Career growth

If I were to list down the most common career mistakes people make, this one will perhaps take the top spot. And it is also one of the most fatal ones, so definitely deserves a post of its own. A short story first I met Aman recently. Like most engineers, he didn’t choose to be… Continue reading Candid Career Tip: Your career is a marathon, not a sprint

We wrote about the fast rise of Customer Success roles in India a while back. Personally, we at CutShort are big fans of the Customer Success function. We started focusing on this around 6 months back and have continuously improved our systems and processes since then. This focus has also led our team to join… Continue reading Report: Customer Success is emerging fast in India

Yesterday India celebrated its 71st anniversary of independence. This momentous occasion had Nikunj, our CEO, thinking over the idea of “freedom”, as applied to our professionals lives. Below, we are producing an email he shared with all the wonderful CutShort users yesterday. If you like it, please share it with the people you care about.… Continue reading Are you really free?

Employee Stock Option Plans (ESOPs) are not new in India. Infosys famously offered generous options to their employees and made hundreds of first time millionaires. It’s been several years since then and barring a few exceptions, there haven’t been success stories where employees got to share the wealth they contributed to building. There was a… Continue reading ESOPs: Understanding stock options in startup companies

We interact with thousands of professionals every week. Every now and then someone would ask about opportunities in blockchain area and we would send them the list of some blockchain companies hiring in India currently. But we sensed something was missing. We found that most professionals were confused by the recent cryptocurrencies hype and wondered… Continue reading Here’s what you missed in India’s largest online blockchain gathering

If you are here, I believe that you have a strong interest to understand what it takes to become a Data Scientist. I am writing this post because I see a tremendous amount of people in a dilemma and there is absolutely no information out there, but just countless articles on what online courses you… Continue reading No-nonsense guide to get into data science

I still remember when I joined my first job. In our office campus, there were people with 10, even 12 years experience.  They were easy to recognize by their id cards that had become pale yellow in contrast to our sparkling white ones.  They seemed to know how the industry worked and were deeply valued by… Continue reading Your high experience isn't an asset anymore

No wonder that diversified job opportunities, high growth rate, lucrative packages makes full stack developer as one of the most in demand jobs. If you are a full stack developer who wondered: What is my market worth? Which city pays the most for my experience? How much salary I should offer to hire a full… Continue reading Salary insights for a full stack developer in India

Almost every company today is trying/wants to scale up their AI & ML capabilities to innovate and make their offerings user friendly. Be it in recruitment, e-commerce, finance, customer success or education. AI is creating a deep impact in all industries and our daily lives. The demand for AI & ML professionals is huge today… Continue reading Top Artificial Intelligence (AI) & Machine Learning (ML) Companies Hiring in 2018