Developer careers: interviews, promotions, switching jobs and growing as an engineer.
8 months ago i was making 400 bowls of pho a day. today i fixed my first memory leak (forgot to clear a setInterval lol). if youre thinking about switching careers, its hard but its doable. ok back to standup panic
4 years back I was writing CRUD APIs for a food delivery startup. Then I joined a lending company, and in the first month I broke a reconciliation job, learned what a UTR is, and realised I did not know what a debit was. Writing this for anyone thinking about moving into fintech backend. Learn basic accounting before anything else. Not the full course. Just double entry, what assets and liabilities are, and why a…
i have 2 interviews coming up (thank u to everyone in my resume thread fr) and now the panic has moved to leetcode. ive done 47 problems. some people online say you need 300+, some say 50 is enough. im doing mostly easies and a few mediums what actually matters? and how do i not freeze when someone is watching me code
ok so ive applied to like 60 summer internships and gotten 0 interviews. not even rejections from most of them, just silence. heres what my resume looks like rn: two column template i found online, with a skills bar chart (python 80%, java 70% lol) a "relevant coursework" section with 9 courses "proficient in" python, java, c, c++, rust, javascript, typescript, react, sql, go, haskell, docker, git, linux 3 projects:…
Quick intro: I build websites for small businesses in Austin. Restaurants, gyms, and a taco truck with very strong opinions about fonts. For years I quoted fixed prices and got burned on about half of them. Not because clients were evil, but because "a website" means something different to everyone. Here's the scope doc I use now. It turned my projects from loss making to boring, and boring is the dream. 1. The…
so i finally got my first real feature (a filters panel for our admin dashboard) and opened the PR today. 34 comments. thirty four. some are tiny like naming, some are "this should be a custom hook", and one just says "lets talk about this" which sounds terrifying my senior is nice and none of the comments are mean. but i kind of feel like a fraud and now everyone can see it. in the kitchen if you messed up the chef…
Every weekend I mentor bootcamp graduates, and the number one thing that decides how fast they grow at their first job is not React or Python. It is how they ask for help. Some ask too early and never build the muscle. Most ask too late, after two days of silent suffering, because they are scared to look stupid. So here is the rule and the template I give them. Kindly steal it. The rule: 45 minutes, then ask…
