Many students in b-school find it very difficult to clearly understand the concepts of segmentation, targeting and positioning. Segmentation is easy, most grasp it immediately. After all, segmentation is simply slotting things together based on certain shared characteristics. Take Airbnb.com for example. It’s users can be divided into two primary segments: those …
Just came across this and it pissed me off so bad I had to make a quick image out of this. If any of you are baiting and switching your visitors, please stop doing it because it’s one massive mindfuck. Was reading an article on Forbes.com when something interesting caught …
Read Quote of Siddharth Deswal’s answer to Indian Institutes of Technology: Why does an IIT graduate really need to do MBA from one of the top universities? on Quora
Read Quote of Siddharth Deswal’s answer to Jesus: Was Jesus just another yogi? on Quora
Have recently joined a startup and this is a humourous take on life from my perspective. All views are my own and I’m the MBA.
Have had enough of people treating the IITs (and the IIMs) as something sacred that cannot be touched. Fanaticism of any kind is unwanted, and after seeing this meme at www.iitbakar.com, decided to do something about it.
We hear a lot of passionate debate against reservations based on caste in higher education in India. However, there must be some logic to reservations except vote-bank politics. Here is my attempt at listing a few of those reasons, and why I believe such reservations are necessary in our country. …
Once upon a time I wanted to get in to MICA. After receiving an interview call, I decided to look up some alumni. Out of the many I sent friend requests to, only Siddharth Soni replied. We’ve been friends ever since. Siddharth recently wrote a blog post asking “How much …
A few months ago, I interviewed with Flipkart for a job. They threw me out after the second (and final) round of interviews. I was really hoping to get through, and to shore up my candidature I decided to create a show-and-tell before the d-day. It was some work/project and …
Viswas Iyer is a Business Analyst working with A3Logics in Jaipur. A3Logics provides IT solutions to customers worldwide and has about 350 employees on its rolls. Viswas is a high performer who was recently awarded Employee of the Month and is known to engage very well with clients from Europe …
So here it is, the 2 minute guide to having an awesome professional and personal life. Simple stuff that I’ve come across on various blogs and websites. Almost all of it is research backed but I don’t remember the references. Will link to them as and when. 1) Professional - You …