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2025
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Jan 06
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Most engineers get stuck at the senior level (L5) and find it difficult to move up to the staff (L6).
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Jan 02
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When working on a new project, we engineers almost always start with the most fascinating part.
Career Growth
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Jan 01
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If you plan to learn in public in 2025, spend more time learning than sharing.
Distributed Systems
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2024
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Dec 16
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Good engineers are usually excellent project managers and then become solid engineering leaders.
Distributed Systems
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Dec 01
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Why are managers even needed if they are not coding?
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Nov 29
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Whenever there is a new wave in tech, you will find two camps.
AI Systems
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Nov 26
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Not every project is exciting and is a chance to learn new skills or tackle fascinating challenges, and that's okay.
Career Growth
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Nov 20
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Leave your job with grace and gratitude.
Career Growth
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Nov 02
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Build a habit of reading 100 pages in one sitting.
Career Growth
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Oct 21
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No company can give you the most exciting, challenging, and impactful project around the year, so the ups and downs in the kind of work you'd get are expected.
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#career-growth
Oct 09
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When you join a new org or switch teams in the same, it is quite an unsettling and borderline anxious experience.
Career Growth
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#career-growth
Oct 01
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It is a common misconception that projects and initiatives are only decided at the top and then percolated down to the engineers for execution.
Career Growth
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#career-growth
Sep 25
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Writing a good, concise, yet detailed self-review is essential to pitch yourself for a good appraisal, a bonus, and even a promotion
Career Growth
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#asli-engineering
#career-growth
Sep 15
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Every engineer should work in SRE for at least ~2 years.
Career Growth
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#sre
Sep 04
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Not everything in the real world needs a syllabus.
Career Growth
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#career-growth
Aug 23
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No question is stupid if you know how to put it across.
Career Growth
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Aug 19
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It's not about what you know, but about how you think.
Career Growth
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#asli-engineering
#career-growth
Apr 17
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LeetCode has induced instant gratification and made building boring ⚡
Career Growth
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Apr 08
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Do not keep looking for beginner-friendly content ⚡
Career Growth
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#system-design
Feb 26
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I have seen a lot of good engineers getting stuck in tutorial hell, and here's how to get out of it ⚡
Career Growth
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2023
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Dec 23
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We can optimize for anything, and the context determines what we choose to optimize ⚡
Career Growth
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#system-design
Dec 18
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Following roadmaps is like being spoon-fed ⚡
Career Growth
#career-growth
#asli-engineering
Nov 25
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Your day job should not be your sole source of learning ⚡
Career Growth
#career-growth
#asli-engineering
Nov 08
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Building a career in software engineering is not just about coding ⚡
Career Growth
#leadership
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#career-growth
Nov 07
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Senior engineers always juggle the following 3 hats ⚡
Career Growth
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Sep 14
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Clarity is not what you know you want to do, but it is what you know you want to avoid ⚡
Career Growth
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Sep 10
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Spend first 3 years of your career doing these to accelerate your growth ⚡️
Career Growth
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Jul 06
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Want to have a thriving career?
Career Growth
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May 11
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Four coding habits that make you a 10x ⚡
Software Engineering
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Feb 03
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Lot of engineers comment on pull requests to impose superiority 🤦♂️
Software Engineering
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Jan 02
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I have trust issues 🙈
Career Growth
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2022
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Dec 11
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Here is a 4-step process I follow to learn new technologies, tools, and frameworks ⚡
Career Growth
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#engineering
#system-design
Dec 01
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Staying in the comfort zone is the worst we can do to our careers and hence I ensure I switch to an unfamiliar domain that makes me feel like an idiot
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Nov 28
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Reading books is extremely important for Software Engineers.
Career Growth
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Nov 18
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Why did the college want us to study Compiler Construction?
Systems Internals
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#dice-db
Oct 11
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How do I learn new technologies, tools, and frameworks?
Career Growth
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#engineering
#system-design
Sep 25
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Interview Driven Learning will take you nowhere.
Career Growth
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2021
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Oct 21
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Do not restrict yourself to a particular domain; you should know a bit of everything - be it backend, frontend, infra, or design.
Career Growth
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#javascript