Rahul – Bengaluru Software Engineer with High RQ
Rahul is technically sound like a hundred other engineers in his Bengaluru office. What makes him the one people go to when a project is on fire is his Relationship Quotient — and it is a skill you can build, not a personality you are born with.
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