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OTC CatchUp #88

Date: 16-07-2022

Duration: 5 hrs 47 mins

Topics Discussed

  • General introductions.

  • We had a discussion about current position of IBM in industry with Smit Jethva.

    • It currently has 2 sections i.e. Product and Services

      • Product section works on the product development and marketing of IBM products which is majorly cloud infrastructure.

    • Though the company has a good work culture, understanding an old code base sometimes becomes tedious.

  • Darshan Rander shared his experience of working with United Bank of Switzerland (UBS) as an intern.

    • Interview process was straightforward. Colleagues were helpful and he enjoyed working with UBS.

  • Vatsal Patel shared that he would be moving to Triage Team in Activision

    • He also talked about the visa approval process for US, which was one of the reasons for his busy schedule.

  • We talked about Game development and some familiar Open World games like Grand Theft Auto (GTA).

  • Saifuddin Saifee asked few questions and suggestions for his community:

    • How to influence the community to try development?

    • How to be inclusive and what does it mean to be inclusive?

    • One needs to learn to say NO in order to be a good community leader.

    • One needs to be a part of community and get views of people from community members.

    • Vedant Panchal requested him to keep workshops in hybrid mode so that more people could learn from it.

    • One does not need to do everything perfectly and cannot please everyone.

    • Build a safe space where people can ask questions and get answers.

    • Aditya Oberai suggested that exclusion generally happens when someone from inside the group feels excluded.

  • Darshan Rander asked how Aditya Oberai, Smit Jethva and others find connection and meet new people. They said it happens when you meet same faces at a lot of meetups and events.

  • We had some experimentation with DALL•E 2 generating some images, and few of them are listed below:

  • Aditya Oberai shared some tips about how one should build their team for hackathon and also shared an article on Hackathon todos 101.

    • One should select problem statements which they face in their day to day life and then try to solve it.

  • Darshan Rander shared his opinions about how Google is dissolving it’s Google Developer Expert (GDE) and Google Developer Student Community (GDSC) tag reputation by providing it to a lot of people.

Attendees

  1. Aditya Oberai

  2. Abhijeet Chauhan

  3. Anam Ansari

  4. Ashwin Kumar Uppala

  5. Darshan Rander

  6. Hardik Raheja

  7. Jaden Furtado

  8. Kaustubh Khavnekar

  9. Pratik Thakare

  10. Sahil Prasad

  11. Saifuddin Saifee

  12. Saurabh Kumar Suryan

  13. Siddharth Bhatia

  14. Sreekaran Srinath

  15. Smit Jethva

  16. Tanay Kamath

  17. Tushar Nankani

  18. Vatsal Patel

  19. Vedant Panchal

  20. Abhishek Kumar

  21. Austin J. Anderson

  22. Hiten Gerella

  23. Huzefa Dohadwala

  24. Jugal Ghia

  25. Manthan Parsekar

  26. Moksh Dalu

Meet Screenshot

Meet #88 screenshot
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