naqeeb
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Comment · 3 years ago
I do think there is ambiguity in the value of a Director/VP of Eng in an Engineering organization. It's definitely harder to quantify.
From my experience, it's important to see your role as enabling people in the organization to be more effective rather than just you and your team.
That can take the shape of:
- Streamlining the hiring process
- Spend time on reducing build time / decreasing the time to run tests / focusing on local environment setup
- Reviewing how teams plan and interact with each other
Comment · 4 years ago
Switching industries/stacks isn't difficult for a software engineer. As another person mentioned, you should apply for jobs that interest you and see if there is a fit.
Personally, I was a Python developer for years before I joined a company that did mostly JavaScript. I was upfront that I would need a few months to ramp up on the language/framework/paradigms. For those few months, I had to put in more work than my peers so I can catch up and become productive.
You should expect a few months of struggling before it all makes sense.
P.S. Sorry for the jargon :) I was typing my response on the go.
Comment · 4 years ago
Quick tips:
- Update your resume with your latest position
- Apply and take interviews with companies that you may not be interested in. This will help you rehearse and practice your pitch.
- If you are an IC, start doing leetcode and system design exercises
If you want more specific tips/advice, drop me a DM.
Comment · 4 years ago
When you interview for your next role, you should request an additional conversation with your new manager and get their thoughts on:
1. What is their philosophy on team development? (Ask for examples)
2. What is the career ladder look like? When was the last person promoted to a Sr role?
In addition, you should lay out growth areas you'd like to focus on. A good manager should be able to work with you and chart a path forward.
On a side note: There are other online communities to help you level up while you are in your current role. DM me for recs.
Comment · 5 years ago
Thank you for the candidness! I've found it interesting how the story of a startup's early days morph into legends / fables.
Comment · 9 years ago
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Comment · 11 years ago
POSITION
Qa Engineer
COMPANY OrderGroove
LOCATION New York, NY, United States
DESCRIPTION Type: Full-time, Salaried with Benefits (health, dental & vision) and Stock Options Reports To: Dev Manager
More Details: http://www.ordergroove.com/careerslist/okSo1fwl
Please send resume to [email protected] referencing this post.
ABOUT US OrderGroove is a SaaS company that works with leading e-commerce businesses to power subscription programs directly on their sites, allowing customers to automatically receive their favorite products on a fully customizable basis. With hundreds of thousands of online shoppers interacting with OrderGroove's scripts on our clients' sites each day, we are able to process 1,000s of requests/second and huge clusters of data from the largest e-commerce businesses and are still rapidly growing.
Each member of our Engineering Team has an inner drive to innovate, create and problem solve, and we utilize the latest technologies, including CORS, MongoDB and distributed cloud computing, to bring our solutions to some of the internet's most trafficked e-commerce websites. OrderGroove's backend platform is written in Python combined with the Django framework and the frontend is pure JavaScript that we wrote ourselves and our technology is quickly changing how people shop online.
Comment · 11 years ago
Systems have bugs all the time. Unfortunately, it was bad timing that all of these systems were affected by different issues.
You're better off using a jump to conclusions board rather than speculating on the correlation of these events.
Comment · 16 years ago
I think that a feature request for AppSumo would be a Deal Counter. The idea would be that once a deal hits a specific threshold (say 100), the deal would begin to advertise that there are X number remaining. This would avoid any confusion about what people are purchasing and a way to entice people to purchase.
Comment · 16 years ago
Too bad they didn't modify Pacman so that the ghosts have an apple logo and the pellets are Android phones.
Comment · 16 years ago
It might be a good idea to have a follow up for this article in 6 months to see if the results can be sustained...What iPads Did To My Family After 6 Months.
Comment · 16 years ago
Wow, it sounds like I'll be missing either of those gatherings. Are you guys available in the evening of March 29-31 or April 3-4?