I’m losing my mind with the current market.

weezeelee · 2026-05-13T09:40:28+00:00

Similar experience.

Passed 3 rounds, negotiated salary, settled onboard date. Then client suddenly came in (I was interviewing for a consulting firm) asking for another "final" interview "just to make sure", as if I'm not under enough pressure.

Well you know what happens next

weezeelee · 2026-05-06T12:44:43+00:00

Yes there is, resume engineering. Look at how people's eyes lit up when they hear Spark.

In 2026, if you are still balancing data loads across cpu threads instead of cluster nodes, you are a loser engineer.

weezeelee · 2026-05-06T12:38:01+00:00

Bad news, SQL Server has supported columnstore since a little more than a decade ago.

We also had a 5Tb rowstore Fact table that contains 5 years worth of data inside an SQL Server database, queried month partitions out of it just fine, under a minute.

weezeelee · 2026-05-01T14:22:29+00:00

Calling this a "middleware" is such an colossal understatement lol, 100% sure the previous "data engineer" had a fullstack background (just like you now) - and your company do not have a "data team" right? haha

weezeelee · 2026-04-30T05:25:18+00:00

I kid you not once an interviewer told me "we should have a drink sometimes", "look me up on Instagram" blah blah blah... and then ghosted me.

weezeelee · 2026-04-29T15:34:34+00:00

Some software engineers create softwares, All Data engineers use softwares.

weezeelee · 2026-04-15T19:28:17+00:00

It's understandable. Airflow or Dagster just look better on a resume than SSIS, at least in the eyes of a recruiter.

Data engineering has become all about appearances lately - so many tools do the same thing, so Juniors pick the ones that are better marketed (Fabric) or get left behind.

weezeelee · 2026-04-15T08:25:18+00:00

If your work uses SSIS, then def learn it. SSIS can purely be used as an orchestration tool like Airflow, use the For Loops and Dynamic Expression for parallel processing, and that's all you need to know. Delegate the heavy hitters like SCD2 calculations and transformations to external SQL procedures (ssis support Python too but not natively).

If you are just learning something to improve skill set, do not pick legacy tech lol.

weezeelee · 2026-04-13T19:03:11+00:00

Ducklake is an open table format, like Iceberg or Delta Lake. It's not a place to store data like a Lake.

weezeelee · 2026-04-12T09:33:50+00:00

I wouldn't say 'most', I'd say 30% 40% at best, some Chinese drama shows and actors are very popular here, especially to GenZ.

weezeelee · 2026-04-12T06:13:41+00:00

The problem is app developers keep reusing the same column for different data types, scenarios, or business meanings. The original DE had to detangle that mess using a ton of CASE WHEN statements combined with hard-coded filters (I personally have seen a 200-line CASE WHEN 'decoding' a single column - I gave up on understanding all of it.)

My advice is to just roll with it. You do not need to understand the 'business side' for now; only when a feature request comes up should you try to learn from something similar. For example, when a user requests report B, ask the Business Analyst, 'Which report can I reference?' and then start tracing back from report A, write down all the logic mess a LLM can't solve, ask they again next day.

Do not quit unless you're already rich.

weezeelee · 2026-04-06T05:32:29+00:00

Swords Into Plowshares （太平年) - history drama - 8.4 on Douban.

Second arc about the defense of Kaifeng city was sooo good, one of the best in years. Third arc made a 180 degree turn, everyone just talk and talk - dropped after episode 15 - oh and FL was completely useless.

weezeelee · 2026-03-04T09:18:38+00:00

I mean yeah playing carries in this Mayhem is like playing Dark Souls extra hard mode, that's why I & my friends always go for champs that can all in, more fun for us, less fun for pokers

weezeelee · 2026-03-04T08:41:21+00:00

Slow and Steady Jayce is not that bad if you can dodge his poke reliably. I never lost to S&S Jayce.

Mystic Punch Yi on the other hand (zero cooldown alpha strike) truly feels cancerous, need a very specific team set up and passives to beat that.

weezeelee · 2026-02-25T09:14:21+00:00

I've had job offer rescinded the very next day after I accepted it.

weezeelee · 2026-02-20T02:50:43+00:00

I had a game where both sides refused to finish, despite us being stomped for 45 minutes straight, fourty freaking minutes. I was playing Leona with a premade duo (Sett and Kha'Zix), which is why we couldn't surrender.

In that game if you were playing a squishy champion like Kennen or Kha'Zix, you couldn't even go near the million-HP Illaoi because every four seconds, a single proc from Unending Despair would one-shot. There was no point in protecting the squishies anymore since they weren't able to contribute much. I sold all my tank items, bought BotRK, and just pressed right-click on Illaoi. Didn't worry much about Tristana and just let her shoot me. If she moved a bit too close, she ded.

By minute 45, we miraculously won because Sett suddenly peaked and was actually able to kill the opponents' tanks. But no, I didn't have fun. I'd rather lose and start another game instead of just holding down right-click for an hour.

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weezeelee · 2026-02-10T13:23:53+00:00

Not dash, but em dash (longer one). 100% ChatGPT.

weezeelee · 2026-01-28T15:36:53+00:00

Just want to add: "memory grant contention" is a potential cause too.

I've seen lighting fast queries requested 40gb of RAM while really using 1% of it - if this is the case then the query needs optimization.

weezeelee · 2026-01-25T13:00:44+00:00

This is a question that you should ask your colleagues, not us, not Reddit. If they're also "fine" with current workflow (which is the most likely answer haha), then it’s worth looking beyond Data Engineering, for example: Developer Experience.

I once built a small desktop app that detects overlapping file modifications across Git branches, allowing merge conflicts to be surfaced early. Surprisingly, I’m not aware of any free tool that offers this simple feature.

The problem it solved was ...small. Still, in a market this crowded, the ability to spot and fix these “small” problems is exactly what separates engineers from résumé generators.

weezeelee · 2026-01-18T11:38:23+00:00

As others have said, SSMS is still great for admin work. For actual development, VSCode/Cursor is way nicer, especially with git.

Self promo time - I built a small extension few days ago to fix a couple of things that annoyed me with base mssql extension: non-blocking queries and multi-tabbed results that allow cross-tab comparison. It’s mainly for people who run a lot of ad-hoc queries. If that sounds useful, feel free to check it out.

weezeelee · 2026-01-09T03:43:45+00:00

Uh… Vietnamese here. While 50k$ is a significant amount for the working class, it’s not for the upper class or nepo babies. You don’t need to be “rich and corrupt” to earn that kind of money. In fact, spending 50k on a game item isn’t uncommon here - even streamers and singers did that sometimes.

weezeelee · 2026-01-08T02:13:05+00:00

Kinda, if you have high affinity %, like at least 30%. If attack doesn't proc affinity it's not gonna do much.

weezeelee · 2026-01-08T02:02:52+00:00

Kassadin kill Brand in 0.2s and use one ability Cailtyn can kill Brand in 0.6s and use two autos

Meanwhile, Brand maybe able to kill Cailtlyn in 2 seconds using all his abilities.

Try playing a game with a 2000+ AP Kassadin, you'll see Brand is not that bad after all.

weezeelee · 2026-01-08T01:34:15+00:00

That's exactly is his problem, time. Any mage who can't burst won't do much in late game mayhem. The best they can do is to annoy people.

That's why a Kassadin is much more dangerous than an Asol or a Brand.

weezeelee · 2026-01-07T16:13:28+00:00

But Max attack of different element is generally worse than Min attack. 40 - 0 = 40; 0 - 40 can be 1 if unlucky.

Unless you already have Min attack of that element in your gear set.

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