Meeting Title: Data Service Standup Date: 2026-02-12 Meeting participants: Mustafa Raja, Uttam Kumaran, Ashwini Sharma, Awaish Kumar, Demilade Agboola, Sheshu Chandrasekar, Brylle Girang
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1 00:00:24.270 ⇒ 00:00:25.839 Uttam Kumaran: Hi, sir, good morning.
2 00:00:27.780 ⇒ 00:00:28.380 Mustafa Raja: E.
3 00:00:29.060 ⇒ 00:00:32.720 Uttam Kumaran: Hey, give me one second, I’m just gonna move this… I got about to buy a printer.
4 00:00:58.990 ⇒ 00:00:59.590 Awaish Kumar: Hello.
5 00:01:01.490 ⇒ 00:01:02.170 Mustafa Raja: Hey.
6 00:01:03.690 ⇒ 00:01:04.340 Ashwini Sharma: True.
7 00:01:05.410 ⇒ 00:01:06.070 Mustafa Raja: Hey.
8 00:01:08.740 ⇒ 00:01:09.759 Uttam Kumaran: Hey guys, good morning.
9 00:01:11.070 ⇒ 00:01:11.990 Awaish Kumar: Good morning.
10 00:01:11.990 ⇒ 00:01:12.670 Ashwini Sharma: 1.
11 00:01:18.240 ⇒ 00:01:20.909 Uttam Kumaran: Ashrini, did anyone tell you? You look like a boxer.
12 00:01:21.760 ⇒ 00:01:22.550 Ashwini Sharma: Really?
13 00:01:23.140 ⇒ 00:01:25.630 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah, I feel like your face is, like…
14 00:01:25.750 ⇒ 00:01:30.090 Uttam Kumaran: I don’t know if I… I feel like you look like a chiseled boxer.
15 00:01:30.340 ⇒ 00:01:31.910 Ashwini Sharma: No.
16 00:01:31.910 ⇒ 00:01:32.560 Mustafa Raja: Boeing.
17 00:01:32.800 ⇒ 00:01:33.709 Uttam Kumaran: You don’t think so?
18 00:01:33.930 ⇒ 00:01:38.280 Ashwini Sharma: No. You haven’t seen me in the… I’m not violent.
19 00:01:38.280 ⇒ 00:01:40.850 Uttam Kumaran: Nonviolent.
20 00:01:50.450 ⇒ 00:01:54.259 Awaish Kumar: Okay, I think we can start with our standard.
21 00:01:55.970 ⇒ 00:01:56.490 Uttam Kumaran: Cool.
22 00:01:57.300 ⇒ 00:02:12.429 Uttam Kumaran: Maybe I can just give an update on the Element side. So yeah, I mean, I’m… we’re gonna start to use the strategy stand-up, Awash, to talk about Element each day with Robert and Amber, so hopefully that gives us more coverage.
23 00:02:12.540 ⇒ 00:02:18.270 Uttam Kumaran: I guess on the data side, I’m curious about how things are going with the new integrations.
24 00:02:18.430 ⇒ 00:02:25.209 Uttam Kumaran: And… wondering if you can continue to help me push, linear,
25 00:02:26.570 ⇒ 00:02:31.879 Uttam Kumaran: like, linear, not linear, like, Amazon and some of the other ETL tickets through.
26 00:02:33.850 ⇒ 00:02:38.930 Awaish Kumar: Like, you mean just pushing on polyatomic?
27 00:02:39.520 ⇒ 00:02:42.609 Uttam Kumaran: I think the Amazon one,
28 00:02:43.120 ⇒ 00:02:54.979 Uttam Kumaran: I think the Amazon ticket… for Amazon, we need, something from the Element team. And then I just need to make sure that stored, all the connectors that we do have access to, yeah, they’re getting landed.
29 00:02:55.600 ⇒ 00:02:57.599 Awaish Kumar: Okay, yeah, I still… I think it’s…
30 00:02:58.280 ⇒ 00:03:06.770 Awaish Kumar: It’s working fine, we have some issues with Gorges, I’m getting some notifications, so… but they’ve already mentioned that he is on it.
31 00:03:07.410 ⇒ 00:03:08.380 Awaish Kumar: Okay.
32 00:03:09.230 ⇒ 00:03:17.459 Awaish Kumar: Yeah, and, apart from that, I also worked on RetailView yesterday.
33 00:03:17.710 ⇒ 00:03:24.360 Awaish Kumar: So… like, kind of, I have that ready, with it today for Amber.
