Excellent benefits, great people, remote-first culture from pre-COVID, great work/life balance.
The company used to have a rich culture of supporting the development of community, but since current CEO joined and company was sold, it’s had major cash flow problems and management does seem to know how to react. Then GenAI came around and all strategy and vision went out the window.
I know this is a stack overflow question but I want to understand from the tech people who work with these languages daily. How Java Object Oriented is different than Python Object Oriented model. Thanks in advance
It's a genuine question I'm new to both. I have seen more hates/meme towards Java than C#, even in stack overflow survey C# is more desired and admired than Java. Why is that? Even Though I feel there are more libs around java like redis, Kafka, spark than C#, why is C# is considered better? Is it ...Read more
Rust is *the most loved programming language for the 5th year in a row* according to the stack overflow survey, yet is still a relatively unknown or uncommon for many programmers. https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2020#technology-most-loved-dreaded-and-wanted-languages It offers C/C++ per...Read more
Hi guys I have a Java interview coming up. I am a beginner in Java and did a take home for the interview and somehow managed to use spring boot by literally following a tutorial and copying code from stack overflow. They told me the interview will involve Java, DB and OS questions. This is for a ju...Read more
Languages I've considered: Java, Kotlin, Go, Node, Python, Rust I went with Scala because: - can benefit from JVM ecosystem, ita libraries and optimizations - has some functional programming niceties, but not as forced as strong FP languages like Haskell. Still brings in some OOP. - not as niche as...Read more
In my team we're heavily discouraged to write custom CSS to maintain conformity with our design system. Been mainly in React/redux land + some Java. It's been awhile since I've written CSS.. even when I have to I use Google/Stack overflow. I've been bombing these questions and it's harder to prep f...Read more
I got an offer for a backend mid-level SDE role based on the number of years on my resume. In Accenture, I was a "backend dev" for 6 months where I wrote very vanilla java code that even a college freshman can write. The other project that I spent the majority of my time on (3.5 years) was a manual ...Read more
Ever since ChatGPT and bard have been available. I have been using them to learn about things (for example, what is 401k, what happened in the world war 2, how to write a particular java code, etc) which has completely finished how much time I spend on websites like Wikipedia, stack overflow and inv...Read more
1. which tech companies are friendly to consultants? 2. which positions are best? And which ones would I have a real chance? 3. For Google specifically, would this be enough "tech" knowledge for a PM role? ---- Background: I want to leave consulting soon, within the next 12 months. Mostly because...Read more
I’m not new to this as I have 5yoe, but am feeling really stressed out lately. I’ve joined a new project as basically the only senior SWE on the team and the amount of things to learn is simply staggering. Just to name a few things that came my way very recently: - Java - Groovy (for tests!) - Many...Read more
Need some advice. I'd really like to head back into the tech field in search of more interesting and fulfilling work. Let me lay it out for you. Quick background: Started programming in C at a young age working on online texted based multiplayer servers (before most of your times but they were call...Read more
You have a phone interview. Software Engineer. Google. You get an instant hard-on as you look at the compensation on levels.fyi. It's time, the stars have aligned. You have memorized the optimal solutions to all leetcode hard questions. You're going to cheat. Again. After failing over 20 interviews ...Read more