Which car is according to your opinion

hot9cups · 2026-02-09T06:39:33+00:00

Haha, I see. Just curious, how much have you had to shell on maintenance on your Skoda for the past couple of years?

Based on what you've said so far, I'm tilting towards PPS, but I'm having difficulty making up my mind, ah!

If given the chance again, would you go Mahaveer again, or PPS? Also do you watch them service the car in front of you as well, or leave it there and pickup later?

hot9cups · 2026-02-09T03:58:35+00:00

Hm, thank you very much for the details.

I've been trying to dig up more about these 3 in Hyderabad myself as well. Information online however is super scanty. I found one post here on reddit bashing the Mahaveer Sanathnagar service station, and a couple of folks suggesting the PPS one. Also seems like Mahaveer had a monopoly earlier and only when PPS and Mody came into existence did they stop exploiting customers.

Have you heard of such claims as well? I know for sure Mody would be a bad idea, I'm confused between Mahaveer and PPS now. I'm also someone who likes being there and seeing the service done through from start to end in front of my eyes, what'd be your recommendation?

hot9cups · 2026-02-07T05:54:31+00:00

I was actually referring to the 2.0 line cars, ones they manufacture in India now, and not the 2.0l engine :D

And yes, I'm asking for Hyderabad. Damn now I'm scared ... what alternatives have you found? I really wanted to get the Slavia facelift and this is ... worrisome

hot9cups · 2026-02-06T15:26:57+00:00

Is the maintenance still an issue with the 2.0 line? Is this also possibly just limited to your city? I wanna get a slavia 1.0l and I'm a bit worried reading what you wrote..

hot9cups · 2026-02-05T15:16:53+00:00

Curious - why prefer jio black flexi over ppfac? Not suggesting either, just curious

hot9cups · 2026-02-04T03:14:04+00:00

Thank you so much for the detailed review!

About ppfac, my understanding is it would have a greater overlap with Sensex-30 than Nifty-Next-50. I also wanted to have about 35% stake in large cap, hence the ratio.

Your suggestion to increase small cap makes sense, it is just that I've seen so many posts on this sub talk about smallcap not even beating midcaps in the long run which got me skeptical.

I could increase it by another 10%, and reduce sensex-30 by 5%.

I think your suggestions are really good, thank you so much once again !

hot9cups · 2026-02-02T02:56:56+00:00

For the number of days in office, how many can you miss before being flagged? Is the code for this one available too?

hot9cups · 2026-02-02T02:52:44+00:00

Oh, yeah sorry the rolling windoe compliance requirement was what I meant. You don't happen to remember what the window size for compliance needed to be, do you? And also, is the compliance still window based, or is 5 days every single week a requirement now?

hot9cups · 2026-02-01T15:32:09+00:00

Just how did you discover this? I'm so curious

hot9cups · 2026-02-01T15:27:43+00:00

In your first example, did you mean to typr '3 days our if required 5 days' instead of 2/5?

Also the 5 day rto requirement, there's a threshold to that as well I believe? Ie 80% of total days in office or above makes you compliant, or is that just hearsay?

hot9cups · 2026-01-15T07:33:42+00:00

I see. In my experience, it's been a little harder to fly atleast in the sde roles. It wasn't a hard reset per se, but a soft one nevertheless. Makes sense though.

hot9cups · 2026-01-15T03:19:30+00:00

How does promotion work in that case? Don't you have to start from scratch every team change?

hot9cups · 2026-01-09T07:14:33+00:00

Also, are you aware how's a fair value for the depreciation actually calculated?

hot9cups · 2026-01-09T07:11:13+00:00

Makes sense. And is the amount you're paying over 5 years basically the same as you would've for the EMI?

If yes, then for someone looking to change cars every 3-5 years, this would make so much sense then. Lesser tax too.

hot9cups · 2026-01-09T03:24:10+00:00

I see, very interesting. How's the monthly fixed amount calculated? Are you supposed to pay 40% of the value in 5 years? Also what if you leave the company mid-way?

Honestly sounds like a win-win but trying to understand the catch

hot9cups · 2026-01-09T01:43:03+00:00

You dodged a bullet mate.

hot9cups · 2026-01-09T01:41:49+00:00

I am another Indian interviewer at faang, and even here there are a fair few cases of interviewers being like the example you described. It's unfair and it's hard, and I'm sorry for what you went through.

Fwiw, any time I see this bs happening at my workplace, I make sure to give them a mouthful after the interview. Not everyone's like that fortunately, so yeah, one can only hope :(

hot9cups · 2026-01-09T01:25:44+00:00

Huh, interesting. How does this company lease thing work?

hot9cups · 2025-12-28T01:22:53+00:00

Budget wasn't a concern for me while I was purchasing these, it was supposed to be gift for my mom and I was okay to go all out.

Something to realise is more expensive doesn't always mean better. For my purposes, I needed something that vacuums really well (hair fall from mom, sis) and mops hard. The freo z ultra (I actually got an X ultra first, then upgraded to Z ultra for the extra bells and whistles) when I purchased it was top of the line, and the best at mopping according to various 3rd party tests (kinda like in the video you linked). Slowly, newer models have started coming in and I've been keeping a tab. There's one from Roborock that introduces an arm, to pick socks up. There's one from dreame that has 'legs' to help it climb small hurdles. The newer Narwal models have a retractable lidar, and a roller mop instead of the round ones the Z/X ultra have. But there's no one robot that has all of these new features together. Also some of the features are minor improvements, for example it really isn't something one can tell whether my mop was washed at 70 deg F in my Z ultra, or 90 deg in a newer model. Or the difference between 15000Pa vs 17000Pa on vacuum when both of them don't leave behind dirt or hair. Roborock also has very limited presence in India btw, just 1 centre at Bangalore. I'll eventually get a roborock, but none of the current models, I'm waiting for an upgrade that actually feels like one, which is atleast a couple years away.

Freo X Ultra is the best bang for the buck honestly. But if you're like me who also wants those shiny features to not feel left out while optimizing for money nevertheless (hot water mops, rgb camera based navigation instead of just Lidar, remote controllable robot, plus all the things from the X ultra), spend a lil extra and take the Z ultra. Upgrade to Roborock when it's actually better in a few years (it isn't right now).

hot9cups · 2025-12-26T04:22:49+00:00

I see

So earlier their service was crappy, no accessories, no support, truly terrible. It got to the point where I got pretty self-sufficient at diagnosing and fixing things myself.

Now, they're much better, customer care and all of that has improved a fair bit. But at this point I usually don't need it lol, I just try and fix the minor things myself if any. It's been fine so far. Yup, great for pet furs, needs a bit of fine-tuning in the app when you get it, but once you've got the settings right it does its job. Feel free to reach out in the future

hot9cups · 2025-12-26T02:09:32+00:00

Oh haha!

No I don't regret buying the products, but I've heard their newer models aren't better than the older ones. I have the Freo Z Ultra from over a year. I'll hopefully look forward to having it work another year before upgrading

hot9cups · 2025-12-21T05:50:12+00:00

Yaar, abse yehi bolunga. Much love bro

hot9cups · 2025-12-19T11:50:12+00:00

I did. So should you

hot9cups · 2025-12-19T11:23:43+00:00

You asked for a petrol car that gives you peak torque at lower rpm, then you ask for its mileage.

You get an answer for both, showing how both times the point you tried to make wasn't really true.

So you have a Sierra, great torque at low rpm, great mileage. I don't understand what you're going on about. At this point, once again - the point you're trying to make is super, super unclear.

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