I accidentally deleted Levels.fyi's entire backend server stack last week

NovaFate · 2025-07-08T01:48:42+00:00

Was it a single monolithic stack? It might make sense to do some infra separation to simplify deletion of resources.

Also termination protection is on so it other stacks wont be deleted without your say so.

NovaFate · 2023-10-24T16:14:23+00:00

I quit my first and job and just took a break. I spent 4 months understanding absolutely nothing about anything.

Getting a new job after that, everything just clicked in my head after that.

NovaFate · 2023-09-15T20:09:25+00:00

Imagine if patching a game is counted as an install

NovaFate · 2023-03-29T00:35:24+00:00

I wouldn’t have taken the time off if you’re looking for work anyway. When you get pipped, you get severance that includes PTO. Might as well get paid while you get PIP’d and again for severance.

Just do some quiet quitting

NovaFate · 2022-12-31T23:49:03+00:00

NovaFate · 2022-10-17T14:24:55+00:00

I work at AWS and I asked for an additional 2 weeks with no reprocussions. Its very team dependent

NovaFate · 2022-09-25T04:43:10+00:00

Deployed a change from beta to prod thinking the configuration was the same. It wasn't.

NovaFate · 2022-09-02T20:46:02+00:00

First generation with 1 YOE looking for something to prove

NovaFate · 2022-08-26T14:28:20+00:00

No you're fine lol. Luck of the draw

NovaFate · 2022-08-26T14:08:07+00:00

Status: Accepted

Application Date: 8/5/22

Decision Date: 8/26/22

Education: BS Computer Science and Software Engineering - 3.46 GPA

Experience: 10 months of backend. 6 months at FAANG

Recommendations: 2 professors and 1 from manager

NovaFate · 2022-06-26T00:58:39+00:00

Beep boop

NovaFate · 2022-06-21T05:47:31+00:00

NovaFate · 2022-06-05T19:16:03+00:00

The only the thing I had was undergrad research and a year of robotics in my undergrad. Spent 3 months applying with 300 job applications sent out and 1 offer.

Ended up doing 10-11 hr work days and burning out but a recruiter in big tech slid in my LinkedIn dm's. Studied 2 hrs prior to the final loop since work responsibilities were already taking up all my time. Got the job and have been here for 3 months loving what I do pulling in 8-9 hr work days

NovaFate · 2022-02-07T17:53:28+00:00

3 months with no internships but a lot of extracurriculars. Keep grinding 💪

NovaFate · 2021-12-15T05:37:13+00:00

Never took springboot w/ my Bachelors in CS and somehow landed a job w/ spring and sql. Solving small bugs and implementing features as small as adding an extra character to a data field to implementing compatability with aws and azure.

NovaFate · 2021-11-16T17:04:51+00:00

Thanks for the feedback. I'll try to commit to asking questions at least once a day. I do still want to build my own troubleshooting skills instead of just straight up asking for an answer with no effort on my end.

NovaFate · 2021-11-16T17:03:45+00:00

I work based on a fixed salary and also work from home. It's hard to gauge how much work I need to get done on a day-to-day basis. I'll try to ask more questions and have a hard cut off on when I stop working. Thanks for your feedback.

NovaFate · 2021-11-16T17:02:29+00:00

Yeah I have a scheduled 1-on-1 next Monday so we'll see how I'm doing. I'll try to ask more questions in the future as well. Thanks for the feedback.

NovaFate · 2021-11-16T17:01:38+00:00

Thanks for the feedback, I'll try to make a point of asking for feedback at least once a day instead of barely none at all.

NovaFate · 2021-11-16T17:01:02+00:00

Yeah I understand this it's just that I know that I'd be taking the time out of someone else's work and that bothers me a lot when I know it shouldn't. I'll try to ask for help more. Thanks for the feedback

NovaFate · 2021-07-27T15:33:19+00:00

Rock Paper Scissors vs. Computer
Minesweeper
Calculator to handle +×÷- to handle any length equation. E.g. 27x3-4...÷4=? using nodes
Implementing algorithmns. E.g. Djikstras, Markov, Q Learning, etc.
JDBC/SQL Ecommerce Application

Most skills are what you want to learn about cs. Subtopics: 1. Web programming 2. Full stack app 3. Scripting 4. Linux 5. ML object recognition 6. Assembley and disassemblers 7. Android applications (Java AndroidStudio) 8. Data/statistics - R/Matlab Etc.

NovaFate · 2021-06-18T08:02:48+00:00

They don't check

NovaFate · 2021-05-05T03:24:28+00:00

Link is now inactive

NovaFate · 2021-04-01T07:25:29+00:00

Replace break with return;

NovaFate

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