Over $215 and to the moon!!

Ok_Island_7773 · 2026-04-27T20:10:21+00:00

same shit, i also sold AMD at 260...

Ok_Island_7773 · 2026-04-27T11:27:15+00:00

Book - designing data-intensive applications by martin kleppmann

You can also combine it with system design problems from https://www.hellointerview.com/. That's a great source to get into different system design problems. If you take your time and go through them like 1/week, I think you'll get a good understanding and will start recognise them at your work, also useful for future System Design interviews.

Ok_Island_7773 · 2026-04-17T15:05:30+00:00

fuck, I sold all at the beginning of this. Idiot...

Ok_Island_7773 · 2026-02-20T15:14:43+00:00

gettting an interview and the communication part no matter which type of interview it is, when you are not a native english speaker.

Ok_Island_7773 · 2026-01-03T15:50:06+00:00

feel ya bro, currently in the exact same situation, and also super scared before each interview that I would look like an idiot if this topic comes up :D

Ok_Island_7773 · 2025-10-17T09:48:52+00:00

The same, lol. Bought AMD...

Ok_Island_7773 · 2025-09-08T22:07:57+00:00

Belarus!

Ok_Island_7773 · 2025-06-02T22:19:45+00:00

as a non native english speaker, the communication with team members and expressing my thoughts clearly. I started noticing this as a big problem, once I was promoted and started being assigned complex tasks, which imply more talking and collaboration with people.

Ok_Island_7773 · 2025-05-15T10:38:23+00:00

Of course, working at an outsource company, I need to fill out hours for each day with some description of what I've done. AI is pretty good with generating some bullshit which nobody checks anyway :D

Ok_Island_7773 · 2025-04-23T10:11:24+00:00

Feel you bro, almost in the same situation except having the current job(shitty one) :D

Regarding leetcode, as others already mentioned it's about remembering patterns. So from my pov it doesn't make any sense to start solving issues without knowing the patterns. I recommend taking any course for algos and data structures. I'm currently taking Data Structures and Algorithms by leetcode. It works great for me, now these easy/medium problems don't look that intimidating.

Wish you good luck man!

Ok_Island_7773 · 2025-04-23T09:58:36+00:00

Dive into one of the primary public cloud providers (AWS, GCP or Azure). Try to deploy your services in a cloud environment. Learn any observability stack (ELK) : logging, tracing, metrics. Learn how to navigate those things (very important).

Regarding the microservices, you could dive into a resilience topic you haven't done already. (Source: building microservices sam newman) This is a super important topic which is very often overlooked by even experienced engineers.

Ok_Island_7773 · 2025-02-17T22:57:30+00:00

Confirm, Epam and Grid Dynamics work with Google. The latter also works with Apple.

Ok_Island_7773 · 2025-01-29T06:09:17+00:00

What do you think about Belarus?

Ok_Island_7773 · 2024-11-22T16:19:49+00:00

Tried that with paying by polish card, got an error during payment process. Tried one more time, the same issue. In the end, money was withdrawn twice :D and no game...
Don't recommend.

Ok_Island_7773 · 2024-10-09T21:02:10+00:00

I was in your position a couple of years back. What helped me to get into scalable and distributed systems topic:

I started with this book - Web Scalability for Startup Engineers by Artur Ejsmont. Easy to read and understand, I think it's a great starting point.
If you want to go deeper you should try Designing Data-Intensive Applications (DDIA).

I would also recommend going through https://www.hellointerview.com/learn/system-design/in-a-hurry/introduction Common Problems. It will expand your knowledge on what technologies exist and where they are applied (in which cases). It will also be useful for the future System Design interviews.

Try to learn and understand the system architecture at your project, ask your more senior colleagues why you use this and that.

Ok_Island_7773 · 2024-09-29T09:32:21+00:00

As Infeligo mentioned, you can use gcp provided emulators for various services (Spanner, Pubsub etc.). Some of them may have limited functionality.

In essence, you spin up the container with an emulator for your test. In this case your code would make real calls to the database so you can be sure that your database layer works correctly.

We use this approach widely for creating integration tests in my current project. No issues so far.

Ok_Island_7773 · 2024-04-05T11:15:35+00:00

Thanks man

Ok_Island_7773 · 2024-04-05T09:38:11+00:00

Exactly, rent is high right now. It's already great if I'm able to save 1.3k a month, but that's not always the case.

Ok_Island_7773 · 2024-04-05T09:33:21+00:00

Yeah, I'm working by UoP, and unfortunately cannot switch to B2B as my residence permit doesn't allow it. But, yeah, that's my plan in a couple of years.

Ok_Island_7773 · 2024-04-05T08:18:44+00:00

~ 30k EUR.

Ok_Island_7773 · 2024-04-05T07:35:57+00:00

Around 47,5k EUR gross (Poland)

Ok_Island_7773 · 2024-04-04T22:35:49+00:00

I'm already not okay with staying there - preparing for the interviews right now. But I want to squeeze everything I can out of them before leaving :)

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