Riya shuts down India operations

Riya decided to shutdown India operations last week. Munjal wrote about it in his blog post here.

I left Riya only a couple of months before and when I learnt about this change I had mixed feelings about it. Would I have been made an US offer? Would I have been let go? What ever the case might have been I can't feel good/bad now because I didn't know it was going to happen.

If I were with Riya, I would have been happy if the offer was reasonable and my newly married life could accomodate the change. If I was let go, it would suck but these things happen and I would not have been to sad about the whole thing for more than a day or so.

My advice for people who were let go is: "these things happen, don't take it to heart, I know you are an awesome engineer/researcher, ping me if you think I can help"

I got in touch Rahul, MS Recruiter and he setup interviews for Nikhil and Sandeep. I couldn't do more because currently there are only senior level openings at MS. The only other place I know is Trilogy but so many techies are leaving Trilogy, I am not sure it is the right place to go.

Unrelated note:
I have added links to Pallavi's and Madhur's blog.

  a) Pallavi is a software engineer in Riya and an ex-collegue of mine. She is a gult, conservative and very hardworking. We worked together on a project for couple of months at Riya.

  b) Madhur Dixit is colleague of mine in MS. We work in the same team (Live Meeting) but we don't really work together because it is a huge project. He is an IITM Alum and hence he was the first person I talked to regarding the work in Live Meeting before I made the decision to join MS.