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Any E8/L8s who could describe the role at Meta in detail? Eg

- What’s the sphere of influence? How many SWEs? 100? - how big is the product you’re influencing? Number of services? Revenue? Criticality of dependency you own? - what kind of impact are you having? Improving latency? Increasing revenue? Etc - how do you ramp up as a new hire? Surely you have to go very deep - how do you come up with projects that involve your entire org? How does your work exactly influence 100 engineers?

Also if you could please share a bit more about the interview process. Thanks!

So I’m wondering which tools people are using for generating their code on a day to day basis. What are the most popular IntelliJ plugins? Are you using GitHub Copilot? Have you tried Android Studio Bot? Etc

I'm transitioning from a TL/Senior SWE role at my company, and would like to get book recommendations, articles, or any other useful resources to help me prepare for the new role.

Thanks!

What has your experience been outsourcing parts of your life with Virtual Assistants? Are they worth the money? What type of tasks do you delegate?

So I have a couple of small projects (1-2 months of part-time work) that I've been wanting to build for some time (a small brochure/booklet type thing), and I don't really the time to work on the logistics.

I wanted to delegate all of the logistical work to a virtual assistant and all I'd do is review the process ("no, yes, no, yes, that should be red", etc). Of course I'd be focused on the actual product and would be deeply working with the designer.

I need everything from researching freelancers on fiverr, upwork, etc to finding the right printing company, getting prototypes shipped to me, etc.

Has anyone got experience with working with VAs on this sort of thing? Would appreciate some input.

Thanks!

I'm 26 years old with experience working as a SWE at various big tech companies (Apple, Amazon, Google, etc). I'm a well seasoned developer currently working in SV.

I'm starting a project (backend API open to all developers) where I'm going to own EVERYTHING from beginning to end: Requirements gathering, deciding what to build, designing the system, implementation, load testing, launch, monitoring, bugs, etc

I've done all of the above for various medium sized projects (spanning 2-3 months), but this project is quite big (billion+ users, multi-quarter) so it is extremely important that I do everything correctly (at least 85% correct).

What leadership and project management books/articles would you recommend I read? If they're in the context of tech/software even better. I'm already familiar with CI, Scrum, Agile, etc although I haven't used any of this for ~2 years since joining my current employer.

Just to give more context, the current service HAS to be used by any developer in the world that wants to develop X type of thing, there's no other way around it. This already affects 2 billion+ end users.

My project is a new component of this service that will add an extra (very important and big) use case. However, my hopes are that if this new service is very good, we will eventually migrate all the world to this new service. Hence, I want to do an amazing job at it.

Any other advice would be greatly appreciated :)