34 00:03:24.550 ⇒ 00:03:25.650 Awaish Kumar: To work on it.
35 00:03:27.800 ⇒ 00:03:37.290 Awaish Kumar: And… Also, I think, for, for, like, do you need help with wholesale investigation also?
36 00:03:38.020 ⇒ 00:03:44.010 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah, I’m gonna… I’m gonna mention that to Amber today, in the strategy meeting, like, what the plan is.
37 00:03:44.600 ⇒ 00:03:46.510 Uttam Kumaran: I feel like she may need some help.
38 00:03:46.830 ⇒ 00:03:47.770 Uttam Kumaran: From you?
39 00:03:48.400 ⇒ 00:03:54.629 Uttam Kumaran: But overall, like, the notes are in that meeting. We just basically went through, there’s 4,000 orders.
40 00:03:54.940 ⇒ 00:04:06.219 Uttam Kumaran: we got the QA data set from finance team. The problem is finance doesn’t look at it at the order level, they’re looking at it at the product category. So there’s just some reconciliation that needs to happen.
41 00:04:06.500 ⇒ 00:04:08.649 Uttam Kumaran: But we have all the data to do that.
42 00:04:10.650 ⇒ 00:04:11.320 Awaish Kumar: Okay.
43 00:04:12.270 ⇒ 00:04:18.930 Awaish Kumar: Okay, see, I will see if Amber asked for anything, but otherwise, then I will continue on other stuff.
44 00:04:21.980 ⇒ 00:04:25.700 Awaish Kumar: Moving on to… Magic Spoon.
45 00:04:27.610 ⇒ 00:04:31.119 Awaish Kumar: So… What’s… like, how’s it going, Demi?
46 00:04:34.200 ⇒ 00:04:43.040 Demilade Agboola: Magic Spoon, we have a meeting with them right after this meeting, where we will just be able to talk more about how we want to go forward with this,
47 00:04:43.810 ⇒ 00:04:45.250 Demilade Agboola: with this engagement.
48 00:04:45.840 ⇒ 00:04:50.800 Demilade Agboola: But in terms of, like, altitudes, I think we are… basically have been able to give them
49 00:04:51.850 ⇒ 00:04:55.670 Demilade Agboola: Enough of a platform that they should feel that they feel confidence in.
50 00:04:56.180 ⇒ 00:04:57.620 Demilade Agboola: and I know that
51 00:04:57.980 ⇒ 00:05:04.710 Demilade Agboola: Like, just generally, they can kind of see everything coming together in terms of, like, the output of what they want.
52 00:05:06.260 ⇒ 00:05:18.809 Demilade Agboola: just some final things from the Spins team, get us over at the line. I think we’re very close to… to everything, and I think they can see the… they can see what we’ve been able to do, and also utilize it themselves as well.
53 00:05:21.960 ⇒ 00:05:22.670 Awaish Kumar: Okay.
54 00:05:23.350 ⇒ 00:05:26.259 Awaish Kumar: Great, I think we can move on.
55 00:05:27.640 ⇒ 00:05:29.240 Awaish Kumar: to CTA.
56 00:05:32.690 ⇒ 00:05:38.319 Awaish Kumar: Utam, should I book a meeting today for us to go for identity stitching?
57 00:05:38.780 ⇒ 00:05:39.790 Uttam Kumaran: Yes.
58 00:05:39.900 ⇒ 00:05:43.210 Uttam Kumaran: Please. So let me find…
59 00:05:43.550 ⇒ 00:05:47.269 Uttam Kumaran: Some time, but we should definitely spend time today, at least 30 minutes on that.
60 00:05:49.520 ⇒ 00:05:51.500 Uttam Kumaran: That would be great.
61 00:05:51.630 ⇒ 00:05:59.589 Uttam Kumaran: I’m gonna push this morning, like, a guide on how we do Snowflake and… Dbt, like, governance.
62 00:05:59.790 ⇒ 00:06:03.799 Uttam Kumaran: And then also, like, I have to… I want to do a little bit of a migration to some new roles.
63 00:06:03.960 ⇒ 00:06:09.510 Uttam Kumaran: So I may execute that as well. I’m gonna test it on our internal Snowflake, and then execute it on theirs.
64 00:06:09.740 ⇒ 00:06:13.059 Uttam Kumaran: I’ve already informed Catherine of that, so that’s fine.
65 00:06:13.340 ⇒ 00:06:20.500 Uttam Kumaran: Ashwini, I merged a bunch of your PRs, so I feel like that’s great, too. I haven’t had a chance to sit with Kyle.
