Counter take: After having worked for startups a lot, my CV did not really look very impressive. A couple of short-medium stints would not really instil a vast confidence to someone screening.
Algorithm and "Trick" Coding Questions allow me to prepare for companies I would normally never qualify for just based on my past experience. If Google only hired people who have touched Google scale systems, they might not have a lot of people to choose from.
Thanks to the current interview structure, I can spend some time and prepare for any large company regardless of the kind of work I have been exposed to so far.
Its definitely not a great process, and requires a lot of time investment to prepare but allows people from not so impressive backgrounds to get a fair(ish) shot.
Location: Bengaluru, India
Remote: Yes
Willing to relocate: Open to Europe
Technologies: Rails, Go, Kotlin, React
Résumé/CV: https://www.sinstein.xyz/cv.html
Email: [email protected]
Hi, I am Saurav Kothari and my goal is to solve problems and technology is one of the tools I utilize to solve them. I consider myself to be a "domain driven engineer" and take great interest in the nitty-gritty of the business behind the product I am working on.
I have worked as a full-stack engineer for startups in India ranging across domains from SaaS to B2B e-commerce. I am interested in medium to large companies which will allow me a chance to grow with the business.
Anyone else unable to get the extension to load? I can install it, when I click on in on LinkedIn, I just see a white drawer. No content loads. Tried disabling ad block as well.
This rings true for me. I was in a very hectic workplace when the pandemic began and was able to function pretty much as effectively as I would in office.
Then I made a switch to a different company towards the end of last year and I do not yet feel a part of the team as I would normally. This is despite having a friend in the team. New relationships have been very hard to build with completely remote onboarding.
I thought this article was going to be about how to "bunnyhop" in your programming job. Some tips/tricks that you can leverage to give you the same advantage in your job as bunnyhop does in-game.
It appears that everyone mentions commute as a massive energy/time sink that erases many potential benefits of working in office. Every other claimed benefit of WFH is all very subjective and you will either enjoy it or not enjoy it.
But so many of us actually stay very close to our work places. Commute is either 15 mins one way or sometimes even lesser.
Hi, I am Saurav Kothari, a full stack engineer with 5 years of experience working with some of the fastest growing startups. I consider myself to be an engineer first, developer second; i.e, my goal is to solve problems and technology is one of the tools I utilize to solve them.
Over the past years I have had the opportunity to work across a wide range of business domains from SaaS to e-commerce. I have worked across the stack over components that have been internal facing as well as user facing and I believe I can emphatize with the end consumer of my product. My experience as a Product Engineer has expanded my horizon to understand business goals and how to tie them to tech goals to create a win-win scenario for everyone involved.
I have been fortunate to have worked with various languages and frameworks and feel comfortable learning new ones as needed and switching between them on the go.
Agreed. I upgraded to the X from a 6S and that was a huge bump in performance and capabilities.
Now that X is starting to show its age I am considering switching to the 12. All the upgrades since the X so far have not been appealing and did not warrant spending that much to me.
Some of the other comments address this. The problem is that we see and hear about these extreme viewpoints from people who are very loud and vocal. But we are not seeing or hearing anything from the vast majority of people which causes 2 problems
1. More and more of these platforms are driven by the extremists
2. There is less and less chance of actual debate and discussion with people of opposing views as anyone who you could have a discussion with is not engaging.
I upgraded from my 6s to X a year ago.
Broke my X in the last few weeks and have been using the 6s again and it is such a delight to use such a handy phone.
I am planning now to get rid of the X and switch to the next small phone from Apple
We use a Dropwizard Application written in Kotlin and I have had a very hard time finding examples and tutorials and have had to translate from Java most of the time.
Ofcourse I am banking on resources improving with time.
One of the reason to not consider Kotlin would be lack of resources. We run Kotlin services on Production at work and whole writing and reading Kotlin is so much better than Java, finding ways to do things still means having to fall back on Java examples.
There are still resources available for Kotlin + Android development but non Android resources are very few.
The plus side is because of the First Class Support in Intellij Idea for Kotlin, I can always take Java snippets and have the IDE convert them to Kotlin.
My current use case for AirBnB is when I travel in a group (4+ people) and we would like to stay together. Getting a 2 bedroom AirBnB with a working kitchen and maybe even a private pool is a great place to spend time with closed ones.
Is there a list of developers who are approved to accept sponsors on Github?
For certain projects, I already follow the people running them and became a sponsor when I got to know about them being on-boarded to the program (eg: cUrl).
It would help if I could see a list of all users accepting donations and figure out if I use any of their creations in my day to day work.
I think there is a difference between how we interact with some of these services and Grammarly. Uploading a picture on Facebook is different from having Grammarly check if what you are posting to Facebook is correct.
In one I am uploading content to a platform, in the other I am utilizing grammarly to validate what I write, but I am not posting to any forum/service owned by Grammarly (atleast not deliberately)
Algorithm and "Trick" Coding Questions allow me to prepare for companies I would normally never qualify for just based on my past experience. If Google only hired people who have touched Google scale systems, they might not have a lot of people to choose from.
Thanks to the current interview structure, I can spend some time and prepare for any large company regardless of the kind of work I have been exposed to so far.
Its definitely not a great process, and requires a lot of time investment to prepare but allows people from not so impressive backgrounds to get a fair(ish) shot.