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You can tell a lot about an engineer's seniority based on how they react to a task outside of their technical domain.

Junior engineer:

A lot of my career success came from discovering this incredible performance-enhancing drug that you can get entirely for free. This drug:

1. Sharpens

We all know at least 1 engineer like this 😅.

Seriously though, code review is important. An engineer who does this is much better

The path to making the next $1 billion dollar AI company is actually quite simple. Just follow this roadmap:

1. Learn how the ChatGPT

Is this how you break into FAANG? 🤔

(like their bank account)

Learn how do this not illegally and get a proper job as a

A true senior engineer is like Captain America: They shield their teammates and make them stronger.

A fake senior engineer is like Thanos: They

At least 75% of engineering managers suck because they go into the role for the wrong reason. Here's some of those reasons:

❌ Career

Every engineer eventually makes this silly system design mistake, myself included.

Everyone loves JSON. It's simple. It's readable.

However, what most engineers don't realize is

Engineers waste too much on vanity metrics like LeetCode streaks and GitHub green square count. Here's the only number that matters for your

Fast-growing junior engineer: "I don't know anything! 😁"

Slow-growing junior engineer: "I totally know things" (oh god, I hope nobody realizes that I have

With the $5 trillion dollar AI boom, everyone and their mom is trying to become a $750k OpenAI machine learning engineer (MLE) by

Here's the easiest way to deal with a resume gap when interviewing: Don't.

There are many good reasons to take a career break. What's

As a Meta tech lead, I spent an insane amount in meetings, but I was still able to land ~270 commits per half,

Even with the rise of AI, absolutely nothing has changed when it comes to the job security of software engineers.

Tech companies have been

One of the biggest misconceptions among software engineers is that top tech companies are looking for people who know a bunch of things.

This

One of the easiest ways to level up as an engineer is to realize that end-users are unpredictable balls of chaos who will

Several months ago, I visited an OpenAI office in San Francisco and immediately understood why the company is so successful: Tons of brilliant

Amazon's purge of remote work is a classic example of out-of-touch executives pretending to do work by making grandiose decisions for the sake

90% of "agile" companies are a slow, bureaucratic mess as they're filled with lazy tech executives who focus on pretending to be fast

The average Meta Principal Engineer [E8] makes $1,750,000 per year. I worked with a brilliant engineer who grew from junior [E3] to E8