Meeting Title: Mather Moore Project Feedback and Availability Date: 2025-06-24 Meeting participants: Awaish Kumar, Luke Daque
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1 00:00:09.190 ⇒ 00:00:09.660 Luke Daque: Hello!
2 00:00:12.600 ⇒ 00:00:13.690 Awaish Kumar: How are you doing.
3 00:00:14.470 ⇒ 00:00:15.850 Luke Daque: Doing well, how are you.
4 00:00:19.320 ⇒ 00:00:21.420 Awaish Kumar: The voice is is slow.
5 00:00:23.470 ⇒ 00:00:25.670 Luke Daque: Hello? How about how about now?
6 00:00:26.050 ⇒ 00:00:27.429 Awaish Kumar: Yeah, now it’s fine.
7 00:00:30.280 ⇒ 00:00:31.300 Awaish Kumar: So good.
8 00:00:32.740 ⇒ 00:00:35.569 Awaish Kumar: Do you like to turn on the camera?
9 00:00:36.490 ⇒ 00:00:38.369 Luke Daque: Sure. Give me a second.
10 00:00:41.970 ⇒ 00:00:44.099 Awaish Kumar: If possible. It’s sharp.
11 00:00:46.130 ⇒ 00:00:46.805 Luke Daque: Yep.
12 00:00:47.480 ⇒ 00:00:50.760 Awaish Kumar: Okay, so how are things going.
13 00:00:51.820 ⇒ 00:00:55.260 Luke Daque: Yeah, everything is doing well so far, not too.
14 00:00:55.260 ⇒ 00:00:56.430 Luke Daque: Doesn’t have enough.
15 00:00:56.750 ⇒ 00:00:58.470 Awaish Kumar: Do you have enough on your plate?
16 00:00:59.640 ⇒ 00:01:03.490 Luke Daque: I think so mostly for Meta. What do you call this?
17 00:01:05.820 ⇒ 00:01:06.949 Luke Daque: Mather Moore.
18 00:01:07.710 ⇒ 00:01:11.009 Awaish Kumar: How much time you are spending on minimum, like per week.
19 00:01:12.080 ⇒ 00:01:17.689 Luke Daque: I guess, like I don’t know. For the past few weeks, maybe
20 00:01:18.740 ⇒ 00:01:23.210 Luke Daque: 10 or more, maybe 10 to 15 h, probably.
21 00:01:23.750 ⇒ 00:01:29.850 Awaish Kumar: Okay, so, but have you been working on anything else apart from that, like 15 h, maybe.
22 00:01:30.160 ⇒ 00:01:30.680 Luke Daque: Nope.
23 00:01:32.740 ⇒ 00:01:33.570 Awaish Kumar: Okay?
24 00:01:35.250 ⇒ 00:01:38.019 Awaish Kumar: And do you have capacity to work more.
25 00:01:38.390 ⇒ 00:01:39.060 Luke Daque: Yeah.
26 00:01:41.840 ⇒ 00:01:46.459 Awaish Kumar: Are you working? I don’t know. I don’t remember. Like, are you working somewhere else or not?
27 00:01:48.255 ⇒ 00:01:50.029 Luke Daque: At the moment. Yeah, I am.
28 00:01:50.730 ⇒ 00:01:54.550 Luke Daque: but it’s a different schedule, though, like afternoon, my time.
29 00:01:55.170 ⇒ 00:01:58.220 Awaish Kumar: Okay. No, no, that’s not a problem. I’m in the scope.
30 00:01:58.490 ⇒ 00:02:04.069 Awaish Kumar: I’m just understanding your availability. That’s for like one full time job. And then this right.
31 00:02:04.380 ⇒ 00:02:05.040 Luke Daque: Yeah.
32 00:02:05.840 ⇒ 00:02:12.550 Awaish Kumar: Okay? In that case, let’s that’s fine. And what about
33 00:02:16.750 ⇒ 00:02:21.739 Awaish Kumar: So are you able to manage it like quite well? Or how do you think.
34 00:02:22.210 ⇒ 00:02:27.829 Luke Daque: Yeah, I think I’ve like it’s doing well so far, like I was, I’m able to like manage both.
