hiring on S Anand

Wed, 18 Jun 2025 10:37:40 +0000

I would shortlist any candidate who sends me interesting GitHub repos from their portfolio. I reject every candidate who sends me a CV anyway

Sun, 24 Mar 2024 14:39:01 +0000

Oh, wonderful! They’re keen to get in. Wise enough to take help. Honest enough not to be able to cover it up. Sounds like a good hire!

Tue, 11 Oct 2022 07:36:45 +0000

Dear Alumni 🙂,

A strategy consulting firm is looking for a senior person in advanced analytics at an associate partner level.

Ideally someone who has come from data scientist route but has developed into business minded.

If you’re interested or know anyone who is, please mail me at s.anand@gramener.com.

Thu, 22 Jul 2021 16:01:21 +0000

Is your code built to last? Mohammed Niyas P shares a developer war story.

His shortcut worked. It delivered working code. But 5 years later, when it failed, he didn’t expect he’d still be around to clean it up.

https://gramener.com/developerwarstories/this-tech-debt-made-me-humble

Found this tale on technical debt interesting? Gramener is #hiring #developers for a technical lead role. See https://gramener.com/job/?id=90520

Nikhil Kabbin – your story’s up next 😉

Wed, 21 Apr 2021 12:01:05 +0000

We are looking for a Chief Sales Officer. (For Princeton, New Jersey.)

Do you ensure clients get value from what you sell?

Do you have the energy to go after partners and logos relentlessly?

Do you feel the thrill of using data to tell stories?

Are you game to take a $10m data company to $50m?

We would like to talk to you. Please visit 👇

https://gramener.com/job/?id=90554

Mon, 08 Mar 2021 08:17:12 +0000

Daksh India is an NGO that works with legal & political data – such as every single legal case in India.

They’re looking for a senior #datascientist who can explore such data and publish visual insights. What I like about such roles is that it allows you to publish your work and build your portfolio.

You could apply at https://dakshindia.org/work-with-us/ (via Surya Prakash B S)

Recruiting smart people in practice

Sat, 26 Feb 2011 09:51:40 +0000

Find people.

Search on github by location and skill.
Anand’s blog comments

Reach out to people.

Have a standard set of template, and track the template’s success.

Talent Wars

Mon, 31 Oct 2005 12:00:00 +0000

Talent wars. The interesting part was the first three paragraphs.

Flying on the Delta Shuttle with Bill Gates 12 years ago, I asked, “What Microsoft competitor worries you most?”

“Goldman Sachs.” I gave Gates a startled look. Was Microsoft about to try the investment banking business? “Software,” he said, “is an IQ business. Microsoft must win the IQ war, or we won’t have a future. I don’t worry about Lotus or IBM, because the smartest guys would rather come to work for Microsoft. Our competitors for IQ are investment banks such as Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley.”

I spent five days traveling the country with Gates, and he must have talked about IQ a hundred times. Getting the brightest bulbs to work at Microsoft has always been his obsession. It’s paid off. Microsoft does close to $40 billion in sales and has some 60,000 employees. That’s a whopping $650,000-plus of revenue per employee, topping IBM’s sales per employee twofold.

Along comes Google, with its revenue run rate of $6 billion and about 4,000 employees. Google’s sales per employee are $1.5 million, or 2.3 times that of Microsoft. This is like comparing Babe Ruth to Home Run Baker. Google now beats Microsoft in the IQ war.

Comments

Jayant 3 Nov 2005 2:46 am: Just an opinion. I think there is subtle difference between the two talents. Both are sharp but one is more commercially driven. I do think lot of behaviour changes happen due to that orientation

Smart people are not so special

Thu, 27 Feb 2003 12:00:00 +0000

Gladwell on The Talent Myth. Maybe smart people aren’t as special as they’re made out to be.

Technical skills in demand

Mon, 25 Nov 2002 12:00:00 +0000

What technical skills are in demand? Just a quick sketchy search by Keith. Intruiging that the top 3 technologies in demand are SQL, UNIX and Oracle, followed by C and Java.