ISB Campus Placement 2010
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Campus Recruitment 2011-2012
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SECTION I
TheDirecti Story
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Then
Started in 1998 while still in college with: Initial Capital - Rs. 25,000/- A 4-man army A 630 sq. ft. apartment A vision in mind Bhavin Turakhia Founder &
CEO
Divyank Turakhia Co- founder & President
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Valued at 300+ million dollars 25+ Internet Software Products 1,000,000+ Customers 50,000+ channel partners Growing at >120% p.a. 700+ employees Doubled our employee strength every year over
the last 3 years Enterprise value per employee - $600,000 Consistently ranked amongst Fastest Growing
technology companies in Asia and India, Deloitte and Touché
Cash reserves sufficient to cover 10 years OPEX
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600Employee Count
Today
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6+ business unit; all amongst the Top 5 or 10 worldwide in their respective industry
25+ indigenously developed Web Products, Properties and Services
We do not build customized solutions
All businesses are exponentially profitable and funded only through internal accruals since inception
An Indian MNC with offices in 5 countries
Customers in 200+ countries
Over 53,000 Global Channel Partners
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• Mumbai – 1200 and 700 people facilities
• Bangalore & Delhi – India
• Dubai and RAK – UAE
• Xiamen – China
• Austin – USA
• Brisbane – Australia
DirectiWeb Presence
Media.netOnline Advertising
Talk.toInstant Messaging
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Web Presence & Internet Infrastructure Services: Domain Name Registration - The Internet identity
6th largest Name Registration platform in the world – including resellers, own-brand and platform customers
Powering 6,000,000 domains in over 200 countries
#1 in Asia, #1 in India -- 75+% of the Indian market via resellers – now 40% market via BigRock
Localized offerings in China, Russia, India, UK, USA
Other Services:Cloud Computing – Web Server Hosting - Website Builder Services - Email Hosting with Antispam & Antivirus - Payment Gateway Services - Digital Certificates
Some of our Businesses
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Internet Advertising & Next Generation Media: Builds technology to auto-identify a user’s intent while he is browsing a page on the
internet – and serve advertising targeting this intent
Built on patent pending Machine Learning, Semantic Search, Data Mining technology
Works with high value publishers having >US $1 million revenue per month
Delivers >1 billion ads per month, serves >2 million pages an hour, >8 million sites at any time
Fastest growing company (revenue + employee strength) in its vertical for 2006 and 2007
Runs on more than 1000+ CPUs, 1500+ GB RAM, 250 TB Data Storage
Some of our Businesses
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Social Communication Platform: Talk.to is a suite of free communication products & services for
businesses/individuals worldwide
Comprises of innovative, decentralized, collaborative applications - blending the best of Google Apps, Facebook and Twitter
Developed using cutting edge technologies and deployed on a massive, distributed infrastructure
Designed for a diverse set of client platforms, ranging from regular web-browsers to mobile environments
Some of our Businesses
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SECTION II
Life @ Directi
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“The best part about working at Directi is the people. Everyone is super-smart and super-intelligent. I learn something new everyday, from everyone.”
Work with Smart People
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“I love the challenges we face at Directi. Most of our applications cater to millions of users. One of our products delivers 20+ billion ad impressions per year. All applications are deployed on multi-homed clustered geo-distributed scalable environments. We get to work with caching, Horizontal partitioning, Clustering, Distributed Computing etc - technologies / concepts / tools that very few companies work with.”
Be part of Projects that have global impact
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Anyone in the organization at any level, any designation, any management band, in any team can freely approach anyone else at any level / team / designation to discuss anything. Our Management actually reprimands us if we bother knocking before entering their cabins.
Open and Transparent Culture
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At Directi we are super-obsessive about productivity. Every employee in every department has multiple LCD monitors. Our facilities team is always researching ergonomics as it applies to lighting, seating, workstations etc. Any tool, device, software that can help us work better, is for the asking.
We do everything to make you productive
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My Friday nights are reserved for network gaming - and counter-strike is the flavor of the month. Additional activities include interest groups such as the trekking group, a movie club, a cricket league, a soccer league etc.
We Work Hard, We Play Harder!
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We are a creative organization with creative people, and I believe creativity does not start and end with an alarm clock. The best software engineers I know have their high days and low days, and flexible working hours account for this quirk.
Flexible working hours
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An accessible, always-stocked snack bar, with goodies, fresh juices, and other treats takes care of my in-between meals munching needs.
Foodilicious
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We spend extra time in making sure we hire the RIGHT people,
so we don’t have to spend time in making sure the job gets done RIGHT
“We believe the best part of working at Directi is the people. Directi is very picky about people. We went through a gruelling 5 hour interview process which went all the way up to the management before we were selected. The result – an amazing team that We love working with”
Life @ Directi – Great Teams
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“People perform best when they are in love with what they are
doing”
“People deliver best results when they are given maximum freedom”
Visit our Flickr stream: http://www.flickr.com/directi/
Life @ Directi – Our Culture
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‘‘The only bad decision at Directi is “no decision”
“Learning never stops at Directi”
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Life @ Directi – Our Values
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Medical Insurance
Flexible Work Timings
Interest groups - salsa, trekking, etc
Recreation Centre
In-house Snack bar
Concierge Desk
Education Sponsorship
Life @ Directi - Benefits
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Life @ Directi – We also have FUN
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Community Initiatives @ Directi
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We dream of an Indian team winning the ACM ICPC World Finals
The Go for Gold Cup & Cash Prize, to the Indian team that ranks higher than any Indian team has ever before
We want to support and reward every step through coaching, sponsorships, regional contests etc.
