Great work life balance, I work a max of 20 hours a week. Great moonlighting policy.
We don’t hire the best talent. We hire talent that fills our diversity quotas and so you get a lot of people that feel they are being treated unfairly while making 300k+. Takes forever to ship anything. Very hard to get promoted past senior.
Have an upcoming system design interview at GitHub. Can someone share their experience and some suggestions on how to prepare? Do they ask standard system design questions or do you have to understand GitHub architecture to better prepare? @Github #swe
I’m trying to improve my software architecture skills. Recently I’ve looked at “grokking the system design interview” and the “system design primer” on github. What are typical software architect interviews like?
I'm a security engineer with 15+ years of experience, including many years at a couple FAANG's. I have strong skills in automation, building static analysis tools, code review, architecture review, threat modeling, and penetration testing. Found a job posting at GitHub that looks really exciting an...Read more
We had an amazing ML engineer in the team. A new DS manager joined our team and started pointing errors in the code practice and tried to change the deployment process and architecture. There was so much pressure as there was only 1 ML engineer and he messed up a prod model deployment due to time ...Read more
What are some of cool tips/tricks to complete architectural/domain tasks via code? My career goal for next year is to switch to swe . Family commitments take personal time :| so time beyond office hours is not possible to utilize. I don't want to develop bad habits by using github copilot or ChatG...Read more
Before I ask where Engineering Managers with outdated knowledge go to die, I want to give refreshing my know how a Chance. Where would I go to learn everything there’s to know about anything from agile methods, Github, architecture, DevOps, etc? Is there some sort of “curriculum” that I should go th...Read more
All the self-driving car companies list "fluency with modern C++" as a job requirement. How could a candidate demonstrate this if they weren't hired for a C++ based role first? Would small code samples on GitHub suffice? I'm stuck in Java hell and no one seems willing to hire me for a C++ role with...Read more
Not a new article https://www.mckinsey.com/capabilities/mckinsey-digital/our-insights/the-economic-potential-of-generative-ai-the-next-productivity-frontier#key-insights It has an interesting (and scary) perspective of SWE as a career. "According to our analysis, the direct impact of AI on the p...Read more
Both Vercel and Netlify are leaders in the JAMstack world. For those that don't know, Vercel and Netlify are serverless deployment platforms for WebApps. They're both pushing for microservices structure and are hellbent on disrupting the monolithic architecture. Note that this a grossly simplified ...Read more
Lot of companies prefer take home assignments for mobile software engineers. I have been taking couple of those. I would like to know what are the points to consider while doing those and what is the safest and cleanest architecture for such assignments. I have tried both mvvm and viper. I have seen...Read more
I'm an Embedded SW Engineer in a semiconductor company and thinking about moving to the UEFI team in the future. In my free time I'd like learn the basic concepts, architecture, drivers etc., to prepare for the move. Please advise me on how to get started, and what the fundamentals to know. Any sug...Read more
I will interview for a SWE position with GitHub soon, and for all sorts of reasons, personal and professional, GitHub is absolutely the ideal company for me at this time in my life -- even if that changes later. 7 YoE TC ~150K I currently have 1 offer from a well-known and interesting public compa...Read more
Hi Everyone, I'm a fourth year studying at UVA. Return offer for ICT3 SWE from Apple Core OS from internship rescinded for odd staffing reasons. Given the return offer, I was not actively applying until today, and am stressed about finding a job before graduation given the market circumstances. I w...Read more
Hi all, Will have virtual onsite dropbox iOS interview 2 weeks from now. Recruiter told me that it'll be a 5 part interviews as follow: 1. Debugging: This type of interview is something I have not seen before, does anyone know roughly how it'll be? e.g. working on issues of a Github project or a sa...Read more
I'm planning to build a personal app and trying to pick the better framework. What are your opinions? Also if you could share your experience with either or both and why you voted it would be great. Thank you! React native pros: - I loathe JS, but know I should probably learn it at some point (mayb...Read more
I haven't met one yet, and I am only working with them on engineering. But all who I have worked with: 1. Recite _Jobs To Be Done_ in every brainstorming and UX meeting. 2. Call the text and the CTA in a popup as "Information Architecture" instead of anything else human. 3. Spreadsheet gurus who pr...Read more
Hi Blind While crunching a lot of tech market data for my side-project – www.techleonardo.com – I had an opportunity to create a list of 54 UK companies hiring now for tech internships, grouped by city and tagged with tech stack by my ML model. London Adarga Keywords: Artificial Intelligence, Data...Read more
Hello All, I have had roughly 10 years of experience in the business field with various roles in Investment Banking, Corporate Development/Strategy, and Brand Management. As someone who minored in Computer Science, I have recently decided to pursue this college passion and switch into software engi...Read more
I am having 4 years of experience and I do have coding Interview with workday, what kind of questions I can expect from Interviewer? Is coding Interview is generic in workday or depends on project requirement? I am sharing job description below, so that you will have an on Idea for what position I...Read more
Over 17 years of experience as SWE / Architect Worked in Fintech, E-commerce, BigTech(MSFT, CRM) etc. Strong architectural, HLD, LLD etc experience.. #referral Looking for Senior IC /Architect roles #adobe #airbnb #airtable #amazon #american express #amplitude #apple #aquatic #arrowstreet capita...Read more