Random Thoughts

Having worked at a few big tech companies and having interviewed candidates for them as well, here are some things I wish more candidates knew going in. How decisions are actually made Each interviewer is assigned a round and for every round, there are specific signals they need to collect...

Finished another 10k. Felt way stronger this time...

FIRE stands for Financially Independent Retire Early. There is a growing trend of people trying to achieve FIRE before the age of 40...

Original Tweet - https://x. com/sarmag77/status/1987482331683140014 Back in 2019, I was in charge of hiring 5-6 engineers for a new team...

Original Tweet - https://x. com/sarmag77/status/1952147743935521188 Something similar happened to me when I was working at a startup right out of college...

Original Tweet - https://x. com/sarmag77/status/1948641731966369923 Back in 2018-2019, Go experienced a spike massive adoption with popular projects like Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform...

When I was new to the tech world and didn't have much experience with production systems, my main focus was to build fast. That was the way I would measure how good a developer is...

I just realised that I completed a decade in the tech industry this month. 17th May 2015, was my joining date in my first ever big boy job...

Original Tweet - https://x. com/sarmag77/status/1938429909338362348 The best kind of interview is the bug squash or pair programmer round where both the interviewer and the candidate team up to solve a common problem...

I have worked in early stage, late stage startups and bigger companies as well. "FAANG in your 20s often makes your skills deteriorate"...