66 00:06:20.680 ⇒ 00:06:25.900 Uttam Kumaran: And help him think through… like, he just needs some help on… like…
67 00:06:26.060 ⇒ 00:06:29.399 Uttam Kumaran: using dbt and, like, how to model.
68 00:06:30.120 ⇒ 00:06:34.460 Uttam Kumaran: Like, you think you have time to maybe try to grab 30 minutes with him?
69 00:06:34.460 ⇒ 00:06:35.320 Ashwini Sharma: Yeah, yeah. To just, like…
70 00:06:35.320 ⇒ 00:06:38.140 Uttam Kumaran: review his PR? Okay. He’s sort of like…
71 00:06:38.810 ⇒ 00:06:41.959 Uttam Kumaran: Just, like, a baby, so I just need to give him, like…
72 00:06:42.320 ⇒ 00:06:49.219 Uttam Kumaran: the basics, and explain to him, like, sort of how, when he pushes a PR, what happens after, things like that, so…
73 00:06:49.760 ⇒ 00:06:52.239 Ashwini Sharma: Okay, the workflow part, right? Not the.
74 00:06:52.240 ⇒ 00:06:57.080 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah, that’s what… Well, he’s curious about both, but it’s clear he can write SQL.
75 00:06:57.410 ⇒ 00:07:01.019 Uttam Kumaran: I think he just is, like, kind of curious about, like, how the dbt flow works.
76 00:07:01.670 ⇒ 00:07:02.310 Ashwini Sharma: Okay.
77 00:07:04.830 ⇒ 00:07:07.869 Ashwini Sharma: Alright, I’ll book some time with him.
78 00:07:10.560 ⇒ 00:07:12.670 Awaish Kumar: Okay, is there anything else on your signage for me?
79 00:07:12.940 ⇒ 00:07:16.479 Ashwini Sharma: So I’m working on, 64 right now,
80 00:07:17.280 ⇒ 00:07:26.009 Ashwini Sharma: And yeah, there are a couple of tickets in Asana which are already in progress, so I didn’t bring it over to here. It was assigned to you, Utam.
81 00:07:26.370 ⇒ 00:07:30.269 Ashwini Sharma: If you’re not going to do that, then you can probably, you know, pass it over to…
82 00:07:30.270 ⇒ 00:07:31.000 Uttam Kumaran: Right after this.
83 00:07:31.000 ⇒ 00:07:31.510 Ashwini Sharma: Yeah.
84 00:07:32.500 ⇒ 00:07:33.859 Ashwini Sharma: And let us know what…
85 00:07:34.260 ⇒ 00:07:41.140 Ashwini Sharma: what needs to be done. There are two still open, 63 and 62. I can take one of them.
86 00:07:41.290 ⇒ 00:07:43.820 Ashwini Sharma: But once I complete 64.
87 00:07:45.330 ⇒ 00:07:45.950 Awaish Kumar: Okay.
88 00:07:48.760 ⇒ 00:07:54.190 Awaish Kumar: Okay, sounds good. Then I think for Hydra, we…
89 00:07:54.750 ⇒ 00:07:58.939 Awaish Kumar: We are just going to meet with Sandra on this pricing.
90 00:07:59.120 ⇒ 00:08:04.900 Awaish Kumar: definitions and, we have a meeting later with the… Free.
91 00:08:06.090 ⇒ 00:08:06.710 Uttam Kumaran: Yes.
92 00:08:09.240 ⇒ 00:08:14.950 Awaish Kumar: Okay, yeah, and for that, I am going to prepare some notional talk with We have right now.
93 00:08:17.290 ⇒ 00:08:18.980 Awaish Kumar: Moving on to default.
94 00:08:19.900 ⇒ 00:08:23.139 Awaish Kumar: So, like, did we get unblocked on S3Xs?
95 00:08:24.760 ⇒ 00:08:29.429 Demilade Agboola: No, not yet. I will try and push that again, this today.
96 00:08:29.700 ⇒ 00:08:34.669 Demilade Agboola: I don’t know, Victor has just not been the best.
97 00:08:34.789 ⇒ 00:08:40.499 Demilade Agboola: Team player in this regard, but… We’ll continue to push it.
98 00:08:44.039 ⇒ 00:08:44.639 Awaish Kumar: Okay.
99 00:08:45.259 ⇒ 00:08:48.569 Awaish Kumar: And, I think they are aware of it, right?
