What my time at Amazon taught me about engineering and growth

Its been a couple of months since I left my engineering role at Amazon, one of biggest tech companies in the world. Working at a big tech company was one of my top goals while pursuing my bachelors and both Samsung and Amazon helped me fulfill it. In this article I want to talk aboutContinue reading “What my time at Amazon taught me about engineering and growth”

The System Design Template I Use

System / Architecture design is an important part of any software engineering project. Right after requirement gathering for features and before diving into development, every project lead has to come up with a system design document illustrating how the overall system would like and how it will interact with external services. This process is followedContinue reading “The System Design Template I Use”

Why Everyone Should Learn To Write

Do you hate writing? Me too. I am not talking about tweets or IG posts. I’m talking about 500 word long articles and essays. Most of us don’t like writing them. They take too much time and effort. But is time really the problem? I don’t think so. We spend a lot of time onContinue reading “Why Everyone Should Learn To Write”

Who should you be: Technology Generalist or Specialist?

Everyone in the tech industry knows that every few years (months?) a new technology or framework enters the market. Angular, Ember and JQuery were good enough until React came up. Not that people don’t use Angular anymore, but everyone wants to learn React now. Same is true for every other computer science field: Deep LearningContinue reading “Who should you be: Technology Generalist or Specialist?”

Top Resources for getting a Software Engineer job at Big N Companies

This short post is written for recent graduates, current students and code newbies looking for a job as a Software Engineer in the Big N companies like Google, Facebook, Amazon, Netflix etc. I have personally tried most of the resources mentioned here (free and paid) during my job search. These have helped me to landContinue reading “Top Resources for getting a Software Engineer job at Big N Companies”