Observations from my Frame of Reference

          I am a developer with six years of experience, having worked in both startup and enterprise environments. I began my journey at Ola Financial Services, a small startup, where I navigated daily chaos and contributed to multiple product deliveries within a short span.   For the past five years, I have been with Flipkart, where  we have shipped numerous products, pulled many late nights performing NFR , tackled production issues, stretched through weekends to meet timelines, mentored several juniors and  learned from experienced seniors.           I am writing this article to share the strategies that help me stay efficient—both as an individual and as a team player. If you use any techniques that aren’t mentioned here, I encourage you to share them in the comments. 1. Get maximum Clarity           Try to get utmost clarity of the task at hand. Iterations can be minimized when...

      I work in the Seller Growth team in Flipkart. We help them improve their business by showing them different metrics and recommendations based on their and their peers’ performance on our platform. Some days back, our product-manager came up with a concept, a central page, where we would be surfacing an aggregate view of all the recommendations personalized for the sellers. We already had our backend which generates various recommendations based on different cohorts. They had to make a new system to give sellers new goals and benchmark them on the basis of their performance. This page had a beautiful UX. We implemented shimmers, animations, and confettis to be shown when the seller achieves his goal and has a benchmark upgrade. This page had to be mobile responsive to be supported both on desktop and mobile browsers. Also, Flipkart’s seller app should be able to open this page inside the mobile application instead of building a page of their own. We are constant...