Start with binging on food tech conference video recordings on youtube, specially by popular open source product/library authors. There is a lot to learn from listening to people who are food at thier craft. This does not require same mental stamina at end of day as much as reading a book does

Can you suggest some channels?. 
  
 Also First time I read your comment I was like why food tech and is that even a industry🤣🤣.

Software Developer

Can't edit a posted comment bro. And the rest is auto correction adding amusement value

Software Engineer

I am already working as a software developer and I want to become good at it. But where in the world should I begin the mastering of the development?. Is coding, data structures, system design, sys...

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I am already working as a software developer and I want to become good at it. But where in the world should I begin the mastering of the development?.
Is coding, data structures, system design, system architecture, Design patterns or should just go for best practices , there are other things in development the more i search the more I find different terms.
I thought of starting by doing leet code but working almost the whole day then doing coding separately doesn't seem feasible so thought of figuring out doing something which I can integrate with my work.

Software Design vs Architect vs Programming vs System Design....

Software Design vs Architect vs Programming vs System Design....- Grapevine

A little background here: I'm a final semester student currently going through final stages of my internship. Having worked on a few projects, I've noticed tackling the requirements is not that much difficult but there's a good Software Engineering emphasis on the "how" code should be written as more readable, reusable and in a more professional manner.

This took me on a parallel exploration based on the intrigue for design patterns and I'm 3/4th of the way for Design Patterns by Refactoring Guru ebook with implementing almost all of the examples in mostly Java but a few in C++ too and what I'm thinking is most likely the next step is to go for System Design.

So here's what I truly wanted to ask:

1) Is the next step System Design here?
2) Where should I learn it from? Free on YouTube, course, github/websites, blogs or books even?

How to learn System Design as a recent graduate?

Welcome to Product Managers's Private Community

Hey everyone, excited to be doing this AMA!

A brief about me, I work currently as a Director of Product at an Indian unicorn startup 

About my career: 
- Did my undergrad from IIT and then masters from an Ivy league school
- Have been in product for almost 10 years now - across 2 Indian unicorn startups and a publicly listed company

Would love to take questions on what it means to be a PM, growing within the role, building your career, and other things :) 

Will be back here at 4 pm and start replying
Shoot away!

AMA 🎙️: Hey all, I am pmsprint, Director of Product Management at a Unicorn in India!

Product Manager

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

Let’s say you are want to build a web application and you have the requirements as well. You have done an analysis on high level system design and requirements. Now when  it comes to setup your project with respective stack, how should one think of organising or structuring the project with the help of principals, design patterns, etc. So that the code is scalable, modular and also make other upcoming developers life easy. 

Not looking for any specific answers but anyway having their experience can share the thought process and decisions they have taken while doing something similar.

How do you decide to implement design pattern and principles in a project?

I started designing around 2019, self start though i never thought this is going to be a real field designing screens but i landed here and eventually liked it. 

I started as UI/UX designer in a service based company with a mere package of 2lakh. And then after I left that company had a package of 3.5lakh.

I joined a new company 2.5 years back in a product based company 5lakh and after i got appraisal salary hit 9lakh a year.

Even though i have this much experience i am still struggling in designing a good screen as compared to Software development where you can join a good company and you can get a salary above 15 lakh for sure. Product design is hard and to be in the industry you really have to wake up and start learning whatever you have to come up with whether learning Android, web, ios , design patterns, design system or so. If your company does it or not .

After applying and rejected to different companies i am now concluding that your experience doesn't matter in this field ofcourse experience in domains works.

Trust me if you get less money, your opportunities are less. It's you who will have a good opportunity if you have good knowledge and skills.

On the personal side, i am rejected by girls who don't even do jobs ,  earning less salary, and don't even think about high salary girls.

I just wanted to flush out and want to start with a fresh mind, sorry for bringing this up. I will start again. I do again

Frustration and sadness

Product Designer

Welcome to Office Gossip's Private Community

Will entertain only serious questions that respect anonymity. I don’t mind humor, but trolling is strict no no.

Conducted one AMA session last week & was overwhelmed by both number & positive feedback. I might choose to skip any question repeated from last time.

Some things about me
- I love to code & go beyond coding
- Managed a team of around 20 people before
- I love mentoring people
- Presently overseeing the architecture and lifecycle of a suite of products

Don’t mind me giving you some useful gyan 😀

Presently Senior Architect, previously Engineering Manager, 18+ yoe in software engg. AMA

Please suggest some good resources where system design is well explained from basics.

I have a total experience of 4 years and I want to start learning system design for interviews.

Application Engineer

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I am 2023 grad. I have joined a product based company. Next year, I want to join a good company like Rubrik, Uber, DE Shaw, Bloomberg etc. 

What should I learn? How to utilise this year to switch to a good company?

PS: For me, a good company means high salary and challenging work environment. I don't care about work life balance.

How to switch to a good company in 1 year

What’s the most important career advice you’ve ever received? It could be anything, an advice from your colleague, a lesson you learnt the hard way, or a piece of wisdom that changed your perspective! 🌟🌟

Share Your Most Valuable Career Advice🚀

1. Work hard in your job. Don't complain and waste time. We know everyone is replaceable, but work so damn hard that if at all you decide to resign and switch sometime, it should come as a shell shocker to them.  
 Build a program/product/team from scratch, own it end to end so much that they'll never find anyone close to you who can work with the same efficiency. 
 You'll obviously take your learnings and apply them later on in your next job, but 
 You'll also earn the respect of all your colleagues which might be needed in your future corporate journey. 
 2. Don't chase money early on in your career unless you actually**need** it. Focus on building relationships, knowledge, learning to code (it helps) and earning respect of your colleagues wherever you go. 
 3. Don't get into smoking due to peer pressure. AVOID IT.