35 00:02:29.170 ⇒ 00:02:40.660 Awaish Kumar: So like I, I have a feedback for you, like on few items on like Hmm, number one, like
36 00:02:41.190 ⇒ 00:02:44.969 Awaish Kumar: we expect you to be more proactive
37 00:02:46.080 ⇒ 00:02:48.710 Awaish Kumar: in the channels. So you seem
38 00:02:49.190 ⇒ 00:02:55.539 Awaish Kumar: right now like it’s more like amber science you some stars, and you will finish it.
39 00:02:55.910 ⇒ 00:02:57.620 Awaish Kumar: And that’s all right.
40 00:02:58.010 ⇒ 00:03:03.150 Awaish Kumar: Yeah. You you let know. Let let know Amber know in the stand up. Or
41 00:03:03.550 ⇒ 00:03:33.389 Awaish Kumar: maybe if if she asked in zoom or in slack, then you’re like, let her know like what happened. But yeah, that’s where I think the gap is. What I’m receiving feedback is that they want you to be more proactive in in internal channels, but also in the client channels. So, for example, if there’s a question like some technique like, if you think there’s some question which is not really directly like you are not able to answer it.
42 00:03:35.340 ⇒ 00:03:47.789 Awaish Kumar: like something related to something other like other stuff like you can, and the amber is tagged. That’s okay. You can just leave it. But if you think a question about authentication
43 00:03:47.930 ⇒ 00:03:51.680 Awaish Kumar: and wow.
44 00:03:52.560 ⇒ 00:04:10.199 Awaish Kumar: like, forget to get the Dbt authentication or questions about some technical stuff, and you know that you think that you know the answer, or you can reply to that comment because you have the context. You know that, like something like that, go ahead.
45 00:04:11.500 ⇒ 00:04:14.260 Awaish Kumar: So like, be more proactive.
46 00:04:14.440 ⇒ 00:04:22.200 Awaish Kumar: like in the authentication channel. If you see okay, one day goes by, and they don’t reply, let’s follow up with them
47 00:04:22.620 ⇒ 00:04:32.439 Awaish Kumar: if the if the if the day goes by and they reply, but we don’t then like that’s also bad impression, like just reply to them what whatever they say.
48 00:04:32.600 ⇒ 00:04:33.300 Awaish Kumar: And
49 00:04:34.446 ⇒ 00:04:46.760 Awaish Kumar: whenever there’s technical talk, you you can go ahead like I’m I’m just trying to make you understand that it’s not that. Like only Amber is authorized to to compete in slack channel. It’s not like that. You can do that as well.
50 00:04:47.220 ⇒ 00:04:47.830 Awaish Kumar: So.
51 00:04:47.830 ⇒ 00:04:49.410 Luke Daque: Makes sense. Yeah.
52 00:04:51.024 ⇒ 00:05:01.229 Awaish Kumar: And you should do that because, like the expectation is that in in the consultancy forms, expectation is that engineers are able to technically talk to their clients.
53 00:05:01.570 ⇒ 00:05:02.460 Awaish Kumar: Oh.
54 00:05:02.740 ⇒ 00:05:16.140 Awaish Kumar: so, except that you need our help, like you need me to confirm something, review something, or there’s some technical thing which, like you alone cannot answer like the help need my help. You need thumbs help.
55 00:05:16.430 ⇒ 00:05:17.460 Awaish Kumar: You can
56 00:05:17.690 ⇒ 00:05:26.710 Awaish Kumar: escalate like you cannot leave that. That’s the point. Right? If there’s a message, and you think you can reply, reply, if you think you cannot reply, or you don’t know
57 00:05:27.250 ⇒ 00:05:34.320 Awaish Kumar: maybe in the like, come to the internal channel and escalate that. Okay, we got a message, but I don’t know how to answer it. Please help.
58 00:05:37.100 ⇒ 00:05:38.280 Luke Daque: Yeah, makes sense.
59 00:05:42.570 ⇒ 00:05:51.305 Awaish Kumar: That’s like what what everybody expects expecting from you on the and
60 00:05:52.660 ⇒ 00:05:58.880 Awaish Kumar: like being more proactive in in those 10 in the external plan channels, and also in the internal talks.
61 00:05:59.060 ⇒ 00:06:08.730 Awaish Kumar: internal things like if you if there’s a blocker, you sent a message and I didn’t reply, or I didn’t comment like you can escalate like. Follow up on that.
62 00:06:10.810 ⇒ 00:06:17.780 Awaish Kumar: And if you think there’s something you you are stuck like don’t wait for stand-ups to tell
63 00:06:18.730 ⇒ 00:06:23.250 Awaish Kumar: us that you’re blocked right just to let us know that your block wipes this service.
