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Updated hiring pages

We have moved our hiring pages from our blog to a separate section on the main portal itself.   We did it because we wanted to share a more thorough view of the workplace, our expectations and the positions that we are looking to hire for.  To understand more about how we hire, the work [...]

The PG Song – We’re rocking!

Here’s to all the friendships we’ve made on PaGaLGuY, all the people on the forums who’ve become important to our lives and the force that PaGaLGuY has become in all our lives in the last seven years. We finally recorded The PaGaLGuY Song – until now performed live only at the All India PaGaLGuY Meet [...]

Learning : Need based or Ad-hoc

Many a times I have wondered whether human minds are attuned to learning in organizational setups in a way that makes them personally grow into amazing individual talents.
As far as I have read and have seen through my experience, I have seen that there belongs a “majority” category that’d have to be pushed to learn [...]

A Wednesday with a Camera and Photoshop

What started as a harmless photoshoot for the office ID cards eventually resulted in what you see below.

The complete story of the above and more PaGaLGuY HQ outtakes in the Scribd document below!
 
PaGaLGuY – A Wednesday
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Work hard, Wii harder!

Earlier this week our office gizmo factor skyrocketed with Allwin bringing in…
1. A 32-inch LCD TV
2. An XBOX 360
… and hold your breath…
3. A Nintendo Wii !

Yes, we are probably one of the very few owners of a Wii in India. Take a two minute pause to feel extremely jealous.
The gadgets are bringing in major [...]

A morning with the Naukri.com CEO at PGHQ

Naukri.com (Infoedge) CEO Sanjeev Bikhchandani at the PaGaLGuY HeadQuarters!

Now it’s not quite normal behavior for us to show up at office as early as 9 am, unless the reasons are as compelling as an opportunity to meet the man behind one of India’s biggest dotcom success stories – Sanjeev Bikhchandani, Founder and CEO of Naukri.com.
Staying [...]

My Tryst with Mumbai – On moving to Mumbai to work for a startup

It has been more than 6 months since i came to Mumbai for the first time, without knowing anyone except 1 or 2 friends who themselves came to the city few months back. So i am penning down my tryst with Mumbai after coming to the city without any idea of how to survive at [...]

Return of the Ringmaster

May witnessed multiple comings and goings of many an eclectic nature. Resident marketing Chutney-Sandbytch Divya left for her dream school MICA. Her farewell dinner at Leopold Cafe left Rohit bankrupt. Yes, the penalty on cracking poor jokes has finally found its way into the office code of conduct.
But before that, the Chief Pagal, The Boss [...]

BEST too goes Pagal

Heritage walking with my Nikon D80 from Malabar Hill to Walkeshwar, and well well, what do we have here (see image)?
Thanks to a career event by Sydenham College, the PaGaLGuY.com ‘mg’ logo is on a BEST bus!

Passion for work over employer

Kathy on Creating Passionate Users argues that if employees who are passionate about their work ‘were NOT doing this as their job, they would still do something related to it as a hobby’. As opposed to those passionate for their company, who ‘accept (and use) phrases like, “this is what corporate needs us to [...]