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If you've ever prepared for DSA interviews as an engineer, you've likely come across Neetcode on YouTube.

Before becoming famous for astonishingly good explanations

In 2013, I was a Facebook intern. I made tons of mistakes and *barely* squeezed by with a return offer.

Here is my humble

15 things I wish I knew at the beginning of my career

1/ Years of experience is an awful way to measure engineering skill.

2/

3 takeaways to reach Staff Engineer (from the panel discussion):

1️⃣ Infra teams, on average, will provide better opportunities for Senior+ promotion compared to

Many engineers became engineers for a simple reason: you get paid very well.

This is a perfectly valid reason to choose a profession, BTW.

Life hack: get notified if something good happens.

I now get an email when a user earns a course certificate on Taro. Such a

An unfortunate side effect of "internet scale" is that the metrics can hide the stories of real people consuming or using your product.

Great software engineers share a common trait.

They don't necessarily have deep tech expertise, but they do have deep ownership of the technology to

When I was at Meta, I worked with a new engineer who came in with a ton of experience. Unfortunately, he struggled a

Insight from talking to Garry Tan last night:

Take money from VCs who don't care *too* much

➤ Good VCs (already rich) will support you

I know dozens of engineers who are millionaires now, but they've never worked for FAANG.

How?

It's the magic of Silicon Valley: holding equity in

"You should sit in meditation for 20 minutes a day. Unless you're too busy, then you should sit for an hour."

This old Zen

"By trying to do too much, you risk not doing enough"

This advice from Peggy Noonan was in a political context, but it's

Too many engineers glorify the Product Management job when in reality, most PMs add zero value and will be first in line for

In the past three months, we've seen a 300% increase in live events hosted on Taro (YC S22). From paper reading sessions to Staff

I'm headed to the ASU+GSV conference early next week in San Diego, a huge EdTech conference. Let me know if you'll be around!

We're

Awesome wisdom shared by the newest batch of Taro Experts. Congratulations to:

- Lalit Kundu and Kevin Wu on increasing your team's productivity: https://lnkd.in/gi-v5BpN

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Upcoming live events to advance your engineering career:

- April 12: [Paper Reading] Empowering Large Language Models with Autonomous Reasoning Structures by Lucia

Too many engineers incorrectly believe that they are trusted when they join a new company.

Nope ❌

Trust has to be earned. If you've

Back in 2021, there was a joke about the annoying Amazon recruiter who seemingly contacted every eligible engineer about an open role.

The market