Strategy & Operations

Hi, I am 28 YO currently working in a non-tech role. In few next years I completely want to switch to tech role (preferably SDE) for myriads of reasons but number one being my logical skills and and my love for creation. 
How should I start working on my skills? 
Currently I am in a foreign language profile and I have heard from my friends in UK that being bilingual really helps people in tech field. 
Please suggest ways for getting the degree or skills or both.

Non-tech to Tech

Hi folks,
I recently got laid off from a startup where 50% of the engineering team was let go. I was working as an SDE and during a restructuring, my role was changed to SDE-2 without any increase in pay or responsibilities. I have a total of 2.5 years of experience. In my first company (where I worked for a year), there weren't many projects, so I didn't have the opportunity to learn or code much. However, in my second company, I primarily worked on the backend using Go, Django, Kafka, MongoDB, & PostgreSQL.
I realize that although I gained exposure in my second job, I didn't delve deeply into the technologies. I mainly focused on completing business tasks quickly, learning new things just to finish the task at hand, without solidifying my understanding afterward.
My experience seems suitable for an SDE-2 role, but I'm unsure if I can perform the role with complete honesty and may struggle. Some friends in similar situations reassure me that this struggle is common in SDE-2 roles. However, I feel I might be better off starting again as an SDE-1, focusing on my weak areas, and aiming for a promotion later. There are very few SDE-1 job openings currently.
I am actively interviewing for SDE-2, and not able to clear system design interviews. Tbh, I feel very humiliated as when I am not able to answer their questions it feels like I am wasting their time or they would be thinking: Oh this guy has been working for so long and doesn't even know anything.

Now I get it why people think Indian Software engineers are not that good in comparison to other countries' devs: the reason is people like me. 
This realization burdens me with guilt, occupying my thoughts constantly. However, I am confident that I can crack SDE-1 easily. I have good DSA & good enough LLD, &HLD skills for SDE1. I am looking for companies who can match my prev Salary: 22 L, 2 Bonus.
Can u help how to navigate this career situation effectively without increasing my guilt or feeling constantly humiliated?

Laid Off | Stuck Now | Too Anxious | Please guide

First work on the feeling of humiliation and self worthlessness. Don't ignore this, I've done it and it's one of my biggest regret. Working on this will feel a waste of time initially given job search is highest priority, I assure you your future self would thank you.  
  
 Now you are clearly very self aware, most incompetent people don't even know their shortcomings. And you know what, many comparatively incompetent people are making much more money, having much less self doubt and just living more - it's like being more self aware is a curse.  
  
 How do you get out of this curse? It's a slow process. Write down the things that make you feel that way, come up with an an action plan on what you could do to reduce that - clear goals and actions always relive anxiety. Writing things down is extremely important, keep coming back to it whenever you feel the same way, eventually you would reason your way out of this. Most of the time you are in a loop, living in guilt and self doubt for the same reasons over and over. Documentation of these feelings over time will make it look so silly, how could the same problem give you so much mental pain again and again.  
  
 You will do just fine career wise. With a few more years of experience, I can guarantee you will evolve over time, the problems giving you so much mental pain would seem very trivial then - that if you are able to resolve these feelings - otherwise it's a hell I wouldn't want for my worst enemies.  
  
 Some questions to ponder over -  
 1. Can you do the job search while being just a little gentle on yourself? 
 2. Does failure mean you have no worth? Can you fail more gracefully?  
 3. Does 2.5 years of mistakes(even if it see that way) mean you can't do amazing things in coming years? 
 4. Above all, does feelings of humiliation and worthlessness help you in any way? If nothing else changes, wouldn't it be better to just be a little gentler on yourself? 
  
 Take care, you don't have a career problem, a mental health one instead

I am PM with around 5 yrs of experience. I’m struggling to take my skill to next level. always receive feedback from management that output isn’t good, mostly that UX isn’t good. what can I do to improve my work?

1. Read books ? 
2. Study successful products from outside ?
3. Listen to podcasts 
4. Work with great product people? but hardly these exist 
5. leave this field altogether?
6. Just have patience and keep learning everyday?

Can experienced people share what has worked out well for them? or point me to some directions?

How to up your game as a Product Manager?

Dear 😊
Currently I m having 8+ years of experience as full stack developer and now need to move in the architecture area 🏗️
Can some one help me to get the idea how to move form developer to architecture 💡

Transition from developer to 🏛️ architecture 👨‍💻

How do i learn about architecture and the working of various softwares?

I know github can be one way but there's no consolidated resource and also most of softwares are not oss.

Learning architecture of softwares

As a fresher, is it good to start a career with MS Power automate, power apps  developer ? 

I don't have much knowledge in development, but  I have done Oracle Java 8 certification and can solve easy to medium level Leetcode questions. 

Recently, I got selected in a good product based electronics company, Designation is software developer only, but after joining, I got to know I need to work on RPA and low code platform. So I'm confused now. Should I put all my focus on this, or should I up skill myself and look for better opportunities ? 

As a RPA/ Low code developer what salary should I expect in 2 years ? 
Currently it's 5LPA

Microsoft power tools - RPA/ Low code

RPA Developer

What is best system design course available? 
Could you please list top 3 in order with best as 1. 
Also mention what type of candidates are best suited for each course.

I’m currently going through interview ready- Gaurav Sen. And find it hard to follow since I have almost never done system design. Hence I find it ok-ok , are there any better ones out there? I know grokking is one more. Please provide suggestions with course name and best suited for what professionals(eg , beginner with no exposure to system design , 5 yoe with some exposure to system design , advanced with high exposure system design)

Best system design course-2024

I want to switch from an automation engineer to a dev role, I have 1.8 yr experience.current ctc 20L . How should I go about it. Would love to hear some opinions on the same. Thank you

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