100 00:08:49.290 ⇒ 00:08:51.910 Demilade Agboola: Yeah, I mean, Nautica and,
101 00:08:52.300 ⇒ 00:08:56.489 Demilade Agboola: Caitlin, the people we interact with, they’re very well… they’re very well aware of it.
102 00:08:57.400 ⇒ 00:09:00.130 Demilade Agboola: But, you know… Yeah, we’ll just keep…
103 00:09:01.120 ⇒ 00:09:03.070 Awaish Kumar: So, are we done with this, Maswa?
104 00:09:03.650 ⇒ 00:09:06.369 Mustafa Raja: No, this is still, still work in progress.
105 00:09:08.880 ⇒ 00:09:12.550 Awaish Kumar: Okay, so when are you targeting it, like… Bye.
106 00:09:13.110 ⇒ 00:09:20.329 Mustafa Raja: Yeah, so, hopefully we’ll have it, by the end of week. I’ll have the hypothesis ready today.
107 00:09:22.950 ⇒ 00:09:23.620 Awaish Kumar: Okay.
108 00:09:23.620 ⇒ 00:09:24.950 Mustafa Raja: And we can review it then.
109 00:09:26.110 ⇒ 00:09:31.950 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah, I’m sure there’ll be… I’m sure she’ll be interested in the sync later today, Mustafa, so… Yeah.
110 00:09:33.550 ⇒ 00:09:36.249 Awaish Kumar: Yeah, later, like, we have a sync with the client.
111 00:09:36.670 ⇒ 00:09:37.320 Mustafa Raja: Yes.
112 00:09:38.440 ⇒ 00:09:43.770 Awaish Kumar: Okay, maybe I can send in Slack before that for… For review.
113 00:09:51.730 ⇒ 00:09:58.650 Awaish Kumar: Then moving on to Eden, like, we had a few tickets… Here… So…
114 00:10:00.170 ⇒ 00:10:07.160 Awaish Kumar: Yeah, like, the dbt tasks For… we’re done for…
115 00:10:07.580 ⇒ 00:10:12.770 Awaish Kumar: Eden, and then… how is it going with Afrin’s task, actually?
116 00:10:13.020 ⇒ 00:10:21.530 Ashwini Sharma: This is under review, the snapshot model. Once it starts collecting data, I’ll kind of do further modeling on top of it to get
117 00:10:21.720 ⇒ 00:10:23.290 Ashwini Sharma: That delta amount?
118 00:10:23.660 ⇒ 00:10:30.080 Ashwini Sharma: Which needs to be sent to Affluence. So this kind of… there’s a part 2 of this sticker that
119 00:10:30.930 ⇒ 00:10:36.710 Ashwini Sharma: still needs to be executed. For this one, PR is ready, and Demilade is reviewing it.
120 00:10:37.100 ⇒ 00:10:37.750 Awaish Kumar: Okay.
121 00:10:38.680 ⇒ 00:10:41.059 Awaish Kumar: Great, then…
122 00:10:42.760 ⇒ 00:10:48.769 Awaish Kumar: Yeah, for this, I think we don’t. For Eden, we don’t have anything else, like, we ship the…
123 00:10:48.960 ⇒ 00:10:58.509 Awaish Kumar: the model for executive reporting, and also shift this. Then, on the EDL West side, I’m…
124 00:10:59.060 ⇒ 00:11:08.590 Awaish Kumar: I’m shipping on the… I’m working on the modeling side, we’ll… targeting, like, by tomorrow, I will ship all those basic base models.
125 00:11:09.100 ⇒ 00:11:12.379 Awaish Kumar: And, yeah.
126 00:11:14.500 ⇒ 00:11:20.370 Awaish Kumar: And yeah, that’s all for Eden. I think we also had a meeting just before this for Omni Migration.
127 00:11:22.830 ⇒ 00:11:29.799 Awaish Kumar: And, like, I think… yeah, I and Demi are going to provide the context
128 00:11:30.080 ⇒ 00:11:36.290 Awaish Kumar: needed, and Muswa is taking on creating topics, while Greg will be working on building the dashboards.
129 00:11:36.890 ⇒ 00:11:41.920 Uttam Kumaran: Okay, the only other thing, Awash, I think it actually…
130 00:11:42.180 ⇒ 00:11:49.540 Uttam Kumaran: may be helpful to also consider one or two people to get the Omni certifications during this process.
131 00:11:49.700 ⇒ 00:11:52.939 Uttam Kumaran: We have… we do have a bonus program for certifications.
