angarg12

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by angarg12 2y ago
Not an answer, just wanted to say that regardless of the outcome you are doing well. A few years back I was doing 70k GBP in Cambridge (expensive as fuck) in my mid 30s. I could only imagine pulling +100k in a LCOL in my 20s. Congrats.
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by angarg12 2y ago
> but that distinction has never been relevant to my work This is a very junior take, "I have never used it myself, so it isn't important".
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by angarg12 2y ago
As an API provider, it is quite important for me to see if my app is spitting out tons of errors 401 or 403.
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by angarg12 2y ago
As the saying goes, people quit managers, not companies.
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by angarg12 2y ago
That sounds odd. With that much experience you should at least be getting offers in the 200k range easily. Are you cold applying or using referrals? I found these days CVs get screened by software that's very sensitive to keywords, and
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by angarg12 2y ago
I just wrapped up a long job search process, where I got offers from a handful of companies. I currently work at FAANG, so I was looking for a pay bump. The only companies that could beat my current comp are other big tech and finance, but
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by angarg12 2y ago
I'm not so sure. I come from southern Europe where doing something like that is easy, because people mean it. But living abroad I can probably count with one hand the times that someone made good on that. Sometimes I followed up with s
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by angarg12 2y ago
> Startups ship more per person than big companies – everyone knows this. But how do you retain that advantage as you scale? Our answer is small teams > Right now we're 47 people I'm sorry, but you haven't solved scalin
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by angarg12 2y ago
Queues are a tool in your distributed system toolbox. When it's suitable it works wonderfully (typical caveats apply). If your perception is indeed correct it'd attribute it to your 3rd point. People usually write blogposts about
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by angarg12 2y ago
If you have two workloads with very different operational profiles (e.g. low latency low volume vs high latency high volume) you could also process each workload in a different copy of the system, sorta-kinda the hot-path/cold-path pat
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by angarg12 2y ago
Code quality and how often it is read are mostly orthogonal. You can have an stinky old piece of legacy software that no one ever reads because that system is deprecated and slowly getting phased out, and we can live with it in the meanwhil
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by angarg12 2y ago
My job title is ML Engineer, but my day to day job is almost pure software engineering. I build the systems to support ML systems in production. As others have mentioned, this includes mostly data transformation, model training, and model s
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by angarg12 2y ago
Previous years I would have completely agreed with this post. Nowadays with the AI and ML craze I'm not so sure. I've seen plenty of companies using using vast amounts of data to train ML models to incorporate to their products. D
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by angarg12 2y ago
> Here’s a little-known secret: most six-nines reliability software projects are developed using a waterfall methodology. I've designed and deployed Tier 1 services for a Big Tech company, and here's is a little-known secret: w
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by angarg12 2y ago
What the hell is going on with this article? The article posits that NIMBY-ism is a myth, and to prove it, they do a thought experiment that shows that building more density in Palo Alto would yield more value, and hence it would be the rat
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by angarg12 2y ago
Sounds a bit delusional to me that you can just "teach someone data structures in 1 hour". Also the role specifics matter here. It might be ok to bring in a junior who needs lots of mentoring onboard. For a tech lead who is going
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by angarg12 2y ago
I'm the same age than OP, but spent most of my adult life living paycheck to paycheck. I have only obtained a comfortable income and bumped up the class ladder during the last couple of years, when I finally moved to the US working for
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by angarg12 2y ago
This is pretty much the main reason why I will move from US to Europe in the next couple of years. I'm not keen on dumping my life savings into a down payment and then have a balloon mortgage to buy a shack in my area when I could use
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by angarg12 3y ago
This was an internal tool, so no use in fluffy marketing.
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by angarg12 3y ago
I think this was a folly by our director. About a year after I left I learnt that he had "left to pursue other opportunities", which is corporate speak for "he got canned".
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by angarg12 3y ago
Working for big tech, our Director wanted to add "ML" to one of our workflows no matter what. He identified a "problematic step" and a team of scientist spent 1 year coming up with a ML model to replace this step. I was
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by angarg12 3y ago
All of the downsides are 10x worse when doing infra manually. Just do IaC well to avoid the pitfalls, rather than polishing the turd of manual infra.
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by angarg12 3y ago
US cities are remarkably different than European cities. I personally consider the likes of Seattle, SF or San Jose a grade A shithole. NY felt a bit better, but I can see why people consider it dehumanizing if you live in Manhattan. If you
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by angarg12 3y ago
Where exactly did you live? My experience is the polar opposite. I'm visiting my native city in souther Europe after 2+ years living in the US suburbs (Seattle). When I go outside, there is a plaza full of children playing (I can hear
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by angarg12 3y ago
I inherited thousands of untyped Python code for critical systems, and it was an unmaintainable hot mess that caused a constant stream of pain. No kidding that was one of the main reasons we had to build a second version of the system. I lo
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by angarg12 3y ago
Besides all the points in the article, there is one more point that infuriates me about RTO mandates, and it's the double standards. Director level and above at my company have much more flexibility to WFH that regular employees. In fa
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by angarg12 3y ago
> You got to enjoy the high but how you have to survive the lows. But I have been in the same employer for the last 6 years, so I didn't get to enjoy the high :/
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by angarg12 3y ago
I wrote a reply to a person who was having a similar problem in another forum. I'll copy my post here. I am a ML Engineer working at a big Co with 15+ YoE. This is how things are going for me: * I started looking in September last year
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by angarg12 3y ago
The wording here is a bit odd, almost like blaming people for delaying childbearing. The world is complicated and a number of factors have produced this outcome in the developed world. My parents were factory workers and they encouraged me
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by angarg12 3y ago
I've also conducted hundreds of interviews at Big Tech and my experience is far from OPs. I can probably count with both hands the number of times that someone was technically weak across the board, but they got an offer due to their a

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