Built a feature in Myntra that shows message in payments page when any bank server is down. It helped in increasing SR of transactions.

That you must be getting from the API something similar, and then you must have shown that by manipulating it on a banner / popup modal or something similar, right?

Software Developer

Tech Lead

Lets see... 
 I have reimplemented the whole access control systems from database column based RBAC to policy based RBAC in several systems. 
 I have developed an API framework that works by throwing exceptions rather than returning from functions to ensure lousy devs don't end up returning critical data in API.  
 I have made a drag n drop functionality to calculate the total calories in a CRM for a dietician. 
 I have found and fixed several critical vulnerabilities that surely have protected a lot of people from getting hacked.

Founder

I have implemented portfolio analysis in my previous FinTech company

Built a trading bot that trades in the market for me 😈

Software Engineer

What have you built so far that makes you proud, might have changed course of company or lives around or made your life 10x better  Let's gooooo

Welcome to Software Engineers's Private Community

What have you built so far that makes you proud, might have changed course of company or lives around or made your life 10x better

Let's gooooo

Only for hardcore devs 😈

Only for hardcore devs 😈- Grapevine

I have a job interview coming up and want to get everything right this time. Would appreciate any suggestions.  I usually start by telling where I've done my college from and then talk about the work I've done at my current firm. Anything more that I should add?

What do you say when interviewer asks "Tell me about yourself"

Business Analyst

Welcome to Office Gossip's Private Community

Im not proud of this. But i was slacking off my work by working on a single feature the whole week. I could’ve finished the development part in 3 days. But i was not having motivation to work. Rather i was spending my time playing xbox 😑

Slacked work for whole week

Boss makes a dollar
I make a dime 
That was a poem
From a simpler time

Now he makes a hundred
And I get plundered
So I play the xbox
On the company's clock

Welcome to Indian Startups's Private Community

Working through the night How often times does it happen that your team's app crosses ₹10 mil revenue mark in a day. Certainly, the number is too less in the indian startup ecosystem. 

We did so today, and will continue to do so over the next few days 🇮🇳. The scale has been so unprecedented that all kinds of mythical charts like hockeystick and exponential has come into play. 

The system seems to be quite stable (we spent the last night scaling every single component and optimising indexes) and payments have seen such high throughputs that PGs upstream have been asked to scale their services. 

We don't burn like crazy startups spotted around the scene yet the scale in traffic has been so smooth and reliable that the Devops and Backend engineers are just so proud. 

On the risk of sounding this post as a marketing stunt, I just want to put in that we are hiring senior engineers and if you love the thrill of startup, you will certainly thrive. 

Ps - Tomorrow is the D-Day 🙂

Witnessed history - a milestone in my engineering journey!

AMA- 15 yrs exp across consulting, VC & Growth stage company. Now a founder

I am a budding s/w developer. Out of my curiosity and zeal to learn and to sharpen my skill i built  a product delivery framework for the organisation I worked on contract for the past 2 years. Which somehow went on to have a bigger impact on the organisation's product delivery timelines. I thought I had accomplished something today with my ability but then came a shock to me. My reporting  manager who i used  get approval for having few permissions from the upper management for implementing such a framework has procured  the documentation of the framework and pitched the framework among the pm as it was his own idea and effort even he changed the documentation author to his name( that org hardly writes docs for their products) and pitched the framework accross the org and got all the appreciation without putting any effort into it. 

This is a great learning for me and a good experience for the people who are reading it. My advice to young s/w engineers whichever org you work your idea and thinking will be fresh and innovative It's better to  save your idea and effort for the later stages of your career in the org  once you get some sort of ownership on what you work so that you can't depend on your levels who just approach you in the intention to steal your efforts always. 
True hard work always has a reward.


You thought I was ending it here but no . I had plotted plans to screw him over stay tuned...

Phase of my work i am hating right now.

Welcome to Personal Finance's Private Community

By what age did you achieve this? And how did you manage to do it? Did life change for you post that?

Have you made your 1st crore yet?

Executive Coach

1. Fancy talks from founders such as ownership, independence, building for next generation, speed etc
2. Learn new tech
3. Glofiying working at odd hours
4. Don't talk about stress and anxiety 

Start ups are not for weak heart and normal humans who have life after work. It's only for people who will give up their life to build somone else dream. Prove me wrong.

An ex ola person cried infront of me for the workplace stress and unrealistic push

Startup are brutal

Lawyer

As a human, what are you proud of in your life today? Be it anything that you did for yourself, your family, or for anyone else for that matter.

Looking for answers from the more experienced ones more, as how the parameter of pride/joy changes as you face and experience life more :)

What are you proud of?

hey grapeVine developers, why you guys aren't doing AMA about your journey and all.

On how you built it and released the first version, Been more than 6 months, IG. 

Starting from scratch and who started first hands-on coding.
What mistakes you all made in the process. 