132 00:11:53.150 ⇒ 00:11:56.000 Uttam Kumaran: But I also think, like, you may end up…
133 00:11:56.530 ⇒ 00:12:00.080 Uttam Kumaran: Doing all… basically all the things needed for the certifications.
134 00:12:00.500 ⇒ 00:12:06.569 Uttam Kumaran: During this, so… I don’t know, I may suggest that as well, or maybe at least just for Greg.
135 00:12:07.630 ⇒ 00:12:08.980 Awaish Kumar: Okay.
136 00:12:10.910 ⇒ 00:12:12.880 Awaish Kumar: Okay, I’ll push for that.
137 00:12:13.830 ⇒ 00:12:20.240 Awaish Kumar: Okay, yeah, that’s all from my side, and that’s the end of the stand-up. So, if you wanna stay for…
138 00:12:20.730 ⇒ 00:12:27.019 Awaish Kumar: working on any ticket, yeah, you can… we can discuss that. Otherwise, yeah, everybody’s feel… Feel free to…
139 00:12:27.710 ⇒ 00:12:29.519 Awaish Kumar: To, you know, get back to work.
140 00:12:30.630 ⇒ 00:12:33.639 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah, maybe I wish we can stay on, talk about, CTA?
141 00:12:34.540 ⇒ 00:12:35.389 Awaish Kumar: Sure.
142 00:12:39.900 ⇒ 00:12:40.680 Uttam Kumaran: Thanks, everyone.
143 00:12:41.570 ⇒ 00:12:42.919 Demilade Agboola: Thanks, everyone. Bye.
144 00:12:43.940 ⇒ 00:12:50.559 Uttam Kumaran: So for CTA, yeah, I… I think, like.
145 00:12:51.170 ⇒ 00:12:56.210 Uttam Kumaran: I think this is gonna be a little bit complicated modeling exercise, so I’m sort of interested in, like.
146 00:12:57.340 ⇒ 00:13:02.080 Uttam Kumaran: if you can lead, and then I can sort of help guide, like, what do you think for…
147 00:13:03.160 ⇒ 00:13:07.860 Uttam Kumaran: Like, I think we’re gonna have to basically take… start from wherever, Ashwini left off.
148 00:13:09.050 ⇒ 00:13:09.810 Awaish Kumar: Okay.
149 00:13:10.800 ⇒ 00:13:12.129 Awaish Kumar: Yeah, I…
150 00:13:12.830 ⇒ 00:13:20.880 Awaish Kumar: Okay, I can take over that. Like, like, what I heard in that meeting with Catherine was mostly… she was talking about some individual
151 00:13:21.440 ⇒ 00:13:35.329 Awaish Kumar: tables, or, like, the set of data, which somehow needed to be joined with the organization. Like, we need some itinerary stitching for that. And, like, that… is that the plan? Like, we are going to have…
152 00:13:35.460 ⇒ 00:13:40.349 Uttam Kumaran: So there’s, like, a mix of, like, members. It’s… we want to start with the organizations.
153 00:13:40.490 ⇒ 00:13:46.470 Uttam Kumaran: And yes, there’s, like, a kind of a mix of, like, identity stitching between several different sources.
154 00:13:47.760 ⇒ 00:13:55.020 Uttam Kumaran: Like, some stuff we have to match on emails or names, some stuff we have to, like, fuzzy match, yeah.
155 00:13:55.720 ⇒ 00:14:02.630 Awaish Kumar: So what… yeah, so multiple tables, right? The data is coming from CES, I think, like, the same data source.
156 00:14:05.320 ⇒ 00:14:11.460 Awaish Kumar: And… The remembers actually have a lot of, like, much better identity.
157 00:14:12.120 ⇒ 00:14:14.880 Awaish Kumar: Okay, I will look into that.
158 00:14:15.070 ⇒ 00:14:23.020 Awaish Kumar: And see which tables where we don’t have a way to connect to organization, if we can do that somehow, and
159 00:14:24.050 ⇒ 00:14:30.330 Awaish Kumar: I can work on that to come up with some cloud or some basic solution.
160 00:14:30.490 ⇒ 00:14:32.580 Awaish Kumar: Where you can provide feedback.
161 00:14:33.940 ⇒ 00:14:39.910 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah, Catherine, catherine is only… Catherine’s gonna be off tomorrow?
162 00:14:40.260 ⇒ 00:14:42.640 Uttam Kumaran: So, if you end up with any progress.
