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I've enjoyed, and been lucky to work at companies where engineers are focused on customer outcomes. I would also cite Hiten Shah's engineering driven development: https://www.june.…

I'm sure there's some SEO component, but I'm surprised no one mentioned ads. More real estate for you to scroll through for display ads?

I thought it was interesting to think about what Clubhouse was displacing. It felt the most analogous to radio. So, what could you do if you had radio at internet scale? Or what wo…

I agree with this point. It's hard to know if the OP is talking about title progression, or growth in the same role. Without knowing your organization, I can't say whether or not p…

I'm 5 months in. About to wrap up my 2nd rotation, and move on to my 3rd and final rotation!

Disclaimer: I also recently started at HubSpot and am currently enjoying my embedding phase immensely. The whole embedding onboarding is awesome and I think it raises the question …

tl;dr - we engineers are bad at estimation because we're too optimistic, and then we don't want to be accountable to the estimate given based on limited information. i think we hav…

engineers hate giving estimates for a variety of reasons that i'm not going to get into here. most modern agile organizations don't value spending time on getting accurate estimate…

Keep in mind that you also can try to sell the company for more money if there's competition. Competition from other buyers, competition from investors. You probably want to try go…

tl;dr - if you believe in the company future and are willing to make that sacrifice, stay. if you don't, leave. all startups have risks. i think that's something people overlook an…

Is this like http://www.evolveapp.com/ (Techstars Boston '17.)

Just applauding your effort here, not only for being proactive about getting into the field you want, but also for finding ways to contribute to open source without having to submi…

What kind of technical due diligence did you do?

To build on the suggestions other people are making, I would say that one thing I look for in the transition from to "senior" is the ability to make the people around you better. A…

props to flovilmart for trying to take the high road at least.

Software is all about tradeoffs, and there are so many ways a single problem could be solved. What works for me is to show them an alternative way that the code could be written. T…

not trying to discount this or my perceived intent of it, but i was wondering if any women could share specific examples when they were being mentored/coached differently than men.…

Not sure if this is your first 6 months in the working world or not. I'm guessing that it is. I'm not trying to discourage you from leaving, but I wanted to offer some perspective.…

Yeah, it's tricky. I guess I should amend the suggestions to be: A) start by understanding the tools and libraries available to you, and how to integrate them to build product/feat…

What I tell most people to do is to build a lot of toy projects. A lot. Ship a lot of code out onto the internet for the world to see. There are several purposes: 1) Building a lot…

On the bright side, I think that a good CI/CD process is really important, and not a lot of devs have a good understanding of that part of the product. They just write code and "th…

I'm never sure what the point of these articles are. It's supply and demand. If there's a crunch, there's more demand then supply. When that happens prices go up. So really the tl;…