Here are a few tips and tricks I have used over the course of my career. I am not an SWE. *****CLARIFICATION FOR POINT #1***** Many people here have taken issue with the first point. Allow me to clarify: I do not want to remove it because it is a big part of how I have navigated the past 2+ years...Read more
1. How many years of experience do you have? 2. How many hours a day do you actually work? 3. How have you avoided layoffs? 4. Tips for staying under the radar? Just curious
I just started leetcodoing . It's been two weeks now and I'm not able to do more than 2 problems a day (I have been spending about 2.5 hrs per day in the evenings after getting back from work) and did around 30 problems so far mostly medium and easy and a couple of hard ones (mostly from the "explor...Read more
Coding _______ Practiced top 75 FB LC tagged. First day I just did one question Second day I did the one I did the previous day plus a new one Third day I did the previous two plus a new one Repeated until I had all major concepts down and could do top ~75 tagged in ~3 hours nonstop. If you wa...Read more
Currently, I'm a L6 TL. My team has been growing and my manager has too many direct reports. He asked if I'm interested in managing. I'm currently overseeing work of a few L4s. Never been a manager before, but I think it may be worth trying it for a bit to get experience. I have decent enough peopl...Read more
While I've enjoyed my last 4 years working in tech, i keep feeling a pull towards a career in medicine. Every day I log into my machine I feel horrible that I'm doing this work to inflate the pockets of others, while the world is suffering. I want to do more and im thinking of taking pre reqs at nig...Read more
I work on a big team so it's easy to literally work an hour or less a day and miss deadlines without anyone saying anything. This really bothers me and hurts my self-esteem because i'm flourishing in other areas of life minus integrity at my job. It's too easy to coast. Does anyone have any tips for...Read more
“I come from a country where tipping doesn’t exist so i don’t tip when I go out to eat”. You’re not in that country anymore. In the US, we have to tip our wait staff. If you want to avoid restaurants to not tip, that’s odd, but do that. But if you go out, tip your wait staff. I’ll preface this by ...Read more
I can't explain anything more but I'm overburdened with work and household duties. I'm raging the whole day and have no break from this feeling. I want to break things, Cry, scream and throw things out of the window all at the same time. Any tips on how to calm down. Edit: thanks for very helpful r...Read more
I’ve tried everything I can think of to get through what has been a grueling burn out from getting disciplined about staying hyper focused during the day and shutting off work at 7PM, going for more nature walks, therapy, finding a hobby (painting, snowboarding, meditating). But I feel unbearably e...Read more
I am thinking of spending 4 weeks using the work from anywhere weeks in India. I will work US hours. I joined the company late last year. Will it be frowned upon to ask soon? I am also in a lot of meetings all day. Any gotchas, tips for success? Tc 500 Yoe 15 #Google
- About me - I'm an SDE3 in AWS with ~7 yoe. Since most of my hobbies were inaccessible due to the quarantine, I found myself with a lot of free time. Lying around doing nothing was not very fun so I decided to try my hand at interviewing. I've never done a full onsite before and I didn't know wher...Read more
I often feel where to start my work with- focus on strategy and future quarter plannings, manage stakeholder questions, take care of day to day team queries or write PRDs. Building a product from scratch and it needs lot of focus for iteration but not able to do that amongst all the other distractio...Read more
Rubrik is one of the companies I admire and aspire to work at some day. My good friends at blind, any resources/tips to prepare for their interviews ? I'm your run of the mill Full stack developer with a concentration in Java/react/redux background. YOE: 2 years TC: 100k
Hi guys, Wondering if any of you experience this and any ways to smooth work performance wfh so that it is consistent throughout the week. For me, after several days of putting in 18 hour/day, it’s followed by a day of crashed productivity. I’m sure there’s a way to manage this since bankers work ...Read more
My entire team was laid off, so it wasn't performance-related or anything. But I am finding that despite trying to foster a really positive attitude I feel kind of down and it's starting to come out through my interviews. Without work, I find myself forgetting what day of the week it is or wearing t...Read more
I'm finding it hard to work 8 hrs in a disciplined way. Easily distracted ( stock market, news, blind, random pings from team for help, old feature issues, stupid meetings ). All these are making it hard for me to work 8hrs in a day. It is expected to get pulled into different issues for the team, b...Read more
Currently interviewing for a role at FB and the recruiter is recommending a spot on the NPE team. Anybody have any details on what that team is like? Any tips on the work/life balance and what the day to day workload is like? How does the culture of NPE teams and products differ than that compared ...Read more
my day to day at work is demanding especially last couple months. i need to study and interview while there’s a lot expected of me at my current job. any tips for balancing this when obviously the priority is to gtfo but i need to uphold relationships and continue to deliver? TC $160 non-eng
Why the fuck is macOS garbage? I do not get it, apple. It is so fucking painful to code and do other SWE tasks on that shit. I was forced to use MacBook for my day-to-day work. I cannot even split the screen into four sections without pain. I have to install some weird-ass program to do that task (a...Read more