I am an iOS Developer with 4+ years of experience developing iOS apps/games.
I am open to discuss short-term, long-term or full-time engagements. I have worked at companies of all sizes and shapes ranging from start-ups (5-7 people) to large corporations (100,000+ employees).
Have developed apps which:
1) Are created for or are in use at Fortune 500 companies and large government organisations like US Army, US Navy etc.
2) Have been featured on TechCrunch.
3) Have reached Top 10 overall and Top 10 in their category on App Store in multiple countries.
Client references are available on request. My email is [email protected]. (Yes, still a hotmail user.)
I dont see the same ads on TechCrunch in India. My guess is Google is running an Adwords campaign in US to make people sign the petition. I have seen them run campaigns for chrome, gmail etc. before.
Did anybody have any success with changing someone else's status with this? If so, please post.
I got the success message on site and restarted the app too on iPhone by killing it from the multitasking bar but my friend's status is still unchanged.
Makes me doubt it is a fraud site as BuddhaSource mentioned.
This can be a good way to increase your Twitter account visibility and hope to gain some followers through this site.
Right now, the bids are low but if this idea sustainable or not needs to be seen. You can hope to make it big if businesses find it a good way to advertise and promote products and product launches.
Having worked with Infosys, i agree with most of your points though i think the number of engineers varies according to the market conditions.
80% utilization rate is considered good for these companies and so minimum 20% people are always on bench. As the market started going from bad to worse in Dec 2008, i saw more people being deployed in testing than programming.
And its a shame that an engineering student will say that their dream company is Infosys/TCS/Wipro and not Microsoft/Oracle/Google/Apple. I mean cant they even "dream" about being at M/O/G/A?!!
PS: I got kicked out of Infosys training because i could not learn fast enough for them but since then i joined a smaller company as an iPhone Developer and have had an awesome learning experience while my Infosys friends who passed the training now forward their CVs to me because they often work on maintenance and support projects on obsolete technologies.
If i am not mistaken, you are the same Chandoo who started the "All I want to speak about CAT" (the profile pic is unforgettable :P) on pagalguy.com and what a great ritual you have started there.
I am very happy to hear again from you in this grand manner and i wish you the very best for your endeavor and congratulate you again for your success. :)
I was recruited as a fresher at Infosys and had to leave the company after training in Dec. 2008 due to recession starting to set in by the time i completed my 6 months training.
I thought finding a new job would be very hard as the market was not so good but to my surprise, i found a new job within 1 month and started working at an Ahmedabad based startup as an iPhone Developer and now after 2 years, i have developed more than 15 iPhone apps and have learnt enough at my company to start my own.
It was painful to leave Infosys then but looking back, i can say that it is the best thing that has happened to better my career. My friends at Infosys who joined along with me now have mixed reactions about the company as not all of them got into desirable roles and many ended up doing support work and they often tell me that you got out of the company at the right time.
So yes, from my own experience, i can say that a startup is a much better place to work even if the salary is low (the learning experience more than makes up for it) than some large MNC where you wont even know how the module you worked on is being used (or not used at all).
I dont know if there is an API for it or not but if you can get the Amazon rating of a book and display it on the book description page, it will be great. :)