At senior SWE level, but a new project, is asking for a code walk through for a assigned sprint task, a bad thing?
Hey guys! How do you all finish your sprint tasks while attending meetings throughout the sprint ? In a sprint, I have a lot of meetings scheduled as I’m involved in different projects. I am not able to handle both project work and meetings. I get very mentally drained with all the meetings that I...Read more
Had a good boss at my 1st company and got promoted to senior. Immediately got a preipo company senior offer, so paper money give or take 580k, a company that will likely grow into its valuation in a year. My goal is lean fire, then work on side projects for creating passive income instead of working...Read more
Joined for about 1 year, I've observed the team culture differs significantly from my previous work experiences. Here are some: 1. Limited Communication in the Team's Public Slack Channel: In the team of 12 engineers, it's rare to see messages in the public Slack channel. Perhaps only 1 to 2 messag...Read more
What's the learning opportunity at Amazon for SDEs? Do you get to do a wide variety of projects or are you just a sprint monkey trying to satisfy deadlines and no real deep work or engineering?
Have seen some devs that just pick up fully fleshed out user stories sprint over sprint and implement but have seen other devs have full autonomy on what project they work on and how they work on it, essentially PMing the project themselves. What companies/teams give devs more autonomy over their w...Read more
I'll be starting at FB soon. From the convo I had with existing engineers and manager I have come to understand that there are generally no sprint cycles or daily stand-ups? And are people working on 6 month long projects? So as an E5 engineer am I supposed to come up with most impactful project o...Read more
My project sprint burns down like a ballistic missile trajectory. I think it tells me that things bomb in production. How's do you guys burn it down.
2YoE as a Graphic Designer 2YoE as an UX Designer at start-up 3mo Internship at Salesforce company Worked as a freelancer for a variety of UX related projects, have experience directing sprints, managing whole products and communicating with marketing teams and programmers to align goals in a horiz...Read more
How is your team's project for monitoring research projects, using points for stories or hourly estimates for each sprint, similar to Agile software development. Management wants us to follow agile process for research and put in hours adding up to 80, for a 2-week sprint. ML modeling or research i...Read more
Had a one on one with my boss, my velocity slowed down because of a recent project. Due to my co-workers absence, I ended up doing around 85%-90% of a project. We planned for this to be an easy project, two sprinter with 2 people. Ended up being 3.5 sprints with 1.x people. One of the most stressful...Read more
As a fresher, joined M$ with expectations to work on latest tech. Work is shit in my org. But didn't quit till now thinking that quitting so early won't be good on resume. It'll take me 6 months prep to get in FNGs. So can't switch immediately even if I wish to. I have done impactful work and 2 off...Read more
I am racing against the clock, it's been less than 3 months already got full fledged projects coming up, demos every month, reorg etc. etc. Now a days if I don't ever thinking about taking a break throughout the days, because my pivot doc is ready if them tickets aren't moving through the sprint bo...Read more
Do you people find this ownership thing bullshit at Amazon? Like pushing for tasks getting included in sprint planning for the project you ‘own’. And then if you weren’t able to push hard your manager tells you that you didn’t do a good job. I am an SDE FFS not a project manager. You tell me what yo...Read more
I am bored of my job. No, I don't work at Cognizant. I'm involved in building what's part of sprint items. What side projects do you do to keep your interest going? What intresting technically challenges do you involve at work that keeps you going?
The coworker is a L4 and resigned. The team is very new and our sprint planning is a total train wreck, and it stresses him out. Should I stick around for a while because of my high visibility high impact project or jump out to other teams as soon as I can? I’m also very new. Thoughts?
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
In practical terms, how are the roles different? And how many years of experience one needs to get E6? To give an example, I work at a startup and have 8yoe, in infra. This startup is not full of particularly smart or talented people, so a comparison with how I would perform at FB based on how I pe...Read more
I've been heading a small project from several specified in the team's roadmap. While my manager is well aware of the delivery timeline, I face resistance from the scrum master when trying to add tasks to the backlog. The scrum master, who pre-grooms with my manager, suggests that higher-priority st...Read more
I have been given 2 weeks(1 sprint) to learn front end framework (react, vue or angular)for a project. I have very basic knowledge of HTML. Can someone suggest me some materials to learn it. Also if someone has tried this and learnt it properly please share your plan. TC : peanut YOE:2.8