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For two years Ishaan did excellent work and waited. That was the plan, roughly: keep the quality high, and somebody in the Hyderabad office...

Ranjan - September 21, 2026

Career Advice

For two years Ishaan did excellent work and waited. That was the plan, roughly: keep the quality high, and somebody in the Hyderabad office...

Ranjan - September 21, 2026

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Karthik counted. That is what he told me in Vizag, sitting with a phone full of other people's announcements. Two batchmates promoted, one abroad,...

Ranjan - September 21, 2026

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Think about what actually fills your week. Not your title, the tasks. My cousin Nithya did this exercise in Coimbatore last year and found...

Ranjan - September 21, 2026

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There is a specific kind of tired that has nothing to do with sleep. Meena described it to me in Kochi as the feeling...

Ranjan - September 21, 2026

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"Nobody had that job title when I started looking." My friend Devika told me that in Bengaluru last year, about eighteen months after she...

Ranjan - September 21, 2026

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"It did in four minutes what used to take me half a day." My cousin Sana said that over dinner in Pune, eight years...

Ranjan - September 21, 2026

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Rohan took his first job because it paid twelve percent more than the other offer. Fourteen months later he was doing work he could...

Ranjan - September 21, 2026

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Meera applied to nine jobs in three weeks and then stopped for two months. Not because anyone rejected her. She read a posting asking...

Ranjan - September 21, 2026

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My sister found her first accounts job in 2016 by walking into four offices in Andheri with printed resumes. Two of them interviewed her...

Ranjan - September 21, 2026

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