64 00:06:30.820 ⇒ 00:06:36.918 Awaish Kumar: So yeah, that’s the the like in terms of work. I think you are doing great like.
65 00:06:38.090 ⇒ 00:06:43.409 Awaish Kumar: we don’t have any issues with your analytics, engineering capabilities. We can build model.
66 00:06:43.530 ⇒ 00:06:47.300 Awaish Kumar: You can do everything on that part.
67 00:06:47.600 ⇒ 00:06:50.400 Awaish Kumar: Only thing we are just concerned about is, that
68 00:06:50.920 ⇒ 00:06:54.960 Awaish Kumar: is, this communication and collaboration between us.
69 00:06:55.370 ⇒ 00:07:02.189 Awaish Kumar: and then in the internal channels, internal day talks, and the external channels. If there are some generic questions like
70 00:07:02.945 ⇒ 00:07:07.630 Awaish Kumar: I don’t know. I just one of the examples. I don’t remember it right now. It was
71 00:07:09.840 ⇒ 00:07:19.350 Awaish Kumar: something about like. If if Amber initiated a talk about some synthetic data to like.
72 00:07:19.720 ⇒ 00:07:33.440 Awaish Kumar: Okay, hey, Trevor? These are the questions we would like to answer, and then they reply, and then you think, okay, their replies not like you don’t understand it fully, because what amber is going to do is just copy paste for you in the ticket.
73 00:07:33.630 ⇒ 00:07:49.190 Awaish Kumar: And then again, you have to say it. Okay, now, Amber, I think I don’t ha understand a hundred percent what he wants to say so. It takes long time to like amber goes, it makes pushing the ticket. Then it goes in a stand up, then you reply.
74 00:07:49.330 ⇒ 00:07:52.500 Awaish Kumar: what the the expectation is that like, if if a
75 00:07:53.280 ⇒ 00:08:04.320 Awaish Kumar: amber escalated, or even you user yourself, ask something to the client this reply, and if it’s not 100% and you know that like this
76 00:08:04.910 ⇒ 00:08:11.970 Awaish Kumar: question is related to your task, and it is going to come to you at the end. Then you must reply to that and
77 00:08:12.120 ⇒ 00:08:17.079 Awaish Kumar: ask for clarification, or like whatever you think is the best
78 00:08:17.210 ⇒ 00:08:23.920 Awaish Kumar: you can even ask like, write a draft message, maybe ask Amber that I want to reply, this.
79 00:08:24.260 ⇒ 00:08:29.689 Awaish Kumar: this client like, if you are not sure, then you can do that initially.
80 00:08:30.180 ⇒ 00:08:36.350 Awaish Kumar: That if you want to, you want to reply, you have a text, and you want to send.
81 00:08:36.640 ⇒ 00:08:48.990 Awaish Kumar: If you are not, if you don’t feel confident you can directly ask the client number one number 2. If you think you’re not confident you can ask for confirmation and internal channel that okay, I want to send this.
82 00:08:49.930 ⇒ 00:08:51.000 Awaish Kumar: Is it good?
83 00:08:52.100 ⇒ 00:08:53.140 Awaish Kumar: Something like that?
84 00:08:53.620 ⇒ 00:08:55.330 Luke Daque: Makes sense copy that.
85 00:08:57.920 ⇒ 00:09:02.689 Awaish Kumar: And yeah, apart from that, like, everything is good. I I
86 00:09:02.860 ⇒ 00:09:06.070 Awaish Kumar: I understand you have a availability. And we’ve.
87 00:09:07.410 ⇒ 00:09:10.150 Awaish Kumar: I think if if I can
88 00:09:11.330 ⇒ 00:09:16.549 Awaish Kumar: see like need for a for an fae somewhere.
89 00:09:16.800 ⇒ 00:09:18.409 Awaish Kumar: I will let them know. Yeah.
90 00:09:18.610 ⇒ 00:09:23.669 Awaish Kumar: have availability. Apart from that, is there anything else. You want to talk.
91 00:09:25.570 ⇒ 00:09:32.270 Luke Daque: Yeah, I think I’m good. So far I don’t think I have anything to raise or or anything.
92 00:09:32.580 ⇒ 00:09:34.269 Luke Daque: Yeah, I think I’m good.
