Investing in people is more valuable than investing in systems or processes. A lesson learned that I try to apply more consciously. When I use the term "invest", I mean in the context of investing one's time, effort, and energy to a particalular undertaking in the
The story began when I was trying to validate my ideas for a set of problems that I'm uncertain of. Hence, I was looking for a mentor, somebody I can look up to, who can help me find answers to my questions. Unfortunately, in my organization, I did
Starts with concrete, tactical, and practical point of discussion. See at the bottom for foundational principles and values. Recently our team started making smaller PRs and stacking them. Here is my reasoning on justifying why smaller PRs is better than a big(ger) one even with several administrative overheads as
When our team was hiring, I was thinking types of good candidates. I defined two dimensions to judge a candidate. The floor and the ceiling. The floor is the existing cumulative experience the candidate has. The ceiling is the future potential of growth the candidate has. A fresher from the
The primary reasons, as far as I observed, on the hate of Leetcode-style questions in interview are it's not used in the job, it takes time to learn and away from the job itself. I think the this is understandable and reasonable. What I'd like to
I started thinking about what is the "single" trait that will guarantee our new hire will be a good hire when our team needed to find a frontend engineer, after we just ended a previous position caused by a mismatched role. A good hire, I defined as somebody
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