A Journey That Changed My Thinking About Design, Development & Career Growth

For the first time, I travelled from Red & White Multimedia Education to Bangalore on a company Exposure Trip — and this journey completely changed the way I look at technology, work culture, and career building.

This blog is not just my experience, but a guide for every student and employee to understand how top companies think, how experts work, and what today’s industry truly expects.

1️⃣ Figma India (A Creative World Opened on 12/11/2025)

I was lucky to visit Figma’s newly opened India office on the same week it launched.
The environment was filled with creators, designers, product heads, and brand experts.

👤 Meeting a PHONE Brand Design Expert

I met a senior designer who worked on designing a well-known smartphone.

In a 5-minute powerful discussion, he said something that hit me deeply:

“Create the product, but first perfect the design.
Do the marketing and sales - then the company will send developers to build it for you."

Meaning: If your product idea is strong, well-designed, and marketable, development is never a problem.
Companies invest in ideas that look real, solve problems, and can be sold.

💡 What Students Should Learn

• Start creating real products, not only code.
• If you can’t build a full product, then analyse existing successful products.
• Learn design thinking, UI/UX, and presentation skills.
• What people see → they buy
• What companies see → they hire
  

2️⃣ Learning From Anil Reddy ( The Designer Behind Paytm (2013) )

We met Anil Reddy, who worked with Paytm and 5+ big brands in their early design journeys.
He repeated a strong message:

“If you build anything, be able to explain it, sell it,
and convince others WHY it matters.”

🧠 Lessons for Students & Employees

• Your communication skills matter more than your software.
• Explain your design or project with clarity and confidence.
• Companies don’t hire people who just code.
  They hire those who understand the user and solve problems.
  

3️⃣ Amazon – Meet With Dhrumil Vaghasiya (SDE-2, JavaScript)

This was a turning point.
Dhrumil Vaghasiya shared his journey from Hackathon → Top 100 → Amazon SDE-2.

🧑‍💻 How Amazon Works Before Coding

Before development begins:

• A team of 10–15 members sits together
• Every person gives an opinion
• Long discussions happen
• Only after finalizing architecture & logic, coding begins

This reduces:
✔️ Production bugs
✔️ Hurdles
✔️ Rework
✔️ Failures

🧠 His Key Advice

• DSA is extremely important for cracking Amazon-level interviews.
• Working at Amazon teaches you discipline, ownership, and high-quality thinking.
• Coding is not the first step; planning is the real engineering.

4️⃣ Fast-Moving Work Culture at Zepto

At Zepto, we met Rajat bhai, Senior Design Head.
Zepto’s speed shocked me.

🚀 How Zepto Works

• Design today → Development starts immediately
• Fast iteration
• No waiting
• Rapid execution

This taught me:

“Speed is the new intelligence.
Fast execution beats slow perfection.”

5️⃣ Google (Ananta Campus) - A Different Universe

Google’s office felt like entering a 7-star hotel.

Cleanliness → Next level
Ambiance → Luxurious
Environment → Calm, creative, inspiring
Floors → 8+
Every floor → Gaming Zone + Food Zone + Office Space

🧑‍💼 Meeting Ankit Dubey (Senior SDE, 12+ Years Experience)

His words described Google perfectly:

“At Google, no one asks where or how you are working.
But every person is a king in their own work"

No micromanagement.
No pressure.
Complete responsibility.

You can wear anything.
Work anytime.
Sit anywhere.

But…

Every employee is so knowledgeable and responsible that no one needs supervision.

✨ What I Learned from Google

• Freedom becomes meaningful only when you are responsible.
• Knowledge → Confidence → Growth
• Work culture matters as much as salary.

FINAL MESSAGE

This Exposure Tour showed me:

**Design matters.

Planning matters.
Communication matters.
Quality matters.
Speed matters.
But most importantly — YOU matter.**

If you can:

• Think clearly
• Design beautifully
• Explain confidently
• Execute fast
• And build responsibly

Then any company — big or small — will hire you, respect you, and invest in you.

This trip changed my mindset, and I hope this blog inspires you to dream bigger and build stronger.