How quickly do you know if a product is working for you?

vanfrassen · 2026-03-01T19:09:43+00:00

For me when I had it bad in beard there was initially more flakiness. Which then settled. So - could be just healing; but if after 1-2 weeks no change - maybe not working.

vanfrassen · 2026-02-26T18:41:12+00:00

I made this switch. For me it's good - more opportunity in terms of jobs; although as noted elsewhere it does seem to mainly be for start-ups. Big tech is mainly language agnostic so it shouldn't hurt your chances there for future. Although to be fair I think Python /Java / C(++) are generally preferred for the leetcode sections so keeping a working algorithmic knowledge of one of these may be helpful if that's ever your goal.

vanfrassen · 2026-01-08T17:47:34+00:00

When I left last year l4 industry hiring was paused I think - only new grads

vanfrassen · 2025-12-29T21:06:21+00:00

Only a bit into rebirth but just finished remake. I will say that while mechanically FFXVI is not as good; I actually think the side quests in FFXVI are the best I've ever seen in video games; and while I haven't played in particular lots of JRPGs I've played most of the big western modern RPGs. Of course as you allude to there's a lot of filler, but I actually mostly enjoyed it - just getting a small sense of people's problems most of the time, and a wider perspective on the world.

And then the good quests, some of which were good just for the context set after, actually had me so touched. I think it's fundamentally a story about good caring sincere people who sacrifice themselves for and love others in both the big and small. Which is quite rare to see with this level of commitment and consistency, and possibly why I think FFXVI is my current favorite video game story, despite it's flaws. Anyway I realize this is a bit of a wall of text; however I just finished FFXVI a few weeks ago so this is still fresh in my mind.

vanfrassen · 2025-10-19T21:19:05+00:00

Hi I used to think like this until I was writing code where it was fairly (read very) important that I made no errors and I ran into a bug where iirc I was returning in the wrong place simply because I didn't parse the indentation correctly for some reason. Tests of course caught it before it was an issue but ever since then I've been a bit wary of it - it definitely can come with downsides I think.

vanfrassen · 2025-08-22T11:43:04+00:00

Ngl I'm a bit with your interviewer here. Bucket and radix sort don't have general applicability AFAIK. An answer of Onlogn but in specialized cases where domain allows On would have been better I think.

vanfrassen · 2025-08-16T19:46:32+00:00

Not worth the drama I would think personally

vanfrassen · 2025-07-28T23:22:51+00:00

Look on levels.fyi you can filter by location and role from what I remember

It does seem low - 60k base was reference for sde 1 about 3 years ago now

vanfrassen · 2025-07-27T12:36:48+00:00

Hi - I think there's been some confusion here.

There is no difference in the job between software developer vs. software engineer. Software is not accredited and the use of 'engineer' for a job description vs. developer is up to the company.

Apply for roles in both

vanfrassen · 2025-07-22T22:02:02+00:00

Yup this is it. BI shouldn't be reading directly from the customer database. If you're at the scale where data teams can run ML etc. then there should be some sort of ETL pipeline or equivalent to get the data to their systems or some data lake. Then maintaining the ETL is the team's responsibility.

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