The Broad Way
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Congratulations on your promotion to Senior Engineer. You can now maintain the title while doing absolutely nothing of substance. Step 1: Attend every meeting, especially the ones you were not invite...
INTERVIEWER: Thanks for coming in. Let's start with a quick coding exercise. Can you reverse a binary tree on this whiteboard? CANDIDATE: Sure. But first, can I see your production codebase? INTERVI...
I read more of the Kubernetes documentation than any sane person should: concepts, tasks, tutorials, the API reference. Some of it reads like love letters from engineers who lost their minds somewhere...
"I'll go to the gym this year." = "We'll add tests later." "I'll read more books." = "We'll write documentation next sprint." "I'll learn a new language." = "We'll migrate to TypeScript eventually."...
It is 9:47 PM on December 24th. The family is arriving and the turkey is in the oven when my phone buzzes. "Production is showing wrong dates on all invoices generated today." Of course it is. Produ...
Good morning. Let's go around the room. "Yesterday I worked on the thing. Today I'll keep working on the thing. No blockers." "Same as yesterday." "I was in meetings all day so I didn't get to the ...