93 00:09:35.650 ⇒ 00:09:42.410 Awaish Kumar: Okay, like, if if you think you have a feedback, I’ll if like, we are just
94 00:09:44.205 ⇒ 00:09:51.270 Awaish Kumar: if you feel stuck or anything like there’s something like just talk it out, because otherwise.
95 00:09:52.160 ⇒ 00:09:55.400 Awaish Kumar: otherwise, where we are never going to know. So.
96 00:09:55.400 ⇒ 00:09:59.269 Luke Daque: Yeah, just maybe one thing I’m not sure. If, like.
97 00:09:59.670 ⇒ 00:10:04.430 Luke Daque: you know about this, maybe I need to ask about utan. But like the
98 00:10:04.540 ⇒ 00:10:07.410 Luke Daque: we just we changed the payment
99 00:10:08.240 ⇒ 00:10:11.590 Luke Daque: method from gusto to ramp right?
100 00:10:12.560 ⇒ 00:10:21.400 Luke Daque: And like I I like, I think, Ulta mentioned, there’s going to be like some delays. Would you know, like how long the delay would be for like
101 00:10:22.070 ⇒ 00:10:25.240 Luke Daque: this pay period, or like last pay period? Because, like.
102 00:10:25.990 ⇒ 00:10:27.250 Awaish Kumar: For month of May.
103 00:10:27.680 ⇒ 00:10:29.880 Luke Daque: For the month of May. Yeah.
104 00:10:31.450 ⇒ 00:10:35.530 Awaish Kumar: Okay, I will escalate it to them on that.
105 00:10:36.880 ⇒ 00:10:38.039 Awaish Kumar: Is it also this.
106 00:10:38.040 ⇒ 00:10:42.830 Luke Daque: Same like for for your end like? Are you also being paid through ramp or something.
107 00:10:43.810 ⇒ 00:10:50.583 Awaish Kumar: Yeah, like I don’t know how is going to be now. I I was paid by gusto then
108 00:10:51.745 ⇒ 00:10:59.460 Awaish Kumar: it was blocked, and so now it’s ramp so, and it’s not. I don’t know if how we are we, how far we are with it, with its
109 00:10:59.750 ⇒ 00:11:00.300 Awaish Kumar: set up.
110 00:11:00.300 ⇒ 00:11:01.180 Luke Daque: Gotcha? Yeah.
111 00:11:01.587 ⇒ 00:11:07.289 Awaish Kumar: I’ll ask. Maybe ask him to like. Let everybody know, because everybody will be.
112 00:11:07.630 ⇒ 00:11:09.390 Luke Daque: Concerned about this.
113 00:11:09.590 ⇒ 00:11:16.914 Luke Daque: Yeah, makes sense. Yeah. But I think that’s about it. Like other than that. I think everything’s like fine
114 00:11:18.080 ⇒ 00:11:18.660 Awaish Kumar: Okay.
115 00:11:19.880 ⇒ 00:11:23.034 Luke Daque: And yeah, I’m also like, I haven’t started with the
116 00:11:23.970 ⇒ 00:11:31.120 Luke Daque: Dbt certification. Because, like, yeah, I’m waiting for my payment from me. Then I can use that to
117 00:11:31.755 ⇒ 00:11:35.429 Luke Daque: start my Dbt certification. And then, yeah.
118 00:11:35.660 ⇒ 00:11:37.999 Luke Daque: but other than that, anything’s good.
119 00:11:38.800 ⇒ 00:11:43.240 Awaish Kumar: Okay, in terms of studies like in the Dbt certification. Have you
120 00:11:43.590 ⇒ 00:11:47.570 Awaish Kumar: studied it completely like the content? Or we are going to do now.
121 00:11:47.860 ⇒ 00:11:48.860 Luke Daque: I I understand
122 00:11:49.560 ⇒ 00:11:55.740 Luke Daque: I haven’t really, actually, honestly, I haven’t yet. But yeah, I’ll I’ll do a review before I take it.
123 00:11:56.440 ⇒ 00:11:56.790 Awaish Kumar: Okay.
124 00:11:56.790 ⇒ 00:12:00.069 Luke Daque: It shouldn’t be too long hard, I believe.
125 00:12:00.890 ⇒ 00:12:04.190 Luke Daque: I think it’s mostly like dueling
126 00:12:04.670 ⇒ 00:12:12.700 Luke Daque: some. DVD. There are questions, and then there’s also like practical like, you have to do something in
127 00:12:12.820 ⇒ 00:12:14.749 Luke Daque: in Dbt, something like that.