163 00:14:42.750 ⇒ 00:14:46.730 Uttam Kumaran: like, what’s your kind of schedule like today? It’s just mainly Element and…
164 00:14:48.360 ⇒ 00:14:53.099 Awaish Kumar: I’m pushing Element and Eden. Eden was modeling work.
165 00:14:53.500 ⇒ 00:14:54.090 Uttam Kumaran: Okay.
166 00:14:54.770 ⇒ 00:14:55.320 Awaish Kumar: Yeah.
167 00:14:58.000 ⇒ 00:15:00.010 Uttam Kumaran: Is the Eden OS stuff, like, super urgent?
168 00:15:01.780 ⇒ 00:15:02.990 Awaish Kumar: Kind of.
169 00:15:03.870 ⇒ 00:15:12.420 Awaish Kumar: Kind of, yes, because, like, We don’t… we will be building, I think, more… any dashboards from that after…
170 00:15:12.570 ⇒ 00:15:16.959 Awaish Kumar: we have migrated to Omni, right? Because that’s…
171 00:15:17.630 ⇒ 00:15:21.519 Awaish Kumar: any new dashboards will end up in Omni, so…
172 00:15:21.970 ⇒ 00:15:29.910 Awaish Kumar: Greg is busy doing migration, so it can only happen after that. It doesn’t seem that urgent.
173 00:15:30.060 ⇒ 00:15:34.869 Awaish Kumar: But in terms of what I promised was, like, I will be done by tomorrow.
174 00:15:35.010 ⇒ 00:15:35.819 Uttam Kumaran: For the Eden.
175 00:15:36.280 ⇒ 00:15:36.919 Awaish Kumar: Yep.
176 00:15:37.320 ⇒ 00:15:39.420 Uttam Kumaran: Do you want… do you need my help there?
177 00:15:41.040 ⇒ 00:15:44.500 Awaish Kumar: I think it’s… it’s all basic modeling, yeah, nothing. Okay.
178 00:15:44.860 ⇒ 00:15:46.000 Awaish Kumar: Complicated.
179 00:15:47.390 ⇒ 00:15:47.910 Uttam Kumaran: Okay.
180 00:15:49.410 ⇒ 00:15:51.510 Awaish Kumar: It’s just that, like, I just need help.
181 00:15:51.510 ⇒ 00:15:55.869 Uttam Kumaran: So then for the element thing, then I’m gonna push it to tomorrow, then.
182 00:15:58.770 ⇒ 00:16:03.029 Uttam Kumaran: For the revenue refunds reconciliation, like, I think Amber will take a first pass.
183 00:16:03.400 ⇒ 00:16:03.970 Awaish Kumar: Okay.
184 00:16:04.330 ⇒ 00:16:07.999 Uttam Kumaran: And then… so I don’t know how much help will be needed there.
185 00:16:08.310 ⇒ 00:16:10.910 Uttam Kumaran: I think if you can spend time on CTA,
186 00:16:11.160 ⇒ 00:16:15.489 Uttam Kumaran: this morning, and then just be like, hey, I got to this point. Like, time box it.
187 00:16:15.890 ⇒ 00:16:17.370 Uttam Kumaran: Maybe, like, 2 hours?
188 00:16:20.400 ⇒ 00:16:22.060 Awaish Kumar: Yeah, I can do that.
189 00:16:22.200 ⇒ 00:16:23.330 Uttam Kumaran: Good to start with.
190 00:16:23.840 ⇒ 00:16:30.890 Awaish Kumar: early hours, I will spend on CTA, and then I’ll work on it either in the, like, later day, in the…
191 00:16:31.230 ⇒ 00:16:32.609 Awaish Kumar: Later in the day, yeah.
192 00:16:33.580 ⇒ 00:16:34.140 Uttam Kumaran: Okay.
193 00:16:35.980 ⇒ 00:16:40.540 Uttam Kumaran: Cool. And then, tell me about, how are interviews going?
194 00:16:43.410 ⇒ 00:16:50.070 Awaish Kumar: Yeah, like… I’m hearing a lot of… Different… perspectives.
195 00:16:50.820 ⇒ 00:16:52.470 Uttam Kumaran: Okay. And I think that…
196 00:16:53.160 ⇒ 00:16:57.519 Awaish Kumar: They are going well, but it’s just like… it’s like,
197 00:16:58.370 ⇒ 00:17:02.760 Awaish Kumar: From the early conversation, it is, like, really…
198 00:17:03.480 ⇒ 00:17:10.060 Awaish Kumar: I don’t know how you measure it, but it’s like, like, everybody’s good with, like, speaking, like, somebody…
199 00:17:10.060 ⇒ 00:17:10.680 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah.
