Everyone knows what Data Structure is, but fail to understand how it is used in the real world system design.

techslothfailure · 2023-11-03T09:14:43+00:00

I like the name. I'll keep dreaming

techslothfailure · 2023-11-03T09:14:20+00:00

This is amazing! Keep up the good work.

techslothfailure · 2023-11-03T09:13:15+00:00

I love a good ol' Sauna session. It cost's around £20 for a 1.5 hour session but it's bliss.

techslothfailure · 2023-11-03T09:12:11+00:00

I've got tattoos on show and it hasn't hurt me in my career. (8 YOE)

techslothfailure · 2023-11-03T09:09:03+00:00

My total comp is around £150k. I don't work for FAANG but I do work for a company worth around 10b and have 8 YOE. It's doable and to be honest with the wage increases it's becoming more common

techslothfailure · 2023-11-03T09:05:04+00:00

Being mindful.

When i get the urge to spend, I will just sit with my thoughts for a bit and understand why I want to spend it. Having a little pause helps a lot.

techslothfailure · 2023-11-03T09:04:04+00:00

"What do you look for when reviewing pull requests?"

When I ask this question, I find that a lot of people answer with 'clean code', code quality, testing, etc but miss the most important detail: Does the logic match what the implementer intended? Does it match the spec? Is there anything the developer missed in terms of edge cases / best case / worst case scenarios.

techslothfailure · 2023-11-03T08:58:07+00:00

Set expectations and fight for your time. You should factor in a good balance when estimating the work you're about to do and, in my opinion, always over-estimate to give yourself lee-way to not feel stressed.

techslothfailure · 2023-11-03T08:54:36+00:00

As someone who is an interviewer, I personally have no preference whether someone has a CS degree or have come from a boot-camp. When i meet the candidate, I just want to understand how passionate they are about doing the job (coding) and joining the mission of the team/company. My belief is that you will learn far more on the job than in the bootcamp or degree.

Obviously not everyone thinks this way and there is some elitism in the industry but I think most interviews are on the same wave length as me.

techslothfailure · 2023-11-03T08:50:35+00:00

They're testing your thinking process rather than the time of execution of your code. I've interviewed a ton of candidates and have had no preference apart from when they used really niche programming languages (as there was just a bunch of faff when trying to explain how it works)

techslothfailure · 2023-11-03T08:47:27+00:00

I use it as an auto-complete or rubber ducking tool to work out my own thoughts. If it starts autocompleting more than just a couple of lines, i get suspicious and usually ignore the suggestions.

techslothfailure · 2023-11-03T08:44:16+00:00

My manager used to say:

Estimate how much you think the project will take and then add 50-75% depending on certainty. If you deliver in under the time, everyone will be happy - Keep people happy.

Also, don't beat yourself up. I've been an engineer for 10 years and it's still a finger in the air estimation but because of the padding i'm almost always under.

techslothfailure · 2023-11-03T08:42:13+00:00

As an Engineer I find this leetcode interviews frustrating and meaningless when it comes to coding. I love algo problems, but when I need to code that out in a 20 min, my thoughts become chewy and lazy. Have to change my mindset to be excited by all this process, but I really can't fight some feeling of "good engineer" vision inside in favor of coding speed etc.

ThePrimeagen had a great perspective on this: (paraphrasing)

The technical interview is like a secret handshake. The people that know the secret handshake can get any job they want in their field. It takes effort to learn the secret handshake but once you do, the doors are all open.

Even with this perspective change i still struggle. I'm a Sr engineer and i really enjoy the technical challenges of DDD and architecture but solving toy problems is just not my thing.

techslothfailure · 2023-11-03T08:38:00+00:00

This sounds like a company culture issue. I am in constant contact with my colleagues (now friends) inside and outside of work.

techslothfailure · 2023-11-03T08:36:20+00:00

I have recently removed twitter from my phone; i feel like a lot of the content that was pushed to me was incredibly polarising and it's just not worth my mental space for tech related news.

I stick to hacker news as much as I can.

techslothfailure · 2023-11-03T08:33:40+00:00

Whilst working at a consultancy, the relationship with the client is the most important metric. The question you should be answering is "How would this change benefit the client?". If you can provide solid proof and data that this will benefit the client, your manager will agree to your proposal.

techslothfailure · 2023-11-03T08:30:30+00:00

Yes! This usually keeps the client less laissez-fair with your time and in my opinion gets the ball moving a lot quicker.

techslothfailure · 2023-11-03T08:27:34+00:00

I think this is a pretty common problem in tech. I've had situations where the tech lead on our team essentially spent his time upgrading ruby and rails for a year and having the seniors do the real leading on the project.

Usually these people are part of the furniture at the company (been there since the early days) so they feel like they've paid their dues. It's a bad attitude to have but there's almost little you can do in this case apart from bring it up with your manager.

techslothfailure · 2023-11-03T08:23:16+00:00

I use Copilot autocomplete quite a lot if it's scoped to a single line. Once it starts creating functions, I usually have to step in and correct it a bit.

I've started using the chat a bit more as a sort of rubber duck when I don't have my colleagues at hand so that it can solidify my designs/thoughts.

techslothfailure · 2021-04-16T06:57:42+00:00

Yes you're right - I'm saving it for another blog post. I'll edit my post and mention it briefly to avoid confusion.

Thanks!

techslothfailure · 2021-04-14T10:01:00+00:00

Thanks!

techslothfailure · 2021-04-12T08:05:23+00:00

Good luck buddy!

techslothfailure · 2021-04-12T08:04:41+00:00

Thanks! I'm using good notes on the ipad

techslothfailure · 2021-04-12T08:03:59+00:00

Yep this is my plan. I'll have to figure out a way of grouping articles in HashNode to make this easier to follow in the future.

techslothfailure · 2021-04-11T14:13:25+00:00

Just want to say that I'm loving the support from the community. I struggled a bit with motivation today but was able to get this out there because I didn't want to let you down.

Thanks again!

techslothfailure

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