Interview with Chief Technology officer of Product Development Company

Recently we have interviewed Anirudh Gupta, he is working as a CTO for a product based company in Bangalore. Following are the extracts of the interview:-

PracLabs: Tell us about the company in which you work and various job roles in your company?

Anirudh :A product based company based on Microsoft stack. Working as CTO and lead architect of the product

PracLabs:  What day to day activities do you perform at your work?

Anirudh: While in sprint I do development

Otherwise presales, roadmap, representation for the organization in events etc. related tasks

PracLabs:  What kind of challenges do you face at your work?

Anirudh: Implementation, Scarcity of skilled resources. People who want to learn are not really needed but actually resources who can have short learning period and then actually write quality code to deliver the functionality

PracLabs:  Which skills should a student learn to work in your company and specifically in your job role?

Anirudh: SharePoint, jQuery, HTML5, javascript

PracLabs: Which subjects do you feel you should have learned better when you were studying atcollege/university?

Anirudh: Needed practical knowledge. More onus of implementation related innovation rather than just theory.

PracLabs: Which skills do you feel student should always learn to become successful in corporate world?

Anirudh: This is too subjective!! More practical & logical skill set rather than theory

PracLabs: Which book you are reading right now? And which books you will suggest students must read?

Anirudh: Not into books so not the right person to advocate about reading books. I can suggest students to try and break the code to atom level to understand how things work rather than just following someone else code !!!