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Navigating the Software Engineering career ladders
The next step from SDE2 need not be SDE3 - from size of company to type of role, there's a lot more you need to consider.
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Arnav Gupta
Hustle Culture is Killing Us
A look at the current state of society and what hustle culture has done to us
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There's no going back from the "Copilot Life"
The most killer GenAI app for me so far has been using it as Copilot inside my IDE and Obsidian for writing and coding.
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A Thread on Frontend Development
Some tips on frontend development gleaned from my 10 years of learning.
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Companies still hiring software engineers in 2023
It is layoff and hiring freeze season, but behold the old-tech, aviation and trad-fi sectors that are still hiring software engineers by the horde!
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Arnav Gupta
The Lifecycle of an Edtech Company - Part 1
After being inside 2 and closely knowing people in all the other ones... thought of writing this.
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Learnings from yet another 'blitzscaling' stage hiring excercise
My current 'fast' process of hiring senior engineers
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The no-nonsense process of getting into product engineering startups/scaleups
This is not the "hard way" or "easy way" to become a good product engineer, this is simply the 3-4 most essential skills you need.
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Unpopular tech/software engineering opinions - 2022 edition
A thread of some of the likely most unpopular and unconventional hot takes on software and programming.
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The Local Optimisation Problem in Large Organisations
The inherent complexity in large organisations resigns the individuals in it to optimise for local metrics in absence of visibility and/or influence…
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The "Return on Agency" barrier in large organization teams
When tech/product orgs scale beyond a certain size, below a certain level in the pyramid, it starts becoming pointless to be a "high agency" individual
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All these unicorns, and still India not producing any real tech companies
why aren't we yet building a Google or Facebook out of India?
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