What's your worst ice breaker 🤣 ?

Does anyone do welcome gifts at the beginning of client engagements and/or goodbye/congratulation gifts when a matter concludes? If so, what do you give away?

Need advice. Very Shy guy and girl, met a while back for a side hustle both like each other a LOT, relationship has progressed in other areas but not in the physical realm, primarily because neither officially asked the other out. Guy is a very rough around edges, asked for a date by saying ‘anytime you need breakfast or lunch, let me know’. I am an independent gal and didn’t like the way it came across. I really want to take this forward but am out of ideas on how to make a date happen.

Looking to get some new knives to rebuild my set. Interested in brands and types of knives y’all are cooking with

Anyone have a good restaurant for a private room dinner or a good din for 8-10 people? Looking to celebrate engagement with both sides of the family

Anyone been praying for something (or someone) for a long time (weeks, months, yrs) and it seems like nothing is happening/changing? I have and feeling really discouraged about it today. Anyone else?

How is the market for Oracle HCM (Absences and Time and Labor) Consultants in Toronto.

Hi Guys, I have 4.5 yrs of Automation experience. I have exp in Selenium, Java, katalon, protractor and cucumber. I also have a master's in software engineer from California and worked in US for 2.5yrs. I relocated to India couple years ago but I haven't been able to achieve the salary slab that I would like for my exp. Current CTC is 9lpa.
What should I do or change about my approach for a better salary?

Who wins between Clemson and Alabama?

Hi everyone,
I am a new joiner @ Coforge, joined on Nov 15th and still waiting for project allocation. What is the resource pool/bench policy for a new joiner, can anyone please help on this?

I'm a Sales recruiter currently recruiting telecom and UCaaS and am trying to get a salary and OTE range for people who sell Cyber Security solutions related to Overlay. If anyone can provide me with some insight I'd be very appreciative. If you don't want to comment directly, feel free to DM me.

Any tips on a step by step game plan for finding a new job as an associate ASAPPP?

AMZN buy more or hold?

I am a technology trainer for MERN and MEAN stack. My current CTC is 9Lac, should i consider switching.
Am I underpaid or is the CTC justified.? I have 6YOE

Is IB worth the sacrifice of WLB? Obvious pay is really good but are the prestige and pay worth it if you’re planning on only doing it for a couple years?

Currently working at an IRA with great WLB. Honestly I love my job, the firm, and people I work with.

Also doing MBA part time at a T15 school. Thinking about switching to IB but I’ve done my research and I think I would burn out of IB in two years but I might be ok with that for the opportunities after.

any telltale signs of layoffs in tiger?

Random thought non related to agile, why do people put the whole the email in the subject line ? 😐 😮‍💨

At my company, the conventional wisdom is that agile projects aren’t deadline-driven. What’s your experience? Do you drive projects based on a target date?

Question for the bowl: what is your current role are you practicing agile delivery and any tips for the agile fishes out there?

Interesting topic: Agile community, there are conflicting thoughts around measuring teams velocity, the spanner comes from many organizations using metrics to micro manage teams, are you pro or against?

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Last week team dynamics took a turn for the worst (even tho in each retro the team always commend each other, you would think team work is great). Team members get agitated with each other for being slow. Team members coming across rude and brash (the same ones are difficult to get hold to offer support, time is money is what someone said💰, the craziest was the client accidently sharing her whatsapp screen, commenting on people's feedback to what she was presenting OMG 😲 How was your week?

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