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by angarg12 3y ago
Sadly I see people struggling with overwork, afraid to push back way too often. What I learnt from my personal experience is this: when you push back, people respect you more, not less. I started my career in a small shop reporting to a tox
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by angarg12 3y ago
Oh yes this happens all the time! Last year an engineer in my org got promoted to Senior Staff. In order to get there he alienated and burnt out many other engineers, including me. But guess what? he got the promotion, which is what he was
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by angarg12 3y ago
This advice is not wrong, but honestly it could be way more cynical. The first step to get promoted is to understand the promotion process of your current company, if they have a formal one. It took me one year to learn how promos work in m
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by angarg12 3y ago
> Interviewing is a terrible way to screen candidates so.... how do you suggest companies hire candidates? purely through referrals, without any further screening?
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by angarg12 3y ago
One big point I'm missing from this post is "work on your communication skills". People shit on STAR method or variants, but the fact is that unless you are a great communicator (and most engineers I interview aren't), y
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by angarg12 3y ago
I remember reading analysis showing that there is a high correlation between the order that comments are posted and how many votes they get, i.e. early comments tend to get most voted. I guess people are gaming the system by commenting quic
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by angarg12 3y ago
One honest question for all people who miss the "good old days" of on-prem: have you ever worked in a shop that ran their own private datacenter? because I did and it wasn't lovely. My first job ran their own datacenter. We s
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by angarg12 3y ago
People have been doing that for 10+ years solid, even more with rudimentary middleware such as grid computing.
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by angarg12 3y ago
> someone wanted a garage put above their kitchen because they wanted to park their ferrari next to their bedroom on the second floor. You mean this guy? https://youtu.be/Us8mDKUaX2M?si=qnrckuGLyWzoFNAe&t=1515
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by angarg12 3y ago
That's a lot of questions so I'll try to answer one by one. > Whats your recommendation for backend engineers that want to transition to ml engineers? I get this a lot, and my first question would be, why do you want to work in
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by angarg12 3y ago
I wish OP all the best, but there is one bit I can't get out of my head > I feel very strongly that everyone should try, to the extent that it makes some kind of sense if you squint hard enough, to do what they want in work and life
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by angarg12 3y ago
It seems OPs opinion is heavily influenced by their personal experience, and it doesn't generalize well. In fact I have the complete opposite opinion on several points > Your words have weight. If you, an IC, say "guys, we real
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by angarg12 3y ago
We are just getting started with the age of LLM mishaps, and it's just going to get more ridiculous. I was talking with an ML engineer that told me they had a lot of success fine tuning a LLM on their internal docs. A chatbot could sol
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by angarg12 3y ago
I never heard of people aiming at Staff+ positions with 6 yoe, but surely sounds like a stretch. I'd say that 5 years from new grad to senior at big tech is a fast-ish progression; a bit quick, but doable with skills, hard work and som
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by angarg12 3y ago
This. Going from one act of vandalism to an escalating revolt against big tech sounds like quite a stretch.
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by angarg12 3y ago
I'm not sure what part of my comment made you think that my current employer is an obstacle in job hunting. Actually it's quite the opposite, as I mention I get a lot of attention from recruiters even though I'm not actively
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by angarg12 3y ago
Thank your for sharing, it's great to hear different perspectives on the topic. Non-transferable skills is actually one of my biggest concerns about working at the same company long term. These tools are often so far from the industry
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by angarg12 3y ago
Fully remote would be a pretty nice perk, ever since our companies forced us back to the office. I believe this alone might be one of the easiest ways for smaller companies to poach talent these days. Other than that, I enjoy working in har
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by angarg12 3y ago
I'm a ML Engineer at FAANG and I have been passively looking for the last half year. Common wisdom might make you think that I should be having companies throwing wads of cash at me, but my experience has been very different. * It&#x27
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by angarg12 3y ago
I've worked in 5 different countries in my life, and one lesson you learn quickly is that it's impossible to compare salaries between locations at face value. For example, now I live in the US and although my salary is about twice
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by angarg12 3y ago
Your first point hits it exactly. Let's say that it's year X and you have two choices: either you bet that the future will be bleak, and cut cost and hunker down, or you bet that the future will be bright and make big investments.
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by angarg12 3y ago
It's not uncommon in Europe to restore old and historical buildings and turn them into modern homes. I think it's a middle ground between preserving an old build as-is, and serving the current needs of a city. Here [1] is an examp
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by angarg12 3y ago
There is something oddly humbling and inspiring about this story. The scientist thanklessly slaved away for a year and half before even producing the first breakthrough. It must require an immense amount of perseverance to do so. It also re
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by angarg12 3y ago
This. Focusing your hiring on open source contributions biases the process and misses huge slices of the software engineering population. I made the best work of my life (by a long long shot) to private companies closed source.
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by angarg12 3y ago
Be careful what you wish for, as this kind of rules can quickly have unintended consequences. I used to live in an English town that set up maximum number of parking spaces for new homes. On paper looks good, as they were trying to incentiv
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by angarg12 3y ago
> May 2022 - Left my SWE job at Wave and incorporated my own startup called Path (a Delaware C corp) I was permitted to remain in the USA, since I was not employed by Path yet. My understanding is that it is permissible to do exploratory
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by angarg12 3y ago
I'm very happy using Typescript to templatize JSON. You can define a template as a class, compose them if needed, and when you are done, just write an object to a file.
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by angarg12 3y ago
Is this a cultural difference? Do we have any data on this? Where I'm from (southern Europe) my experience is this is far from true. Most people work as a means to an end, and often look for ways to skimp on it. Sure, people might say
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by angarg12 3y ago
A tweet with screenshots of a LinkedIn post. Not HN finest moment.
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by angarg12 3y ago
Actually I moved to the US last year so this experience is currently in the Seattle area :/

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