Prize amount starting at ~5+ lakh www.codechef.com/goforgold
Additional Benefits: 50% Travel Sponsorship to All Finalists Guaranteed Placements for all active Finalists Guaranteed Interview if you solve one non-easy problem Reimbursement of registration fees Free iPad if you clear interviews
Directi – ‘Go For Gold’
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World Finalists (India) – ACM ICPC 2010
Proud Sponsors
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Work @ Directi
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Innovation@Bleeding Edge
Out-of-the-box Approach
Creativity inEvery Aspect
EmbracingHeterogeneity
Technology@DirectI
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Positions Offered• Software Engineering
– Build large scale distributed applications that are at the core of the functioning of the Internet
– Build applications that a large % of internet users use.
– You Bring:• Core algorithms and
computer science knowledge
• Excellent problem-solving skills
• Communications Skills• Willingness to learn
– Starting Salary: 10.5+ Lacs
• Developer Operations– Decide how our applications
are architected and deployed– Dive deep into Linux, Apache
and Database internals– Capacity planning,
deployments and service automation across 100’s of servers
– You Bring:• Deep Linux Interest• Ability to work with open-
source applications• Communication Skills• Willingness to learn
– Starting Salary: 7+ Lacs
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Software Engineering – 8.5+ lacsDeveloper Operations – 5 + lacs
World class TeamsGame-changing Application Creation
Problem solving skillsComputer Science Fundamentals
Good Communication SkillsWillingness to learn!
We Offer
Be a Part-of
We Need
Being a Part of Directi
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Batch of 2010 - 2011
Abhishek IIT Guwahati
DurgaIIT Guwahati
AmitVJTI Mumbai
NareshIIT Roorkee
Mayank IIT Delhi
KrunalDJ Sanghvi
RohitIIT Delhi
AdityaBIT Mesra
AbhayIIT Roorkee
YatinIIT Roorkee
PuravDJ Sanghvi
AbilashIIT Guwahati
TamilAnna Unvi
VivekanandNIT Trichy
AnilIIIT Hyderabad
GauravIIT Roorkee
MadhavIIIT Hyderabad
RakeshIIT Roorkee
MaheshNSIT Delhi
KushagraDAIICT
VidurIIIT Hyderabad
ChaitanyaNIT Warangal
HarshvardhanNIT Trichy
PrasoonIIIT Hyderabad
Swati BIT Mesra
RahulIIT Delhi
UmangIIIT Hyderabad
ManmeetIIIT Allahabad
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Shailesh Mittal, DCE DEL
Ashwin Jain, DAIICT AHD
Vivek M, DAIICT AHD
Moulica Harish, IIT KHG
Nikhil Mangal, IIIT HYD
Anshul Bansal, IIIT HYD
Shashank, IIT BOM
Sandeep Kumar, IIT RRK
Paras Malik, IIT RRK
Vishal Anand, IIT KNP
Satyam Shekar, IIT GWH
Ranjai Banerji, IIIT HYD
Shilp Gupta, IIIT Gwalior
Batch of 2009 - 2010
Vivek Yadav, NIT WAnanta Reddy, NITW Yanu Gupta, IIIT ALLD
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Alums
Section V
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Batch of 2010 - 2011
Abhishek IIT Guwahati
DurgaIIT Guwahati
AmitVJTI Mumbai
NareshIIT Roorkee
Mayank IIT Delhi
KrunalDJ Sanghvi
RohitIIT Delhi
AdityaBIT Mesra
AbhayIIT Roorkee
YatinIIT Roorkee
PuravDJ Sanghvi
AbilashIIT Guwahati
TamilAnna Unvi
VivekanandNIT Trichy
AnilIIIT Hyderabad
GauravIIT Roorkee
MadhavIIIT Hyderabad
RakeshIIT Roorkee
MaheshNSIT Delhi
KushagraDAIICT
VidurIIIT Hyderabad
ChaitanyaNIT Warangal
HarshvardhanNIT Trichy
PrasoonIIIT Hyderabad
Swati BIT Mesra
RahulIIT Delhi
UmangIIIT Hyderabad
ManmeetIIIT Allahabad
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Shailesh Mittal, DCE DEL
Ashwin Jain, DAIICT AHD
Vivek M, DAIICT AHD
Moulica Harish, IIT KHG
Nikhil Mangal, IIIT HYD
Anshul Bansal, IIIT HYD
Shashank, IIT BOM
Sandeep Kumar, IIT RRK
Paras Malik, IIT RRK
Vishal Anand, IIT KNP
Satyam Shekar, IIT GWH
Ranjai Banerji, IIIT HYD
Shilp Gupta, IIIT Gwalior
Batch of 2009 - 2010
Vivek Yadav, NIT WAnanta Reddy, NITW Yanu Gupta, IIIT ALLD
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Internship
Section VI
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• Paid software engineering internships for a 3 – 6 months period • Projects:
• Any one of our live projects• Goal:
• An opportunity to turn theory into experience• First hand experience of working with some of the best minds
• Perks:• we also offer housing assistance, free snacks & subsidized
meals, gaming nights, weekly cricket matches, flexible hours & a relaxed work environment
• How do you apply? • Email to [email protected] • Resume, Dates available for an internship, location preference • Solution to anyone of our coding puzzle level 3 or level 4
• More info at: http://careers.directi.com
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