With final updates on Friday, we will never have to dread Monday and peacefully enjoy the weekend to the fullest, including Sunday evenings. I worked on a team once which did this and my mental health has never been better during a job. My weekends had 0 stress as I never had any pending work after...Read more
Guys, Is it only me or anyone else feels the same , that standups are useless every day ? It's too much of status...when...why everyday and on somedays every few hours status. The whole agile thing is overrated, its created just for managers and to make sure people work their butt off every day. L...Read more
A friend who works at Google said he wanted to switch to bi weekly sprints on his team. His manager took him aside and said they don't use the term "sprints" on his teams at Google because it's insensitive language. Because not everyone is able to run fast. https://x.com/anothercohen/status/17295...Read more
Hi i am facing this since last one year. In my sprint i am getting the task for 10 days. Later once sprint planning is done manger starts assigning random task which is not counted in sprint board (which is as equivalent as 2 week tasks) . And at the end of the sprint managers asks about the work ...Read more
I work 1-2 hours a day mostly, no sprints/scrums/standups - I work in IS&S org, which accounts for Apple Music, TV, News, App Store, Apple pay etc. (Specific team shall not be named) My manager doesn't ask me what I'm working on, I give him status updates once in two weeks. I get good refreshers, ...Read more
Let's forget about the immigration status, funding, personal commitments etc. Do you think your 5 years of software engineering experience ( from coding to leading projects or sprint planning, estimation etc.) gives you enough confidence to start a company? If yes, what experiences have helped you?...Read more
I was an F1 student till Dec 18th last year and then transitioned to h1b on Dec 19th. Can I still use sprint tax to file as a non resident for the entire year? I also sold stock options in May 2018 and gave etrade a W8 BEN form. Was that the right form for my status? Hoping to get advice from peopl...Read more
Uber CEO sent an email to all employees tonight, according to CNBC. Here are the relevant parts: 5. Meeting the moment means making trade-offs. The hurdle rate for our investments has gotten higher, and that means that some initiatives that require substantial capital will be slowed. We have to mak...Read more
I'm a new grad and need to approach folks to understand the system that have built for the last 4-5 years. To some level I'm dependent on them for the context/business/tech. But I see some folks just maintain their availability status as "private" and then they barely reply... Wtf!! Been 2 hrs of ...Read more
Whatsapp was handling billion messages(infact more I assume) on new year eve with 55 engineers and that was before Facebook acquiring them. A guy from Poland or some country single handedly created Adobe photoshop alternate. Plenty of fish dating site was built by one person and he sold it for 150...Read more
I know we all find it very helpful to have a pm pinging me about the status of tasks. Perhaps this bot could do it even more frequently and ping your manager if you don’t reply within 60 seconds 🙏 I hate when they look at the sprint board for updates instead 😡 This should free up a pm’s time to ...Read more
I got a couole of friend who work at T-Mobile and they have been complaining more and more about micromanaging from their leadership plus a more and more toxic environment. One of them is about to accept an offer and might even take a pay cut to move out while the other is already actively looking f...Read more
I have accepted an offer and they have now filed H1B transfer(today). When is the Ideal time to let the manager know about my exit plans, not sure if there are any implications on status-if I let him know upfront. Is it ok to let manager know before the approval or suggested to do it after approval...Read more
It’s been months since we got any new requirements so had been working on backlog tasks like unit tests, updating swagger, integrating code quality tools like sonarqube etc. Manager is assigned a new bigger project and he’s not at all caring about our current one anymore. Being an IC, it has becom...Read more
My manager uses my one-one-one time to talk about status updates (which we do in stand-ups by the way), which often extends to implementation and other project/deliverables stuff. I don’t want to spend my one-on-one reiterating standup updates. Genuinely, I was afraid to tell him that because I did...Read more
Both my GF and I are SDEs (in different companies) in NY with H1B status. Her team has extremely toxic culture and lost half of engs already. She’s also preparing to jump ship to another company. But preparing interview is tough and a long process and she also has a lot of tasks from the current tea...Read more
I recently switched teams and moved to US. Even since past three weeks, I have lost all interest in working and am unable to complete even the simplest sprint tasks. Now even if I want to work on them, I can’t focus at all. And more work keeps piling up. I’ve been lying about the status of a simple...Read more
L4, $270k, 3yoe If not then how do you get there from L4? Switched orgs late last year. My new TL (L5) left and another L5 became TL. This team is the first time I've seen TLs who don't code a lot. Neither seems to code at all. But TL is still the primary code reviewer for our projects. Rather th...Read more
What is your choice? I used to be a micromanager before and my ‘micro’ management style helped three devs (over a period of 5 years) avoid pip. I used to work for a company where you could change teams just before you are placed on pip and managers nudged that option to avoid the headache of a pip....Read more
Scrum seems to be the go-to Agile methodology. It sometimes is quite effective, depending on the project; However, it is not obvious to me that it is worth being the de facto standard for software engineering. I'm curious on everyone's thoughts and experiences with Scrum at your workplace. Here ar...Read more