Rahul Pandey LinkedIn Posts

A 1% change in NVIDIA stock price is worth more than the entire value of Snapchat 😳

Just a mind-boggling scale to operate at:

Honestly, modern programming would be impossible without tons of developers who use "stolen code"

The browser shipping JavaScript code directly to millions of end

One of the biggest financial mistakes that almost every Big Tech employee makes (including me!) is to simply hold all your vested stock.

Pretty awful thing to do by Intuit.

Since this is a performance-based layoff of "𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘬𝘦𝘳𝘴 𝘸𝘩𝘰 𝘥𝘪𝘥𝘯'𝘵 𝘮𝘦𝘦𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘣𝘢𝘳", two critical consequences:

1️⃣ Employees

𝑭𝒐𝒍𝒍𝒐𝒘 𝒑𝒆𝒐𝒑𝒍𝒆 𝒊𝒏𝒔𝒕𝒆𝒂𝒅 𝒐𝒇 𝒕𝒆𝒄𝒉𝒏𝒐𝒍𝒐𝒈𝒚 is perhaps the best advice I've ever received.

It's impossible to predict which technologies will succeed (Kotlin, LLMs) or

Back when I interviewed engineers at Pinterest, I saw a wide spectrum of confidence levels.

Some candidates were sweating bullets the entire time, with

What does clear communication mean? Your message should be:

➤ Straightforward and unambiguous
➤ Understood as you intended it
➤ Accessible to everyone involved

Very few people

Cutting-edge papers explained by top engineers to advance your career (and they're all free):

➤  ROSE: Robust Caches for Amazon Product Search by Dharin

No matter how much you think your 'stealth startup' is worth, no idea is truly unique.

When pitching an idea to your cofounder, boss,

There’s so much misinformation on how a Tech Lead should spend their time.

Now I just point people to this explanation from Lalit

Too many FAANG engineers were anointed as managers simply because they were high-performing ICs as the company grew.

This does not make you a

"Every career path is equally good" is a dangerous form of political correctness that harms too many young people.

We must be candid about

Test-driven development be like.

I recently discovered that we rank amazingly high for this random (?) set of characters.

Turns out a Taro user named their playlist this

An emergent property when ambitious (and helpful) engineers come together: people magically make progress on their goals.

This was one of the best parts

Something I realized as a new grad: you hardly ever get a straight answer from a senior engineer.

When I asked whether to use

Founder mode is great for founders, but bad for Big Tech engineers.

The best engineers I've worked with channel their inner Kanye -- they

I’m creating a video series to genuinely capture life at top tech companies. I'd love your input if you're an engineer who worked

One of my biggest pet peeves is when non-technical FAANG PMs want to play startup.

They do everything successful companies do: hire people, build

I asked ex-Amazonians about the good ✅ and bad 🛑 of working at Amazon

➤ Steve Huynh was a Principal Engineer who spent 18