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by rpandey1234 4y ago
Appreciate the feedback! You're right that a lot of Taro is powered by our own experiences for now, which comes with any biases we have. For the video you mentioned in particular about starting in big tech, I believe that's only o
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by rpandey1234 4y ago
I agree there are certainly differences across companies with career growth, but there are also best practices that are generally applicable. As a concrete example, as a manager at Meta, I had a report who did a poor job of talking about hi
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by rpandey1234 4y ago
Great question! We are similar to Blind, but focused on career progression instead of gossip/TC. Having a paywall inherently improves the quality of conversation, and the idea of "community" is also quite powerful to maintain
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by rpandey1234 4y ago
We're designed for software engineers and we're specifically not designed for code monkeys :)
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by rpandey1234 4y ago
Yes! I think about it more in terms of the career challenge facing the engineer. These are often correlated with years of experience, but not always. We categorize all content in Taro based on level, company, and topic, so it should be easy
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by rpandey1234 4y ago
Alex and I have created several case studies (video + text) from our careers, and we also bring in speakers (e.g. David Pan on the demo page) to talk about specific stories from their career. As we get larger, we'll open up members to
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by rpandey1234 4y ago
The target user persona currently is an engineer in a medium/large tech company -- that's where we've seen the most impact for members, since there's more structure and predictability at these companies. There's sti
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by rpandey1234 4y ago
These companies have talented engineers, and Alex and I learned a lot from working with them. Our goal is to share these insights and create a supportive community to collect best practices -- we think there are many SWEs who could benefit.
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by rpandey1234 4y ago
Exactly -- that's actually the most common reason for people to join Taro today. There's a huge emphasis on interview questions (DSA) and building side projects to get into Big Tech, but these skills don't help you succeed in
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by rpandey1234 4y ago
Glad to hear that we were able to help during your internship! And very cool that you were part of Codepath -- it's been so much fun for me to help out over the years. In fact, my YouTube channel started largely because I learned about
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by rpandey1234 4y ago
Agreed that there's an important distinction between engineers generally vs software engineers. Hard to fit everything in the 80 characters for the title -- I hope the first line makes it clear. Thanks for the suggestion on surfacing t
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Launch HN: Taro (YC S22): Private career growth community for software engineers
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Code review is for building culture, not catching bugs(techcareergrowth.substack.com)
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Hating on Big Tech Jobs Is Stupid(youtube.com)
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A framework for leaving your tech job(youtube.com)
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Choice and opportunity for online course creators(linkedin.com)
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Android Engineer Panel Discussion(youtube.com)
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Creating YouTube Videos as an Engineer in Big Tech(youtube.com)
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Five Things I Wish I Knew About Promotion as an Engineer(linkedin.com)
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Learn Kotlin in 12 Minutes(youtube.com)
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Android vs. iOS: The Vastly Different Approaches of the Mobile Operating Systems(youtube.com)
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Learn Kotlin in 12 Minutes(youtube.com)
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I published a 5 hour Android tutorial: build a memory game(youtube.com)
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by rpandey1234 6y ago
Title should read "200 Line Android App: Covid-19 tracking app for the USA"
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Line Android Covid-19 tracking app for the USA(github.com)
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Android Panel Discussion with Jake Wharton, Sha Sha Chu, Donn Felker, and Alex C(youtube.com)
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by rpandey1234 6y ago
One thing worth mentioning: finding success in the world of education YouTube has very little to do with your technical/coding skills. Instead, once you have the baseline level of knowledge, your channel will grow through your ability
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Facebook’s oversight board will include a former prime minister and Nobel winner(theverge.com)
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Everything Is So Fucked, You Might as Well Get a Facebook Portal(buzzfeednews.com)
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Show HN: An Android Instagram clone tutorial for beginners(youtube.com)
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