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A sample of career ladders Sarah Drasner uses for her organization, open sourced for anyone.

New Year Gift to every fellow time-constrained engineer out there looking for a job, here's a list of the best LeetCode questions that teach you core concepts and techniques for each category/type of problems! Many other LeetCode questions are a mash...

I have been working at Facebook as a software engineer for a while now. During this time, I have got different inquiries from friends and…

Front end interview preparation resources for busy engineers – quiz questions, JavaScript coding questions, algorithms questions, front end system design questions and more. Updated for 2024!

Savvy tips, tricks, and advice for how to get your first job in tech.

We made a Cheat Sheet after examining 290 interviews for Grab Software Engineering roles!

The last full year I worked at Meta, I made more than $800,000 dollars. In this post, I'll break down my compensation and how it changed each year.

Best practices for code review when you're the author.

A complete guide for senior engineers on how to prepare for a system design interview.

By Yangshun Tay Back in 2017, I went through some coding interviews and got offers from several large tech companies. So at that point, I decided to share what I'd learned in this article. And I've just updated it for 2022 so it'll be super useful an...

A guide providing actionable tips on how to transition from a junior to senior software engineer. Learn the essential technical competencies and communication skills needed to succeed, including th...

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A big part of interviews is development velocity and agility. And that can be optimized for.

I’ve been programming since 1999. This year I’ve officially coded for 20+ years. I’ve started with Basic but soon jumped into Pascal and C…

Which companies pay for oncall, and how much? Philosophies across the industry for paying for standby duty and numbers from 80 companies.

When I was promoted to Dev Team Lead, I was in over my head. Read the 8 things that I wish someone had told me when I was promoted.

Free curated interview preparation materials for busy people

When the story of how I landed a job at Airbnb went viral, I was surprised at how infatuated people were with my negotiations. Media stories portrayed me as some kind of master negotiator—a wily ex...

When it comes to code reviews, it’s a common phenomenon that there is much focus and long-winded discussions around mundane aspects like code formatting and style, whereas important aspects (does the code change do what it is supposed to do, is it performant, is it backwards-compatible for existing clients, and many others) tend to get less attention. To raise awareness for the issue and providing some guidance on aspects to focus on, I shared a small visual on Twitter the other day, which I called the "Code Review Pyramid".

Learn how to onboard engineers with an empathetic and structured approach. Includes a 30-60-90-day check-in template. Onboarding software engineers is not trivial.

Mindset, 100-day plan, and balancing learning and taking action to earn trust.

This blog post covers AWS Lambda layers basics, the pros and cons, and my recommended best practices.

Normalizing standards for building microservices provide strong, consistent software anyone can pick up and maintain

More publishers are exploring subscription models to generate revenue. Paywalls are powerful mechanisms for monetisation, but there are SEO risks involved.

Caching headers are surprisingly complex and often misconfigured. Here we look at some key cache scenarios and recommend the ideal headers to set.

Node.js® is a JavaScript runtime built on Chrome's V8 JavaScript engine.

Secure data is critical for the success of our enterprise customers. This post is intended to give you high level tips to harden your PostgreSQL Flexible..