How many developers went on to write code for it.
How many days it took to complete each of their works.
Make it a story thread starting from who did architecture and lead. Please share your story!

Maybe we all need, given all fights and cringes continuously blabbering and fighting. let's change weather for some time and let me earn 🍇.

AMA GrapeVine, tech stack, and all

Solution Architect

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Ask me anything except my company name, or things that can reveal my identity. I may respectfully choose not to respond to your question based on my own judgement.

Here’s a brief intro about me: I’ve worked as both software engineering manager & software technical architect over the last 18+ years on various tech stacks managing backend, frontend and a little bit of cloud. I have seen ups and downs in the software industry. Currently I’m working as a senior architect in one of the product based companies in India.

I’ve been an Engineering Manager before. Ask me anything.

Software Architect

This is not specific to Software Engineer, but in general, what was the piece of work that you contributed to directly/indirectly. Also were you appreciated/recognised for the same?

PS - Go wild! Brag your heart out.😅

Biggest achievement you achieved at work

Indian SDEs on LinkedIn & Twitter are some of the worst engineers you will ever find across the real world. Their typical value lies around:

- Cracking a FAANG/MAANG or Product company.
- Make an announcement on LinkedIn & Twitter and accumulating followers.
- Starting YouTube channel, Topmate links, affiliate marketing channels, and more.
- Rant DSA, System Design, Interview resources all day long. 
- Post daily of their office, their colleagues, candid shots, and barely getting any work done.

While this is expected out of early career professionals, it pains to see senior SDEs doing the same shit over and over again. Things don't end here — Everyone talks about creating a revolution. And the revolution is teaching DSA. 

If you are an experienced SDE and still ranting DSA, it just means that you have barely learnt anything that is of worth any value. You are atmost a "Ticket Engineer". You get assigned a Jira ticket, you bust your ass solving it, and that's it. That's your entire value. 

Its high time that these "Bhaiya", "Didis", "Bhabhis" stop ranting DSA and System Design over and over, and build something of real value. You would barely see any credible open-source projects coming out of India (but hey, we have some many contributors!), barely any Indie dev project, or anything that captures the attention of the world. 

Literally every popular SDE you might follow or see over your social media is the same. Their entire community game is a farce and designed to capture gullible college students and shill thousands of rupees out of them. You might be featured on Times Square ($40 ka showoff), but no one would remember you for anything that you built.

<Rant Over. Peace>

Indian SDEs will do all DSA and System Design chatter but cannot create any real value

Sharing frustrations with starting up a business. In my career I have raised over $30m over multiple rounds.

Co-founders in non-business roles get pushed out by politics. Sharing control with co-founders is messy, inconvenient, time consuming. Money lets you hire people who have to answer to you.

If you are not the main ‘Business person’ in a startup high chance you are disposable, no matter what skills you have. And it sucks to spend so much effort only to get bullied out and left with nothing.

Some investors will follow you on social media, if your business is not growing QoQ don’t post anything on social media that implies you are not working every weekend. They will ask why you are not working.

 If you are CEO, be ready for every random person to tell you how to run your business. Not in a ‘friendly advice’ kind of way, if you are the CEO you have a target on your back.

 Investors don’t know about your industry or have very dated knowledge. Some will just say random tips like ‘try web3’ or ‘try SaaS’ and blame you for following their advice when it fails.

 Your progress is measured against fraud companies who fake numbers, or the 1 in thousands who succeed. Get made to feel like you are failing to live up to super high expectations constantly.

 Employees work half your hours, off sick usuall one day a week, deliver next to nothing and expect 20% hikes every year because that’s what their friends make, or they read some dumb startup hires freshers at 20LPA. 

Smooth talking people with the same idea as you, no traction, never shipped a product in life, will raise a huge seed round due to 'pedigree' and spend it all on self promotion. You will always be compared to these clowns who find ways to lecture others while building nothing of value.

Dark side of starting up.

So much truth in everything you’ve written 
 “your progress is measured against fraud companies who fake numbers”  
  
 This has become just more prevalent over time. Confidently advice learnings from startups that are faking GMV or PMF metrics :)

Investment Associate

Investor

Basically the title. I am currently looking to build a good skillset and an attractive profile to land a job. I wanted to ask what sort of projects are usually expected from a person with 1 YOE (2022 grad)?

Moreover, what kinda projects would blow your mind?

I have a fair bit of proficiency in React and I primarily work with Java + OracleDB for backend. I have started learning Go out of curiosity as well.

Although welcome, I am not looking for specific ideas. I want to know how complex or ambitious should a project be to be considered at par if not impressive for my experience.

Thank you!

TLDR; What projects in a 1 YOE full stack developer would make you go "Wow, I would hire that guy instantly!"?

Projects to showcase on a 1 YOE Full Stack Developer resume?

What’s the experience like? Have you thought if joining a corporate would be better?

Only for hardcore devs 😈

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