angarg12

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by angarg12 5y ago
I appreciate the contrarian point of view, and I don't want to pick on the author, but this sounds like words of wisdom from someone who doesn't have much real world experience. I worked in such a project who never upgraded once.
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by angarg12 5y ago
This is bogus. Every week I'm interviewing a handful of people for internships and junior roles. This is also simply not true: > top companies (big tech, high growth startups) figure out that they don't really need to hire a lo
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by angarg12 5y ago
I work with a shoemaker and I've commissioned a few bespoke sneakers (trainers as we call them here) in the past. He comes up with new designs from scratch, and I made suggestions and ask for changes based on my taste. Usually I browse
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by angarg12 5y ago
So this person figured out the current meta-game of tech: jump jobs every 1-2 years early in your career to maximise comp. But that's not the whole story. First, this works in your early career where growth and learning are very fast,
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by angarg12 5y ago
The first half of the article is ok but the part about large organisations is completely misguided. I think the author is conflating prisoner's dilemma with the communication challenges in a large organisation, which arises naturally f
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by angarg12 5y ago
I like the point that your dream job of today might become your professional prison of tomorrow. But at the end this was the entrepreneurship porn that HN loves. I got a different take on the topic. I work as a ML Engineer and many people I
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by angarg12 5y ago
> The only missing bit would be the ability to replicate production traffic, as some bugs only happen under very high traffic by a large number of concurrent users. This is however at best difficult or nearly impossible to do. Not sure
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by angarg12 5y ago
You've tried remote and it doesn't work for you. Great, more power to you! However your comment about other people is out of place. Is other people taking longer breaks affecting your productivity? If so, have you brought this up
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by angarg12 5y ago
I have several colleagues in the same situation (first job, never been to the office). As much as I love remote work, a word of caution: don't take this text too seriously. It's just the ramblings of a very immature engineer. Form
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by angarg12 5y ago
> You will jump straight to the top of the hiring manager’s mental list, maybe without them even noticing. That sounds like an unconscious bias that you should fight rather than indulge. I've interviewed hundreds of candidates for F
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by angarg12 5y ago
I used to think like this. At it's core, it's a variation of "never give up", mixed with "the power of habit". I agree with "the power of habit" part. From the "never give up" point of view,
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by angarg12 5y ago
I got into movies way back and I'm clocking over 1600 watched according to IMDB. I agree that movies get trite the more you watch. The secret is to watch less mainstream movies. I disagree with the article. Lately I've been watchi
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by angarg12 5y ago
I see two phenomenon explained with the same cause here. One is high salaries in tech, and other is very broadly "how to be successful". For the first one, I think it is very simply explained by offer and demand, amongst others. F
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by angarg12 5y ago
I've done +200 interviews at Amazon and I have never seen this happen. I only remember one single case where a HM was pushing to hire a clearly unqualified candidate. The Bar Raiser pushed back and didn't let it get through.
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by angarg12 5y ago
Real state in the UK is increasing in price the fastest since before the 2008 crisis [1]. Lumber is a very specific circumstance to the US, but similar trends are happening in other developed countries. One specific circumstance of the UK i
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by angarg12 5y ago
I work in ads, not particularly because I like the domain, but because it's a great tech challenge. I got the chance to work in large scale systems and solve hard problems using fun technologies. As an engineer, it's my favourite
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by angarg12 6y ago
Why is the tech community obsessed with coding out of work? Many other professions don't take their craft as a hobby, and I don't think we need to. It seems that you want to force yourself to code personal projects, and enjoy it.
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by angarg12 6y ago
Is football hard? It depends. Is a group of 8 years old kicking a ball between two poles football? Or only world class teams playing the Champions League? What about everything in between? I think that's a better way to frame it. I&#x2
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by angarg12 6y ago
Not sure if intentional, but this is exactly the opposite of the message of the article.
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by angarg12 6y ago
Rather than music, I find a much better comparison in sports. Football is easy. Anyone can gather friends in a court or park and kick the ball for a while. Kids and middle aged fathers do it all the time. However not everyone can play profe
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by angarg12 6y ago
Slightly offtopic, but don't get hung on job titles. I'm a mid-level software engineer in a large company, and I'm in my mid 30s. Certainly I'm in the older side of this tenure bracket, but I'm far from the only one
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by angarg12 6y ago
I work in a ML Engineering team, and it has almost become a meme for me to demystify ML to prospect candidates. First of all I have to convey the idea that we are just engineers, so the vast majority of our job is "boring" enginee
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by angarg12 6y ago
What we think shouldn't matter, instead we should look at the evidence to judge if Agile is beneficial for software delivery. The problem is that research into software engineering sucks. The silver lining is that some people have done
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by angarg12 6y ago
Pretty long article with little substance. I have swung back on forth on variable naming over the years. Right now for me the focus is on part V of this article. Currently I prefer shorter variable names, even if they require a bit more con
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by angarg12 6y ago
What is the point of this article? As far as oncall go, this is an anti-pattern. You should have metrics, alarms and tickets, and oncall should get alerted out of working hours only of high impact issues that require human intervention. If
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by angarg12 6y ago
Very thorough analysis that could use an update. I feel sites like levels.fyi and Blind have given us a better look into the salaries of top (and not so top) paying companies. However they are missing the vast majority of companies paying m
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by angarg12 6y ago
Not to beat that dead horse, but I agree. During COVID I transferred to a team based in the US west coast. My manager was happy with me working remotely from England, which has been great since I was able to move to the countryside where co
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by angarg12 6y ago
Many years ago I used to be very proactive about my learning. I read tons of books, did MOOCs, tutorials, learnt new tools and frameworks... What I found with time is that I forgot most of those. Except for the very basic and foundational c
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by angarg12 6y ago
You can be more specific using the role guidelines. Principal Engineers work on projects that span the entire organisation, usually addressing cross cutting concerns of several teams. They advice Directors and VPs on strategical, mid/l
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by angarg12 6y ago
This is actually the much less known flip side of the Dunning–Kruger effect [1]. > Moreover, competent students tended to underestimate their own competence, because they erroneously presumed that tasks easy for them to perform were also

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