200 00:17:12.089 ⇒ 00:17:25.569 Awaish Kumar: we don’t know, really, like, how that is going to be… end up in being while… while in the technical interviews, but initially, like, I say, like, almost everyone is kind of good.
201 00:17:25.569 ⇒ 00:17:26.209 Uttam Kumaran: Okay.
202 00:17:26.859 ⇒ 00:17:32.369 Uttam Kumaran: That’s good, I mean, that’s the first round job, is mainly to remove that, so…
203 00:17:32.609 ⇒ 00:17:37.789 Uttam Kumaran: Are you asking folks, like, sort of any kind of technical questions, like, or… not much?
204 00:17:38.000 ⇒ 00:17:42.220 Awaish Kumar: I’m just asking, like, what projects they’ve worked on, their experiences.
205 00:17:43.390 ⇒ 00:17:49.389 Awaish Kumar: mainly… mainly talking about, like, tools and technologies they have worked on, so I know just… Okay.
206 00:17:49.700 ⇒ 00:17:52.780 Awaish Kumar: Gist of it, but not actually ask any technical…
207 00:17:54.150 ⇒ 00:17:54.710 Uttam Kumaran: Okay.
208 00:17:56.350 ⇒ 00:18:03.190 Awaish Kumar: So, yeah, I… Like, one of the guys I interviewed, like, he had a lot of experience.
209 00:18:04.490 ⇒ 00:18:09.549 Awaish Kumar: Working in data field. But, like, he was… he mostly had experience
210 00:18:09.730 ⇒ 00:18:13.279 Awaish Kumar: Also good with… good in terms of, like, communication.
211 00:18:13.280 ⇒ 00:18:14.650 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah, yeah, yeah. Which guy?
212 00:18:16.070 ⇒ 00:18:18.270 Awaish Kumar: Yeah, but I think someone…
213 00:18:18.270 ⇒ 00:18:19.270 Uttam Kumaran: Started with an A?
214 00:18:20.490 ⇒ 00:18:24.460 Awaish Kumar: I actually don’t remember the name right now, but he mentioned that…
215 00:18:24.460 ⇒ 00:18:25.180 Uttam Kumaran: fine.
216 00:18:25.180 ⇒ 00:18:28.489 Awaish Kumar: Somebody, like… Referred you directly, like.
217 00:18:29.920 ⇒ 00:18:30.480 Uttam Kumaran: Cool.
218 00:18:31.940 ⇒ 00:18:38.649 Awaish Kumar: So, I think, the only thing I was concerned about was that… about was he don’t have,
219 00:18:39.730 ⇒ 00:18:47.870 Awaish Kumar: the experience with the latest tools and technologies. It was mostly working with SaaS or legacy banking, tools. Okay.
220 00:18:48.540 ⇒ 00:18:52.980 Awaish Kumar: So, I’m not sure how to… what should be the feedback, right? Are we just…
221 00:18:53.810 ⇒ 00:18:55.669 Awaish Kumar: What are… what we are looking for.
222 00:18:55.670 ⇒ 00:18:59.439 Uttam Kumaran: I mean, we’re still gonna… people are gonna still go… go into the.
223 00:19:01.040 ⇒ 00:19:04.050 Awaish Kumar: The final interview, right? So… Yeah.
224 00:19:05.950 ⇒ 00:19:07.390 Awaish Kumar: Okay, yeah.
225 00:19:11.040 ⇒ 00:19:17.400 Awaish Kumar: But, like, my question is more, like, what do you consider, like, When we are.
226 00:19:17.400 ⇒ 00:19:23.300 Uttam Kumaran: Well, I think it both matter, like, you have… we have to have the communication aspect.
227 00:19:23.730 ⇒ 00:19:24.340 Awaish Kumar: Yeah.
228 00:19:25.200 ⇒ 00:19:28.579 Uttam Kumaran: And then the engineering aspect is also important.
229 00:19:28.960 ⇒ 00:19:32.229 Uttam Kumaran: But again, we’ll have to wait till the final round, so…
230 00:19:32.760 ⇒ 00:19:38.539 Uttam Kumaran: As we grow, we will start to get tighter and tighter with, like, hey, you need to have
231 00:19:38.640 ⇒ 00:19:43.450 Uttam Kumaran: Snowflake experience, or like… At least one of these warehouses.