128 00:12:16.250 ⇒ 00:12:21.270 Awaish Kumar: Okay, I I don’t know. I think like that.
129 00:12:22.680 ⇒ 00:12:33.900 Awaish Kumar: So for that dbt, like the only thing is will be that the like. We are already hands on on it. So we only thing which can be concerning is about the theoretical
130 00:12:34.190 ⇒ 00:12:35.050 Awaish Kumar: concepts.
131 00:12:35.050 ⇒ 00:12:35.600 Luke Daque: Yeah.
132 00:12:36.420 ⇒ 00:12:39.359 Awaish Kumar: If if you have not read the documentation properly like.
133 00:12:40.257 ⇒ 00:12:42.959 Awaish Kumar: we might know the terminology, or something with.
134 00:12:43.321 ⇒ 00:12:50.179 Luke Daque: There are like there, there’s lots of updates as well that we might not have known already like this.
135 00:12:50.430 ⇒ 00:12:53.109 Luke Daque: something that’s upgraded or something. So yeah.
136 00:12:53.110 ⇒ 00:12:59.019 Awaish Kumar: No, okay, so everything is good on my side we can
137 00:12:59.230 ⇒ 00:13:01.780 Awaish Kumar: drop off so please,
138 00:13:02.420 ⇒ 00:13:10.919 Awaish Kumar: like like work on my feedback. It’s like something like a really
139 00:13:11.350 ⇒ 00:13:18.530 Awaish Kumar: needs to be improved. If you need anything from my side to help you improve on that.
140 00:13:18.966 ⇒ 00:13:23.270 Awaish Kumar: I can do that. Just you need to tell me, like, if you need something.
141 00:13:23.790 ⇒ 00:13:26.249 Awaish Kumar: But then, yeah, I can make
142 00:13:27.530 ⇒ 00:13:34.309 Awaish Kumar: find, find out ways how how to help you, but that’s a like everybody wants you to be more
143 00:13:34.510 ⇒ 00:13:36.270 Awaish Kumar: active like
144 00:13:37.150 ⇒ 00:13:37.890 Luke Daque: Thank you.
145 00:13:37.890 ⇒ 00:13:44.435 Awaish Kumar: Except from like, even if if I just move every Monday. If I just talk as a mentor, then
146 00:13:45.580 ⇒ 00:13:49.990 Awaish Kumar: to to go from analytics, engineer to senior level.
147 00:13:50.880 ⇒ 00:13:59.129 Awaish Kumar: the what is the difference? The only difference is accountability and proactiveness. So
148 00:13:59.630 ⇒ 00:14:04.980 Awaish Kumar: if you go anywhere, if you just get a task and get it done. And that’s it.
149 00:14:05.080 ⇒ 00:14:08.260 Awaish Kumar: Then it’s like you are still like, we are
150 00:14:08.680 ⇒ 00:14:12.099 Awaish Kumar: as an analytics engineer. But you have to go from
151 00:14:12.500 ⇒ 00:14:17.280 Awaish Kumar: annual decision to senior to staff or principal levels.
152 00:14:17.430 ⇒ 00:14:21.939 Awaish Kumar: What needs to change is that right? You how you handle
153 00:14:22.458 ⇒ 00:14:33.300 Awaish Kumar: how you talk to stakeholder? How do you talk to client. You understand the requirement. You reply to them like, take accountability. You get it to done that like, get it to finish line
154 00:14:33.710 ⇒ 00:14:35.310 Awaish Kumar: from the start.
155 00:14:35.770 ⇒ 00:14:38.740 Awaish Kumar: If if it’s just based on amber like, then
156 00:14:39.563 ⇒ 00:14:45.750 Awaish Kumar: like, it’s amber she is driving for site we we are doing. Just ask. That’s the difference.
157 00:14:46.540 ⇒ 00:14:47.260 Luke Daque: Right.
158 00:14:50.710 ⇒ 00:14:53.710 Awaish Kumar: Okay. Everything else is good. My
159 00:14:55.380 ⇒ 00:15:00.360 Luke Daque: See you in the matter. More standard plan sounds good. Thanks.
160 00:15:00.360 ⇒ 00:15:01.999 Awaish Kumar: Thank you. Bye, bye.