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What Would Buddha Do - Part 4
Here's the last part in the series of What Would Buddha Do At Work! Today, we have some wisdom on hiring, morale, conflict resolution and turning around. After…
What Would Buddha Do - Part 3
Continuing in the series, here's what Buddha would have said about being an employer, effectively handling customers and capital & assets. - Assign work…
Happy 9th Anniversary
This is a letter to all Magneteers, past, present and future! Dear Magneteers, Congratulations on Magnet's 9th Anniversary. We have completed 9 eventful years…
What Would Buddha Do - Part 2
I wrote about What Would Buddha Do to Become an Enlightened Worker earlier. Continuing in the series, here's what he would do to create and expand superb…
In search of the best project management system
Over the last 8 years, we have used various systems to manage our software development projects. From paper sheets, to diaries, to home grown task and calendar…
IT Engineer Skills are neither tested nor sufficient
Was going through my pending stack of magazines this Sunday and made a lot of interesting observations. RedHerring says India's IT industry keeps booming, and…
Magnet HackFest01 Report
And it is over! We completed Magnet's first HackFest at 5pm today. A bunch of hackers came together on 23rd December at 5pm, and hacked internals of systems,…
The Asterisk Saga
We worked on an Asterisk setup project two weekends ago. It was a rocking experience. And Ameya, one of the heroes in the story, has written up a nice saga on…
Ethics and HR in large companies - mutually exclusive?
Two guys from our QA section broke their contract and joined L10NBridge last month. First, one guy disappeared (called up the morning and said I am not coming!)…
Monthly Reviews - lessons from September
First Tuesday of every month, is a review day for us at Magnet. We meet individual teams, discuss about the previous month and set out goals for the current…
Ego and Engineers
Excerpts from The Dilbert Principle by Scott Adams Ego-wise, two things are important to engineers: a) how smart they are, b) how many cool devices they own.…
Chocolates day, New office work
We celebrated chocolates day in Magnet today. It was quite a blast. When HR emailed people about it on Tuesday, waves started. Here's what Sarita said: Hello…
Making a difference
We had a colleague who was not performing upto my expectations. He broke his promises and did not seem to put in enough efforts. Seemed like he was taking…
Magnet's Saturday Blast - Events, Organization and Feedback
It is one week after the Saturday blast today. Ashok has narrated the day extremely well, so let me quickly summarize the events we organized and a few quotes…
Trusting your employees, to do or not to do
About three years back, I went to Germany to attend CeBIT. Magnet was doing very well and we were looking at new markets. There was a strong team in place and…