Did an intro to functional programming course in Scala.

Felt like I was able to touch the face of an immutable God. :')

A petty thing I did today.

Coworker from another team asked me to monitor their service during rollout. (I had contributed code to their service), so now I've created a bunch of tickets for the error spikes I noticed and assigned it to them. Most of them were just preexisting errors, some new ones.

Is it just me, or have you also had your teammates getting less responsive once you're on your notice period?

!rant
Why is the promotion process fucked up? I can't take it anymore.

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Gonna take a nap 😴

Women, software engineers make good boyfriends.

Why?

We're not scared of committing. We do it everyday at work. :P

Had been trying to get the latest build rolled out for the past 3 days. Every morning, I wake up around 6am, drink a nice cup of coffee, while listening to Ariana Grande (I don't know why, but for some reason, she randomly started coming on my playlist a lot) and start rolling out, and sure enough new errors start spiking, ultimately rollback.

Conclusion: don't listen to Ariana Grande when rolling out to production! 🤔

Anyone else get a lot of PR comments asking just to refactor variable names?

It's the worst! :/

A change of pace in these weird and wonky times!

Been a good quarantine so far!
I've been working steadily on a few side projects, and I'm quite proud of myself, that I'm actually "working", instead of TODOing them.

Tinkering with a chrome extension, making considerable progress on my personal website, being more mindful, establish a proper routine and started a new project with a friend!

I've a whole new respect for ElasticSearch. It's codebase is so insanely complex, that I'm seriously contemplating tracing out the flow on a big ass chart. Any suggestions on how you people work and debug so many asynchronous flows?

I have been working on a bug, for almost 6 days (to be read as 3 consecutive weekends), and the best I've done is, conceptually isolate where it's happening. I'm an open source noob, but I feel I've learnt a whole lot during sifting through ES' codebase. :)

Start rant.
Fuck God class violations.
End of rant.

Does the perfect codebase exist? Or is it just a myth?

PS. I'm just a new grad with ~3 years of experience, and in my 4th company now.

*Rant*

Dear current manager,

You wouldn't know real talent if it hit you in the face.

Sincerely,
Your employee who's leaving for a FANG

Was Good talking with him. Didn't get his name though.

Nike may make the best shoes, but makes the world's worst laces. 🤔🤔

Rant
Had my Walmart onsite cancelled!!! 😩😩 Was preparing like hell for that role.

Alphabet has stake in Uber.
Waymo is partnering with Lyft.

Alphabet is gonna be the future of autonomous vehicles.

Now, how far that future is a whole new question entirely. 🤔

Does doing QE for a while (say 3-4 months), and then going back to SDE, cause issues in getting interview calls?

Has anyone written any Easter eggs in actual production code? 🤔

Had this one stuck on my previous workspace to keep myself from giving into temptations.😂

Hate it when recruiters send a template asking about how skillful are you in <insert language here> on a scale of 1-10.

A recruiter sends me a questionnaire, which had almost 10-12 questions. I spent almost 30-40mins, explaining in detail about my past experiences and answering all of them. The next day I got a reject without even a phone call. :/

Why do recruiters even do this without even as much as giving a call to a candidate, and assessing them with a test?

When an interviewer asks, what are the steps that you take usually when given a task to do something, what do you guys say?

I said, I devote 10-20% of the time to understand the given problem - sit and explore all possible scenarios to handle, then develop a brute Force approach, improve the approach to make it more efficient, see if it handles all edge and corner cases, then write test cases for it.

( I'm thinking, the process doesn't vary a lot for most of the people?, Except in TDD - one'll write the test cases first)

How would you answer this question?

I have this feeling that I messed up something 🤔

Had my on-site with Google recently, and I feel stupid wasting 45mins on a math question. I feel frustrated because I was able to do the other medium level problems without hints. :/ Felt really stupid when I saw the solution wasn't very complicated.