andher

Always found some interesting reads like this. Looking to add to my tbr to hit my yearly goal.

I just finished the three body problem, found it fantastic. I'm most of the way through 'The will of the many', and I'm finding it amazing - one of the best fantasies I've read in a while.

A bit of a click-baity title, apologies. I'm a senior eng and want to really push myself to better levels. My non-tech skills (comms, collab, leading) are one of my strengths and I'm constantly trying to make them better. I constantly keep feeling that I don't know enough tech stuff, there's a ridiculous amount to learn and foundational blind spots and holes that keep cropping up.

One of the questions I try to ask myself is, if I joined a new team or company, what skills would I need to really help the team succeed quickly and effectively.

A lot of ya'll have been around the block a lot, and either been or worked with such folks. Your insights would be super appreciated

Seen these kind of threads from time to time, and I've got some great recommendations from them.

I'll start:

* Re-reading Words of Radiance by Brandon Sanderson. I had forgotten the story leading up to Rhythm of War. I had forgotten how fun Sanderson's world is.

* Just finishing up Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir. Great book. I didn't read Artemis, but The Martian was awesome.

* Grit by Angela Duckworth. Really speaks to me and has me re-examining my own loss of focus and tenacity in pursuits, and my expectations of how long achievement takes.

I'll probably pick a few more once I'm done with these.

Hey ya'll, I wanted to build a personal project for better tracking the books I read. I was wondering if:

1. There are any good apis for getting book data and author information (including demographic information). Paid is fine as well, if it's not too much I could consider that.

2. Anyones built something similar which collates this data from different places. Would be interested in hearing the how of that.

Cheers

Hey ya'll,

I wanted to build a personal project for better tracking the books I read. I was wondering if:

1. There are any good apis for getting book data and author information (including demographic information). Paid is fine as well, if it's not too much I could consider that.

2. Anyones built something similar which collates this data from different places. Would be interested in hearing the how of that.

Cheers

Holiday sales should be coming up around the world, and the US would be having Black Friday / Cyber Monday soon.

I'm idly wondering what gadgetry or otherwise interesting things people are thinking of buying

Basically the title.

Also interested in your story of navigating periods without pay.

Posted this before but because of no responses (and I wanna see whats the best time to post) trying again.

Hey ya'll. The title mentions q's for EM's but would love input from anyone who has experience or an opinion. Q: Did you get hired in a new company / team as an EM, or transition within the same team? Q: Do you keep on building your technical knowledge? In your experience, is there a need for doing that or does experience gained in people management skills remove that requirement

Q: How good of an engineer would you rate yourself when you made the transition? Did you ever think 'I don't know enough eng yet'?

Q: Do you manage teams in the same technical domain you worked in before? Have you been an EM for teams in different domains? Did that have some effect / no effect / needed tech ramp up?

Q: Have you moved back to an eng role? Was that easy? Difficult? Have you ping-ponged between the two?

Context: I'm a senior (whatever that means) engineer, and casually considering moving more towards the management side (currently a tech lead for a team). Enjoy / have some people skills so this kind of work is attractive to some extent

Hey ya'll. The title mentions q's for EM's but would love input from anyone who has experience or an opinion. Q: Did you get hired in a new company / team as an EM, or transition within the same team?

Q: Do you keep on building your technical knowledge? In your experience, is there a need for doing that or does experience gained in people management skills remove that requirement

Q: How good of an engineer would you rate yourself when you made the transition? Did you ever think 'I don't know enough eng yet'?

Q: Do you manage teams in the same technical domain you worked in before? Have you been an EM for teams in different domains? Did that have some effect / no effect / needed tech ramp up?

Q: Have you moved back to an eng role? Was that easy? Difficult? Have you ping-ponged between the two?

Context: I'm a senior (whatever that means) engineer, and casually considering moving more towards the management side (currently a tech lead for a team). Enjoy / have some people skills so this kind of work is attractive to some extent

Hey ya'll. The title mentions q's for EM's but would love input from anyone who has experience or an opinion.

Q: Did you get hired in a new company / team as an EM, or transition within the same team?

Q: Do you keep on building your technical knowledge? In your experience, is there a need for doing that or does experience gained in people management skills remove that requirement

Q: How good of an engineer would you rate yourself when you made the transition? Did you ever think 'I don't know enough eng yet'?

Q: Do you manage teams in the same technical domain you worked in before? Have you been an EM for teams in different domains? Did that have some effect / no effect / needed tech ramp up?

Q: Have you moved back to an eng role? Was that easy? Difficult? Have you ping-ponged between the two?

Context: I'm a senior (whatever that means) engineer, and casually considering moving more towards the management side (currently a tech lead for a team). Enjoy / have some people skills so this kind of work is attractive to some extent.

Seeing if I can get opinions from people working in different areas of fintech or people using fintech products. What problems currently exist from your point of view and experience?

I understand that fintech is a broad term, I didn't want to narrow onto a niche to solicit wider conversation. Particular niches could include banking, wealth management, debt or credit management, budgeting, payment api / integration etc. I'm not sure myself.

Posted this before but it got lost quick, so trying again. I've seen many posts talk about the deplorable state of interviewing today, calling out whiteboarding, take-homes, multi-days, algorithmic, etc as all have massive shortcomings (and I think many who've done the rounds of the interview circuit would agree that its a stressful pain in the ass situation). Maybe the answer is that there isn't any one-size fits all situation here, but I was generally curious about what people think their ideal software engineering interview would look like?

Posted this before but it got lost quick, so trying again. I've seen many posts talk about the deplorable state of interviewing today, calling out whiteboarding, take-homes, multi-days, algorithmic, etc as all have massive shortcomings (and I think many who've done the rounds of the interview circuit would agree that its a stressful pain in the ass situation). Maybe the answer is that there isn't any one-size fits all situation here, but I was generally curious about what people think their ideal software engineering interview would look like?

I've seen many posts talk about the deplorable state of interviewing today, calling out whiteboarding, take-homes, multi-days, algorithmic, etc as all have massive shortcomings (and I think many who've done the rounds of the interview circuit would agree that its a stressful pain in the ass situation). Maybe the answer is that there isn't any one-size fits all situation here, but I was generally curious about what people think their ideal software engineering interview would look like?