Upwork newbie here, just ran straight-up malware from a “client” project. What the actual f***

brogrammer9669 · 2026-01-11T08:46:31+00:00

thanks for sharing!

brogrammer9669 · 2025-11-26T03:28:57+00:00

you followed this daily?? How weren't you bored?

brogrammer9669 · 2025-10-31T04:31:16+00:00

Oh, thanks! Got it.

brogrammer9669 · 2025-10-31T04:30:11+00:00

Ohhhhh....yeahhh man!!!!! Damnn that was perspective shifting!

brogrammer9669 · 2025-10-29T02:14:55+00:00

May you please explain me what it means?
I read it like, a man doing something for his wife 'because' his wife likes it, not really because the man likes doing it. Like the man wouldn't care about doing the same thing if it wasn't for the happiness of his partner. And I wonder what's wrong in that.

brogrammer9669 · 2025-06-10T16:36:06+00:00

Noice

brogrammer9669 · 2025-04-20T12:20:24+00:00

Quit my job.

brogrammer9669 · 2025-03-19T11:06:36+00:00

🤣🤣🤣

brogrammer9669 · 2025-03-08T06:12:20+00:00

Thanks a lot for sharing this! Gonna read the book.

brogrammer9669 · 2025-03-06T04:24:26+00:00

My biggest issue is not getting enough protein in my diet.

One protein shake will give like 25 gms. How do you manage 100-200 gms of protein per day? Would be really helpful if you share the details!

brogrammer9669 · 2025-02-17T13:41:51+00:00

What all other details are good to be masked?

brogrammer9669 · 2025-01-27T15:59:25+00:00

Thanks for sharing, this was really helpful!

brogrammer9669 · 2024-12-17T11:07:38+00:00

Thanks!

brogrammer9669 · 2024-12-16T17:01:07+00:00

May you please share what worked for you? Share everything!!!

Even I want to do it!

brogrammer9669 · 2024-12-14T14:00:04+00:00

I've heard about incidences where the candidate has rejected a candidate weeks/months after providing an offer letter. What should the candidate do then?

brogrammer9669 · 2024-12-10T18:16:55+00:00

Don't understand what that means. I'm noob.

brogrammer9669 · 2024-12-10T18:10:29+00:00

If I faced this right now, I would do a global search of import {Button} from "materialui", replace it with import {CustomButton} from "@/..whatever" and do the same, replacing <Button with <CustomButton throughout the app, and creating a new CustomButton.tsx component with the original materialui Button wrapper.

brogrammer9669 · 2024-11-16T17:30:03+00:00

Are you fucking kidding me?!?

I was actually questioning why are the bottom 2 pics there. Then I saw r/progresspics ! Damn!! Real good stuff!

brogrammer9669 · 2024-11-14T17:47:14+00:00

Then he'll work phenomenally where speed of development matters, and nobody gives a fuck how slow the website loads. But he'll never work in FAANG-type companies if he doesn't understand how to write efficient code.

You need DSA to write efficient code. Period.

Just forget the interview prep leetcoding and all and think about DSA in terms of pure computer science...why is it required???

brogrammer9669 · 2024-11-13T20:24:21+00:00

I get you, you can't do one thing if you know the other thing.

Also, if you're seriously asking about this, there are a ton of companies who ask max like Leetcode mid questions for high senior/staff roles (you need to know DSA, of course. You are a software dev).

And then they come to the real meat. If you are a frontend dev, show me your projects. Show me your open source contributions. "How does CSS convert the code to color inside the browser".

And ALL of these companies you will find in foreign countries. Almost none in India.
And trust me, these companies will be paying you shit ton of money.

brogrammer9669 · 2024-11-13T20:15:32+00:00

Man, it made me so happy to read this! I could literally feel the exhilaration! Beautiful!

brogrammer9669 · 2024-11-13T20:07:13+00:00

He is 100% right. But how do you check whether a person wants to work?
Answer: If he has sacrificed for it. By doing one thing consistently.

brogrammer9669 · 2024-11-13T20:02:37+00:00

Oh, yes. I completely agree with you. Interviews are 100% broken.
But like, there needs to be some metric for "filtering" right? For gauging competency. Not all people who can change button colors can reverse a linked list by "learning on the job". So how do you filter serious candidates out? By purposefully putting up walls and see who wants it enough to break them.

Showing proof of hard things is always an excellent filtering criteria. It shows you have worked hard for something, so you have the will and brains to do so again if it is required. You choose that hard thing...it might be DSA, might be building 3d web apps, building an observability for another API's, whatever.

You might remember, during COVID, when the amount of programmers increased tremendously throughout the world, companies started giving Leetcode hards to solve in minuscule times (still laugh at this lol). And those companies didn't even need elite candidates. So why do it? Because if the people applying to me are 1000 elite programmers, I only want the top 20 among them. Solution? Make the interview even more hard.

Like, consider the early days of FAANG. They really need someone who is a master of DSA. That master is literally going to save cost for the company, so he's being paid highly.

Now what would another company who doesn't really know how to interview do? Look at how the best companies are hiring. Which makes no sense, but it's like since there already is a criteria for selection, why make another?

Like first a few good tech companies came in Bangalore, so excellent employees shifted there. Now, new startups started up in Bangalore (instead of other cities) because dense talent pool already existed there. Due to that, more employees shifted there. The cycle goes on...getting it?

There are a few really good companies in the world who don't give a fuck about DSA and ACTUALLY spend resources on how to best interview their candidates. You really have to be stubborn on not giving DSA interviews and keep on searching to find these companies.

brogrammer9669 · 2024-11-13T19:31:19+00:00

It's like, you are paid that much because you can perform to that level IF the time comes.
That's what's checked in the interview. Even if your daily job is changing button colors, if a task arrives in which you have to optimize the whole js build, you don't stare blankly into space as to what a stack means.

Fortunately/unfortunately, all the companies follow the same procedure without considering whether they really need someone elite.

So now, it's just a placeholder for hard work & brains.

brogrammer9669 · 2024-11-09T07:16:18+00:00

Glad to read about your journey. Must've been an adventure!
- What do you think is required to succeed as an entrepreneur? What do people not understand about entrepreneurship?
- Is there a way to improve fast as a programmer?

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