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I guess this boils down to difficulties in building strong relationships remotely. I would definitely recommend traveling occasionally to build relationship with your remote folks.…

Some stuff you can build to learn more about distributed systems (you can start simple, do research, and then iterate to build a more comprehensive solution): build a distributed f…

You can start with Prof. Ken Birman's book "Guide to Reliable Distributed Systems: Building High-Assurance Applications and Cloud-Hosted Services".

I couldn't find a decent resource that provides details about how one can implement a relational database, any pointers appreciated!

Queueing theory. Computer systems have plenty of queues at different layers, and queueing theory helps understanding their behavior.

I haven't seen such bullshit for a long time. Lots of negative claims with no serious data backing up any of these claims looks totally bullshit and amateur.

I would always choose the company with smarter people, it will be better in the long run I think (learn from them, push your limits, grow your network with smart people and their n…

Nice writeup. My favorite part is >> simply practiced interview questions for about three to four months, every day, from morning till night. I then had three phone interviews arou…

Absolute bullshit. All these tech companies are totally crazy about their interview processes as if they are really working on ground breaking stuff.

Hey HNers, There is plenty of information on glassdoor but first hand experience from you guys is always invaluable. I will appreciate any comments! Thanks.

As someone who has gone through software engineer interviews with top Silicon Valley companies, what I see is that the process is biased towards 1) people with lots of time and goo…

Hi HN crew, I know that this is a broad question and there is plenty of info on the web, but I am really curious about your recent experience. What are the top things that I should…

+1 it's getting slower over time, I made a switch to gmail too.

Watch Erik Demaine's dynamic programming lectures in this playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLSX2U_ZE4Huk19DPn34oZ... I learned a lot from them, he gives a methodolog…