232 00:19:44.060 ⇒ 00:19:47.990 Uttam Kumaran: So, we’ll start to get narrower and narrower.
233 00:19:48.590 ⇒ 00:19:53.799 Uttam Kumaran: But for the most part, the folks that are coming to you, at least their Loom interview is good, or they talked to me, so…
234 00:19:53.960 ⇒ 00:19:57.109 Uttam Kumaran: Hopefully not trying… not wasting your time much.
235 00:19:57.290 ⇒ 00:19:59.749 Uttam Kumaran: Ideally, your job is a…
236 00:20:00.150 ⇒ 00:20:06.479 Uttam Kumaran: I think your job is gonna be more on, like, sussing out, like, can they speak technically to the solutions that they’re doing?
237 00:20:06.770 ⇒ 00:20:07.589 Uttam Kumaran: You know?
238 00:20:08.540 ⇒ 00:20:09.700 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah, mate.
239 00:20:11.430 ⇒ 00:20:15.000 Awaish Kumar: The one candidate, like, Deep… Dipty, I think I…
240 00:20:15.960 ⇒ 00:20:23.589 Awaish Kumar: spoke with her, like, she was really good at talking, like, I had the sense of Shivani there. Okay, alright.
241 00:20:23.590 ⇒ 00:20:24.120 Uttam Kumaran: Okay.
242 00:20:24.740 ⇒ 00:20:28.310 Awaish Kumar: Really good with whatever she’s doing.
243 00:20:28.310 ⇒ 00:20:29.429 Uttam Kumaran: My name is Deepti.
244 00:20:30.200 ⇒ 00:20:30.900 Awaish Kumar: Yeah.
245 00:20:31.410 ⇒ 00:20:38.490 Awaish Kumar: But she… Still had, like, hands-on experience doing any…
246 00:20:38.810 ⇒ 00:20:42.830 Awaish Kumar: like, complex SQL, or dbt, or…
247 00:20:44.990 ⇒ 00:20:48.100 Awaish Kumar: part of a video experience, so…
248 00:20:49.250 ⇒ 00:20:53.809 Awaish Kumar: But if sitting in a strategy team,
249 00:20:54.050 ⇒ 00:20:56.980 Awaish Kumar: I don’t know, she can develop a skill, skills.
250 00:21:05.950 ⇒ 00:21:07.929 Uttam Kumaran: So the… so she came as a referral?
251 00:21:09.760 ⇒ 00:21:10.790 Awaish Kumar: Nope.
252 00:21:12.410 ⇒ 00:21:14.000 Uttam Kumaran: Oh, interesting, okay.
253 00:21:15.560 ⇒ 00:21:17.580 Awaish Kumar: So, the one who…
254 00:21:26.150 ⇒ 00:21:29.090 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah, Dipika City is the one. Yeah.
255 00:21:29.090 ⇒ 00:21:33.139 Awaish Kumar: Then, yeah, Alex is the one with referral.
256 00:21:34.110 ⇒ 00:21:35.460 Uttam Kumaran: I see, okay.
257 00:21:38.370 ⇒ 00:21:39.370 Awaish Kumar: Yeah.
258 00:21:40.200 ⇒ 00:21:41.770 Awaish Kumar: I think Anish was also.
259 00:21:42.610 ⇒ 00:21:43.480 Awaish Kumar: So…
260 00:21:53.290 ⇒ 00:21:54.749 Uttam Kumaran: Oh yeah, dude, Anisha’s good.
261 00:21:56.120 ⇒ 00:21:57.170 Awaish Kumar: Yeah, yeah.
262 00:21:57.650 ⇒ 00:21:59.490 Uttam Kumaran: I feel like he’s gonna probably make it.
263 00:22:43.570 ⇒ 00:22:48.010 Uttam Kumaran: Cool. Okay, alright, that’s all I wanted to check, so yeah, I’ll… I’ll… I’m gonna talk to,
264 00:22:48.870 ⇒ 00:22:57.429 Uttam Kumaran: I’m gonna talk to, the strategy team about Element today, so I’ll let you know how that goes.
265 00:22:58.130 ⇒ 00:22:59.159 Awaish Kumar: Okay, sure.
266 00:22:59.340 ⇒ 00:23:00.020 Awaish Kumar: Thank you.
267 00:23:00.020 ⇒ 00:23:01.700 Uttam Kumaran: Okay, alright, thanks, dude. Bye.
268 00:23:01.710 ⇒ 00:23:02.040 Awaish Kumar: But…